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The 12 most important things to know about angels
Ignatius Insight ^ | September 28, 2009 | Carl Olson

Posted on 09/28/2009 3:38:37 PM PDT by NYer

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1 posted on 09/28/2009 3:38:37 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
You really do have your very own “guardian angel”. Everybody does.

Develop a relationship with your guardian angel. You've read enough of my guardian angel stories to realize that teamwork is better than going it alone.

2 posted on 09/28/2009 3:41:12 PM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

I believe in both angels and demons. I also believe that they are all around us, all the time. I also believe in guardian angels.

But one thing that I have wondered for sometime now, and I mean no offense by this question, is can an angel be in the form of a dog? I wonder this due to the very positive effects that some dogs, but not all dogs, have had on people’s lives, including my own.


3 posted on 09/28/2009 3:43:09 PM PDT by chris37
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5. They are more brilliant minds than Einstein.

Clearly, your angel didn’t help you write this article!


4 posted on 09/28/2009 3:46:27 PM PDT by STD (FReedom FReparations Are Now Due and Owing!)
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To: NYer

Interesting read. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 09/28/2009 3:48:27 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: NYer

Video of angels I believe in.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMrceKXTqE

They never let me down.


6 posted on 09/28/2009 3:50:44 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: STD
They are more brilliant minds than Einstein.

Clearly, your angel didn’t help you write this article!

No, I did not write this article; I simply posted it to the forum. However ... ahem ... I just happen to share my birthday with Albert Einstein :-)

7 posted on 09/28/2009 3:58:09 PM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: chris37

Probably not. But they do have souls and are capable of devotion and self sacrifice, not to mention love and mourning.

Those that we call “angels” are incarnate souls.


8 posted on 09/28/2009 3:58:50 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: chris37

Why WOULDN’T Our Lord let an angel take the form of a dog?
With Him all things are possible.


9 posted on 09/28/2009 4:05:21 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: chris37

You know, that was the first thing that popped into my mind too. My present dog is almost telepathic. I brought home, from my mother’s house, the bowl we had for my second dog(27 yrs ago). Max won’t eat out of anything but the dishes we use. Tonight, he barked at me for food, which I put in the new bowl, and he ate it without a hesitation.


10 posted on 09/28/2009 4:06:25 PM PDT by KYGrandma
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To: NYer

Interesting article, and I agree with most of it, but some seems to be theory and supposition.

Be careful not to glorify angels, who are just God’s messengers, over the Creator himself. Worshipping or praying to angels is just wrong.

And remember that angel powers are God-granted and limited. The angel who spoke to Daniel in Daniel 10:13 spoke of being detained for three weeks by the King of Persia until Michael came to rescue him.

There are things that angels don’t know (Matthew 24:36; I Peter 1:12).

Respect angels, but worship God.


11 posted on 09/28/2009 4:11:01 PM PDT by Jedidah
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Well, my son is a living example, as you know NYer, of the power of guardian angels.

He’s alive. I firmly believe that his angel folded over him that day to cushion the impact. He was married on June 21!


12 posted on 09/28/2009 4:11:45 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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i know angels are real. just a few days before my first husband died he was in the hospital, fading rather quickly, and was out of it most of the time but with a few lucid moments. during one of those times he looked over my shoulder toward a chair in the corner. his expression was puzzled. he tipped his head toward me and (still looking at the chair) asked me who was the man sitting there. i looked over my shoulder and saw no one in the chair. i presumed he was hallucinating due to the illness and meds even though he was perfectly “with it”. as i turned my head back to hubby, i caught a strange motion at the corner of my eye. it most closely resembled heat waves coming up from pavement. my head snapped back to examine the area again. nothing there but as i turned again there it was. i asked the hubby if the man was still there and he said yes. i asked if he recognized the man, he said no. never seen anyone like this fellow, even in pictures. could not describe him either. i asked if the man was bothering him, frightening or uncomfortable, nope. i wondered what the man was doing there and should i ask him to leave. hubby said “ no, he isn’t here to hurt me, he is here to help. i am supposed to go with him, but i’m not ready so he is waiting.” i know without any doubt that the man he saw (and the shimmer i glimpsed) was an angel waiting to escort a young man home to God. and when they left, i felt a warm sensation on my shoulder and looked to see which of my family had put an arm around me. no one had, they were all a few feet away. yeah i know angels are real.


13 posted on 09/28/2009 4:13:04 PM PDT by madamemayhem (defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
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Guardian angels?

They're angels.

It's what they do.

It's their job.

It's their prime directive.

And humans are above the angels

Which is why angels have a curiosity about humans.

What makes humans so special to God?

Look at how humans act.

Look at what humans do.

Why would He have His Son die for humans that behave in such manner?

Why give humans eternal life when other angels followed Lucifer and are damned for eternity?

It is because humans and human life are God's greatest creation.

14 posted on 09/28/2009 4:14:04 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: STD

I suspect the error in the sentence is not the one you are jeering at:

To say angels are minds (and more brilliant then Einstein) is correct—provided one understands the English “mind” as an equivalent of the Greek “nous”. Holy Tradition speaks of the bodiless powers as “noetic beings” and uses “angelic realms” and “noetic realms” interchangably.

The problem is that Einstein was not a mind, but human being, body and soul.


15 posted on 09/28/2009 4:14:40 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: NYer
Even though I do believe in Angles and they protect us and talk to us, we are not to worship angles, and God has already provided a means to go directly to him through the blood of Jesus Christ, and God has already provided a means to communicate with him though the Holy Spirit.
16 posted on 09/28/2009 4:15:58 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: American Constitutionalist
Even though I do believe in Angles and they protect us and talk to us, we are not to worship angles

Angel worship is not allowed in the Catholic Church or any other christian church that I am aware of.

17 posted on 09/28/2009 4:18:14 PM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

A good thing they don’t exist.


18 posted on 09/28/2009 4:20:05 PM PDT by Salman
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But, some people do that... and that is forbidden...
19 posted on 09/28/2009 4:21:21 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: STD
Clearly, your angel didn’t help you write this article!

Why would you say that? It's one of the better angel threads I've seen. I may buy the book, just based on the 12 things he listed.

20 posted on 09/28/2009 4:21:30 PM PDT by giotto
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