Guardian angel's name

[musicgal4jesus]

Last night, some of my friends were talking about how they discovered their guardian angel’s names. I think they said there was a special prayer you said, and then the first name that came into your head was (supposedly ) your guardian angel’s name.

Have any of you ever done this? If so, do you have the prayer?

 

[DJgang]

Your GA will answer to any name.

Mine’s name is Angel.

God bless.

 

[scapularkid8]

Well there’s no special prayer that does anything particular mind you, it’s only by God’s grace that they’re answered!

But I was just flipping through the Old Testament one day and I saw the name “Ahi”. I liked that so I call my GA Ahi now. I don’t think he minds, in fact I think it’s easier to talk to him now that he has a name.

 

[FCEGM]

Last night, some of my friends were talking about how they discovered their guardian angel’s names. I think they said there was a special prayer you said, and then the first name that came into your head was (supposedly ) your guardian angel’s name.

Have any of you ever done this? If so, do you have the prayer?

No, but the Holy See has the answer:

vatican.va/roman_curia/co…ttorio_en.html

Quote:
217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:

when, as sometimes can happen, the faithful are taken by the idea that the world is subject to demiurgical struggles, or an incessant battle between good and evil spirits, or Angels and daemons, in which man is left at the mercy of superior forces and over which he is helpless; such cosmologies bear little relation to the true Gospel vision of the struggle to overcome the Devil, which requires moral commitment, a fundamental option for the Gospel, humility and prayer;

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.

 

[scapularkid8]

oops…

 

[musicgal4jesus]

oops…

Hmm, I thought that Mother Angelica and Padre Pio had both encouraged people to name their guardian angels… as well as a good Opus Dei priest we used to know. :ehh:

 

[blessedstar]

No and I’m not going to name my Guardian Angel because they do not belong to me they belong to God, I may name animals and plants and all manner of created things, I may even name my child, because they are all in my care and stewardship but I can’t name my Guardian Angel, it is not right to do that, I rather am in my Guardian Angels stewardship, they indeed are my steward.

My Guardian Angel responds excellently to ‘Guardian Angel’ and my Guardian Angel serves me exceedingly well and I only hope I give them enough to give to God and not cause them ever to blush.

**Popular devotion to the holy angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations … [such as the] practice of assigning names to the holy angels [which] should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture (Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy 217). **

In the Living Prayer of my life

 

[daughterofmary]

I was always encouraged to name my guardian angel. In Under Angels Wings Sister Antonia named her angel. I prayed a prayer asking my angel for a name and then I woke up and thought of Charmont. So, it is Charmont. I know they are not really “he” or “shes” and perhaps we shouldn’t name them. You all had good reasons for not naming yours, but it just seems so much more personal to name them. “He” is like a friend. All my close friends have names. Perhaps he is not really a Charmont, but even so… it can always be a nick-name between him and I. My godfather named his “Angelo” and my godmother names her’s “Dominic”. My mom’s is named Camille. My brother calls his “Joe.” Silly perhaps, but it makes them more … comprehendable.

 

[FCEGM]

. . . I know they are not really “he” or “shes” and perhaps we shouldn’t name them. You all had good reasons for not naming yours, but it just seems so much more personal to name them.

The reasons for not naming them are not so much personal reasons as a response to the advice of the Holy See, which takes precedence over personal inclinations in this matter.

 

[jero]

Mine’s just came to me by accident one day! It seemed right and fitting!

 

[daughterofmary]

daughterofmary;2868735:

. . . I know they are not really “he” or “shes” and perhaps we shouldn’t name them. You all had good reasons for not naming yours, but it just seems so much more personal to name them.

The reasons for not naming them are not so much personal reasons as a response to the advice of the Holy See, which takes precedence over personal inclinations in this matter.

Your right. Thank you.

 

[Matas]

I don’t understand why some of you feel that it is important to name your guardian angel. And the whole, “say a prayer and wait for the first name to pop in your head thing,” smacks of superstition.

 

[cyberwolf001]

It might be why the Holy See discourages it. (of course discourage and forbidding are two different thinks. After all holding hands during the our father is discouraged)

A lot of the things discouraged seem to be done because of fear of superstition.