I've got a guardian angel... now what?

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I’m new to the Catholic church, but I understand from CCC 336 that I have a guardian angel that protects and shepards me. How exactly does the angel do that? Is it responsible for guiding my concience or sending miracles my way?

Also, is there something I should be doing for my angel? Should I try to get to know him/her or would it be better to leave it alone? Does my guardian angel alwaysact to protect me or does it stand down to allow me to suffer for my own good?

Thanks in advance!
 
It’s polite to introduce yourself first! You can email him for speedy protection, or send an sms!
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Each day I ask my Guardian Angel for help, using the following prayer I learned as a child:

“Angel of God, my Guardian dear,
To whom God’s love entrusts me here,
Ever this day be at my side
To light, to guard, to rule and to guide.
Amen”

Hope that helps.
 
welcome new member, I notice you have lots of good questions. May I suggest that the most helpful way to benefit from this site is first to visit the CA homepage, read the tracts and library articles on topics of interest to you, then come here for more discussion and questions. all of the topics you have raised so far are amply dealt with there.

by the way, what is a “culture of death Christian”? which sounds like an oxymoron. since most Christians of any denomination I am familiar with are firmly aligned with the pro-life pro-family side, I unable to make sense of that designation.
 
I’ve been reading the Catholic Answers homepage for a couple months now. It’s done a good job of bringing me into the fold, and theres lots of rigorous historical stuff for more advanced study. But there’s a gap between those two extremes. Where is the comon sense stuff that everyone learns in Sunday school? When I look there, I see articles about how guardian angels realy do exist, and lists of what the early church fathers wrote, but there’s nothing for me to explain what angels do exactly, or how I should treat mine. What I’d like is an angelic counterpoint to catholic.com/thisrock/1995/9511fea1.asp

As far as being a culture of death Christian, by that I mean that I was in favor of abortion, euthenasia, contraception, monogamous homosexuality etc… while at the same time saying with my mouth and believing in my heart that Christ had risen from the dead. I don’t blame my Protestant churches for the perverted education, that’s more my parents fault. But my churches did treat those issues almost as if they were private revelation. Read the Bible, search your heart and whatever you think about those issues is true for you. I didn’t engage in culture of death activities myself, but, thanks to my silver tongue, I lead others astray. It was very oxymoronic of me.

Anyway that’s why I am so fond of the RCC and B16 – streight answers!
 
There is a book called Meditations on the Angels by the late Fr. Hardon. I just got the book yesterday, but it looks interesting.

Right now I am considering applying to join the Confraternity of Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (Work of the Holy Angels) here in Detroit. If fact, I am just about to leave to go to the second day of a 4 day mission at Assumption Grotto.

PF
 
Just get to know your Guardian Angel slowly - say a short prayer morning and evening asking them to help and guide you throughout your day.

Perhaps start to talk to your angel about everything that’s going on.

St Pio used to not only talk regularly to his own Guardian Angel, but he would ask his angel to pass messages on to OTHER people’s angels - what a wonderful idea!
 
I’m a visiual learner, so I began by naming mine and then that would give me a picture of what he might look like. Once I had a mental portrait of him, I didn’t feel like a fool talking to something that wasn’t visible. Some times I talk to him when I’m stressed or just need someone to listen to me. I followed Padre Pios example of becoming a friend with your Guardian Angel since he’s my Confirmation saint.

Also, I heard somewhere that your GA is always the same gender as the person they protect. Don’t know if that’s valid though since angels are completely spiritual beings who don’t need a physical description, but just a thought.
 
I’ve found many times that just being aware that my GA is there helps me act better and appreciate it when things turn out better than I expected. GA’s ROCK. 😃
 
Steadfast_love said:
I’ve been reading the Catholic Answers homepage for a couple months now. It’s done a good job of bringing me into the fold, and theres lots of rigorous historical stuff for more advanced study. But there’s a gap between those two extremes. Where is the comon sense stuff that everyone learns in Sunday school?
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Perhaps the Catholic Grout List will help.
When I look there, I see articles about how guardian angels realy do exist, and lists of what the early church fathers wrote, but there’s nothing for me to explain what angels do exactly, or how I should treat mine.
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Treat your guardian angel as the dearest friend you have (besides God); talk to him, ask him to help make you holy. You can confide in him like a friend. Our angels always intercede for us but I think they appreciate that we acknowledge that.

I asked my angel to help me stay alert during the consecration at Mass (as I used to zone out at some point and then zone back in just before going to communion. I would miss the best part! Since I did that I have only zoned out I think twice since 1993. For me that’s amazing.

I learned from Catholic writer how to ask the angels to intercede for others. Patti frequently gave talks and descibes how she prayed for the women who would be hearing it. After the speech a woman came up to her and said she saw 2 angels on either side of Patti during her talk. Patti also asked her children’s angels to watch over them when she was gone. When she returned each shared separately some positive spiritual happening. I have the magazine somewhere. The article had such an impact I couldn’t toss it. I imagine she learned this from a Pope (can’t recall who) who would ask his angel to go to the angel of a person that he needed to have a difficult talk with to help smooth the way.

An angel, first and formost, has the holiness/salvation of their charge as their primary concern. Angels will not “prompt” their charge to do anything sinful.
 
the best modern work on angels I have read is Angels and Demons by Peter Kreeft. His works are available at Ignatius press at ignatius.com, or link from CA homepage.
 
Servulus said:
Each day I ask my Guardian Angel for help, using the following prayer I learned as a child:

“Angel of God, my Guardian dear,
To whom God’s love entrusts me here,
Ever this day be at my side
To light, to guard, to rule and to guide.
Amen”

Hope that helps.
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Thankyou for posting this. I used to know and like this prayer back in the the second grade or so when I actually believed in guardian angels. For whatever reason I had forgot they even existed and forgot the prayer some time after that and never gave much thought to it. I still am not sure if guardian angels exist or not but I like the idea of having one. I have been wondering lately what that prayer was. I knew there was once a prayer I had learned but had no idea what it was until now.
 
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