Catholic Theology Personal Study Volume 1

with a special focus on God's Presence, His Angels and how that affects us

( I tried to put peaceful music for this page as may be an intense read! please do not treat this as catechism 😂) 









I have been wondering about angels for most of my life but sporadically if I am being honest.



I grew up with the same idea that most of us have....an angel is someone sent from God to help guide us closer to Him and help protect us from danger.



I have heard of guardian angels and archangels with notable examples of the angel Gabriel approaching Mary and St Michael the archangel. I feel like what I know is all over the place. I plan on making this page a dropbox of sorts so I (and anyone else interested) can come check it out.



I have heard of people writing letters to angels ("please pray for my loved one in the hospital"). Clean hands, clean paper, and red ink....I do not know how reliable that information is but I have done it and it was similar to saying the Prayer to your Guardian Angel.



I vividly remember learning about the idea that most angels are not in human form (Image of God); we are. The stories I learned growing up have really started to make even more sense to me now. On my home page, I do place some artwork of other classes of angels and honestly they look awesome! I want to state this is my own personal research on here and I will always take a Catholic perspective. I do want to start to compile what I know because it is so fascinating.



There is a very nuanced way to speak on these topics that frankly I am still learning how to articulate. We have to remember that although God and those who work for Him are powerful and mighty....He still loves us. In Scripture, it is said God sees us similar to how we see little lambs and perhaps in the modern day context, the way we see our household pets. As a proud dog owner, I have immense love for my two dogs but they chew up my things, they go to the bathroom in the house, and they sometimes do not want to cuddle with me 😂.... but all that to say I still love those dogs head to toe; my long winded point was that although we mess up and sin...God still loves us and accepts our wounds.



A mystery of faith to me is why would He make us (humans who are very flawed) when He has a whole court of Angels who are not full of sin? Even though I will never know that answer, I just feel an immense feeling of gratitude but also a feeling of I don't deserve His love due to my sin and flaws. When I look at my life when I sinned more and my life where I actively made an enough to focus on my morality (no one can live without sin especially in these times, we just have to stand strong and make good choices asking God for that guidance), life is better when you are less sinful....a similar idea would be how something is better if you work for it and are patient. We are so used to instant gratification and satisfying every bodily desire that we are at a point where our dopamine receptors are overloaded as a society...we have become numb. God's love and presence makes one life more fruitful....fruit takes many many weeks to grow and become ripe, as do God's gifts to us (another very interesting topic I will probably also explore here.)



To go more on that question I posed...hearing the story of the great fall of Lucifer makes a little more sense...it is similar to the story of the Parable of the Lost Son ( button below) except Lucifer did not want to resume his role in God's Kingdom, he wanted to sit at the right hand ( That is where Jesus, Son of God sits), again I have more research to do and I am only a practitioner of Roman Catholicism, but I am pretty sure that is why there was a war between the Angels and Demons with the notable service of St. Michael the Archangel... because Lucifer hates us and how much God loves us. That is why he tempts us with sin similar to how he did so with bread and water with Jesus in the desert.... I obviously do not know the devil personally but I imagine he hates Jesus as well due to wanting to sit where Jesus sits. I do want my page to be a place of love so I won't go any further in detail about that but I would be lying if I said the topic does not intrigue me but the intrigue is more fear based, which I can see being dangerous in the sense of thinking that something may be disguised as something notable but is not good.







2 Corinthians 14-15:

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.











Dearcqk...











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