The unceasing praise rendered to God by the angels and the whole celestial court. This is, according to Holy Scripture, one of the special functions of the angels in heaven (Tobit 12; Apocalypse 8), and Our Lord refers to it as their perpetual occupation (Matthew 18:10).
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