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Venerable Sheen Video Analysis

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In the video we watched, Fulton J Sheen explained angels better than anyone else could. I didn’t know who he was or what he did before that class but now I am extremely impressed by how he explained the ideas the church teaches. He is obviously an incredibly smart man and I was surprised that he was comical as well. Venerable Sheen does not fit into the bishop stereotype at all. In the video he was fairly young, always smiling, and cracking jokes that were probably modern for the time. I think Sheen is the perfect example of how we should live a Christian life. He taught Christians about the faith in a way that was understandable and still understandable today. I completely agree with his thoughts on angels and the kingdom of God. The world is definitely isolated and confined in a way that humans can’t understand what is outside the realm of the living. Many people only go to science to explain unlikely phenomena when they could be easily explained if they learned more about God and angels. Artists could have more ideas for beautiful statues to sit beside …show more content…

He described them as far below God but high above man that are purely spirit and have the intellect of will. This means to me that they have no physical body and they can make their own choice to be with God or turn away from him. I can apply this knowledge of what Venerable Sheen thinks about angles to our many discussions on matter, form, sustenance, and accidents. From what Sheen said, I know that angels can’t have any matter or a form. This idea truly stands out to me because I have always thought of angels as flying babies that play harps but now I know that is definitely not the case. They can probably appear as flying babies playing harps but that’s not what they really are. They are simply beings separate from humans created by God that have a mission to be messengers to God’s

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