What is the deal with angels, Father Hugh Barber, is next?

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Cancer's

podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. the Catholic is he the highest angel is he close to the highest angel well we'll talk about that but

if we want to talk with the father Hugh about what is an angel in order to get a sense of who is

Michael and what in a practical sense does Michael do for us.

Because he is our defender and we'll talk a bit about the St. Michael prayer and all of that.

But you can't talk about angels, especially with Father Hugh, without getting your mind blown just a little bit. These are unbelievable.

Just beyond our ability to comprehend creatures, every single one of them, even

the lowest angel. So, prepare to get your mind blown as we ask Father Hugh Barber about St. Michael, the archangel.

Father, I'm going to give you a really tough question as we go on, but I'm previewing it for you now,

which is, I want to know this, I don't want you to answer this yet, but as we go along,

teasing for the future, How does an angel experience reality if they can't see

here taste touch or smell and that's the only way we know it. Don't tell me now. I'm going to get to that because

the Feast of St Michael is coming up and so first I want you to

tell me about St Michael. Happily I'll do so happily. St Michael is called St Michael

the archangel is the saint-aainted angel among the angels which is the most venerated

or who is the most venerated in the Catholic Church.

That is, there are millions or maybe billions of angels.

I mean if there are billions of human beings, there are billions of angels.

And so consequently, he receives a special veneration, which we don't really understand the reason why out of all of these angels in their various orders and

hierarchies why he would be the one that would be chosen for this particular role

just like we don't know why our Lord picked Peter as opposed to some other

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