Websites contain thousands of similar stories posted by people from all walks of life and all religious backgrounds. A woman is saved from a fatal car accident without explanation. A young child recovers from a severe illness and recalls conversations with his angel. Maureen Sweeney-Kyle, of Lorain County, Ohio, has been receiving visions, apparitions and messages from angels, saints, Jesus and the Blessed Mother almost daily since She shares them on her website HolyLove.
So how is it that in a world of rapid scientific and technological advances, many Americans are fascinated with other-worldly beings that cannot be seen or proven to exist? How do angels not only remain relevant in , but shape the beliefs and lives of so many science-age Americans? James F. Gontis, director of religious education for the Diocese of Harrisburg, has no problem reconciling his belief in angels with modern science. Empirical evidence — information acquired by observation or experimentation — is not the only valid form of proof, he argues.
Gerald Vigna, associate professor of theology at Alvernia, suggested that people look to angels because they are not content with science and the secular. Angels for the unbeliever With increasing violence and ever-present threats globally, belief that angels are looking out for us can be extremely comforting.
Angels become even more important, Father Brensinger said, to people who are not strongly connected to a faith tradition. They angels are not judgmental, but rather comforting.
During that time, he claims to have traveled with an angel on the wing of a butterfly, and to have conversed with the Creator. He told his story after healing, and stands by what he experienced. He wrote of the angels, the light and of God. Once the Divine Judge has pronounced his sentence, if the soul is sent to purgatory, it will be visited frequently by its guardian, who will comfort and console it, bringing the prayers that have been offered for it, and assuring the soul of its future liberation.
In this way it is understandable that the help and mission of the guardian angel does not end with the death of those the angels protect. This mission continues until the soul reaches union with God.
If the soul decides to enter communion with God, it joins its angel in praising the One and Triune God for all eternity. What the guardian angel can and does do is intercede for its protected soul before the throne of God and seek help among the people on earth so as to bring prayers to its ward, in order that it may thus leave purgatory.
Those souls who decide to reject definitively the love and forgiveness of God, thus renouncing joyful communion with him for all time John Paul II, General Audience, July 21, , also renounce and reject the joyful friendship with their guardian angel. During these days, let us remember that we can join the guardian angels of those we love who have died, so the angels may take our prayers to God, and he may show his mercy.
Albert, who had been a gardener, had a particularly vivid one. He found himself by the gates of a beautiful garden. They were made of ornate wrought iron with flowing patterns. It was perfect weather, sunny but not too hot, great for the plants, and he could see the garden stretching into the distance.
There were all manner of plants and he felt drawn in. As he walked through the gates there was a glorious scent. He described it as heavenly. There was a special kind of soft light and music coming from somewhere.
As he took in the scene with all his senses he realised he had the choice to stay or step back. He felt that he had better go back for his family and reluctantly dragged himself away. We thought we had lost him. Then I had snow coming down my throat and I couldn't breathe for 15 seconds. But instead of being paralyzed by his claustrophobia, Marty's mind delivered an even more chilling vision and a reason to fight his way free. Driven by the haunting image, Hodges battled through the snow and was able to search for and then reunite with his sons.
In the end, all of these cases remind us that it can be a very rough universe out there. To survive it, a little help from our guardian angels just might be essential.
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