This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for.

We've reflected on the archangels and the guardian angels.

Today, we meditate upon the nine choirs of angels and how to avoid the

ruin of Lucifer. There are three hierarchies of angels with three choirs within each hierarchy.

The first is the seraphim with the cherubim and the thrones,

then comes the dominions, virtues, and powers,

followed by the principalities, the archangels, and the angels,

which makes for nine groups of angels.

The angelic hierarchy is a sacred order of angels

who share in the knowledge and activity of God. They in turn

guide and convey knowledge to those angels below them, who in their turn convey knowledge

and guide us, as in the case of our guardian angels. The purpose of the first and highest

hierarchy of angels, the seraphim, the cherubim, and the thrones, is to contemplate God in his infinite goodness.

The purpose of the second hierarchy of angels, the dominions, virtues, and powers is to receive illumination that is divine truth from the first hierarchy and govern the

material world based on that knowledge. The third or lowest hierarchy of angels, the principalities,

archangels, and the angels have the function of receiving illumination from the second hierarchy of angels

on what is to be done and to carry it out, particularly as it affects the realm of humans.

St. Faustina writes,

Then I saw one of the seven spirits near me on the train as I rode to Warsaw, radiant as at other

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