| V. Choir | 11 January |
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| Angel of creative power | Werner, Theodosius |
There in the spiritual realm, where the ground is weakest against hell, where heavenly and hellish powers seem to confront each other in equal measure, there the bearers of God’s will over creation, the angels of the fifth choir of the Powers are set up… great and unwavering and truly mighty before our eyes.
Each of these angels looks like a fortress, a mighty storehouse of power or an immense, luminous spinning disc that sprays its sparks over the whole of creation. In these images, God shows us what each of these angels is: power!
Saint Sobroniel,
who, according to the goodness of God, stands today as our intercessor before the Throne of God, belongs to that lower third of this choir which, in the power and mobility of the Holy Ghost, carries the law into creation, the power of the magnanimity of God’s love, of the beauty of love and sacrifice, of devotion and the divine call.
Saint Sobroniel carries the creative power into our heart so that it stretches and breaks the fetters of habit, comfort and self-love, and feels the secret fountains of all-forming, all-conquering love bursting open within it. If only our heart opens once to God! Then the angel will hold it out in shining joy to the Divine Sculptor, who will mould it and shape it so that heaven and earth will have their joy in it in time and eternity.
But we must join in! The angel who knocks on our heart today—let us not forget it!—he is power!… the power of God’s love, which not only gives but also takes away, which strikes and heals, which melts and makes new. Let us put everything that we have already broken and torn and stained in ourselves and others into this divine furnace, full of faithful trust and with all our good will. God, Who is beauty and power, harmony and measure, will renew our face!
Prayer: Holy Angel of Creative Power, Saint Sobroniel, bind our hands so that we may willingly allow ourselves to be worked by the chisel of God and so become what the Lord wills. Amen.