Do you know your guardian angel's name?

[Pilgrim525]

Several years ago I read about a book where the author was speaking about her guardian angel and that she had a name for him. I had been inspired to ask for my guardian angel’s name so I prayed sincerely to him and asked him what his name was. The first name that crossed my mind was Darius so I asked him to confirm it. I prayed that I would open the bible and that if the name Darius appears it would confirm his name. I cut the bible and it fell on the books of Kings and there was the name of King Darius on the page. Terrific.

 

[LilyM]

Interesting. I haven’t thought of asking my guardian angel to reveal his or her name. It doesn’t seem to hinder my angel’s ability to help me or my ability to communicate.

 

[Pilgrim525]

Interesting. I haven’t thought of asking my guardian angel to reveal his or her name. It doesn’t seem to hinder my angel’s ability to help me or my ability to communicate.

Hi Lily, of course it wouldn’t hinder your angel’s ability but you know there is a personal touch when you try to give your guardian angel a name. Like when I need help, it is easy for me to call, “Hey Darius, where are you! I need help!”

 

[Melanie01]

I think of my angel as “Ira”. It just popped into my head once.

 

[demerzel85]

Hmm…very interesting. I guess there is alot of thanking I need to do for my guardian angel for being with me throughout the day.

 

[NotWorthy]

My angel’s name is Thomas. I’ve “known” this for about a year, now.

He was with me in a car crash the other day. If you saw the vehicle I was driving, you’d wonder how I ever made it out. I know I did only because Thomas was in there with me.

 

[Siena]

Ian

(and I was just thinking of making a thread about this a few minutes befoe I stumbled upon this one :thumbsup

 

[Andruschak]

Several years ago I read about a book where the author was speaking about her guardian angel and that she had a name for him. I had been inspired to ask for my guardian angel’s name so I prayed sincerely to him and asked him what his name was. The first name that crossed my mind was Darius so I asked him to confirm it. I prayed that I would open the bible and that if the name Darius appears it would confirm his name. I cut the bible and it fell on the books of Kings and there was the name of King Darius on the page. Terrific.

I used Doreen Virtue’s MESSAGES FROM YOUR ANGELS Oracle Card Deck. This from my Pagan days. Not too sure if the Church is happy about Oracle decks, Angels or otherwise. May have to retite those spiritual items.

But I shuffled whilst keeping in mind the question “which Angel is my Guardian Angel and/or the one I need to work with at this time?” Up came Yvonne, a Guardian Angel for pet lovers. Fitted like a glove. Her picture is on the wall opposite to my bed, so I see her when waking up and falling asleep

 

[M-Dent]

Interestingly enough, one day at Eucharistic Adoration I was praying to God to allow my guardian angel to have access to my inner most thoughts. For the purpose to help guide me better. This very question came to mind. Weeks later an inspiring thought came over me that my guardian angel doesn’t actually have a name (and not to concern myself with that), just to focus on the angels function.

 

[Lucania]

I named my Guardian Angel some time ago. I can’t remember if it was before or after I came into the Church, but I was watching Mother Angelica and she was saying that we all have a Guardian Angel from the moment we are born and that we should name our Angel. I named mine Angela Teresa.

 

[Andruschak]

Interestingly enough, one day at Eucharistic Adoration I was praying to God to allow my guardian angel to have access to my inner most thoughts. For the purpose to help guide me better. This very question came to mind. Weeks later an inspiring thought came over me that my guardian angel doesn’t actually have a name (and not to concern myself with that), just to focus on the angels function.

Allow me to be the first to inform you that the term “Angel” is from the Greek for “messenger”. That IS their function as spirits creatted by God.

 

[latin_rite]

My guardian is called Jesus

 

[M-Dent]

Allow me to be the first to inform you that the term “Angel” is from the Greek for “messenger”. That IS their function as spirits creatted by God.

Angels traditionally do hold the office of “messenger” yet angels some protect, some may even execute punishments at God’s command.

Unfortunately there’s some fallen angels as well who don’t necessarily function as a “messenger,” or if they do, at least not for God.

It is as messengers that they most often figure in the Bible, but, as St. Augustine, and after him St. Gregory, expresses it: angelus est nomen officii (“angel is the name of the office”) and expresses neither their essential nature nor their essential function, viz.: that of attendants upon God’s throne in that court of heaven of which Daniel has left us a vivid picture:

I behold till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days sat: His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like clean wool: His throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire. A swift stream of fire issued forth from before Him: thousands of thousands ministered to Him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before Him: the judgment sat and the books were opened. (Daniel 7:9-10; cf. also Psalm 96:7; Psalm 102:20; Isaiah 6, etc.)

