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Today is Monday, September 24th, 2018.

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

The reason why we're spending this week talking about angels is because we have a big, beautiful feast day coming up on Saturday, September 29th.

That is the feast of Mickelmus, or more commonly, the feast of the archangels, including St. Michael, the Archangel, including St. Michael, the Archangel, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael, who are all

archangels. But angels can be kind of hard to understand. So today, let's talk about what an angel

actually is. So first of all, you know how when we recite the creed of our faith and we list all

the things that we believe. One of the lines in there is that we believe in things seen and

things unseen. So we believe in everything we can see and touch, but we also acknowledge that there are a whole

bunch of things out there that we can't see in touch, and yet we still believe in them. Angels fall

into the category of things that are unseen. And here's why. Whereas human beings are created both with a body

and a spirit, angels are created with only a spirit. They don't have a body. They are pure,

spiritual beings. Also, angels are immortal.

At the beginning of time when God created everything, he created the angels as well.

And the same angels that he created then are the angels we have now.

No more have been created and none have been lost.

They are the same and they are immortal.

In angels are intelligent beings and they are also individual beings,

meaning just as each human being is an individual and different from each other,

so are angels. There are no two angels that are identical. They also have personalities. The one thing

about angels, however, is that they don't change their mind. Angels at one point made a decision.

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