Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

And here is one of those weeks.

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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, September 25th, 2018.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about angels.

Yesterday we talked about what an angel is and how we can join them in praising every time we attend mass during the great amen.

Today, before we move any further, we are going to clear up some confusing ideas about angels.

Angels are a popular figure in cartoons, in the ways we talk, and maybe the ways we think.

But some of the things that we think about angels are simply not true.

So we're going to go through and clear up some of those things today.

The first thing we're going to talk about is a difference between an angel and a fairy.

Now here is the big difference. Whereas fairies are make-believe and part of imaginary stories,

angels are real. Let me say that again. Angels are real. We can have real experiences with angels,

and when we die, we will see with our own eyes the reality of angels. Faries, on the other hand, are simply make-believe, and though they might be a part of a

fun story, they are not real. The next thing we are going to talk about is the very wrong idea

that when we die, we will go to heaven and become angels.

Now, this is simply not true. We will not grow wings and have a halo when we go to heaven.

We will not join the ranks of angels. We can go to heaven and enjoy the true presence of God with the angels,

but we will never become one. Simply, at the beginning of time, God created the angels, and the angels

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