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HE ER Epistle for today, (Ephesians 3:8-21) has this extraordinary line in it:
…through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places…
The traditional reading is to hear “principalities and powers” as something about angels, etc. But the terms, themselves are, exactly, Governing [...]

ROM THE Wiki: an Orthodox icon of the seven archangels. From left to right: Jegudiel, Gabriel, Selaphiel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Barachiel. Beneath the mandorla of Christ Emmanuel are representations of Cherubim (blue) and Seraphim (red).

AKEN FROM The Matins office for Michaelmas, used in both the Roman and Anglican Breviaries. (I do not yet have a copy of the Benedictine Breviary, so I don’t know if this is there.) The following is from a Sermon by Pope St Gregory Dialogus.
We say that there are nine orders or choirs [...]

UNDAY At the Cathedral in Hamilton they anticipated the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. I can think of several liturgically geeky comments to make about this, but none of them have anything to do with the point of this post…