Question about different choirs of angels

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I like to pray the chaplet of St. Michael and am looking for an online resource to explain to me the 9 choirs of angels. Thank you and God Bless everyone on this site now with me here in the wee hours.
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whiterockdove said:
I like to pray the chaplet of St. Michael and am looking for an online resource to explain to me the 9 choirs of angels. Thank you and God Bless everyone on this site now with me here in the wee hours.
:blessyou:
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St Thomas Aquinas wrote much on this and his writing forms much of the churc/ understanding on it.

Blessed Catherine Emmerich, if you read the start of her first book has recorded her vision of the creation of heaven, the angels, the fall of the angels. Interesting.
 
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I like to pray the chaplet of St. Michael and am looking for an online resource to explain to me the 9 choirs of angels. Thank you and God Bless everyone on this site now with me here in the wee hours.
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I’m reading ‘interview with an exorcist’ by fr fortea at the moment. Has answers to some if your questions, backed up by the catechism and bible . He is currently the head exorcist in the Vatican. The book is available for ebook download on amazon.com or you can download the first few pages free.
 
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I’m reading ‘interview with an exorcist’ by fr fortea at the moment. Has answers to some if your questions, backed up by the catechism and bible . He is currently the head exorcist in the Vatican. The book is available for ebook download on amazon.com or you can download the first few pages free.
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Fr fortea says in his book that before the fall of the angels. They were ALL subject to a test (like Adam and Eve in Eden), to serve God or not. Their response decided which choir of heaven they would belong to. St Michael responded the greatest and became the prince of the angels, and it is he who was tasked with casting satan to hell. St Michael therefore has the highest merit and reward in heaven of the angels, and is the greatest and highest angel in Heaven. Our Lady has highest place, the most merit and reward in Heaven of all the humans in Heaven because her task on earth was so special and she fulfilled it heroically and without sin. Theologians argue Our Lady is higher and closer to God than any angel, because she has the title Mother of God. the archangels are the highest choir. The other choirs are are less closer to God, because the choirs go in 12 steps toward God. He said each angel is completely unique regarding their unique merits in heaven based on their test before God admitted them to the Beatific Vision of Himself. Even our angel guardians are from a choir and have unique merits.
Just like a life of an individual human being gives that human being a particular closeness to God in heaven and specific merits based on their life. Nearer or further from God, more reward or less reward.
 
The EWTN Library has EXTENSIVE information on the Angels.
 
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St Michael responded the greatest and became the prince of the angels,
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Some writers (sorry I can’t cite sources off the top) speculate that St. Michael started out at the second lowest rank in the angelic hierarchy (as the title ‘archangel’ is commonly associated with the choir so named), but gained singular or at least special merit and privileges. And that Lucifer was a high ranking angel, so that his humiliation was the greater. This is entirely possible, as our Lady was lower in nature than the angels, and for that matter our Lord in his human nature was lower than the angels, though infinitely above them in his divine.
 
Thanks for your replies, I just downloaded “Interview With An Exorcist” and referring to EWTN’s materials. Great stuff! Will have more questions, i’m sure.
So glad for this site, I may need a little guidance, :hypno:if I get too overwhelmed.
Blessings!
 
You might Google a PDF of the book 1869 book Devotion to the Nine Choirs of Holy Angels, by Henri-Marie Boudon. There’s no imprimatur or nihil obstat declaration, but it’s a lengthy book with a good amount of information on the 9 choirs of angels. Boudon was a Catholic French priest, and his book Only God, the Holy Slavery of the Admirable Mother of God was a key influence on St. Louis de Montfort.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite is also a great source of information on the angelic choirs.
 
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