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If the angels didnâ€™t have a body the word of God wouldnâ€™t describe them.

Last I checked, the Word of God does describe the Father. Do you believe He has a body?

Your understanding is at the catholic level, insufficient to grasp the word of God.

If only there was a “catholic level” of understanding, it would make my teaching easier. I must admit, that no Catholic that I am aware of worth anything has claimed to exhaustively grasp and understand the word of God. St. Augustine, after a lifetime of study, freely admitted that what he knew was far less than what he didn’t know, something repeated in a variety of ways by the best of Catholic scholars.

It is creature based, bound to the material universe, not the realm of the father.

While yes, I am a creature, last I checked angels are creatures too, so it seems fair enough. Perhaps you aren’t, or you don’t believe that angels are.

Precisely because I don’t believe that angels are bound to the material universe, I don’t believe they have bodies. In describing them, relations of prophetic visions employ bodily language for pedagogical reasons. If you believe they have bodies but don’t believe they have material bodies, of what are the bodies composed? Immaterial matter? I found Bonaventurian metaphysics unconvincing on this point, though it is always possible that if I had spent more time on it, I might have seen things another way. But I doubt it.