Angelic Guidance
Novena to Guardian Angel
Daily protection, guidance, purity, help in temptation, and perseverance to a holy death.
Holy Guardian Angel is traditionally invoked as patron of daily guidance, protection, safe travel, children.
The Guardian Angel, Jacopo de’ Barbari
Pray This Novena
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Private intention
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Day 1: Gratitude for Angelic Care
Thank God for the angel entrusted to your care and ask for a more living awareness of that hidden companionship.
Daily Prayer
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
O holy angel, whom God, by the effect of His goodness and His tender regard for my welfare, has charged with the care of my conduct, and who assists me in all my wants and comforts me in all my afflictions, who supports me when I am discouraged and continually obtains for me new favors.
I return thee profound thanks, and I earnestly beseech thee, o most amiable protector, to continue thy charitable care and defense of me against the malignant attacks of all my enemies.
Keep me away from all occasions of sin.
Obtain for me the grace of listening attentively to thy holy inspirations and of faithfully putting them into practice.
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Protect me in all the temptations and trials of this life, but more especially at the hour of my death, and do not leave me until thou hast conducted me into the presence of my Creator in the mansions of everlasting happiness.
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