Angels Point the Way: May 2011

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
~ Saint Francis de Sales

We are like children who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us: God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? Hebrews 1:14

An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
St. Thomas Aquina Bliss of the Way

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: And the angel that spoke in me, said to me... He does not say spoke to me but in me...
St. Augustine

Angels, living light most glorious! ... you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: what glorious pleasures take shape within you!
~Hildegard of Bingen
O Gloriosissimi

The angels work together for the benefit of us all.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica

Prayer to St. Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings

Prayer to St. Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings

O Raphael, lead us towards those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us! Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings, lead us by the hand towards those we are looking for! May all our movements, all their movements, be guided by your Light and transfigured by your Joy. Angel Guide of Tobias, lay the request we now address to you at the feet of Him on whose unveiled Face you are privileged to gaze. Lonely and tired, crushed by the separations and sorrows of earth, we feel the need of calling to you and of pleading for the protection of your wings, so that we may not be as strangers in the Province of Joy, all ignorant of the concerns of our country. Remember the weak, you who are strong - you whose home lies beyond the region of thunder, in a land that is always peaceful, always serene, and bright with the resplendent glory of God.