What do the popes say about the angels?

All the Popes have recently confirmed and propagated the Church’s constant faith in the angels, living themselves in intimate, friendly and fraternal contact with the angels.

Pius XI: I feel that you are here, ready to help me

To visitors: Every day, morning and night, they pray to their guardian angel, especially in difficulties. 
To diplomats, missionaries and teachers: Why do you think you do not have a heavenly guide watching over you? 
To the priests: May the Lord guide your way and his angels to precede them. 
To his successor, Pope Pius XII: When speaking to someone who is closed in his argument, go to his guardian angel and recommend to him your intentions, ask him to deal with the guardian angel. Once the angels establish an understanding, the conversation with the visitor will be easier.

Pius XII: We must unite with the holy angels. We must form a great powerful family given the times ahead!

He denounced in the encyclical Humani Géneris , 1950, those theologians who doubted whether angels were persons or reduced them to many or ethereal and hollow beings. To American Tourists (1958): There is another invisible, real world like ours that surrounds us and is surrounded by angels who travel with you and play an important role in your lives. As Christ told the children that “his angels always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” (Mt 18:10), so when children became adults, their guardian angels did not abandon them but remain together from them.

John XXIII: He had a deep and familiar devotion to the angels

With simplicity and naturalness he said: Trust in your guardian angel, the loving messengers of our will. May the angels present in each home speak of our desire for social harmony, good morals, the practice of charity, and peace among nations. To parents: teach your children that they are never alone, that an angel is by their side. Teach them how to have a sincere conversation with the angel, who is a good counselor and intercedes for you and helps them in their needs. It is comforting to feel this special protector close to us, it fosters our intimacy with God, as a teacher of asceticism and mysticism, and guides us to the Most High. I offer the prayer “Angel of God, who is my protector …” at least five times a day, and I often speak spiritually with him, and this always gives me serenity of peace.

Psalm 91 (90)

11. For he gave his angels the command to protect thee in all thy ways. 
12. In his hands they shall set him, that he may not dash thy foot against any stone.

Looking at the multitude of pilgrims, I used to think equally of the large crowd of guardian angels present in the square. Pope John XXIII attributed the idea of ​​summoning the ecumenical council (Vatican II) to an inspiration from his guardian angel.

Paul VI

Witnessed (in your Creed): The angels and the blessed in heaven are associated, in “different degrees.”In the divine government of the world, saints intercede on behalf of men, while the guardian angels not only pray and intercede for men, but also act in them and intervene directly. May the angels inspire in the nations and in our leaders plans of peace.

In 1970, Paul VI approved the feast of the guardian angels (October 2).

John Paul I (Pope for 33 days)

As Bishop of Veneto: Angels are great strangers in those times. It is necessary to speak much about them as ministers of Providence in the government of the world and of men. Develop an intimate relationship with them.

John Paul II

Pope John Paul II defended, magnificently, the doctrine of the Church on the angels in six weeks of catechesis (July-August 1986).

His clear and detailed teaching encompasses all phases: creation of the angels, spiritual nature, intelligence and will, freedom, power, solicitation, tasks in the universe, in nations, in each individual.He referred to the Holy Scriptures, to the Tradition and teaching of the Church through the ages. He spoke of the fallen angels, the eternal abiding in the “chosen sin” that are cosmic and murderous liars, and the victory of Christ over them.

The Church is convinced that God has entrusted the angels with a mystery in favor of their people.Therefore, the Church confesses her faith in the guardian angels, venerating them with suitable feasts, and commending her protection through the frequency of prayer.

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