“Restraining my impatience cost me so much that I was bathed in perspiration.”

                      -St. Therese of Lisieux

For Reflection:

How consoling to know that the Little Flower struggled so with patience – at least once! Am I willing to “sweat” to acquire this virtue? St. Therese, pray for me! (See tomorrow’s Grace Line for one saint’s suggestion on how to increase patience.)

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 perspective we have adopted–the role of the angels in the economy of salvation–forced us to follow a historical order.  This has the inconvenience of making us begin with the most austere part of the subject, that which concerns the role of the angels in the world before the coming of Christ.  It would have been more appealing to our readers had we begun with the activity of the angels in those of their ministrations which are most familiar to us,…