(I wrote this before I checked the facts- I thought today was the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. It is celebrated on the 29th- this coning Thursday).
Odd that an angel should be a saint. But in another sense, quite fitting- a saint is a holy being, so why not? This commemoration is a reminder that there is a realm beyond the material. We practise our faith in the world of sight, sound, touch, smell, but conscious always that there is a 'beyond' which has a very present reality to us. We are, after all citizens of that 'state', dwelling here in this earthy domain.
We do not know much of the citizenry of the heavenly realm, but that there should be messengers from there to here seems a reasonable assumption, and angels and powerful heavenly forces are those messengers. There is a 'wavelength' which aligns humanity and the angel world, and I am aware of it all to rarely. St. Michael's feast is a reminder that 'My soul, there is a country, Far beyond the stars, Where stands a winged sentry All skilful in the wars.......
May the angels who serve as a reminder of our citizenry elsewhere, guard us today,
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