When our hearts feel broken and weary, how can we, like these angels, bow down in prayer and adoration — a spiritual posture of humble expectation and unwavering faith in our citizenship in heaven? Like them, we are called to direct our hearts toward an unseen divine, standing firm in the hope of Christ’s transformative promise.

_{^{Image Credit: Bernardino Lanino, (Italian, ca. 1509-after 1581) Kneeling Angels, ca. 1565, Oil on panel, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.047.008 and 1961.047.009.}}