The Love of Angels

Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi

Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (born Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi, 1566–1607) was a Florentine Carmelite mystic and religious.

At the age of sixteen, she entered the Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, where she lived an intense life of prayer, ecstasy, and profound union with God. Her writings, particularly the Meditations on the Divine Perfections, offer an extraordinary vision of God's love and the role of angels as mediators of grace and truth.

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Excerpt from her "Meditations on the Divine Perfections"

Angels love creatures with an immense love, a love of truth and regeneration.

It is an intense love that arises from the heart of the Word, because they see in it the dignity of creatures and the love He feels for them; this love of the angels represents, so to speak, the superabundance of the Word's love, which the angels gather within themselves and then transmit to the creature in the noblest part of its being, that is, the heart.

Oh! If the creature knew the immense love of the angels!...

Their love makes the soul wise and prudent: wise in its works, which it performs with right intention for the greater glory of God; prudent in maintaining the virtues that give life to all loves, whose union forms a precious ring for the betrothal of the bride; the seraphim who have communicated them descend from heaven, take them with two of their wings, adorn them with another two, and carry them with the last two into the presence of the bridegroom.

At this sight, the choirs of angels rise, and they too want to do something for the bride, but, not knowing what, they begin to praise her with all their heart, saying: "She is worthy to receive a new name", and prostrating themselves – since in the bride they honor the Bridegroom – they pay her homage.