Tuesday — The Holy Angels
*Cum angelis et archangelis.* The day to commend ourselves to the heavenly hosts.
Behold, I send My angel before thee, to keep thee in the way (Ex 23:20). The angels are not a poetic flourish. They are mighty intellectual creatures of pure act, far stronger than we are, and assigned to us in love. On this day the Church commends herself to the heavenly armies — to St. Michael who casts down the dragon, to St. Gabriel who carried the Word, to St. Raphael who walked with Tobias, and to the angel whom God set beside you at your baptism and who has never since left.
Today
An eight-minute Tuesday guide — a reading on the nine choirs, the Trisagion of the Seraphim, the long Leonine Prayer to St. Michael, the Angele Dei, and an invocation of the three named archangels.
Go Deeper
For a longer Tuesday — the foundational angel prayers and the novena to St. Michael.