Naming my guardian angel

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I would name my guardian angel, but I don’t know the gender. Any suggestions?
 
Someone passed on to me recently a prayer to learn the name of your guardian angel. Repeat the prayer for nine consecutive days, in honor of your guardian angel, and the nine choirs of angels (the Seraphs, Cherubs, Thrones, Dominations, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels)

O my Guardian Angel, in whom I trust, I thank you for staying by my side throughout all the difficult times of my life. You have taken upon yourself the task God has assigned you with relish and fervor - never slack in your duties - always anxious to bring me closer to God. You’ve never abandoned me in my loneliness, and you’ve never turned away from me, except for the times of my life that I have pushed you away through my sin. But although my sinful life has placed you in deep sorrow, you never gave up the hope that I would return back to my heavenly family, and back into your loving and guiding arms.

I beg of you, dear Angel, that you come into my heart and guide me more fully and completely onto the path my Father has chosen for me - for us. I ask you to carry my prayers to the throne of God, and to plead mercy for me there, for you behold the face of our Lord everyday. I invite you to pray with me every day and to intercede for me to the Saints in heaven (especially my patron saint __________.) But most of all, I beg you to come to my aid in times of distress. Hear my plea, dear Angel, to share with me, not only the bad times, but also the joyful and happy times of my life. For since my birth, you have been assigned to me while I am on this earth, through Purgatory, and finally to lead me face-to-face with my Father in heaven.

We have come far together, dear Angel. And yet, we have far to go. I beg of you, my angel, to make yourself known to me in a special way. Let me know that I am not alone on this path that I must travel. I wish to thank you for all you’ve done, for all the help you’ve given me, and for all the grace from our Father that you’ve pleaded for in my behalf. You’ve worked so hard and yet get no appreciation. You are truly a model of humility for me. Teach me your ways, O Angel. Teach me the ways of our father. Light my way in times of darkness. Guide my feet, my hands, my mouth, my heart. Help me to see what is apparently not there and to hear that which cannot be heard with the ears.

(On the ninth day, end this prayer with the following petition:)

And now, dear Angel, I ask one more thing of you. If I am to call upon you for aid, by what name shall I call you? Please come into my heart and make known to me your name…

(The first name to come into your mind is your angel’s name.)
 
I don’t know why people want to name their Angel. My Guardian Angel responds very well to ‘Guardian Angel’ or ‘Angel of God my Guardian dear’. My Guardian Angel does not belong to me so that I should name them, my Guardian Angel belongs to God. They are not of this world that man should name them and man does not have power over them. The Guardian Angel cannot do anything that God does not desire no matter how much the soul they are assigned to desires they do something for them.

I don’t know where the idea came from to name Guardian Angels. Perhaps it is an effort by someone to help people have a deeper relationship with their Guardian Angel, but other than this I can’t see the merit in it.

I love my Guardian Angel and I don’t name them or place anything of myself upon them, I simply speak to them as my best Guardian.
 
Lampo said:
I would name my guardian angel, but I don’t know the gender. Any suggestions?
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Yes. 🙂

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html
  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, 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;
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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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jrabs said:
Thank you for this post. Our Guardian Angels are happy just being that - they are not pets that we own and feel we need to name or possess.

Naming them seems to suggest they are possessions and we own them.
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Precisely, jrabs. “I can’t control God, but maybe I can have some control by naming the angel He gave me.” 😦
 
for some reason this is a hot topic because there are several threads here, and I think I am stating the general opinion, which is that our guardian angel already has a name, and it will be revealed to us if we need to know it, otherwise address him as Angel. Since it is God who names his angels it is not up to us to choose a name.
 
My gardian Angel has a name but it is not a name my head understands or can speak. But my heart knows any one else feel that??
 
s4angel said:
My gardian Angel has a name but it is not a name my head understands or can speak. But my heart knows any one else feel that??
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When I stay in front of the mirror, my Guardian Angel holds up a sign with his name on it. When I read it, the name goes like this:

legnA naidrauG.

That could be the case why you couldn’t speak the name. 😉 😃
 
no doubt:shrug: 😃 😃

mine has a wonderful scence of humour. At the oddest moments when I am almost out of patients with myself more often than not:D the oddest thought will cross my mind and make me laugh at myself. and starts me praying again. I never seen the sign though probably knows I would try to figure it out:) 😉 😃
 
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