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The world’s quicksand is shifting under our feet.More than ever we need the help that God sends us through the loving help of our Guardian Angels.Yes, there are angels. Open your Bible and, within a few pages, you’ll find angels.From the Martyrologium Romanum (which you readers can put into perfect yet smooth and elegant English): Memoria sanctorum Angelorum Custodum, qui, primum ad contemplandam in splendore faciem Dei vocati, a Domino etiam apud homines commissi sunt, ut iis invisibili sua, sed sollicita, praesentia adessent ac consulerent. There are three types of persons, divine, angelic and human. Of the three types, divine...

PART I - FAITH. THE APOSTLES' CREED. FIRST ARTICLE OF THE CREED: "I BELIEVE IN GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY." 8. THE ANGELS. 1. The angels are pure spirits. They can, however, take a visible form. The angels are pure spirits without bodies, whereas men have both body and spirit. Yet the angels can take to themselves a bodily form, as did St. Raphael (Tob. v. 18), when he undertook to accompany the young Tobias on his journey. At the sepulchre of Our Lord, after the resurrection, the angels appeared in the form of young men, and the same was...

DO YOU BELIEVE THESE 2 SHORT ACCOUNTS OF ANGEL PROTECTION? Psalm 91:11-12 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. Here are two true accounts of frightening situations where women found themselves in. These women could have easily become another statistic. Since the dawning of time women have been at a distinct disadvantage in having the means of protecting themselves. Somehow I doubt pepper-spray would have saved them from harm. Both stories are taken...

Police have released surveillance photos of two suspects in the stabbing of four Guardian Angels at a Red Line station on the Near North Side.

Guardian Angels By Ari Bussel I was sitting on a chair at Cedars, an IV sticking into my hand, a tray next to me with big bottles of medication to drink. Nurses were bringing in other patients, each waiting for another exam. We all sat next to each other on a row of chairs, somewhat reminiscent of a train station or a gate at an airport. Except we were in gowns, each assigned a staff member to accompany us during the procedures. A male nurse was busy with my tray, about to inject something into me. He handed me a...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Fed up with growing gang violence, Montana tribal leaders this weekend will start the first-ever American Indian reservation chapter of the Guardian Angels. The new chapter of the citizens' crime-watch group - whose members are known by their red berets in New York, Chicago and other U.S. cities - will begin training about 50 recruits on the rural Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The sprawling reservation on the plains of eastern Montana is home to 6,000 of the approximately 10,000 enrolled members of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes.

ANGELS: Their Meaning for Our World by Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. 1- Introduction Are angels a fad, a trend, or are they real? Angels seem to populate so many aspects of our lives today -- jewelry, postage stamps, stories, television shows, literature, historical anecdotes, art, religious practice, biblical studies. Attention to angels seems ubiquitous. So absorbed in angels is the general population that this current interest borders on angel-mania. Like the commercialization of Christmas, angel-mania can serve to draw our attention to the reality and importance of angels in God's creation. Angels are no myth. They are a very...

Armed robbers terrorized Oakland restaurants and small businesses in three separate crime sprees over the past year. The first wave targeted Asian eateries and struck during the 2007 holiday season. The second arrived last spring and was more indiscriminate. The third struck in July and August. All three made newspaper headlines and led television newscasts, shining a spotlight on the city's out-of-control crime problem and the Oakland Police Department's apparent inability to cope with it. In fact, the department's public response to the takeover robberies was both odd and illuminating. The department's mantra for dealing with the city's crime spike...

March 26 2007 Waitakere SDA School, Henderson, Waitakere City As you may know, the Guardian Angels in New Zealand teach a group of kids basic Self-Defense: just the basic stuff, like how to get away from Bad Guys, how to stop someone from bullying you -- that sort of thing. No Bruce Lee stuff. It is a class that is normally led by BatBob, my 2IC: he is an expert, both at Martial Arts and teaching kids. It is a very popular program. Today BatBob needed a substitute to teach our Youth Program: unfortunately his father is experiencing failing health...

The GATHERING OF EAGLES, a patriotic organization whose goal is to publicly support our men and women in uniform, whether active duty or veteran, announces our whole hearted participation with the New Haven GUARDIAN ANGELS in an upcoming rally at the Vietnam and Korean War memorial The Vietnam and Korean War Memorial Walls in New Haven, CT have been desecrated on three separate occasions. It is believed to have been done by Illegal Alien gangs including - but not necessarily limited to - the MS-13 criminal gang organization due to the messages that were scrawled upon the face of these...

