Early October is chock full of great feast days. Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. To me, this is one of the most comforting of the Church's teachings. We each are given a guardian angel by God to stay with us and protect us for life. We often think of this in terms of a child being given a guardian angel to protect him. But remember, we adults still have a guardian angel. God sees fit to assign us each our own guardian angel.
St. Padre Pio used to send his angel on errands of mercy to others when he could not be there in person. I have done this in my own prayers and find it a great comfort in times of worry. While there is a limit to what we as human beings can do, there is no limit on the things God can do.
I also like the image of our angel personally taking our prayers to God's throne.
We are never alone. We always have God's angel to be with us.
Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
to whom God's love
commits thee here.
Ever this day,
be at my side
to light and guard,
to rule and guide.
~Amen~
Do you have a visual image of your guardian angel? I imagine mine with dark hair dressed in emerald green.
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