“God is a farmer, and if He abandons man, man becomes a desert. Man is also a farmer and if he leaves God, he turns himself into a desert as well.”

                                         -St. Augustine

For Reflection:

How have I seen the truth of these words? Am I contemplating “abandoning God” in any way? I will pray for the virtue of patience to remain steadfast lest my soul become a wasteland.

The Angels and Their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church
Jean Danielou  Pb 144 pgs
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Introduction  page viii

…as we read the Fathers of the Church, that the circumstances of their times drew their attention to several questions that later theologians have felt no need to examine at any great length.  In angelology their attention was focused less upon the nature of the angels and their function as adoring spirits than upon their missions to humanity at different moments in the history of salvation.