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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 are immortal.

There will never be more or less angels. We will never become one of them.

So we should never think that when we go to heaven, we will become an angel because we won't.

The final area where we can get confused is sometimes we think that angels are all sweetness and light, that angels are

sort of gentle creatures that just come and shine and smile. Well, we don't know exactly what

angels look like. We know from scriptures that angels can be sort of scary sometimes.

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