Angels

Guardian angel with a child, parc-des-chapelains Paray-le-Monial.

Angels are present in The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me at certain important moments, including the Annunciation. They are also occasionally interlocutors of Maria Valtorta in other volumes of the work, including The Book of Azarias, which recounts teachings from her guardian angel.

The Angels who rebelled Against God, following Lucifer, were, like him, cast into hell and became demons.

The Archangel Gabriel

His name means: "Man of God" or "Strength of God".          

"The angel of all Annunciations." He announces the birth of John the Baptist- and of Jesus.- He is present at the Nativity. He is one of the seven archAngels who stand before the throne of God and intercede for the people; responsibility for the Paradise is said to have been entrusted to him. "For the Strength of God was always the victorious one who brought the news of joy to the saints and the prophets, the indomitable one on whom the greatest strength of Satan was broken like a withered stalk of foam, the intelligent one who with his good and clear intelligence turned aside the traps of the other intelligent but wicked one by promptly procuring the execution of the orders of God."-

Character and Appearance

He must necessarily take on a human aspect. But this aspect transcends the human. Of what flesh is this very beautiful and dazzling figure formed? Of what substance did God materialize it to make it perceptible to the senses of the Virgin? Only God can possess these substances and use them so perfectly. It is a Face, a body, eyes, a mouth, Hair, and hands like ours, but it is not our opaque matter. It is a light that took the color of flesh, eyes, hair, lips—a light that moves and smiles and looks and speaks.    

“Hail, Mary, full of Grace; hail!” The voice is a sweet chord like pearls falling on precious metal.

In a vision of March 24, 1946 ("Notebooks from 1945 to 1950" – page 234): Maria Valtorta describes the angel Gabriel thus:      

After your departure (that of Father Migliorini), an angel — who is not mine, it seems to me — has remained present constantly, and visibly. I tell you he does not seem to be my guardian angel because, while Azarias usually shows himself to me by materializing with charm as I described some time ago (vision of January 15, 1946), this one is completely spiritualized; he is of an extremely bright light that only a miracle of God allows me to fix; he possesses the incorporeal charm of spiritual beings. He does not use his feet to move, but the two lights of wings. Everything is light in him: his Face, his hands crossed on his chest, his extremely white and immaterial garment... I speak of hands, Face, garment because we poor humans can only express materially to describe what we see. But this spirit so charming, who does not leave me for a moment and with whom my Soul holds continual conversations of love, possesses only the incorporeal condensation of his spirit in the form of Face, hands, or clothes to make himself present to my spiritual gaze. Therefore, it is reduced to the minimum necessary to achieve his goal, which implies that I must use improper and very material terms to speak of his Face, his hands, or his garment. In short, he appears to me in the same way as the angel of Gethsemane who was "a light in the form of an angel" (This description is found in "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me", Volume 9, chapter 21, page 205 and corresponds to Luke 22:43); he resembles one of those I saw in the choirs of paradise... Oh! Light, light that sings in the infinite azures of the sky... He resembles the Angels of Christmas... to the shepherds... one of those who, during one of the last nights of my exile in Còmpito (S. Andrea di Còmpito is where the writer was evacuated. See "The Notebooks of 1944", April 24, 1944, note 139) carried me into Ecstasy by flying over me while singing indescribable melodies... I do not know who he is. I know that his Presence is a comfort to me. He is gentler than moonlight to the solitary and lost traveler, and he brings me the certainty that I am not alone but have the best of company and guides, and that I am on the best path: that of the angel of God, and on the path that Angels follow: that of God. I do not know who he is. His Presence fills me with happiness, but he does not reveal his name to me (later, she reveals it: Gabriel).

Where is it mentioned in the work?

EMV 16 EMV 22

EMV 136

EMV 288

Angels who serve Jesus

During the Flight into Egypt

An angel told me: "Take the Child and the Mother and flee to Egypt." Do not waste time. I will prepare all that I can." No need to tell Mary not to waste time. As soon as she heard about an angel, about Jesus, and about fleeing, she understood that her Creature was in danger.  

