Saturday, October 2, 2010
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Saint of the Day: Holy Guardian Angel
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In the history of salvation, God gives the angels the task of protecting the patriarchs, his servants and all the people elected. Peter is freed from prison in his Angel. Jesus says in defense of children that their angels always behold the face of the Father in Heaven.
celestial figures in the universe of the Bible's religious and cultural - as well as many ancient religions - and almost always represented as winged creatures (as a mediating force between God and the Earth), the angels are the source of their name in the word anghelos = greek messenger. Not surprisingly, in biblical language, the term means a person sent to an assignment, a mission. It is with this meaning that the word occurs about 175 times in the New Testament and 300 in the Old Testament, which identifies the function of heavenly army, divided into nine hierarchies: Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Virtues celestial , Principalities, Archangels, Angels. Today the theme of the Angels nearly disappeared from liturgical sermons, echoed strangely in the pulpits of the media in New Age version, movies and even in commercials, which have only wanted to show the aesthetic and formal.
Martyrology: Memory of the Holy Guardian Angel, who, called in the first place to contemplate the face of God in his glory, the men were also sent by the Lord to accompany and assist them with their loving but invisible presence.
MEDITATION ...
From a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot
(Discourse on the 12 Psalm 90: He who dwells, from 3.6 to 8, Opera omnia, ed. Cisterc. 4 [1966] 458-462)
guard you in all your ways
guard you in all your ways
"He will command his angels to guard you in all your ways" (Ps 90.11). Let them thank the Lord for his mercy and his wonders to the sons of men. Give thanks and say among the nations the Lord has done great things for them. O Lord, what is man, to heal him, or because you give thought to him? We thought of by him, to urge him six, whom you care. Finally, send your only Son, do you get him in your Spirit, also promises a vision of your face. And to prove that the sky does not overlook anything that we can benefit, you put next to those heavenly spirits, to protect us, and we instruct and guide us.
"He will command his angels to guard you in all your ways." These words should inspire much awe in you, how much devotion VISIT, how confident fill us! Reverence for the presence and devotion to kindness and trust for safekeeping. There are, therefore, and you are not with you alone, but also for you. They are there to protect you, are there to cure him.
Even if the angels are simple executors of the divine commands, it should also be grateful to them because they obey God for our good.
Therefore, we are devotees, we are grateful to such great protectors, riamiamoli, onoriamoli what can and what we need.
All the love and all the honor goes to God, from whom it is entirely because of the angels and what is ours. From him comes the ability to love and honor, what he makes us worthy of love and honor.
affectionately We love the angels of God, as those who will one day be our co-owners, while in the meantime, they are our guides and guardians, and agents made to us by the Father. Now, in fact, we are children of God We are, even if it currently does not understand it clearly, because we are still children under guardians and administrators and, consequently, did not differ at all from the servants. Moreover, even if we are still children, and there remains a long way as well as dangerous, what we have to fear under such great protectors?
can not be defeated or deceived, let alone seduce, they keep us in all our ways. They are faithful, are prudent, they are powerful. Why tremble? Just follow it, we are their neighbors and remain in the protection of the God of heaven.
Responsor Sal 90,11-12.10
R. God will command his angels to guard you in all your ways: * on their hands they will bear, because your foot will not stumble into the stone.
V. not you can hit the disaster, no disaster will fall on your tent;
R. on their hands they will bear, because your foot will not stumble into the stone.
PRAYER O God, in your mysterious providence you send your angels from heaven in our custody and protection, making 'the path of life that we have always supported their aid to be united with them in eternal joy. For our Lord.
PLEASE ...
Prayer to the Guardian
Benign angel, my guardian and teacher, guidance and protection, wise counselor and faithful friend you have been recommended for the goodness of the Lord, the day I was born in the last hour of my life. Thank you for the love I have for myself, for myself anytime, anywhere near as assistant counsel. Saint Angelo, teach me, correct me, protect me, keep me and guide me to the right and safe path to Paradise. Do not allow me to do things that offend your holiness and your purity. Submit my desires to the Lord, offer my prayers, show my miseries obtain for the purification of my soul for his infinite goodness and the maternal intercession of Mary, your Queen. Vigilant when I sleep, sustain me when I'm tired, sorreggimi when I'm about to fall, alzami when I fell, show me the way when they are lost, rincuorami when I lose heart, enlighten me when I see, defend when they fought, be my shield against the devil, especially in the last day of my life. With your defense and your guide, obtain, to come into your radiant abode, where all the 'eternity I can express my gratitude to you all and to glorify the Lord and the Virgin Mary, your and my Queen. Amen.
Act of Consecration to the Guardian
Holy Guardian Angel! Since the beginning of my life I've been given as a protector and companion. Here, in the presence of My Lord and my God, my heavenly Mother Mary and all the Angels and Saints, I am a sinner (nome. ..) I want to dedicate to you. I want to take your hand and never leave it. I promise to always be faithful and obedient to God and Holy Mother Church. I promise to always professed devotion to Mary, my Lady, Queen and Mother and take her to model in my life. I promise to be devoted to you, my patron saint and in accordance with my powers to propagate the devotion to the holy angels that we are granted these days as an aid in the defense and spiritual struggle for the conquest of the Kingdom of God I beg you, holy angel, to grant the full force of divine love that it is inflamed, and all the power of faith that it will never fall more in error. I ask that your hand will protect me from the enemy. We ask for the grace of humility of Mary to escape at all hazards, and guided by you, reaching into the sky to enter the Father's house. Amen.
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