Today is the feast-day of the angels and
especially of the two chief angels, archangels Michael and Gabriel.
Angels! Who believes in angels today? People have become materialists
unfortunately. And the following anecdote is characteristic. When the
Russian astronaut flew high with the spaceship and after returned back
to Moscow, he ridiculed the Christian faith. He said he didn’t see
angels or their feathers anywhere…This was also repeated by an atheist
teacher in a school of a certain soviet village. Angels do not exist,
she would say to the children. Our astronaut did not see angels. Then a
small Russian, most intelligent, said: “Ms., he was flying too low, that
is why he did not see them. What wisdom! As the gospel also says today,
the mouths of small innocent children speak great truths (cp. Luke
10:21). This child said an astronomical truth. For truly, what was that
distance that the astronaut traveled before the distances of light years
that separate the stars?