In the Holy Family

The Angels had their home there because nothing kept them away from this house. One of them, could I say, had incarnated and that was Joseph, an angelic Soul, freed from the weight of the flesh, solely occupied in serving God and His interests and loving Him as seraphim love.        

In the Desert

The sun disappears at sunset. Jesus takes the empty satchel and, accompanied by the Angels who are flying above Him, giving Him a gentle light, while the night falls very quickly, He heads northeast.        

At the Nativity

But nothing could happen. I did not feel the jolts. It seemed to me I was advancing on a path of stars, amidst bright clouds supported by the Angels... And I smiled... I relive that hour and find every place again because I see everything through a great angelic light. Perhaps the multitudes of Angels are here again, invisible to bodies, but visible to Souls with their luminous whiteness.

During the fast of Aczib

As I did when I began the Mission, I did it again now. Then, in the end, I was helped by the Angels. Now, I am helped by you. And, believe it, it is a double joy. Because, among Angels, charity is imperative, but among men it is less easy to find.

At the Resurrection

When He moves, coming towards the exit, and the eye can see beyond His splendor, behold two very beautiful lights appear to me, but like stars compared to the sun, one on one side, the other on the other side of the threshold, prostrate in ADoration for their God who passes wrapped in His light, blissful in His smile.        

Public Life Angels

The angel of my human life and the angel of my pain are prostrate before Me and adore my Glory. Here they both are my Angels. One for the joy of the sight of Him he guarded and who now no longer needs angelic defense. The other, who saw my tears to see my smile, who saw my struggle to see my victory, who saw my pain to see my joy.  

The Angel of "Divine Suffering"

(The holy Women) appear at the threshold and see in the darkness of the sepulchral chamber a luminous and very beautiful creature, who smiles gently, and greets them from the place where she is: leaning to the right of the anointing stone whose grayness disappears before such an incandescent splendor. They fall to their knees, stunned with amazement. But the angel speaks softly to them: "Do not be afraid of me. I am the angel of divine Suffering. I have come to rejoice at its end."        

In Gethsemane, the angel of Consolation

It is here that the angel of the Lord hovered over Me to make me strong in my will to do the Will of God. For remember, if you always want to do the Will of God, where the creature cannot hold on, God comes with his angel to sustain the exhausted hero.        

At the Ascension

They remain there until two angelic lights of extraordinary Candor appear in human form, to speak the words reported in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.

The Angels of the Nativity

"The angel approaches more and more, and stops in the air spreading his great wings, pearl whiteness in the moonlit whiteness that envelops him, above the enclosure wall. 'Do not be afraid, I do not bring you misfortune. I bring you the news of great joy for the people of Israel and for all the peoples of the earth.' The angelic voice is a harmonious harp that accompanies the voices of nightingales.      

"A crowd of Angels like him, a ladder of Angels descending in joy, outshine the moon by their paradisiacal light. They gather around the announcing angel, flapping their wings, spreading perfumes, in a musical harmony where all the most beautiful voices of creation are found, but raised to the perfection of their sound.      

"Did you see the Angels?" and the young Michael looks at Matthias with wide eyes.

Guardian Angels

"Can you Believe that Angels will keep a faithful guard for you?"

"I think it is the guardian Angels who brought people to the Son of God who desired God. I do not believe that is imagination. If we consider the prompt and cunning constancy with which Satan brought Enemies to God and to His Word in moments when the Spirit of the demon could make men see an appearance of fault in the Christ, it is permitted to think, it is more than permitted, it is right to think that the Angels were not inferior to the demons and brought to Christ the spirits freed from the demon's grasp."      

"Your angel is fully disposed to beg God for you and with you."-

The Angels of Heaven

Imitate the Angels

"The Angels, who are beings superior to the weaknesses of humanity, do not cease for a moment to sing their 'Sanctus' and their supernatural charm increases with every invocation of the Holiness of our God. Imitate the Angels."      

