Additionally, angels are not holy by nature — rather, they receive their holiness from God. St. Basil the Great explains (On the Holy Spirit 16.38): The angelic powers are not by their own ...

The prayer borrows from the scriptural understanding of how the angels praise the Father, Son and Holy Spirit before the throne of God in heaven. Unlike the Rosary, which has five decades ...

The same angels attending you now were also in existence wherever God dispatched them at the time of Adam and Eve. What’s more, a holy angel will refuse worship. This happened in Revelation 19 ...

And kids. And her Catholic faith. All of which is why, when she retires at the end of this school year at age 79, Waegner will have taught at Holy Angels in Aurora a jaw-dropping 54 years.