Every person has an exclusive guardian angel sent by God for guidance and companionship on their journey to Heaven, protecting and advocating for them throughout their entire life even if they are not believers.
Purely spiritual, angels are created by God as a powerful, intelligent, and unique persons who freely worship God and serve Him as messengers. Among the lower hierarchy of angels, guardian angels have the unique role of defenders and guides.
As heralds, guardian angels share the message of the Gospel and lead people to Jesus, helping man achieve salvation by awakening a desire to be with God in Heaven.
While guardian angels do defend individuals and large groups of people from natural danger, they especially defend against supernatural danger by providing wisdom, strength, and courage to fight temptation.
In the presence of God and at the side of man at the same time, guardian angels intercede for man by praying with him and offering prayers on his behalf.
The existence of guardian angels, and devotion to them, can be found in both the Old and New Testaments, along with Sacred Tradition of the Church. Jesus Himself said that every person has their own angel assigned to them.
At the service of God alone, guardian angels are not owned and are not under the authority of the person who they protect. Rather, Catholics should develop a loving relationship with the angel that God has entrusted them to.
The Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Guardian Angels on October 2 every year.
Known for helping people at exactly the right time:
Spiritual beings that are sent by God:
Guardian angels provide assistance:
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in Heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.
Matthew 18: 10
God uses guardian angels to fulfill his plan:
Man has no authority over his guardian angel:
From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.” Already here on Earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 336
Angels with an important mission:
Angels assigned to get men to Heaven:
Guiding the steps of pilgrims through the narrow gate:
Among the books of the New Testament, it is especially the Acts of the Apostles that let us know some facts that attest to the solicitude of angels for man and for his salvation. Thus, when the angel of God frees the Apostles from prison, and first of all Peter, who was threatened with death by the hand of Herod. Or when he guides the activity of Peter with regard to the centurion Cornelius, the first converted pagan, and similarly the activity of the deacon Philip along the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. From these few facts cited as examples, one can understand how the persuasion about the ministry entrusted to the Angels for the benefit of men was able to form in the conscience of the Church. Therefore the Church confesses her faith in guardian angels, venerating them in the liturgy with a special feast, and recommending recourse to their protection with frequent prayer, as in the invocation of the “Angel of God”. This prayer seems to treasure the beautiful words of St. Basil: “Every believer has an angel beside him as a guardian and shepherd, to lead him to life.”
Pope John Paul II, General Audience, 6 August 1986
Living in relationship with guardian angels:
Guardian angels in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition:
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