| VI. Choir | 1 September |
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| Angel of orders, of personality | Giles, Ruth, Verena |
Each angel is a personality in itself, distinct and unique. Anyone who paints stereotypical angels, with the same faces by the dozen, has never recognised or felt angels, nor really thought about the greatness of these first-created beings of God.
Just as God created each angel as a personality, He also wants each of us to be a personality in terms of our soul. God is the true, perfect personality and are we not created in His image and likeness?
Saint Myrrhael,
the Silent Prince, whom the Lord God presents to us today, is in his essential task the angel of personality, the angel of the personal life united to God, who also guides those who hunger and thirst for God along their individual, sometimes steep, paths. He should be called upon by all those who have already received a firm inner foundation of character, but who find it difficult to overcome traits that are not pleasing to God (sharpness, weakness, intemperance, mistrust, defiance, etc.). He should also be invoked, however, by all those who, through their profession and mission in life, are called to be true personalities, such as all priests and consecrated persons, teachers and educators, mothers and those in important positions.
This also touches on the second task of Saint Myrrhael, which he did not receive from the beginning, i.e. from his creation, but in a time-bound manner through his calling to the special service of Mary. There are twelve angels whom we see in the service of Mary’s special tasks, and these twelve change in certain periods of time so that all angels can also be angels of Mary’s special service.
Saint Myrrhael stands before us today as the eighth of these twelve. Each of them is assigned a fixed task for the entire duration of his ministry. He also has a mobile task, which is given to him in each case and which falls within the scope of his entire area of responsibility. He has the fixed administration of certain areas on earth and a spiritual care that can change location. In this rank he is the bearer of a special grace.
Thus, Saint Myrrhael’s fixed task is to oversee life in religious orders, monasteries and parishes, in God-ordained communities and in the life of priests. He has the mobile task of settling and eliminating disputes, schisms and heresies within these communities. As a fixed administration he has the continent of the Westerners, which has already fallen to his care as the Silent Prince. As a mobile administration, he has the monasteries, dioceses and new foundations. He bears as a special grace the vow-like bond, especially the grace of obedience.
Prayer: O great, holy Angel, Saint Myrrhael, mould us as God would have it, for it is not what we think we have to become in life that is decisive, but only one thing is important: to be formed completely according to God’s will. Amen.