This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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 we've promised to pray for.

The church teaches that the devil and the demons were at first good angels made by God but they became evil by their own doing.

St. Thomas Aquinas speculated that Lucifer was probably a cherub rather than a serif,

because the burning love of the seraphim is opposite to pride,

whereas great knowledge of the cherubim can more easily lead to pride.

But what could have caused Lucifer, one of the highest angels who had excelled in the knowledge of God, what could have led him to

reject God forever.

Teresa Vavala provides an insight.

She writes,

I believe his majesty desires to bring us along this way, the way of suffering, trials, crosses, and difficulties

for our own good, so that we may understand well what little we amount to.

The favors that come afterward are of such great worth,

that he desires first that before he gives them to us, we see by experience our own limitations,

so that what happened to Lucifer will not happen to us.

Because he had no physical body, the devil could not experience

limitations through suffering.

So thinking he had no limitations,

Lucifer thought he did not need God, so he did not want God and made no space for God in his life.

And that is why he is in hell.

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