The Glories of the Holy Angels
Venerable Henri Boudon, Archdeacon of Evreux
OCTOBER NINETEENTH.
The Angels of our Family and Relations.
Honour the Angels of your family and relations; they often render services which yo would not receive from your own Angels, perhaps because of some advantage which is derived from some good which you do for those of whom they have charge.
Practice—A communion in honour of these Angels.
Asp.—Holy Angels! I revere you.
OCTOBER TWENTIETH.
The Angels of our Friends and Benefactors.
Pay particular respect to those holy Spirits who are entrusted with the guardianship of your friends and benefactors, knowing that the services which they render to you are often prompted by these blessed Angels. Your Confessor being your best friend, his Angel deserves special devotion and affection.
Practice—Pay a visit to these Angels : read 3d Motive, 1st part of the preceding work.
Asp.—Lord ! charge thy Angels to keep us in all our ways.
OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST.
The Angels of our City and Kingdom.
That God has appointed certain Angels, to watch over and defend kingdoms and provinces, we are assured of in the Book of Genesis. Towns and cities too have their respective Angels. We ought often and earnestly recommend these places to their guardian care, and beg, while we thank them for past protection, so that they would arrest by their prayers the torrent of vice and immorality, which so loudly demands vengeance.
Practice—Say the Office of the Angels
Asp.—In sight of thy Angels, O Lord! will I sanctify thy name.
OCTOBER TWENTY-SECOND.
The Angels of our Parish.
Invoke the Angels of your parish, that they may avert from it the wrath of the Most High, excited by the continual offences committed against him. Father le Fevre, first companion of St. Ignatius, used to invoke the Angels of the different places in which he preached, that they might dispose the people to profit by his sermons,
Practice—Say the Litany of the Angels, for the reign of God in your parish.
Asp.—O Holy Angels ! preserve us from all evil, especially that of sin.
OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD.
The Angels of Heretics and Infidels.
Spend this day in making reparation to the Angels for the ill return made for all their cares by Heretics and Infidels. The former blaspheme against them, whilst the latter are in total ignorance or disbelief of them.
Practice—Interiorly salute the Angels of all whom you meet.
Asp.—May every creature praise the Angels!
OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH.
St. Raphael.
The name of this blessed Angel whom we have particular reason to honour to-day, as being appointed by the Church for his festival, signifies cure of God. He is, according to his own testimony to Tobias, one of the seven Spirits who stand before the Throne of God. From having so safely conducted that good man in his journey to Rages, and the many helps afforded by him during his stay in that city, he should be invoked by travellers and voyagers, persons about to contract the sacred matrimonial engagement, as well as those engaged in trade and commerce. Indeed all should beg his assistance, all being strangers and pilgrims upon earth, and standing in greater or lesser need of it.
Practice—Consult St. Raphael on all your affairs, and say the 90th Psalm.
Asp.—O Angel of God, illumine, defend and preserve me this day, and for ever.
