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Guardian Angels
The Ran Collection
Many people believe that each human has one special angel assigned by God to each person in order to protect and guide that person. St. Jerome expressed this in the next words: "How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it." (Comm. in Matt., xviii, lib. II).
In the New Testament, angels are everywhere the intermediaries between God and man; and Christ set a seal upon the Old Testament teaching: "See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 18:10). A twofold aspect of the doctrine is here put before us: even little children have guardian angels, and these same angels lose not the vision of God by the fact that they have a mission to fulfill on earth.
This is the function of the guardian angels; they are to lead us, if we wish it, to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The painting is sanctified in Gornensky (Gorny) Covenant in the Holy Land, western Jerusalem. The Covenant was founded in 1871, at the place where Mary and Elisabeth were seeing each other after the Virgin receiving the news from a divine messenger that she would bear God's Son. Shortly after Mary went to see her cousin Elizabeth, who, in her old age, became the mother of John the Baptist. Gornensky (Gorny) Covenant is The Russian Orthodox Mission of Moscow Patriarchate in Jerusalem, one of the most famous Christian covenants in the world.
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