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Nanotwerp
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My guardian angel seems to be fated to be my greatest friend for eternity, so I want to gain a true relationship with my angel. How would I do this?
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L_Marshall
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Firstly, educate yourself. Most people are poorly catechized in the realm of angels. Peter Kreeft’s book Angels (and Demons): What We Know About Them is a good start.
Next, keep on asking its intercession and talking to it. Keep on keeping on.
Next, keep on asking its intercession and talking to it. Keep on keeping on.
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pianistclare
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Yes. Frequently ask your guardian angel to lead you. Always thank God for your angel.
You will find that it becomes easier to discern what the right path is.
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AnneElizabeth
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Your guardian angel most likely wants you only to be seeking Christ, as that is his job.
Jesus Christ is our greatest friend.
Jesus Christ is our greatest friend.
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brian_custer
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i don’t think guardian angels are interested in “personal relationships”. they are spiritual beings with no emotions who are commanded by God to perform a certain task and will obey
a simple prayer of acknowledgment and thanks is really all you need to do
a simple prayer of acknowledgment and thanks is really all you need to do
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Jennifoo
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:tiphat: Hi there. You’ve gotten some great answers so far. I like to offer an Our Father in thanksgiving for my guardian angel, plus other prayers occasionally. I also pray the Chaplet of St. Michael. In that prayer we honor each of the nine choirs of angels and ask for their intercession on our behalf. Beautiful.
I would urge you to use caution in regards to what you read about angels. Some books can be questionable. Also, take care in regards to the practice of naming one’s angel or asking it’s name. I know some who fell into this trend a few years back. I know there was a thread about it here on CAF.
God bless you.
I would urge you to use caution in regards to what you read about angels. Some books can be questionable. Also, take care in regards to the practice of naming one’s angel or asking it’s name. I know some who fell into this trend a few years back. I know there was a thread about it here on CAF.
God bless you.
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hansard
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Is there any theology to say that angels intercede in the same way that saints do? I mean, if you pray to your favourite saint, they carry the message to God. We always pray for the intercession of the saints. I’ve never heard of praying for the intercession of the angels.
It’s clear enough that angels carry messages from God, but I wonder if it works the other way. It probably does (let’s be realistic here) but I wonder if there’s anything in scripture about it?
It’s clear enough that angels carry messages from God, but I wonder if it works the other way. It probably does (let’s be realistic here) but I wonder if there’s anything in scripture about it?
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7_Sorrows
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I still say my guardian angel prayer every night before I go to sleep.
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ChurchSoldier
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Where does this desire you have come from? Are there any books on Angels you have been reading recently?
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phil_at_dayboro
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I would be Curious as to your interactions with your guardian Angel ,
I would like to hear more. ,
I would like to hear more. ,
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littlestsouls2
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I would also like to develop a closer relationship with my guardian angel. It’s an incredible reality.
Fr. Paul O’Sullivan wrote an excellent (and fascinating) book all about the angels. I think it is called ‘All About the Angels.’ (That reminds of a joke by Peter Kreeft).
I try to remember to offer the Precious Blood to my guardian angel at the end of each day, in gratitude for his protection. I also offer the Mass for the same intention. This increases his accidental happiness.
Here are some consoling words of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary about guardian angels: ‘Be not afflicted, My child, for it is My will to give you a faithful guardian who will accompany you everywhere, help you in all your needs, and prevent your enemy from prevailing over you.’
Fr. Paul O’Sullivan wrote an excellent (and fascinating) book all about the angels. I think it is called ‘All About the Angels.’ (That reminds of a joke by Peter Kreeft).
I try to remember to offer the Precious Blood to my guardian angel at the end of each day, in gratitude for his protection. I also offer the Mass for the same intention. This increases his accidental happiness.
Here are some consoling words of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary about guardian angels: ‘Be not afflicted, My child, for it is My will to give you a faithful guardian who will accompany you everywhere, help you in all your needs, and prevent your enemy from prevailing over you.’
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John_Martin
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True, they are spiritual, just like God is spiritual, and just like our souls are spiritual. We like personal relationships because we are persons, individuals with rational natures.
God is three Persons, and angels, like us are a single person (such as Michael, or Gabriel). So they can and do relate to us as persons.
