I would just like to say how much I am looking forward to All Saints day on November the 1st. There are individual saints days, like St. Patrick’s and St. Andrew’s, but there is also November the 1st when we celebrate all the Saints at once.
According to orthodox Christian theology, Saints are between Mankind and Angels in what the poet, Alexander Pope, described as “the great chain of being”. Jesus is at the top of the tree and then there are Arch Angels and then Angels and then saints and then Man.
Saints are angels in human form and an angel is a human who never spent time on earth.
Anthony was a Saint and is now an angel and Gabriel is an Arch Angel. Angels must always address arch angels by their surnames and must never look them in the eye.
Satan is a “fallen angel” who wanted too much freedom. He didn’t realise the freedom he had was “freedom from choice” and desired “freedom to choose” and so God cast him down into Hell, which many people, wrongly, believe is below Earth. Hell is of course not a place but a state of mind. In Latin it literally means “without God”; in Hebrew it means “Outside God’s sphere of eternal and sensual love”; in English it is an expletive roughly equivelent to “arse” or “titwank”.
