praying to angels

[truthquester]

I was reading a free magazine that was full of spiritual stuff, one of the articles was that of someone claiming to be able to communicate and pray to angels with no mention of God what so ever. She also spoke of a spirit guide, my question is, is this right? And is it true, do we have spirit guides along with guardian angels? I know that some Catholics pray to saints, is it the same thing?

 

[Doxiemom]

Be careful with this stuff

Spiritual often means pagan

having said that…
When john, in Revelation, bent down before the angel, john was rebuked and told not to do that.

But, we can ASK angels to do a work or send a message via another angel. They are servants. It is said that we have angels before us and behind us. They await our bidding. It was what they were made for, after all.

But to pray to them, no.

 

[Elizium23]

Yes we do indeed pray to angels, and it is praiseworthy to do so. Have you ever heard of the St. Michael prayer?! A most powerful prayer against Satan, it was once prayed at the end of every Mass (as part of the Leonine prayers). Our parish has revived that practice in the face of eroding religious liberty in the United States. I recommend that everyone prays daily to St. Michael the Archangel, and the other angels as well, to protect us spiritually and defend us against demonic attack.

Catholics do not believe in spirit guides and this type of talk should be scrupulously avoided by any orthodox Christian.

 

[Evania]

I believe that if you delve deep enough in the occult or paganism that yes, you do see “spirit guides”. The question is: Who are they and where are they guiding you? Your guardian angel or a heavenly being wouldn’t call themselves a spirit guide, or lead you to contact the dead (as a lot of psychic’s claim that their guides do) A guardian angel wouldn’t want or encourage us to contact them outside of the realm of intercessory prayer (Asking God to allow them to fulfill their ordained duties toward us: protection, praying for us). Guardian angels want us to glorify God, as they don’t do anything contrary to His Will. Spirit guides like to have the focus on themselves and on the relationship between THEM and YOU. As you get deeper, you deepen your dependency on this “guide”. Anything that takes the place of God, is considered worship. In the Gospel, one of the devil’s tricks to see if Jesus was the Son of God was to try to get Him to pray and worship him. Ultimately, I believe that spirit guides are dangerous as they are demons. The Bible says that demons can disguise themselves as beautiful beings. This would fit that description.

 

[pablope]

I was reading a free magazine that was full of spiritual stuff, one of the articles was that of someone claiming to be able to communicate and pray to angels with no mention of God what so ever. She also spoke of a spirit guide, my question is, is this right? And is it true, do we have spirit guides along with guardian angels? I know that some Catholics pray to saints, is it the same thing?

Those who make claims like that…there is no way of knowing who they are really talking to or whom they have contacted. Catholic priest exorcists have advised against doing this…for it could be demons behind such phenomena.

This is not the same as the catholic practice of praying to saints or angels…this is just asking for prayers. Something truly divine would not claim or do what you read.

 

[Loving_disciple]

I talk with my Gaurdian Angel everyday however it is always reminding me to pray to God go to mass, pray the rosary. So yes you can talk to angels but if they don’t lead you to God then something is up. No people don’t have spiritual guides like this person is referring to.

 

[Doxiemom]

I think we all should clarify what we are actually saying when it comes to communication with our angels.

Clearly, worship, in the form of prayer or prostrating, is not allowed. John, Jesus’ beloved John, made this mistake in Revelation. And he was commanded not to do that.

But to talk to, call it pray to if that is your terminology, and ask, or thank, of an angel, is most certainly just what they are waiting for. It is thier mission, what they were created for.

I ask my angels all the time to do spiritual warfare on my behalf. They will, and have, done some wonderful things for me and my family when evil influences try to wreck havoc( it is a long and personal story). i pray to God, ask Jesus to give me strenght and wisdom. But the angles do the spiritual warfare. Two swords are better than one.

 

[Texsain]

I was reading a free magazine that was full of spiritual stuff, one of the articles was that of someone claiming to be able to communicate and pray to angels with no mention of God what so ever. She also spoke of a spirit guide, my question is, is this right? And is it true, do we have spirit guides along with guardian angels? I know that some Catholics pray to saints, is it the same thing?

This sounds like some occult literature you might pick up next to the supermarket tabloids.

No, this is neo-pagan, not Catholic.

In a company I used to work for, the CEO had a separate publishing group that published this kind of stuff. The alleged seer-ess that wrote most of it claimed that there were 7 goddesses that she spoke to, including the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.

Don’t let the hijacking of Biblical persons and terms lure you into a false and dangerous spirituality.

 

[bzkoss236]

But to talk to, call it pray to if that is your terminology, and ask, or thank, of an angel, is most certainly just what they are waiting for. It is thier mission, what they were created for.

I’m glad you understand!

 

[Marie5890]

Worship them? No.
Pray to them? Of course. We, as Catholics believe in intercessory prayer so we pray to Mary, the Saints, the Angels etc. Look at all the prayers out there to various saints!!! And like someone mentioned, there is the Prayer to St Michael (and the Chaplet as well)

But we don’t worship them.

 

[Gary_Sheldrake]

I was reading a free magazine that was full of spiritual stuff, one of the articles was that of someone claiming to be able to communicate and pray to angels with no mention of God what so ever. She also spoke of a spirit guide, my question is, is this right? And is it true, do we have spirit guides along with guardian angels? I know that some Catholics pray to saints, is it the same thing?

Well, if you’re open to ideas, then I’d like to offer my own, wherein I think for everyone these sorts of things are different. On the one hand, we have notions on what angels are, what a saint is, and these things are defined by theology and dogma, which are themselves concepts that fit into a larger religious and cultural framework. They fit particular platforms of thought. For instance, I think I most certainly know some saints in my life – real living people who are saints. The fact that they aren’t recognized officially by any organization as such doesn’t matter to me. I think it’s lovely that people pray to saints, but I am living among a bunch of saints right here. My life is about making the most of that. I was given the ability to have my own experiences, independent of what anyone else tells me about how these experiences should be or what they should mean.

Angels. Beings of Light. Spirit Guides. Many people report feeling the presence of things. For me, it was much more so when I was small. Should we care what we call them? We just experience them, and maybe we should just make the most of it. A Catholic like myself might say that we’re sensing are angels. A New Age person might call them “beings of light”, or “spirit guides” or something like that maybe, I don’t know much about New Age stuff. As for beings that I’ve actually seen, well they’re all carbon based like me. I have never seen a photon based being. But sure enough, I sense something. Do we need to define it? Atheists have reported NDEs like anyone else. Many say that they saw a brilliant light and felt an incredible sense of happiness. As Christians, we might say “oh yeah – that was God,” while other religions might have another name to call it. But it was the experience that defined the event, not the name or the dogma that came with it. Those are just contexts. Maybe the question should be what you think YOUR contexts are. What happens when you take your own show on the road and get out there and start being part of it? That sounds like a much more fulfilling reason to be born than to spend a lot of time relying on some other person’s or religious organization’s estimation of what it is. I’m not sure if we need to objectify such things, but I’m sure it makes some people more comfortable, and if that’s what some people need, then of course that’s what they should do. For me (personally) it would be like cheating myself out of my own life experiences.