FIRE ON THE EARTH with Peter Herbeck - Marching Orders

Peter Herbeck is Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries and has been actively involved in evangelization and Catholic renewal throughout the U.S., Canada, Africa and Eastern Europe for the past 30 years.  Peter's topic today is the Catholic Church's teaching on angels.

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Peter Herbeck: 0:41

Welcome Friends, this is Peter Herbeck, your host today we're celebrating a feast of the Archangels. Michael Gabriel Raphael, what an exciting thing to think about God's amazing creation. And the angels he's created to give glory to Jesus to be at the service of the Lord, and to protect us and to help us. It's amazing to think we actually can know these angels just something about them God's revealed it to us. And we do want to celebrate them today and thank the Lord for them. That what what might be helpful is to just look at what the Catechism says about the existence of angels, and dimensions and things we can learn from it because I don't think everybody knows what the Church teaches what Scripture is taught about it. So I thought to begin with, paragraph 328. It says the existence of the spiritual, non corporeal beings that sacred scriptures usually calls angels is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of tradition. So it is a truth of the faith. We've it's been revealed to us that God has made the angels and the angels are at the service of the king, paragraph 329. St. Augustine says, Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. That's interesting. I think people talk about an angelic nature. I've heard people talk about the visit, let me say it again. Augustine said St. Augustine said angel is the name of their office, not their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit. So their nature, we are embodied spirits. We have bodies. So angels are spirits fundamental. That's their nature. There's a spiritual nature says, If you seek the name of their office, it is Angel, from what they are spirit, from what they do, Angel, so their spirits who do what angels do. He goes on with their whole beings, the angels are servants, and messengers of God. So that's what it means to be an angel, what they do, an Angels a servant, and a messenger of God, because they quote, always be hold the face of my Father who is in heaven, Jesus said, they are the mighty ones who do his word, harkening to the voice of His Word. So beautiful to think about paragraph 330 as purely spiritual creatures, angels have intelligence and will. They are personal, in immortal creatures, surpassing imperfection, all visible creatures, as the splendor of their glory bears witness. So they're filled with glory, they're filled with splendor, they minister to the king, they minister in the presence of God, you know, we would say day and night, I mean, they're an eternity. So it's not exactly it's not linear time, like, but we're experiencing, but they're there. Now, it gets really interesting, from my perspective, here, paragraph 331. Christ is the center of the angelic world. Think about that for a minute. Let's just imagine it. Who's at the center? Who are the angels, most attentive to the myriads of myriads of angels in the levels of angels. Jesus Christ is the center of the angelic world. They are his angels. The Catechism says, that beautiful there his angels, Prince, this is why, again, this another expression and way of understanding Jesus, there is no one like him. There's so many, even