Evening: Psalm 34, 150; Mark 13:21-27
Today
is Michaelmas, St. Michael and All Angels’ Day. Michael was a warrior,
but “angel” means, literally, “messenger”. In Judaism, Christianity and
Islam, angels are sometimes ‘heavenly beings’ who act as messengers of
truth, revealing uncommon knowledge. They are often pictured as
ethereal and awesome. I have never met one of these. Much more real for
me is how the Letter to the Hebrews says that to extend hospitality to
strangers is like “entertaining angels unawares”. We all know lots of
these angels … they are the people who carry good messages that help us
understand the world and ourselves.
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