| IX. Choir | 6 July |
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| Angel of tradition | Thomas More, Maria Goretti |
Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord…” will enter Heaven, but he who does the will of the Father Who is in Heaven. The will of the Father, which is to be done by mankind, underlies the commandments of God and the Holy Church, the laws of creation. It is inviolable and holy, wise and just, and applies to all times and all places without exception.
The will of the Father underlies the word that the Son told us, which we know as the word of God, as the word of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as the words of Holy Scripture.
Saint Levi,
the angel of tradition, bears this word in its faithfulness. Saint Levi is an angel of the IX choir, and this signifies that God loves His angels with the same love without exception, whether they are in the I or IX choir, and that He has assigned tasks to all angels, the greatness of which we can only measure to a fraction and about which we can never allow ourselves to make a value judgement.
Thus, it often happens that a simple angel has a seemingly greater task than an angel of the highest choirs. We do not know where the boundaries are drawn here, for all too soon we come up against our own limits of human comprehension.
Saint Levi is assigned to the choir of the Highest Powers and in this choir to the Angel of the Highest Power, Saint Nathaniel, who guards the word of the apostle to the nations, Paul, and of all of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
Tradition is a sacred duty and a sacred heritage. So it is that today Saint Levi stands tall and almost stern, like a deacon, before God’s Throne, unwavering, and with the almost unbearable fullness of life, order and power through the Word. His eyes are fixed steadfastly on the Face of God and the stream of the Word flows clearly and unhindered from the Breath of God via the Cherub, who has to bear the fear of God, to the High Powers, the guardians of God’s covenant with mankind. More and more we see the Word becoming power, becoming life, especially from the High Powers downwards to the Archangels, who stand in the centre of the Ring of the Incarnation around the Redeemer. Only from the Cross, from the Blood of the Lord, can we grasp all of God’s laws and words, and only from there can the world be renewed.
It is not enough that we merely hear the word of God. We must also live it. It is not enough that there are laws here, they must also be kept. It is not as if we had to pull on them like a heavy cross, but in such a way that out of faithfulness we ourselves want what the will of God demands of us. Faithfulness to God can also demand the commitment of our lives; for only in this unconditional walking with God and standing up for God will the Kingdom of Christ be realised upon earth.
Prayer: Great Angel of the faithful transmission of the Word of God, Saint Levi, grant us the strengths of fortitude and faithfulness that we may preserve intact that which we have received as a precious pledge, so that Christ the King may reign for ever and ever. Amen.