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Friends, today we celebrate <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels.</span></b><br>Well<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">,
is it reasonable to believe in angels? </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Look at the wild variety in the
visible universe—the millions of species of animals, the billions of
galaxies, the myriad shells that wash up on the seashore, the
incalculable number of cells in each human body.</span></b> Is it likely that,
between this staggeringly variegated physical dimension of creation and
God, there simply yawns a great ontological abyss?<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> Isn’t it likely to
hold that God has manifested at least an equally great creativity in
regard to the purely spiritual order?<br>But why would God send
these
spiritual messengers to help <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span>? Why wouldn’t he just take care of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us </span>
himself?</span></b> Those questions, of course, are born of a frame of mind that
sets God and his world in competition.<br>On the Catholic reading, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">
God delights in using secondary causes, so that his<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> creatures</span> can
participate in his active providence of<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the universe.</span></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Aquinas says that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">
each of us,</span> due to<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> our changeable and fallible nature</span>, has been assigned
a heavenly guide</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Once we’re in heaven, we won’t require a guide
anymore, and our angel will become our friend.
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