![]() Can someone else pray for me? I hope so and the last time I checked, even Protestants are allowed to pray for me (please do). Only God become man is able to unite man to God.īut we’re talking about prayer, not union, per se. No angel, no other creature can unite me to God. But that sense of mediation is a meaning of the word that Christ alone could perform. I’m told “there is only one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.” Well, of course. I do not really understand the objections that Protestants have to such prayers. The only thing eaten in his room have been several tons of pizza. I’m not certain what made him think of things that would eat him, but when you’re four, it’s good to cover all possibilities. Now that’s a fine prayer, particularly for a four year-old. My son’s prayer (still a family favorite): ![]() It was a very manly Michael, with a great and terrible sword drawn, and the devil, stuck beneath one of Michael’s feet, writhing helplessly. Michael the Archangel beside his bed on his nightstand. It was created by my son when he was four years old (that was almost 16 years ago). “Safe” is the same thing as “saved,” and that’s not over ’til it’s over.Īnother prayer you will find written no where else. According the traditional teaching, though, the task of my Guardian Angel is not to make up for my lack in driving skills (although I did not drive in England) but to see me safely to the harbor of salvation. Part of me wanted to go back and look for feathers, thinking surely that a Guardian Angel had been injured in the event (I don’t think that’s actually possible).īut there is great comfort in thoughts of my Guardian Angel. We got out just a short bit down the road to see if we had been hit or touched in any way. There was a bit of a dirty look and the other car drove on. By visual report it is impossible that we did not hit this car – but there was no sound. A car pulled out, and all of us in the car were completely convinced by our eyes that we must have hit this car. While traveling in England this summer, we apparently ran a red light on a roundabout (they rarely have lights on roundabouts so we were unprepared). Many people associate Guardian Angels with “getting out of a close one” or barely avoiding a wreck. I’ve always liked that fact, and known that my angel watches over me. In Orthodoxy, by prayer, an angel is specifically assigned to your life as part of the rite of Baptism. But it turned my attention to this simple prayer, and to the remembrance of my guardian angel. ![]() I mean have you learned it yet?” I admitted I had not (she memorizes things much more easily than I do – that’s my first excuse). My wife recently asked me, “Do you know the prayer to the Guardian Angel?” I admitted that I was familiar with the prayer but she said, “No. Pray to the Lord for me, that He may establish me in His fear and make me, His servant, worthy of His goodness. Keep me from every adverse temptation, that I may not anger God by any sin. If I have sinned in this past night, protect me during this day. O holy Angel of God, the guardian and protector of my wretched soul and body: forgive all the sorrows I have caused you, every day of my life. Strengthen my weak and feeble hand, and instruct me in the path of salvation. Leave no room for the evil demon to gain control of me through the violence of this mortal body. O Holy Angel, who stand by my wretched soul and my passionate life: do not abandon me, a sinner, neither depart from me because of my lack of self-control. Amen.Īvailable pack of 10 or 100, also available laminated.For an update and additional comments on this article see angels. 27, 1935).Īngele Dei, qui custos es mei, me tibi commíssum pietáte supérna hÓdie (vel hac nocte) illúmina, custÓdi, rege et gubérna. Guardian Angel Prayer Holy Card > Holy CardsĪ plenary indulgence once a month, on the usual conditions, for the daily recitation of this invocation.Ī plenary indulgence on the usual conditions on the Feast of the holy Guardian Angels, if this invocation has been said frequently in the morning and evening throughout the preceding year.Ī plenary indulgence at the hour of death, to be obtained by the faithful who have been accustomed to say this invocation frequently during life, provided that they go to confession and Communion, or, at least, make an act of contrition, invoke the holy Name of Jesus, orally, if possible, or at least mentally, and accept death with resignation from the hand of God as the just punishment for their sins (Apostolic Brief, Oct.
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