Angels at Work for Jesus and Us

Lately we have been of celebrating angels: September 29, Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael; and October 2, our guardian angels. I was going to write a post about angels and then discovered the one I wrote before at this time. I thought it was worth repeating; I hope you do too! Science cannot prove that […]

Strange Happenings: Angels at Work?

At dinner the other night an elderly friend I’ll call Lucy told us a touching story. A few years ago on her 65th wedding anniversary, she was sorely missing her deceased husband. She lived alone, and there was no one to share her sadness and console her. She figured that her children would not remember […]

Angels, Guardian Angels, Seraphim, Cherubim and Other Holy Spirits

This week my new book, The Catholic Companion to Angels, will be out. In honor of the occasion, for my blog I am posting the introduction to the book: A Catholic women’s group once invited me to give a talk on angels. My first reaction was, Why angels when there are far weightier topics the […]

Angels and Close Calls

This week on the way to church in the dark and rain I almost hit a pedestrian, but I was able to break just in time. The next day I was preparing to give a workshop far away on the west side when I just happened to glanced at the schedule and saw that it […]