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Does the Catholic Church have any teachings or information about angels? I was curious. I never hear anything about them and would like to do some research.
As a Catholic you must believe in Angels. Remember the Annunciation when the Angel appeared to Mary!!Well, in that case do you believe in angels?
That is a great link!
This is really interesting that you just started this thread because I was about to myself.
What I’ve learned is that
I read the NewAdvent article and found it somewhat confusing, and quite lacking. The scripture accounts of the nine choirs of angels can be found here:
- teachings on angels are not dogmatic (you don’t have to believe them)
- there is considerable tradition concerning angels
- the traditional accounts are strongly held throughout the Christian world (are widely accepted)
Angels Gen 16:7
Archangels 1 Thes 4:15
Virtues 1 Cor 15:24
Powers 1 Cor 1:16
Principalities 1 Cor 15:24
Dominations Col 1:16
Throne Col 1:16
Cherubim Gen 3:24
Seraphim Is 6:2
(That is the first time each appears, but they are mentioned more frequently.)
I found a page that had quite an interesting take on things that I wanted to get Catholic (name removed by moderator)ut on. I’d never heard it before. It said that there are twelve types of seraphim, listed below. Does anyone know any more about this?
- Epochal angels: direction of the affaires of each generation and root race
- Progress angels: initiate the evolutionary process of creatures
- Religious guardians: angels of the church
- Angels of national life: angels of the trumpets, direct political performance
- Angels of the races: work for conservation of the evolutionary process
- Angels of the future: forecast and predict the future
- Angels of enlightment: planetary education, mental and moral training
- Angels of health: angelic healing corps
- The home seraphim: preservation and advancement of the home.
- Angels of industry: foster industrial development
- Angels of diversion: play, humor, rest, and human leisure
- Angels of superhuman ministry: angels of the angels.
Yes, that particular site sounds and looks like a new age site, as it mentions names of angels we are not supposed to invoke.Eeyeah, I would not take that site seriously. It IS by a psychic! I remember going there during my New Age phase on Atlantis…
I don’t think this is a valid argument. (That the site is off its rocker and pulled the info out of thin air is valid; I refer to the statement here and a few posts back that we can’t call angels by name except those named in scripture.) CAF apologists seem to have a different perspective. Can we know our guardian angel’s name?Yes, that particular site sounds and looks like a new age site, as it mentions names of angels we are not supposed to invoke.
OK, so there is an exception.I don’t think this is a valid argument. (That the site is off its rocker and pulled the info out of thin air is valid; I refer to the statement here and a few posts back that we can’t call angels by name except those named in scripture.) CAF apologists seem to have a different perspective. Can we know our guardian angel’s name?
I’ll stay with Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. We know they are of God.So “Saraquel” mentioned earlier is a no-no? I’ve never heard of him before!
Thanks for that post John! It is a great site, I bookmarked it.
Guardian angels come from the lowest rank of angels, which are simply known as “angels”.No Guardian Angles mentioned among the nine orders of angels. Why is this?