Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "The question is, why does it feel as though we do not receive any help or guidance from our angels? The key word here is feel.
When your angels are by your side, do not expect sensible feeling, but faith experience. Remember, angels are not physical beings. They're pure spirits.
So you may not be able to experience them on the sensorial level with your smell, taste, touch, hearing, sight. Sometimes you may not even have an affection impressed upon you by them.
But once you engage your faith, the faith experience becomes manifest. So it all depends on what you're looking for in terms of a...confirmation from your angel.
If it's a sensorial experience, feeling, don't wait for that. But if it's a faith experience, it will always be there.
Paul says faith is not by seeing, but by believing in the things that are unseen. And Jesus told Thomas, blessed are those who do not see but believe.
These are eternal, spiritual, invisible realities, guardian angels, the sacraments, intercession of the saints and the Blessed Mother and so forth.
Our Guardian Angels are there 24/7. The thing I would recommend for these individuals to come to this faith experience is reading a book about the guardian angels, true stories.
By reading that, your faith experience grows in them. Read Padre Pio and his experience with his guardian angels. He had more than one. And we're all given different angels according to our mission. Some have one, some have more.
But the point is they are there 24/7. They do not sleep while we do. They never leave our side. If we enter into a state of recollected contemplative prayer, I believe we will be able to see them with the eyes of our soul. This is called internal vision. It's also known as the mind's eye. That's the word God uses with Catherine of Catherine of Sienna.
He tells her, use your mind's eye And envision Me within you. So if a person wants to have this confirmation of their guardian angel, enter into a state of contemplative recollected prayer and allow God to form within you the image of your guardian angel within your soul, and you'll see him there.
This is also known as a substantial locution. A locution is a word or words that are spoken. But sometimes they also bring images with them.
They could be successive locutions, formal locutions, or substantial locutions. The first two are ordinary gifts. The last, the substantial, is an extraordinary gift. But, yeah, through prayer, through recollection, through faith, we can experience that."
Armor of God: Spiritual Warfare
Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "The question is, why does it feel as though we do not receive any help or guidance from our angels? The key word here is feel.
When your angels are by your side, do not expect sensible feeling, but faith experience. Remember, angels are not physical beings. They're pure spirits.
So you may not be able to experience them on the sensorial level with your smell, taste, touch, hearing, sight. Sometimes you may not even have an affection impressed upon you by them.
But once you engage your faith, the faith experience becomes manifest. So it all depends on what you're looking for in terms of a...confirmation from your angel.
If it's a sensorial experience, feeling, don't wait for that. But if it's a faith experience, it will always be there.
Paul says faith is not by seeing, but by believing in the things that are unseen. And Jesus told Thomas, blessed are those who do not see but believe.
These are eternal, spiritual, invisible realities, guardian angels, the sacraments, intercession of the saints and the Blessed Mother and so forth.
Our Guardian Angels are there 24/7. The thing I would recommend for these individuals to come to this faith experience is reading a book about the guardian angels, true stories.
By reading that, your faith experience grows in them. Read Padre Pio and his experience with his guardian angels. He had more than one. And we're all given different angels according to our mission. Some have one, some have more.
But the point is they are there 24/7. They do not sleep while we do. They never leave our side. If we enter into a state of recollected contemplative prayer, I believe we will be able to see them with the eyes of our soul. This is called internal vision. It's also known as the mind's eye. That's the word God uses with Catherine of Catherine of Sienna.
He tells her, use your mind's eye And envision Me within you. So if a person wants to have this confirmation of their guardian angel, enter into a state of contemplative recollected prayer and allow God to form within you the image of your guardian angel within your soul, and you'll see him there.
This is also known as a substantial locution. A locution is a word or words that are spoken. But sometimes they also bring images with them.
They could be successive locutions, formal locutions, or substantial locutions. The first two are ordinary gifts. The last, the substantial, is an extraordinary gift. But, yeah, through prayer, through recollection, through faith, we can experience that."
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