Guardian angel confirmation saint?

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Can my guardian angel be my confirmation saint?
I feel like I should devote my confirmation saint to my guardian angel, since he dedicated himself to guard me, when he really didn’t have to.
Do confirmation saints have to be archangels and human saints, or can it be my guardian angel?
I’m thinking of my confirmation name in due time to be something like ‘Angelus Aeternam’.
Can I do this?
 
Nanotwerp said:
Can my guardian angel be my confirmation saint?
I feel like I should devote my confirmation saint to my guardian angel, since he dedicated himself to guard me, when he really didn’t have to.
Do confirmation saints have to be archangels and human saints, or can it be my guardian angel?
I’m thinking of my confirmation name in due time to be something like ‘Angelus Aeternam’.
Can I do this?
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We do not know the name of our personal guardian, so no.
 
No, angels are non-corporal spiritual beings. They are a whole different species from man. They are not people. They have no bodies, they are genderless, have free will, and being of pure light. People become saints through living exemplary lives on earth.
An angel is not a Saint.
This is why people do not “turn into angels” when they die. If they make it to heaven, they become saints.
 
pianistclare said:
No, angels are non-corporal spiritual beings. They are a whole different species from man. They are not people. They have no bodies, they are genderless, have free will, and being of pure light. People become saints through living exemplary lives on earth.
An angel is not a Saint.
This is why people do not “turn into angels” when they die. If they make it to heaven, they become saints.
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You don’t have to be corporeal to be a saint. A saint is any being in heaven; all non-fallen angels are in heaven.
 
I am a confirmation class instructor. I think it is wonderful that you are giving so much thought to selecting your confirmation name. In our classes, we recommend to our students that they study various saints after whom they would like to model their lives and that they select their confirmation name from among those. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are the only angels whose names we know, so many students do select them, and those are fine.

You can’t make up a name, and I believe it was Pope Emeritus Benedict who said we shouldn’t presume to name our guardian angels. Your angel surely has a name!

Can you find a saint that you admire? A holy man or woman who lived a life you are drawn to? When my older siblings were confirmed, all the girls had to take the name Mary and the boys Joseph! All of my husband’s siblings (and him too) chose Francis because it was a family name. At least you are free to chose your own, even if there are restrictions, it is still fun to get to give yourself an extra name! My six children have all had a lot of fun selecting one after many months of study.

Good luck!
 
Directory on popular piety and the liturgy
  1. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:
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  • when the daily events of life, which have nothing or little to do with our progressive maturing on the journey towards Christ are read schematically or simplistically, indeed childishly, so as to ascribe all setbacks to the Devil and all success to the Guardian Angels. The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.
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I don’t know the name of my angel; but I know what my angel is, and I know my angel is in heaven, making him a saint.
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But you’re not taking his substance as your name, rather you are taking his name as your name. So it is not sufficient to know what he is, you would need to know who he is as well, which you do not.
 
Paleocon said:
But you’re not taking his substance as your name, rather you are taking his name as your name. So it is not sufficient to know what he is, you would need to know who he is as well, which you do not.
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My guardian angel is an angel, and is eternal; given the name I used to describe him in my confirmation name.
 
Nanotwerp said:
Angelus Aeternam.
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Angel is a common Christian name in its various permutations among the languages; Angel, Angelo, Angelle, Angelus, Angjelko, Angela, Deangelo, Aingeru, Anđelko, Anđelo, Anděl, Anxo, Angelos, Angelino, Ángel, and so on.

Go for it.

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The point of selecting a Patron Saint is to pattern your life after a quality that they exhibited on earth. While being a person.
Your Confirmation catechist will explain it to you, I’m sure.
St. Angela Merici is a great Saint if you’re “set” on the name Angel.

In addition,

By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God’s grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors.

*CCC 828

Some angels have been recognized as saints because of their heroic virtue and fidelity to God’s grace, and these angels can also fulfill the role of model and intercessor. One particular example is Saint Michael the Archangel, whom we know about from the book of Revelation.*

Not all angels are saints because not all angels have heroic virtue and fidelity to God’s grace. (Fallen angels are an example of this.) Also, while many angels are in heaven, there are few angels who are saints because we do not know enough about them to canonize them. Saint Michael is one of the few angels that we do know a lot about.

Also note that while we believe all saints are in heaven, simply being in heaven does not mean that a person is recognized as a saint.
 
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