02/10/2026
Thank your guardian Angel today. Today is their feast day - October 2nd.
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*Prayer to Our Guardian Angel*
O Holy Guardian Angel,
God has entrusted you to guide me.
Today on your feast day,
I thank you for never leaving my side.
Protect me from harm,
Call me away from sin,
and lead my every step back to Jesus and to His Mother, Mary.
Stay with me, today and always. Amen.🤍
02 October | Feast of the Guardian Angels
Each person on earth has a guardian angel who watches over him and helps him to attain his salvation. It has been a common theological opinion that this angelical guardianship begins at the moment of birth; before this, the child would be protected by the mother's guardian angel. But this is not certain, and since we now know that the soul is infused at the moment of conception, it may be that the angelic guardianship also begins at that moment. In any case, this protection continues throughout our life and ceases only when our probation on earth ends, namely, at the moment of death. Our guardian angel accompanies our soul to purgatory or heaven, and becomes our coheir in the heavenly kingdom.
Angels are servants and messengers from God. "Angel" in Greek means messenger. In unseen ways the angels help us on our earthly pilgrimage by assisting us in work and study, helping us in temptation and protecting us from physical danger.
The Church has long accepted the idea that each soul has assigned to it a personal guardian angel and is a truth of our faith. From the Gospel of today's liturgy we read: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father" (Matthew 18:10). The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "the existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls 'angels' is a truth of faith (328)." From our birth until our death, man is surrounded by the protection and intercession of angels, particularly our guardian angel: "Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life (336)." The Church thanks God for our helpers, the angels, particularly on this feast day and September 29 which is the feast of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael, archangels. Today's feast appeared in Spain during the sixteenth century. It was extended to the universal Church and made obligatory in 1670.
Angel of God (Angele Dei)
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here,
ever this day (or night), be at my side,
to light and guard,
to rule and guide. Amen.
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Sources:
(1) Feast of the Guardian Angels — Franciscan Media
(2) Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels — Catholic Culture
