Angels-GENDER OF ANGELS

The gender of angels is often disputed. Angels are perceived as either
male or female by people who feel they have actually seen them or feel
that they have a guardian angel. Theologians, on the other hand,
have usually considered angels to be androgynous, or to be neither distinctly
male nor female, but to combine maleness and femaleness in
perfect wholeness. The words of Jesus according to the Apostle
Matthew confirm this. The case of a woman who was widowed and
married more than once was brought up and Jesus was asked whose
wife the woman would be at the resurrection. Jesus replied, “At the resurrection men and women do not marry; they are like angels in
heaven” (Matt. 22:30). Artists commonly portray angels without distinct
sexuality, sometimes portraying them in a prepubescent human
form. The only angel commonly thought to be of the female, however,
is the archangel Gabriel, who is commonly depicted with decidedly
feminine features.