angels and prayer
In honor of tomorrow’s feast of guardian angels, today I’m going to give you another one of my “this was an angel…maybe” stories. A month ago, I started thinking about how one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is…
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A little devotion to the angels
Okay, so a page from the Philangelus Family History File. I’ve mentioned before that I like to make a fuss over the angels when they have a feast day, so I make a feast (usually a lasagna) and a cake,…
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Happy feast day!
Today is the feast day of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael, the archangels. If I think of a story worth posting on the blog, I’ll come back and do it later. (For now, here’s a story about my…
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So it begins…
Raguel waited at the back of the Judgment Hall to hear the verdict passed on the boy’s soul: Heaven. He nodded as he registered the word, but without rejoicing as he should have. Based on…
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It’s 4:12. Do you know where your book is?
I haven’t been writing about the household angels lately, so I’ll give you one and you can decide. Kiddo2 had her violin lesson in the next town over at 4:30. I like to leave 20 minutes for the drive, but…
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Tabris excerpt! And the novel’s new title!
This month on the MuseItUp blog is “excerpt month,” and closing it out is my upcoming re-release of The Guardian, which now has a new title (and all new text, and will be published under my legal name…someone please tell…
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“hearing” angels
It’s my opinion that we sometimes “hear” angels without hearing them. I’m convinced that last week, my guardian angel saved someone else’s life. But first, an example. About thirteen years ago, I was home alone with Kiddo1 while my Patient…
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Pushing my buttons
The year I became a bright-eyed neophyte Philangelus was also the summer I got my first job. It’s one of the nicest summers ever. Why? Because I had a guardian angel, and I was talking to him. All the time….
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Tabris! Tabris! Tabris!
No one knows why Tabris, a guardian angel, killed the child he vowed to protect. The boy Sebastian got into Heaven, but the angels don’t understand why Tabris isn’t in Hell. Instead God’s given him a second chance. Another assignment….
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Heavenly sleaze
A scheduling oddity: as I’m doing drop-off for Kiddo4’s preschool, one of the radio stations does its “Celebrity Sleaze Minute.” There is nothing I could possibly care about less than the “Celebrity Sleaze Minute.” I’m largely out of touch with…
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