Do Angels Have Wings?

[White Knight]

Well, according to the Gospels, there were two angels that appeared as men in shining white garments to tell the Mary and the other women who were going to go see Jesus in the Tomb, The Angels said that Jesus Rose from the dead. This is New Testment. In the old testment you have all kinds of Angels some with muiltable faces, some with 6 wings. etc etc.

[StColette]

[quote name='White Knight' date='Aug 14 2005, 09:48 PM']Well, according to the Gospels, there were two angels that appeared as men in shining white garments to tell the Mary and the other women who were going to go see Jesus in the Tomb, The Angels said that Jesus Rose from the dead. This is New Testment. In the old testment you have all kinds of Angels some with muiltable faces, some with 6 wings. etc etc.
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This made me think of Summa Theologica's section on Angels

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account; that by conversing familiarly with men they may give evidence of that intellectual companionship which men expect to have with them in the life to come. Moreover that angels assumed bodies under the Old Law was a figurative indication that the Word of God would take a human body; because all the apparitions in the Old Testament were ordained to that one whereby the Son of God appeared in the flesh.

The body assumed is united to the angel not as its form, nor merely as its mover, but as its mover represented by the assumed movable body. For as in the Sacred Scripture the properties of intelligible things are set forth by the likenesses of things sensible, in the same way by Divine power sensible bodies are so fashioned by angels as fittingly to represent the intelligible properties of an angel. And this is what we mean by an angel assuming a body.

[Fides_et_Ratio]

[quote name='philothea' date='Aug 13 2005, 06:52 PM']I remember Mother Angelica would get all annoyed by paintings of "baby" angels... with navels.  Where were they supposed to have got those?!
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I never noticed.

[Paladin D]

After pondering over this subject, reading your posts, and reading more of the book, the answer does make sense now. Thanks everyone.

[Melchisedec]

More importantly do angels NEED wings?

[phatcatholic]

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