WHEN GOD SENDS MESSENGERS
You never know when and where they’ll appear… perhaps even in Aisle 3 at Staples. With a heavy heart, I put down the telephone and sighed. I knew it was right that I, like the other sisters in my Carmelite community, set myself to the task now ahead of…
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Dear Father Kerper: A friend of mine, who is a very devout Catholic,always talks about her so-called Guardian Angel. I heard about these angels when I was a child. Now that I’m an adult I regard them as legends or myths made up to make children feel safe. Are Guardian Angels real? Is there anything […]
Angels are messengers between God and men. But sometimes they are also messengers of their protégés. St. Gemma Galgani, a young Italian woman who was born in 1878, began seeing her guardian angel when she was seventeen. The first meeting took place when Gemma was getting ready to go out. She was joyfully thinking about […]
Since learning about Padre Pio’s friendship with his guardian angel, I’ve found comfort in my learning about guardian angels as I try to grow in friendship with mine.
St. Padre Pio’s life was filled with supernatural phenomena. He could bilocate. He was physically assaulted by the devil. He said that more souls of the dead than of the living climbed his mountain to attend his Masses and to seek his prayers. He had the wounds of the stigmata for 50 years. And, with […]
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