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What does your Angel look like?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see and converse with him? St. Gemma Galgani did. So did Frances of Rome. Didn’t Padre Pio do so as well? St. Catherine Labore had her angel appear as a little child to wake her and escort her to visit with Our Lady in the chapel at Rue de Bac.

Perhaps, if we were able to see him, we would try to hold onto him, maybe even suggest making  “three tents” - well, one or two - like Peter said at the Transfiguration. We would probably want to simply “be” with him while neglecting our duties and responsibilities. We might fail in our exercise of charity, seeking our own consolation in a friendship that we cannot penetrate or adequately embrace…such a thing is for the soul and God alone.

We must be content with the invisible.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince”

A page from my Bible, sketched during our cell time after vigils - while I was in the monastery.  I was attempting to draw my guardian angel as I meditated upon the readings for the feast day…  And I spontaneously sketched this - despite the fact I like to imagine my angel in a much different way. 

(I use this same Bible today, which was a gift from my dear friend David.)

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The Angels