the throne of the Holy Trinity.
Biblical Foundations:
Exodus 23, 20-23a: "Thus says the Lord:" I am sending an angel before you, to guard you along the way and lead you to the place that I have prepared. Respect it and hear your voice. Do not rebel against him, because they do not forgive the transgressions, and my name is on it. If you really listen to his voice and do everything I tell you, I will be enemy to your enemies and an adversary unto thine adversaries. Then my angel shall go before thee. "
From infancy to death human life is surrounded by her custody. "Every believer stands next to an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. "From this land, part of Christian life by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God. CIC 336
Angels in the life of the Church 334
Hence the life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels.
335 In her liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to worship the God thrice saint invokes their assistance (as in "Supplices rogamus you ..." ["I humbly ask ..."] the Roman Canon or the" In Paradisum deducant angeli you ... "[" To Paradise May the angels lead you ..."] of the liturgy for the dead, or also in the "cherubic hymn" of the Byzantine liturgy), and welcomes more particularly the memory of certain angels (St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, the guardian angels).
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