This function of the angelic host is expressed by the word “assistance” (Job 1:6; 2:1), and our Lord refers to it as their perpetual occupation (Matthew 18:10). More than once we are told of seven angels whose special function it is thus to “stand before God’s throne” (Tobit 12:15; Revelation 8:2-5). The same thought may be intended by “the angel of His presence” (Isaiah 63:9) an expression which also occurs in the pseudo-epigraphical “Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs”.

newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

 

[inJESUS]

I was once attracted by the idea of guardian angels and i read on many sites that each person has an angel with whom he can interact or smth like that…i asked my angel to give me a sign ( am very skeptical regarding these things since i never experienced anything supernatural)…so i asked for any sign…i got nothing not back then nor any other time so i dismissed the whole idea altogether. You guys seem to take it for granted…why? is it Church teaching or smth u experienced? thx.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If I recall this correctly, each angel is unique; each being of its own particular genus; each being more different from the other than we humans are from one another. Each angel’s nature corresponds to its particular purpose. Now, it’s interesting to consider that an individual’s guardian angel is not just some miscellaneous angel that was unemployed at the time of one’s birth, but a unique being whose essential purpose, for all time, was and is to minister to a particular individual. I’m no theologian, but it seems likely to me.

 

[DiscerningDave]

Several years ago I read about a book where the author was speaking about her guardian angel and that she had a name for him. I had been inspired to ask for my guardian angel’s name so I prayed sincerely to him and asked him what his name was. The first name that crossed my mind was Darius so I asked him to confirm it. I prayed that I would open the bible and that if the name Darius appears it would confirm his name. I cut the bible and it fell on the books of Kings and there was the name of King Darius on the page. Terrific.

very interesting!!! I am going to try this. I hope mine’s name is not Darius too, because I would think about the lead singer for Hottie and the Blowfish eveytime I said his name.

 

[the_phoenix]

When I was a little kid, I wanted my guardian angel to have a proper angel name and be named after an angel in the Bible, so I chose to name mine Gabriel.

The cool thing is, I’ve met two people named Gabriel … ordinary men, simple human beings. Both human Gabriels have gotten along very well with me, like we just “click” naturally well together, and both Gabriels are Spanish translators by trade who absolutely love languages and linguistics.

I also proofread in Spanish and other languages all the time at work.

So my bet is that my guardian angel also has a personality geared towards a love of languages, in particular Spanish.

~~ the phoenix

 

[vluvski]

Lucy. My confirmation: St. Lucy’s feast happens to fall on my husband’s birthday.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Oops! Didn’t finish.

Therefore, it seems to me that naming one’s guardian angel is appropriate. I have supposed that angels are likely such complex creatures, charged with more than we could possibly imagine, that if one tried to put its name into human words, it would start something like this:

My name is “The one who, when time was created by the One who informs me with all He chooses to inform me, and whom I love with my whole being for doing so and allowing me to act on, and thus participate in, His will, was informed, among many other things, that “Ridgerunner” is a male human being whose entire DNA chain, expressed biochemically, (not mathematically, or atomically, both of which I will express later if you wish) just for beginners, is as follows…” and on, and on and on.

It would, I suspect, take an angel far longer than a human lifetime to simply say its name, as it really is. Inasmuch as an angel’s intellect is united with that of the infinite and eternal God, perhaps it could never actually finish saying its name.

 

[laurenzia]

I was once attracted by the idea of guardian angels and i read on many sites that each person has an angel with whom he can interact or smth like that…i asked my angel to give me a sign ( am very skeptical regarding these things since i never experienced anything supernatural)…so i asked for any sign…i got nothing not back then nor any other time so i dismissed the whole idea altogether. You guys seem to take it for granted…why? is it Church teaching or smth u experienced? thx.

an example happened just this morning. i went to check the mail and normally i just open the box and take out the letters. this morning i had this overwhelming feeling to go outside the gate and look in the bushes ‘in case’ a letter had fallen out of the box. and sure enough there was one hidden in a place you would not easily see- and something important at that. i explain this as my guardian angel communicating with me. other people explain it as intuition or being ‘psychic’.

listen to that inner voice- i bet it is your angel talking to you.

something like that happens to me nearly everyday- going with a gut feeling to challenge a habitual action that has no ‘real’ or ‘logical’ reason behind it and finding out that it was something i really needed to do or be aware of.