We relate via our bodies (words, actions, proximity), but angels relate by direct infusion of a specific understanding of some thing to the one they are relating to, which is how God relates to them, unless they are called to some specific task of apparition so that a human would know their presence with the normal human method of relating to another person.
When we talk to them, they are aware of what we say. They do not have emotion, and neither does God (which is power of bodily creatures), but they do have wills, which is where Joy is found.
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hansard
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How on earth can you know this? This is yet another occasion of guesswork and “whatever you think must be right.”
God does not have emotion? What about love?
Is not Joy an emotion?
Come on. Stop using platitudes.
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thistle
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“for eternity”?? The Church only teaches that we have a guardian angel with us from conception to death. It does not teach us that a guardian angel is with us in Heaven. Their function is to protect us and guide us to Christ. If we die in a state of grace we are saved and no longer have a need for a guardian angel.
CCC 336 From its beginning until 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.
Also the Church does not teach us that one guardian angel is assigned to one human. People tend to assume that is the case but the Church does not know.They may or may not be assigned to several or many humans.
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hansard
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A completely sensible reply.
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John_Martin
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You might try reading Catholic theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica) where you will find the difference between Will (the place of love and joy, which are active rather than passive, and therefore not actually emotions) and Sensitive Appetites (the place of emotions or “passions” where there is corporeal transmutation).
That is “how on earth” I know what is Spiritual. “How on earth” do you know the things you know? Or are you satisfied to think things cannot be known?
Platitudes - I don’t think so; I talk to my angel and to other angels with all this understanding, and know that I am heard and how. Further, a platitude is meant to quell intellectual unease, but rather than that I have stirred up intellectual question - and you are wishing to silence the intellectual understanding of ourselves and our angels by telling me I have no way of knowing, and therefore telling the other readers to ignore it because you know better that there is no knowledge of angels. So, who is using platitudes? You, I think, by saying the platitude that “This is yet another occasion of guesswork and whatever you think must be right.” and thereby hoping to turn others away from thinking.
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Jon_Mallory
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While I agree that guardian angels don’t exist to be our friends, I question your view that they don’t experience emotions. Satan isn’t a guardian angel, but as a fallen angel he experiences hate and wrath. Why can’t angels experience love, devotion, and other such pious sentiments toward God?
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on_the_hill
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First let me say this: I am always a bit skeptical when people seem to be overly fearful of things like Ouija boards, or Tarot cards, or yoga, or meditation which are essentially meaningless and powerless unless we give them power over us.
But to delve into angels has always made me uneasy. Maybe it’s because my Catholic knowledge doesn’t include much about angels, so it seems like, in that case, you really are trying to bridge the supernatural.
But to delve into angels has always made me uneasy. Maybe it’s because my Catholic knowledge doesn’t include much about angels, so it seems like, in that case, you really are trying to bridge the supernatural.
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John_Martin
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Yes, a bridging.
When we consume the Sacrament at Mass, our senses do not perceive anything but what taste and feel like bread and wine and in no way a body or blood, and if left to our senses we probably would not eat or drink these as we do.
But our understanding knows (via revelation by Jesus and his Church) that we are eating and drinking some other substances, the body and blood of our Lord, given and shed for us. Not only that but we know the whole Christ is present, body, blood, soul, divinity, that we take in. So, we are in a way, forcing (moving) our bodies to do what does not appear to be profitable to our bodies’ appetites and apprehensions.
It is the same with angels; if we talk to them, we are forcing (moving) our bodies (thoughts, speech, etc.) to do something that makes no sense to our senses, for we are talking to what we cannot sense as present. We only know of them and their presence because we were told they are, and they are attentive to us. Perhaps the closest human analogy is a ship in distress keying in SOS on a radio, and knowing that there are receivers in the world that will recognize the signal, even though not seen while keying the distress call. You do the keying because you understand a reality in which there are receivers. We make (move) our bodies say prayers to angels, and to God, because we understand and believe what we have been taught about true reality beyond what we perceive.
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simonmic
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With all these things, so many of them being invisible to our senses, is it a wonder that people doubt so often?
I don’t attend Mass anyway.
I don’t attend Mass anyway.
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