Eleventh Day
Meditation
The angels merited the crown of a happy eternity in union with God: For he also, that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned except he striveth lawfully.—Tim. ii. 5. Such is the law of God, not only for men but for angels also. Pope Gelasius says, “That the angels were so constituted as to merit an increase of eternal glory is sufficiently indicated by the fact that they stood in need of nothing more, that none of them could have committed evil.” And St. Prosper says of their trial, “It was the action of the will of the holy angels that, while their companions with their own free will rebelled, they themselves remained faithful in the dignity wherein God had placed them; and hence it came to pass by a divine and most just judgment that what was only up to that a holy desire of remaining with God became thereafter a voluntary and a most blessed necessity of remaining with Him forever.”
We too should strive continually to merit our crown in heaven; we are placed on trial here on this earth, a place of pilgrimage, and we should remain faithful to the conditions of that trial until our journey is over.
Prayer
O angel of God, my guardian dear, To whom His love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, and guide.
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