A Moment Aside --- 19 November 2021
We’ll stick with wings and
feathers for a while.
The season that starts
soon – Advent – has a lot to do with angels, especially as messengers. Such
angels are depicted as winged beings, although the Hebrew Bible describes them
in a number of different ways, some of them quite weird. In any event, angels
do the bidding of God and serve as messengers, protectors, and even healers.
(The “Book of Tobit” in the Second Canon tells of Raphael, the healing angel.)
Angels are worth thinking
about, even as a way of remembering that God’s care is always with us.
Do I believe in angels? The
answer to that is one I learned in seminary:
“I do, because it’s more
fun that way.”
(Depicted in the icon
above is the archangel Michael, dressed for battle in Byzantine style armour.)
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