Hello and

Cabbagansers focus I'm Cy Kellett your host and for and for this Easter Monday, we talk about some folks who were present for the events of Easter Sunday that maybe don't always get all the attention that they deserve, the angels. And here to talk to us about

the angels, Father Hugh Barber. Hi Father. Hello there, happy Easter. Happy Easter Monday,

which in Italy they call Eastern Monday

Lunadie del Angelo the Monday of the angel.

So...

Ah, well that is our topic for this time.

It does seem angels accompany the conception, birth, and death and resurrection of the

Lord. Am I remembering my Gospels, correct? They accompany all aspects of his life and before his life since he is the king of the angels even before his incarnation.

Okay.

And coming into the world, you know, it says that let all the angels of God worship him because he is the the first of

the sons of God but he's the one who's son of God by nature and therefore equal to

the father and God himself whereas in the Old Testament the term son of God is used also to refer to angels.

A son of God means an angel often in the Old Testament.

And so even before the incarnation, our Lord was identified in the Old Testament with the angels of whom he being the highest of spirits, the uncreated divine spirit, made them in his image before he made us.

Ah, okay, so you call them folks at the beginning of this show and that's just, that's very,

that's very loose terminology, but I like it.

Well, I don't like...

I feel like they're maybe depersonalized a bit sometimes in our thinking.

Yeah, and that is that is so mistaken because of course when something is can't be apprehended

or felt by our senses, can't be seen, can't be heard, can't be felt, can't be smelled.

Then of course, when nothing is overt or imagination,

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