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Angel Guardian
Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom His love commits me here, ever this day (or night)
be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
Daily Prayer to Guardian Angel
Angel
of God
My guardian dear
To Whom His love
Commits me here
Ever this day
Be at my side
To light and
guard
To rule and guide. Amen
Guardian Angel Prayer
Guardian Angel from heaven so bright,
Watching beside me to lead me aright, Fold thy wings round me, and guard me with love, Softly sing songs to me of heaven above.
Amen.
Holy Guardian Angels (Feast, October 2)
Dear Angel at my side, my good and loyal
friend, you have been with me since the moment I was born. You are my own personal guardian, given me by God as my guide and
protector, and you will stay with me till I die. He who created you and me gave me to you as your particular charge. You assisted
in great joy at my baptism, when I became part of the Mystical Body of Christ, and was made a member of the household of God
and an heir of heaven. You saw the dangers that beset my path, and, if I sinned, it was in spite of you. You envied me when
Christ came to me in Holy Communion. Even though you probably were there among the angels that adored Him the night that He
was born, you have not been able to receive Him as I can. O, help me to appreciate these gifts! Help me to realize, as you
do, with every fiber of my being, that to serve Christ is to be a King! Help me steadfastly to avoid evil and do good and
always guard my soul from sin. Protect me as well from physical evils as I go about my daily work. You will be with me all
my life, and at the hour of my death. Help me to face death bravely, patiently, with great love of God, knowing that it is
only through death that I can come to Him in heaven! Then, come with me to my Judge, and when the hour of my salvation comes,
take me home to my Father, God. Amen.
St. Gertrude's Guardian Angel Prayer
O most holy
angel of God, appointed by God to be my guardian, I give you thanks for all the benefits which you have ever bestowed on me
in body and in soul. I praise and glorify you that you condescended to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend
me against all the assaults of my enemies. Blessed be the hour in which you were assigned me for my guardian, my defender
and my patron. In acknowledgement and return for all your loving ministries to me, I offer you the infinitely precious and
noble heart of Jesus, and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen.
Thanks
to My Guardian Angel
O Angel of God, my blessed protector, to whose care I have been committed by my Creator from
the moment of my birth, unite with me in thanking the Almighty for having given me a friend, and instructor, an advocate,
and a guardian in thee. Accept, O most charitable guide, my fervent thanksgiving for all thou hast done for me; particularly
for the charity with which thou didst undertake to accompany me through life; for the joy with which thou wert filled when
I was purified in the waters of Baptism; and for thy anxious solicitude in watching over the treasure of my innocence.
Thou
knowest the numberless graces and favors which my Creator has bestowed on me through thee, and the many dangers, both spiritual
and temporal from which thou hast preserved me. Thou knowest how often thou didst deplore my sins, animate me to repentance,
and intercede with God for my pardon. Ah! why have I so little merited a continuance of thy zealous efforts for my salvation?
Why have I so often stained my soul by sin, and thereby rendered myself unworthy of the presence and protection of an angel,
of so pure a spirit as thou art, who never sinned? But as my ingratitude and thoughtlessness have not lessened thy charitable
interest for my salvation, so neither shall they diminish my confidence in thy goodness, nor prevent me from abandoning myself
to thy care, since God Himself has entrusted thee with the charge of my soul. Penetrated with sorrow for the little progress
I have made in virtue, though blessed with such a Master, and sincerely determined to correspond in future with thy exertions
for my salvation, I most earnestly entreat thee, O protecting spirit, to continue thy zealous efforts for my eternal interest;
to fortify my weakness, to shield me from innumerable dangers of the world and to obtain by thy powerful prayers that my life
may rather be shortened, than that I should live to commit a mortal sin.
Remember, O most happy spirit, that it was
one act of profound humility, and one transport of ardent love for thy Creator, that caused God to establish thee forever
in glory; obtain that those virtues may be implanted in my soul, and that I may seriously endeavor to acquire docility, obedience,
gentleness and purity of heart. Conduct me safely through this world of sin and misery; watch over me at the awful hour of
my death; perform for my soul the last charitable office of thy mission, by strengthening, encouraging, and supporting me
in the agonies of dissolution, and then, as the angel Raphael conducted Tobias safely to his father, do thou, my good angel
and blessed guide, return with me to Him who sent thee, that we may mutually bless Him, and publish His wonderful works for
a happy eternity. Amen.
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