The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-08-12
Rev. Michael J. Donohue of Harlow
ton, Mont, prepared the eleventh
sermon on the Apostles Greed.

In previous instructions, we consid-
cred the visible works of God. Today
we shall consider the invisible works
Of our Creator. We say in the Apos-
ties Greed, "the Creator of Heaven
and EARTH" meaning thereby the Wis
ible and the invisible world. We will
confine ourselves to the invisible
world, the Angels. 1t is world that
does not fall under our senses, we
/ cannot see it, we cannot hear the
\ voices of those bright spirits, but still
we believe in their existence, we be-
lieve that they are spiritual in their
natures and we believe that they are
appointed by God Himself to be our
guardians.
Almighty God has surrounded Him
self and His work with mysteries.
Throughout the glories of His crea-
ton are obscurities and dark ways,
made clear and bright to the eyes of
faith, where there is no hardness of
heart, no resistance to the Holy Ghost.
To those who desire to see, God has
promised Darkness shall not be dark
to thee and night shall be light as the
day.
These thoughts occur to us over and
over again when We come to consider
n the subject of the Angels, a subject
so often mentioned in both the Old
and New Testament Faith leads us
surely and swiftly to a clear, concise
knowledge of the existence, nature and
origin of the Angels.
The existence of Angels is mention
ed in many places in Scripture, and is
also defined by the Church. Scripture
does not expressly mention the Angels
in it's narration of Creation, but St.
Paul enumerates them among the
things created by God, and divides
these invisible beings" into thrones,
nominations, principalities and pow
ers. From Genesis to the Apocalypse,
the sacred pages everywhere bear wit
ness to the existence and activity of
the Angels.
Opening the first book of Scripture,
Genesis, we read of the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah. These two
cities were to be destroyed on account
of their sins. The curse of God hung
over them and in the Divine mind it
had been decreed that Sodom was to
be no more. The Angels came to the
house of just man named Lot and
remained with him during the night.
No sooner had the light of the morn
ing appeared in the Heavens, than the
Angels pressed Lot to depart from the
city, Arise, take thy wife and thy two
daughters, which thou hast, lest thou
also perish in the wickedness of the
city" And as he fingered they Can
gelS) took his hand and the hand of
his wife and the two daughters, and
brought them forth and set him with
out the city and there they spoke to
him saying, Save thy life, look not
back, neither stay thou in all the
country about, but save thyself in the
mountains lest thou also be consum-
ed
Again we read in the same book
that God wished to try the obedience
of Abraham, asking him to sacrifice
his son Isaac. AS Abraham was about
to make the sacrifice, his hand was
stayed, he heard a voice calling him
and saying, abraham, Abraham, lay
not thy hand upon the boy, neither
do thou anything to him." That voice,
we are told, was a voice of an Angel.
We also find many references to the
Angels in the New Testament, one of
which 1 will mention. On one occa-
sion, when Our Savior was instruct
ing His Disciples, He called little
child to Him, placing it in the midst
of them. He told them how careful
they should be lest they might scan