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I Love You, Jesus, in Your Angels and in Your Saints

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Benjamin Embley

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I don’t know where I ever picked up these words:

I love you, Jesus, in your angels and in your saints.

But they are very good at focusing as an “arrow prayer” on the road in the world. Very short words that speak of the unity of the Church of heaven and Church on persecuted pilgrimage here below: one Church of which we are all a part through Jesus.

Courage! We’re not alone in love.

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

6 responses to “I Love You, Jesus, in Your Angels and in Your Saints”

  1. momentumofjoy Avatar
    momentumofjoy

    I love the last line – so true and so beautiful!

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    Chris miller

    Please pray for me I am coming off Xanax withdraws and it horrible. I’m an alcoholic,but off of it now.In the last six months I have got a DUI,lost my job that I worked for for almost five years,and have had indescribable withdraws from alcohol and Xanax.I have been saved before and I love GOD and INeed him,so please pray that I will stay off of this for ever and that GOD will restore my mind and my health.thanks for your prayers I appreciate it deeply

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      Contemplative in the Mud

      I will be praying for you, Chris!

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  3. sylvietheolog Avatar
    sylvietheolog

    “I don’t know where I ever picked up these words”
    I think they come from the last praise of the short litany we recite following the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament I heard often in my childhood and some rare times in more recent years : “Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints” (“Béni soit Dieu dans ses anges et dans ses saints”). I found they are called in English “Divine Praises”. In French we say “Salut (et bénédiction) du Saint-Sacrement”. The English text is to be found there : http://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/divine-praises.html

    Salut à vous dans le Seigneur.

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    1. Contemplative in the Mud Avatar
      Contemplative in the Mud

      Thanks! It’s been a while since I’ve heard the Divine Praises in English! Maybe my mind has simply transformed “Blessed be God…” into “I love you, Jesus…” I don’t know why my head would do this, but I like it.

      ^^

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    […] I Love You, Jesus, in Your Angels and in Your Saints – – * See this post on another blog for a philosophical discussion of the nature of angels and why they were created. After all, Saint Thomas seemed to upbraid Aristotle and Plato for not realizing, based on reason alone, that angels must exist and what they are. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. This entry was posted in Catholic Church and tagged Angels, Aristotle, Catholic Church, Charles de Foucauld, Christianity, Church of Heaven, Humanity of Jesus, Philosophy, Plato, Thai Art, Thomas Aquinas, Wonder by Contemplative in the Mud. Bookmark the permalink. […]

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