“We can resist or change many things according to our wishes; but basically we must accept what comes and is given to us. To understand this and to act accordingly is patience. Anyone who is unwilling to do this is in constant conflict with his own existence.”

                               -Romano Guardini

For Reflection:

To what extent do I accept what comes and is given to me? How can I bring myself into conformity with the permissive will of God? (See tomorrow’s Grace Line by Father Guardini to discover the characteristics of a patient person.)

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

The Christian doctrine of the angels is, first of all, a continuation of their appearance in the Jewish religion of the Old Testament.  But the existence of ministers intermediate between God and man fitted itself with advantage into the spreading philosophical systems of Neo-Platonism, the occult religious systems of the Orient that had long plagued the empire, and even the Roman mind itself with its pantheon of greater and lesser deities.