My FRiends, Fair warning again: street language is in use, and it's not a pleasant story. If you are easily offended, please don't continue reading. Still, it is a severely edited though accurate extract from our Patrol Log, a real "slice-of-life". You can't make up stuff like this, and you'll never see it on TV: nobody would ever believe it. It can only happen in Real Life. --- March 2/3 2007: CBD Patrol #10, Brittomart Auckland CBD On the way back from Patrol, The Lads from our Henderson Chapter and I needed to catch The Last Train out of Auckland,...

FRiends, I have been persuaded by a fellow FReeper to post one of our Guardian Angels Patrol Logs to the Free Republic. I do so hesitantly: FReepers are merciless critics and they hold posters accountable to a very, very high standard. I have decided that this is OK: otherwise I would not post to the FR as "DieHard the Hunter". You will judge my Patrol Log by its merits. This is the first contribution, a Pilot. It will either stand or fall on its own. If you like I will post more, and if not I will shut up and...

October 2, 2006 Memorial of the Guardian Angels Psalm: Monday 41 Reading 1Jb 1:6-22 One day, when the angels of God came to present themselves before the LORD,Satan also came among them.And the LORD said to Satan, “Whence do you come?”Then Satan answered the LORD and said,“From roaming the earth and patrolling it.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job,and that there is no one on earth like him,blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil?”But Satan answered the LORD and said,“Is it for nothing that Job is God-fearing?Have you not surrounded him and his...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Two little girls, who apparently couldn't sleep, got out of the bed they shared less than a half-hour before a tractor-trailer plowed through their bedroom. Cori Morgan, 7, and her sister, Shadia, 3, had left their bedroom for the living room just before the 4:30 a.m. crash, said Cerrisa Moore, whose mother owns the house.

Guardian Angels are prepared to watch over us 24 May 2006 By HEATHER McCRACKEN Crimefighting volunteers the Guardian Angels will patrol in eastern Manukau if the community asks for their help. Members say they'll go where they are needed but that crime rates in the area might not justify their presence. Howick residents, who go by code names Alpha One and Phoenix, have been patrolling with the west Auckland chapter for four months. "We feel that we need to go into Manukau because we need to keep the whole community safe. Right now it's quite dangerous," Phoenix says. Their phone...

Crime in New Zealand is probably not something you get to see much news about in the United States. Life here is very different to life in the USA, and despite what you may have heard, Crime is a growing problem DownUnder. And we are seeing a proliferation of some purely-American criminal elements and ideas, such as "Crips" and "Bloods" and colors, and the occasional drive-by-shooting. These are new concepts to us: they were not here 10 years ago. Accordingly, we have imported some good old-fashioned American ideas to help us combat Crime: such as the Guardian Angels. (Full disclosure:...

John "Junior" Gotti, who insists he quit the mob family run by his late father, the "Dapper Don," watched jury selection start yesterday at his racketeering retrial in Manhattan. One prospective juror was quickly disqualified: a former supervisor of the FBI's organized crime squad. The most serious charge facing Gotti is the 1992 kidnapping of radio host Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels crime-fighting group, who allegedly was targeted by "Junior" Gotti because of his on-air rants against the late John Gotti.

Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Angels got the cold shoulder yesterday from Toronto's mayor, the police chief and immigration officials, who detained Sliwa for two hours at Pearson airport and slapped a three-day limit on his visit to Canada. But he was warmly welcomed by regular Toronto residents fed up with guns and gangs. "Anything that shows we're trying to do something about the problem is good for Toronto," said Gerrard McKecknie, 44, who lives near where 15-year-old Jane Creba was shot to death on Boxing Day. NOT EYE TO EYE "The black community and the police are not seeing...

HOUSTON -- A Houston couple fed up with crime has asked the Guardian Angels to help make the Bayou City a safer place, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. Jeff and Christine Schmidt, Sharpstown residents, called the grass-roots anti-crime group after they got fed up about hearing gunshots in their neighborhood. "It's like a bad war zone. That's the only way I can describe it -- constant bullets," Christine Schmidt said.

Padre Pio and the Guardian Angel (The following is extracted from a spiritual letter written by Padre Pio to his spiritual daughter Raffaelina in 1914.) "Beloved daughter of the heavenly Father,May the Grace of the Divine Spirit completely possess your heart and that of all those who wish to belong to Jesus! May Jesus also reveal to you the mystery and power of His Cross, completely inebriating you. May His Virgin Mother be the very one who obtains for you the strength and courage to fight the good fight; may your good angel be for you a breastplate to...