Happy feast of St. Michael and All Angels! I don't have too much input today, mostly because Rev. Margaret Bullit-Jonas preached a great sermon on angels this Sunday, and I think most of you were there to hear it. If not, you can listen to it here (if you are just on the Grace Church home page, go to worship and then click on sermons). Also, here's a link to a website with some great information about this particular feast day.
Which leaves me with the question for you all: what do you believe about angels? How does this play into your faith journey? I'm always struck by the idea of angels constantly circling around God singing God's praises...in fact, the collect (a name for a type of prayer we use in our services) for this particular feast day makes reference to the vocation of praise which the angels have:
"Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals: Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your appointment they may help and defend us here on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
Amen indeed.
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