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The Angels and Prayer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2024

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It is the business of the angels to mediate between God and mankind, to make his wishes known to us by enlightening our intelligence so that we may see more clearly what God wants of us, and thus may run more freely in the way of his holy will. It is their office to draw us ever closer to that love and praise of God which is their very existence; but whatever they are doing to help us, their gaze remains fixed upon the eternal Godhead, the Blessed Trinity. We are told in the scriptures that the angels have eyes at the back of their head as well as the front; in fact, in Ezechiel's vision the cherubim and the very wheels upon which they move are studded with eyes: ‘And their whole body and their necks and their hands and their wings and the circles were full of eyes, round about the four wheels.’

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Copyright © 1953 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers