Touched by An Angel

By: Patti Macguire Armstrong, From: the Catholic Exchange

When my second grade teacher, an Irish nun named St. Anita, told us to leave a space for our guardian angels to sit next to us, I quickly complied.    I wanted my angel to be comfortable and close to me.

As an adult, I realize that as purely spiritual beings, angels don't have actual bodies. Still, I'm sure my angel and I were very close that day.

What we know about angels comes from the Bible as well as Sacred Tradition. They are personal-interacting in our earthly lives-and immortal, just as we are. Although they are pure spirits, angels can take on a physical body in order to interact with us on earth. We know from the battle between St. Michael the archangel and Lucifer, that they also have intellects and free will, just as we do.

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