Best-selling novelist Anne Rices fictional stories have followed her faith journey and reversion to the Catholic faith of her youth. Best known for her vampire novels, after returning to Catholicism, Rice penned a novel about the young Jesus Christ. Now shes tackling angels.
Next week, her novel
Angel Time, hits the stands.
In my earlier books, I never had the courage to put someone on the side of the angels, Rice said.
Ive always been fascinated with angels and by the passages in the Bible pertaining to angels, said Rice. Angels are evidence of Gods love for us.
In the book, she writes about the angelic character Malchiac.
Im dealing with the Christian and Jewish traditions, said Rice. I was dealing with constraints that I found exciting. I wanted to work with those constraints. I wanted to see how true I could be to the traditions about angels, but bring them to life in a whole different way.
Ive always been interested in these powerful messengers from heaven who can intervene in our lives on behalf of the Almighty, and Ive always been fascinated by peoples stories of their experiences with angels, Rice added. I try to give my version of what they would be like interacting with us on earth.
For a more realistic take on angels and what we know about them, check out
Opus Sanctorum Angelorum, a religious order devoted to the Work of the Holy Angels. Theyve done more thinking, praying, writing, preaching, and cooperating with the angels than nearly any order I know.
