Guardian Angels?

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Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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Pope John Paul II wrote:
“For to his angels he has given command about you… upon their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone”(cf. Ps 90-[91]:11-12). Following the Book of Daniel it can be said that the tasks of angels as ambassadors of the living God extend not only to individual human beings and to those who have special duties, but also to entire nations" (Dan 10:13-21)

According to Catholic belief and to mystic’s revelations.
  • From the moment of our conception, each one of us (as well and individual nations) has been assigned under the loving care and protection a guardian angel.(Matthew 18:10) According to mystics, the holy angel gratefully and lovingly accepts his assignment to his “charge” as a way to participate in the Redemptive salvific plan of their divine king.
  • Your guardian angel is always watching over you without losing sight of “the face of the Father who is in heaven.” For they are not bound by space and time like we are. “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 18:10)
Maybe this “personal angelic assignment” can be better illustrated by the words of this wonderful mystic saint:
Padre Pio to his spiritual daughter, Raffaelina
Invoke often this Guardian Angel, this benevolent Angel and repeat the beautiful prayer: Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. AMEN.
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What will be, O my dear Raffaelina, the consolation when, at the moment of death, your soul will see this Angel, so good, who accompanied you through life and was so liberal in maternal care. Oh may this sweet thought make you grow always more fond of the Cross of Jesus, this being also what your good Angel wants. May the desire to see this inseparable companion arouse in you that charity which incites you to leave this body quickly.
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Oh what a holy and salutary thought it is to want to see our good Angel. It is this thought which should make us want to leave this dark prison in which we are bound. O Raffaelina, where do my thoughts fly to now…? I treat this dear little Angel, I do not say as a friend, but as one of the family. And, to tell you the truth, this little Angel does not seem to be the least little bit offended by my treatment of him. How dear and how good he is. (Letters vol. II, no. 64)
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Invoke your Guardian Angel that he illuminate you and will guide you. God has given him to you for this reason. Therefore use him! ~ Send me your Guardian Angel—he doesn’t have to pay a ticket for the train and he doesn’t wear out his shoes.
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They DO exist, I firmly believe that I am still alive today because of their intervention.
I thank God for having given me this precious gift.
Therefore I always end my daily prayers with the guardian Angel’s prayer.

Peace 👍
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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God did not say that he would protect us from all the ills of life, but get us through them. How many times have our guardian angels protected us from things and places that we do not even about the danger? Our angels protect us from dangers that we do not even know about because it does not happen.It has been avoided. If I hadn’t listened to the literal voice in my mind of my angel screaming “NO”, I would have gotten myself killed at a train crossing some years ago. So yes, guardian angels do protect and guide us.
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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The main purpose of our guardian angels is not to prevent us from accidents, falls, etc.

They were given to us to influence our thoughts for the good of our salvation. They cannot force us to do what we should, but they guide us with their inspirations.

Sometimes people are saved from a harmful physical situation,…but we mustn’t forget that more important is our eternal salvation!
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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I think he mean where is the scriptural evidence for such a claim.
 
We definitly all have guardian angels. They watch out for us and intervene if God deems it neccisary. I would advise reading Angels and Devils: By Joan Carroll Cruz. It’s a very good book and uses only the finest approved sources. I would stay clear of other books personally.
 
ewtn.com/library/MARY/ANGEL1.HTM

Pure spirits, the closest image and likeness of the Creator, were the effect of a divine act of creation. A spirit world was produced, at once, in its fullness and in its grandeur. When, at the word of the Almighty, light’s first rays lit up the primeval, shapeless world, still “wrapped in a mist as in swaddling clothes,” a wondrous song, a joyful melody filled the new heavens with never-ending strains. The Lord recalls these primordial times when He asks: “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made joyful melody.”[1] These “sons of God,” living witnesses of the creation of the material universe, were our Angels, the morning stars of creation.

It is an article of faith, firmly established in Scripture and Tradition, and clearly expressed in Christian Doctrine from the beginning, that this spirit world, our Angels, began with time and was created by God. This traditional belief of both the Old and the New Testament was given a more formal and solemn expression in the fourth Lateran Council in 1215: (God) “by his almighty power created together in the beginning of time both creatures, the spiritual and the corporeal, namely the Angelic and the earthly, and afterwards the human, as it were an intermediate creature, composed of body and spirit.”[2]

From this definition we learn that the Angelic spirits were created when time began and not from eternity. Like all other creatures they were produced by the almighty power of God, out of nothing. It would be heretical to affirm that the Angels are an emanation of the divine substance.[3] Spiritual substances do not divide or split or multiply in any form whatever, nor change one into another; their individual existence can only be explained by creation.

The creation of the Angels is implicitly affirmed in all those passages of Sacred Scripture in which it is stated that all things were made by God; explicitly and formally their creation is mentioned by Saint Paul in one of those incomplete enumerations of the Angelic orders: “In Him (the Son of God, the Logos) were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones, or Dominations, or Principalities, or Powers: all things were created by Him and in Him.”[4]

Peace
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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Guardian Angels do exist and they do protect us and have some influence over our thoughts. Think of how much worse your life could have been if you did not have a Guardian Angel watching over you. God bless you.
 
They are there for our spiritual protection. sometimes they may warn us of physical danger
But the main purpose is to guide us on keeping our moral compass on path. But we need to allow them to guide us. If we ignore them it is on us not on them.
They can read our thoughts but only if we let them.
 
Thanks everyone.
I just think that when things can happen to people ,say as a child for example who has no idea what is happeneing to them is wrong, why would a guardian angel allow such a thing to happen to the child if it is their “job” to protect. I see people believe they have been protected from accidents, but thats why I wondered if they protect just our own thoughts rather than things that can and have happened to people…
 
simpleas said:
Thanks everyone.
I just think that when things can happen to people ,say as a child for example who has no idea what is happeneing to them is wrong, why would a guardian angel allow such a thing to happen to the child if it is their “job” to protect. I see people believe they have been protected from accidents, but thats why I wondered if they protect just our own thoughts rather than things that can and have happened to people…
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Sometimes the angels are known to take children/adults out of harms way, as well as inspire us with good thoughts. When a tragedy occurs I wouldn’t question God.

The guardian angels job is to obey God, who has our eternal salvation in mind. We don’t see the bigger picture, but from all that we know about the birth, life, death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we can trust!
 
I don’t believe angels can read our thoughts. However, because of their higher nature in relation to us, they are able to deduce and have fairly high accuracy when it comes to knowing what we’re thinking. The same would go for demons obviously.

Angels are not supremely intelligent; however, they due have the ability to see outcomes of events and know things without seeing the complete picture. At least that’s what Joan Carol Cruz’s book mentioned. It’s very interesting how a pure spirit can obtain knowledge. How they do specifically is unclear though. However, it does differ from our methods.
 
JerryZ said:
They DO exist, I firmly believe that I am still alive today because of their intervention.
I thank God for having given me this precious gift.
Therefore I always end my daily prayers with the guardian Angel’s prayer.

Peace 👍
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Same here!
 
simpleas said:
Do we all have a Guardian Angel or is it just a myth?
If we have one each, how do they guard us in our daily life? Do they shield us from danger or are they there to influence our thoughts. Since many people I think have had some form of taurma in their life, i fail to believe in them.
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As a Catholic you must accept they exist because it is a Church teaching.
However, what we don’t know is if a guardian angel is assigned only to one person or to several or many.

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.
 
I believe there are angels, just trying to believe we have a personal guardian angel.
 
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