Sermon on the Mount

"Do not make your tongue, pushed by your Pride, a cause of Scandal in the eyes of the Angels. It would be better to become mute instantly."  

The faith of Angels and that of men

"This bare, virgin, incorporeal faith, apt and sufficient for Angels who see and love God spiritually, sharing with Him the spiritual nature and having the capacity to see God. We need to create for ourselves an 'image' of God."  

The scribes of deeds and words

The Angels of the Lord hear the words of men and write them in the eternal books, and it could be unpleasant one day to hear: 'Let it be done to you as you have judged.'  

The Revolt of the Angels

God had already created the Angels. A part of them did not want to Believe that the level of glory where God placed them was good, they rebelled, and their Soul burned by the lack of faith in their Lord, they tried to assault the invulnerable throne of God. To the harmonious reasons of the believing Angels, they opposed their discord, their Unjust and pessimistic thought, and pessimism, which is lack of faith, made them become spirits of Darkness, they who had been spirits of light.        

The creation of the Angels

The Angels, spiritual creatures, servants of the Most High and His messengers, were created by Him like man, like animals, like everything that was created. But they were not begotten by Him.

Angels who serve the Virgin Mary

Mary's Testament before her Dormition

Always the Angels were close to me, one or more, when I was at a special moment of my life. They were there at Nazareth, when the Spirit of God made my virgin womb fertile. And they were at Joseph's, when he was troubled and uncertain because of my condition and how to behave with me. And in Bethlehem, twice, when Jesus was born. and when we had to flee to Egypt. And in Egypt when the order was given to return to Palestine. And if they did not appear to me, because the King of Angels Himself came to me from His Resurrection, the Angels appeared to the pious Women at dawn the day after the Sabbath and gave the order to tell you and Peter what you had to do. Angels and light always at the decisive moments of my life and that of Jesus. Light and ardor of love which, descending from the Throne of God to me, His servant, and rising from my Heart to God, my King and Lord, united me to God and Him to me, so that what was written that must be accomplished, would be accomplished, and also to create a veil of light stretched over God's secrets, so that Satan and his servants do not know, before the proper time, the fulfillment of the sublime mystery of the Incarnation. Tonight too I feel, although I do not see them, the Angels around me.    

Assumption

Then, in this paradisiacal light, angelic creatures become visible, an even more splendid light in the already so powerful light that first appeared. As had already happened when the Angels appeared to the shepherds, a dance of sparks of all colors emanates from their wings gently put into motion, from which comes a sort of harmonious, arpeggiated, very soft murmur. The angelic creatures form a crown around the small bed, lean over it, lift the immobile body and, by flapping their wings more strongly, which increases the initial sound.  

Dormition

Leaning over her rest, the angel of Mary anxiously waited for the urgency of the Ecstasy to separate that spirit from the flesh, at the time marked by God's decree, and separate it forever from the Earth while already descending from Heaven the sweet and attractive command of God.

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In the Catechism of the Church Catholic

• The existence of Angels is a truth of faith. The testimony of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.
• The fall of the Angels.
• The angel's announcement to Joseph.
• The angel announces Jesus as "the Anointed".
• The "lust" of Angels.
• The fall of the Angels and the sin of man were only permitted by God as occasion and means to display all the strength of His arm, all the measure of love He wanted to give to the world.
• Jesus will send His Angels.
• The name of Jesus announced by the angel.
• The justification of sinners surpasses the creation of Angels.
• Man is, after Angels, capable of recognizing that great is the Name of the Lord throughout the earth.
• The The "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria).
• Satan, the angel who opposes God..

In other works by Maria Valtorta

Notebooks of 1944

• Catechesis of January 10, 1944

  "I see my guardian angel (Azarias). He is kneeling, turned towards Mary whom he seems to venerate. He is dressed in white. He has his arms crossed on his chest and his hands touch his shoulders."

The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

Catechesis of July 16, 1947: Lesson of Azarias on the Mission of the guardian angel

Catechesis of August 20, 1947: New lesson of Azarias on the Mission of the guardian Angels.