Guardian angels

[rebeccanew]

If you believe as I do, then everyone has a guardian angel. No one is assigned an evil or dark guardian angel, so everyone has the potential to be a Holy person. If we encourage that Holiness in everyone we meet, perhaps we can help each other in ways that this world cannot (Franciscian). I was at the St Francis Health Care Center yesterday and was overwhelmed at the beauty there.

 

[buzzoff1031]

If you believe as I do, then everyone has a guardian angel. No one is assigned an evil or dark guardian angel, so everyone has the potential to be a Holy person. If we encourage that Holiness in everyone we meet, perhaps we can help each other in ways that this world cannot (Franciscian). I was at the St Francis Health Care Center yesterday and was overwhelmed at the beauty there.

Are we sure that the devil doesn’t assign everyone a demon or “dark angel,” as you said?

 

[PJD1987]

The truth is we know very little about guardian angels aside from they exist. The Church has never made any type of proclamation about them, because we simply do not know. As for the suggestion about Satan assigning evil demons, it’s just all conjecture, I suppose its possible, but for the Father of Lies to delegate responsibilities like that when he’d much rather take the credit himself in all his selfishness, I tend to think no. Yes there are other demons that prowl around the earth for the destruction of souls, but I see them more as different manifestations of the one great deceiver.

Again, all conjecture.

-Paul

 

[Holly3278]

I am still trying to figure out exactly what the Church officially teaches regarding Guardian Angels. The Catechism of the Catholic Church barely even mentions them.

 

[PJD1987]

newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm

The Church has no definitive statement on guardian angels, it is not an article of faith, there is too little known other then they are said to exist in Scripture, and the constant belief of the faithful throughout its history has been that they exist. Other than that, there is not much to say regarding guardian angels. We will know all when we meet God face to face, until then, we are free to believe or not.

God bless.

-Paul

 

[findingmyself08]

I’d suggest reading Peter Kreeft’s book Angels (and Demons): What Do We Really Know About Them? He talks a lot about angels - what they are, the Church’s teaching on them - and about demons. It’s in a question and answer format and is a pretty quick read.

 

[Nelka]

We all have a guardian angel.

 

[thistle]

I am still trying to figure out exactly what the Church officially teaches regarding Guardian Angels. The Catechism of the Catholic Church barely even mentions them.

You don’t need many words to say a lot about something.
We all have a guardian angel. They act as protectors and guides.
What more do you need to know?

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.

 

[fred_conty]

Here is an exerpt from Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ott.

“According to the general teachings of the theologians, however, not only every baptised person, but every human being, including unbelievers, has his own special guardian angel from his birth. This view is biblically founded on the words of Our Lord. Mt.18;10: ‘See that you do not dispise one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.’” Cf. Acts 12,15: “It is his (=Peter’s) angel.”