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Sometimes the angels guided those ascetics who were astray on the path; sometimes they delivered those who fell into temptation; sometimes, in the event of a sudden misfortune and threatening danger, they were snatched away from this, saving them, for example, from a serpent or from a (falling) rock, or from an arrow, or from a thrown stone; sometimes, if the enemy was clearly attacking the saints, they appeared visibly and said that they had been sent to help them, and gave them courage, courage and joy; and at other times they performed healings through them, and sometimes they healed the saints themselves who had undergone some kind of suffering.
Is it necessary to say something about ascetics who are alien to this world and about hermits? They turned the desert into a city and turned it into a village and an abode of angels. According to the improvement of their lives, angels always came to them and, as servants of the one Lord, sometimes in company, stayed with those who all the days of their lives loved the desert and, out of love for God, had their dwellings in the mountains, dens and abysses of the earth. And since they, having left the earthly, loved the heavenly and became imitators of the angels, the holy angels themselves, in justice, did not hide their appearance from them for this and fulfilled their every desire, from time to time they appeared to them, teaching them how they should live, and sometimes they explained what they were perplexed about; sometimes the saints themselves asked them what needed to be done. Sometimes their bodies, exhausted from not eating, were given supernatural strength by the touch of a hand or words and strengthened them; sometimes they brought them food, bread and even vegetables or some other food to eat with bread; and to some of them the time was announced, and to others the manner of their repose.
And is it necessary to list the many things that prove the love of the holy angels for us and their every possible care for the righteous? They looked after us like older brothers look after babies. This was said so that everyone could understand that “the Lord is near to all who call on Him in truth” (Ps. 145:18), and to see what His providence is for those who have dedicated themselves to please Him and follow Him with all their hearts.