Angels are personal, spiritual beings, servants and messengers of God (Cat 329). They are personal and immortal creatures and surpass in perfection all visible creatures (Cat 330). Therefore, it is very sad to see many people who have a totally wrong concept of angels and who will never seek their friendship, because they do not believe that they are persons; rather, they confuse them with energies or impersonal forces, incapable of thinking or acting on their own.
Unfortunately, if you go to a bookstore, you will find books about angels, that they give luck and money or that they help you to be successful. That seems to be the only thing that interests some people.
Others consider angels as automatic slaves of man, so that whatever they ask for will be automatically granted. According to them, they can answer questions on any subject or can help with anything, as if they were robots acting without intelligence and without freedom. But nothing could be further from the truth. Angels are good, but not slaves. They obey God and are at his disposal to serve us.
There are those who confuse angels with their own feelings. They speak of interior angels and exterior angels. They even give them the craziest names imaginable. Some say that there are angels in charge of the signs of the zodiac or of each day of the week or of each month or year, of each color or of each feeling.
In short, totally wrong ideas, far from Catholic doctrine.
There is no lack of those who give courses and lectures to learn how to communicate with them. So that only the initiated can be understood and helped by them. Some say that you have to put six candles and six glasses with six petitions and wait a certain hour for them to come to help you.
In the book Playing with Angels by Hania Czajkowski, the best way to get advice from angels and good communication with them is given. It is a magical game in which two different sets of cards (104 in total) are combined to converse with the angels and get the answers we need to our problems.
In the same book, an Angelic First Aid Kit is included, destined to heal all the wounds of the soul with a lot of affection and angelic tenderness. It would seem that, in this particular case, anything can be obtained from them by means of letters, which contain oracles with all the answers to our questions and needs.
Others say that communication with them can be done by means of dreams or transcendental meditation or special prayers. They speak of performing certain rites to improve communication, such as wearing certain clothes, since each color attracts certain types of angels. Some speak of angelic crystals, which are full of angelic energy and serve to communicate with them.
Of course these crystals or other communication objects cost money and are not for the poor.
Talismans and objects full of angelic energy are also sold to defend against enemies. Some stores sell angel essences and liquids of different colors to communicate with different categories of angels.
Some, who consider themselves specialists in the subject, say that the pink color is special to communicate with the guardian angel; blue is to communicate with the angels that heal; red to communicate with the seraphim.... According to them, there are angels specialized in getting a boyfriend or healing cancer or AIDS or throat or stomach problems. Others are specialized in teaching how to earn money easily or in getting a job. There are angels, which are suitable for every profession. Angels for architects or engineers or lawyers or doctors, etc.
Normally, these wise men, or better wise men, on the subject of angels, accept reincarnation and believe that there are angels for the men of this life and for the successive lives that will follow. To speak of angels and reincarnation! Something totally contradictory for a Christian! New Age followers speak of there being no fallen angels or demons. They are all good; demons, they say, are not bad. And they mix angels with occultism and sometimes claim that they are extraterrestrials or reincarnations of superior men, who already passed through this world....
As far as opinions are concerned, it seems that anything goes. But we cannot believe in so many barbarities, which can lead us to confusion or denial of the existence of these pure and beautiful beings, who are our companions on our journey and whom God has given us as friends to help us in our struggles and difficulties in life.
Therefore, let us select the books we read, let us be careful not to attend courses or talks on angels given by sects or non-Catholic groups and, above all, let us learn what the Church says in the Catechism and what the saints tell us, who have lived in intimate union with the angels and are an example for us.
Father Angel Peña