Are angels masculine?

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Man and woman are human categories. Feminine and masculine are generic attributes. EG - A masculine woman is still a woman and a feminine man is still a man.
The Catechism says nothing about the masculine or feminine attributes of God. Please note that the Catechism refers to God as “he”.
 
This refers to people we would today call “famous stars”. Thousands of years from now, people may read things from our time and think that a fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun walked among us.

Or they may see “American Idol” and think we had a religion where mediocre singers were deemed worthy or not by a panel of these firey sun-like bodies.
 
No gender - spirit/light beings.

Portrayed in literature (including the Bible) as masculine since Jewish (could also read Semitic - and absolutely no anti-Semitism intended here) culture was male dominant/patriarchal; women had virtually no status. I would dare say that this was a time when a female with any sort of power or intellect was seen as a threat by a very male dominated society; hence, the thought on an angel being anything but masculine was probably unthinkable.
 
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TheAmazingGrace said:
So femininity = inferiority? Gee, thanks.
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The forces of reproduction.

Male=generating force
Female =passive force
That’s the order God established in the begginning. This wicked 'generation 'said Jesus. Generation of man
Born of woman.
 
Maybe or maybe not.

Either way they are portrayed as masculine since they are warriors and warriors are masculine.
 
TheAmazingGrace said:
Did she “passively” push you out of her body?
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Yeah. I don’t like the “passive” label for femininity. It’s more like actively receptive. (Actively receiving and giving back quite transformed that which was received.) Not much there that’s passive.
 
I do think the angels are masculine. Many saints referred to their guardian angels as “he” and there is St. Michael the Archangel and St. Gabrielle, which are both masculine names.

God the Father is considered masculine as well. It’s the same.
 
I didn’t say it was church teaching or tradition. I think it’s St Aquinas who spoke about it.
 
All the evidence points toward angels being male. Gabriel and Michael are male names for named angels in Scripture. All named angels in the Scriptures have male names.

Angels are said to be organized into hierarchical ranks with princes and principalities.

The phrase “Lord of Hosts” appears hundreds of times in the Scripture. God is the Lord of Hosts which indicates that He is the LORD of Angel Armies.

Angels do not marry (Matthew 22:30). There are loves and pleasures in the Presence of God which will exceed earthly loves and pleasures.
 
Maxirad said:
Is it safe to say that angels are masculine?
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We don’t know.

If you subscribe that one’s gender is completely based on physicality then the answer would be no.

I don’t subscribe to that however and so my answer is, we don’t know.
 
I think when most people imagine angels they imagine them as women.
 
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