Angels and Demons
Angels and Demons Angels and Demons A Christian Primer of the Spiritual World Michael Patella, OSB LITURGICAL PRESS Collegeville, Minnesota www.litpress.org Cover design by Ann Blattner. Saint Michael contending with the devil over the soul of a rich man. Fresco from the Rila Monastery, Bulgaria. Creative Commons, 2010. Excerpt from the English translation of Rite of Baptism for Children © 1969, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, ICEL. All rights reserved. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. © 2012 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, microfilm, microfiche, mechanical recording, photocopying, translation, or by any other means, known or yet unknown, for any purpose except brief quotations in reviews, without the previous written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint John’s Abbey, PO Box 7500, Collegeville, Min- nesota 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America. 123456789 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Patella, Michael, 1954– Angels and demons : a Christian primer of the spiritual world / Michael Patella. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8146-3277-2 — ISBN 978-0-8146-3448-6
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