THIRTY-EIGHTH SERMON
ON THE HOLY ANGELS.
Subject.
1. The holy angels are most perfectly united with the will of God. 2. We, too, should endeavor to be in full conformity with the divine will. Preached on the feast of the guardian angels and of St. Michael.
Text.
" Their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father who is in heaven." (Matt. 18:10)
Introduction.
"Their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father who is in heaven." These words signify something more than the glory of the holy angels, by which they behold God for eternity. When we say of a servant that he always keeps his eyes fixed on his master, we mean that he is always ready and willing to do arid omit whatever he knows to be pleasing to his master. And this is what we must understand of the holy angels when we say that they always see the face of the Father in heaven. Yes, my dear brethren, there we have a perfect model of the conformity and likeness of our will to the will of God; as I now mean to show in this sermon, which shall be partly a panegyric and partly a moral discourse.
Plan of Discourse.
The holy angels are always most perfectly united with the will of God. This I shall show in the first part. Let us, too, endeavor to be in conformity with the divine will on earth, just as the an gels are in heaven. Such shall he the exhortation in the second part. The first part to the praise and honor of the holy angels; the second by way of a lesson to us, that we may imitate their example.
