{"id":341030,"date":"2021-11-09T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=341030"},"modified":"2021-11-09T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:30:53","slug":"patriarch-daniel-on-heavenly-powers-they-have-different-qualities-and-ministries-they-take-human-form-to-communicate-more-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-daniel-on-heavenly-powers-they-have-different-qualities-and-ministries-they-take-human-form-to-communicate-more-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Daniel on heavenly powers: They have different qualities and ministries. They take human form to communicate more easily"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel referred to the qualities and ministries of the bodiless powers during his sermon at the Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence on the feast of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Romanian Patriarch explained that the term \u2018angels\u2019 is generally used to refer to all heavenly bodiless powers, while angels are actually the lowest order and closest to humans.<\/p>\n

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Qualities and ministries<\/h3>\n

We have nine angelic choirs divided into three groups or triads. The first triad consists of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. The second triad consists of Dominions, Virtues and Powers. And the third consists of Principalities, Archangels and Angels, the Patriarch explained.<\/p>\n

These heavenly powers grouped into nine orders have unique qualities and ministries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe holy heavenly and bodiless powers called \u2018Seraphim\u2019 are around the Throne of God; they are the bodiless creatures closest to the Holy Trinity. And the Cherubim follow the Seraphim.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patriarch Daniel said that the Seraphim have six wings each: \u201cWith two they fly, with two they cover their eyes because they are overwhelmed by the glory of God – that is, His beauty, goodness and wisdom – and with two they cover their feet because they are near the Most Holy Trinity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cherubim have many eyes, which means that they pay more attention to receiving the glory of God, but also to fulfilling His will with great abnegation, self-sacrifice and fidelity, His Beatitude explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second triad, of Dominions, Virtues and Powers, deals especially with the guarding of the universe created by God, and they have dominion over hell. They also have power over demons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the lowest triad \u2013 including Principalities, Archangels and Angels \u2013 not only shows what God\u2019s will is to be done, but also helps humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

In general, angels proclaim the will of God, the Patriarch noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are heralds or, as a newer biblical dictionary says, \u2018God\u2019s spokescreatures.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

They take human form to communicate more easily<\/h3>\n

Patriarch Daniel noted that Archangels and Angels often take the form of a human even though they have no substance, only form.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey take the form of a human to communicate God\u2019s will to people more easily and to encourage them more. If they showed themselves in a form other than human, angels, in general, would frighten people. They show themselves as humans without having human substance because they are immaterial spiritual beings. They are limited in space, but they have the power to move very fast by the grace of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Patriarch said that the names of the Archangels Gabriel and Michael are first mentioned in the Book of the Prophet Daniel. Then, the First Book of Enoch and what is known from Tradition completes the list of the names of the seven Archangels with Raphael, Uriel, Salathiel, Gudiel, Barachiel.<\/p>\n

They proclaim God through praise and their way of being<\/h3>\n

Patriarch Daniel went on to say that the Old Testament notes that \u201cthe throne of the eternal God, the Maker of angels, of heaven and earth, is surrounded by myriads (thousands and thousands) of Seraphim and Cherubim.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMyriads of angels praise God unceasingly and proclaim His glory not only through praise but also through their way of being icons of God\u2019s holiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery bodiless heavenly power is an icon of light in which the glory of God is reflected as in a mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, angels appear before people as being clothed in bright garments, in garments of light, and have faces of great beauty,\u201d explained Patriarch Daniel recalling the angel who proclaimed the resurrection of Christ to the Myrrh-bearing women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey look like young people dressed in white. This beauty, glory, divine light on the faces of angels and their shining garments – which are made not of material but of light, of the presence of God\u2019s grace in them – have often been painted by God-inspired painters to show that the bodiless heavenly powers proclaim God not only through the message, ideas and words they convey but also through their way of living, of being.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of his sermon, Patriarch Daniel turned his attention to the almost 1.5 million Romanians who bear the names Michael and Gabriel or derivatives, and he addressed them with kind wishes and \u201cHappy Name Day!\u201d<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of the Basilica.ro Files<\/p>\n

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