Memorial of The Holy Guardian Angels
"God our Father, in your loving providence you send your holy angels to watch over us. Hear our prayers, defend us always by their protection and let us share your life with them for ever. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen."
The Lord says this: ‘I myself will send an angel before you to guard you as you go and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Give him reverence and listen to all that he says. Offer him no defiance; he would not pardon such a fault, for my name is in him. If you listen carefully to his voice and do all that I say, I shall be enemy to your enemies, foe to your foes. My angel will go before you.’
[Exodus 23:20-23]
Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, obedient to his spoken word.
[Psalm 103:20]
Painting from the Carmelite Museum at Alba de Tormes in Spain.
