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Our relationships with our angels are often neglected. By praying this novena together, may we strengthen our relationship and connection to our Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but also with our very own Guardian Angel.
The daily reflections for this Novena are from Dr. Peter Kreeft and his book, “Angels and Demons: What do we really know about them?” The book is based on a philosophy class he taught at Boston College. Enjoy the daily meditations and, perhaps, read the book.
Fr. John
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.”
Pray for me, St. Michael the Archangel, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through your powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death, and reach heaven where we may praise and love God with you forever. Amen.
Pray for me, St. Gabriel the Archangel. I ask for the grace of a special power of the will to strive for holiness of life. Steady my resolutions, renew my courage, comfort, and console me in the problems, trials, and sufferings of daily living, as you consoled our Savior in His agony and Mary in her sorrows and Joseph in his trials. Amen.
Pray for me, St. Raphael the Archangel. I ask you to help me in my struggle against the world, the spirit of impurity, and the devil. Defend me from all dangers and every occasion of sin. Direct me always in the way of peace, safety, and salvation. Help me to love and serve my God faithfully, to die in His grace, and finally to merit to join you in seeing and praising God forever in heaven. Amen.
Loving God, you are so good that you gave me a Guardian Angel to protect my body and my soul. Help me to know and follow my angel so that, with their guidance, I will be worthy of being in Heaven with You! My sweet Guardian Angel, you are my counselor every day of my life. Inspire me to be holy and good like you. Inspire me to be the person that God is calling me to be. Inspire me to be a light for others to know and love the Lord. Amen.
Guardian Angel, you are with me all the time so you already know these my intentions that I ask you to deliver to the Lord.
Professor Kreeft, “Are you an expert on angels?
No. I’m not an expert on anything. There are no experts on angels, except angels, and I’m no angel. (27) In every area of life the secret of originality is to stop trying to be original and just tell the truth as you see it. Most of what I know about angels I learned from Saint Thomas Aquinas. Not all my answers are directly from him, but the principles from which I deduce my answers usually are. (P. 27) No, it isn’t. Angelology is a science, though not an empirical science. It uses an essentially scientific method: gathering data and formulating theories to explain the data. The theories are controlled by the data. Of course it’s not laboratory data. Different sciences have different data. History, mathematics, and textual criticism are all sciences, but none of them have laboratory data either. (28)
Can you prove the reality of the supernatural?
Even if I can’t, you also can’t prove its nonexistence. Naturalism cannot be proved. How could the fish in a little fishbowl prove that there is no world outside the fishbowl? How could an unborn baby prove there is no life outside the womb? (p. 29) … If there is a God, why not angels? If there is an infinite spirit, why can’t there be finite spirits? Why swallow an orange but choke on a kumquat? (3)