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St. Jerome (whose feast day is today) with Matthew Leonard
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Necessary angels
David Warren, Essays in Idleness
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
“Not only Saint Augustine of Hippo, but also Blessed John Henry Newman, mentioned angels as matters of fact, and in both cases I gather were in touch with them. I do not mean this in some Jungian, mythopoiec way, wherein universally good things are acknowledged, but as abstractions. I mean this in a “touch the earth,” very literal way, as live entities with names and personal characteristics, no two interchangeable.”