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I seek my guardian angel's intercession for many t...

2008-09-24T12:00:00.000-06:00

I seek my guardian angel's intercession for many things. Reading your comment Fr. Mike reminded me of several experiences I had in the past. Before I was married to my wife she lived a far distance from me. Everyday we would talk and sometimes miss eachothers calls. When she couldn't be reached by phone (we had no cell phones at the time) I would send my guardian angel to her and ask my angel to give her a overwhelming desire to call me. After seeking my angels intercession and concluding the prayer, my phone would ring and she would be on a pay phone and the first words from her mouth would be, "I had a overwhelming desire to call you." It never failed. Also my angel is very helpful in helping me reviewing my conscience before I celebrate the sacrament of confession. I tell my angel, "Ok you have been watching over me the whole week or month. Can you bring to my mind any ways I have failed to response to the graces the Lord has given to me or I refused to receive." What happens is simply amazing, I am able to recall many of the ways I failed to surrender myself and as a result rejected the love of Christ in any given moment. So my confessions have been very fruitful in that I am able to see the many ways Christ is drawing me to himself. (Wow how we are loved!) The other thing I have learned from experience is that we can call on other peoples angels to interceed for them, as well as I can call on the angel of a saint in heaven. For example, I can ask the intercession of the angel who was the guardian angel of St. Faustina. For some reason this is a very powerful and affective way to interceed. All holy angels pray for us!

Bobby

I have not given enough thought to my guardian ang...

2008-09-23T12:22:00.000-06:00

I have not given enough thought to my guardian angel, nor have I consciously asked for his/her guidance and protection enough, but that's beginning to change for a rather unusual, and slightly comic reason.

My guardian angel has, in fact, protected me from real problems - but the ones I'm most aware of all have to do with sleep!

Occasionally I'll wake with a start in the middle of the night, often from a very sound sleep. When it happens, I always check my watch and my alarm. Invariably, I've set my clock to the wrong time (PM instead of AM) or a silent alarm reminding me of someone's birthday next week has gone off (when I first got the cell phone which serves as my alarm clock I entered a bunch of birth date alarms set to go off anywhere from a week to two weeks before the actual date, not knowing the alarm for them would go off silently at midnight and pre-empt any and all other alarms!)

This happened most recently on my trip to Lakeway, TX. I was to be picked up at 4:15 a.m. to go to the airport for a very early flight, and didn't get to bed until midnight the night before. I accidentally set my alarm for 3:20 p.m., due to the fact that I'd forgotten that I'd taken a nap a few days earlier and set the alarm for 5 p.m., to get up for Mass, when normally it's set to 5 a.m.

I awoke with a start - wide awake - at 4:10 a.m. Just enough time to throw the clothes that I'd laid out the night before, throw water on my face, and dash out the door with my suitcase, thanking my guardian angel for saving me from another missed flight.

These incidents have made me aware of my guardian angel, so that I ask for his assistance more and more - and not just for wake-up calls.

Some may say there are other explanations. I can't think of any, knowing my sleep patterns.

I have been writing books about angels since 1992 ...

2008-09-20T10:12:00.000-06:00

I have been writing books about angels since 1992 (WHERE ANGELS WALK has sold over a million copies) and I am always surprised that experts are surprised (about our belief in angels!) Angels occur in every faith, and are mentioned over 300 times in the Bible, not to mention the Koran and the Book of Mormons. Beliefs tend to vary just a little, but why would anyone be surprised that Americans have discovered these beautiful beings?

Not an angel but a budding saint..Did you ever hea...

2008-09-20T06:40:00.000-06:00

Not an angel but a budding saint..

Did you ever hear of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop? Turns out she was the Teresa of Calcutta for the US. Daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne founder of Hawthorne Dominicans!!! Maybe a good example for a C & G workshop.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hawthorne_Lathrop and follow through to Project Gutenburg for a couple of her books (free)

Ed Keefe

My guardian angel, my dear sister Tziporah, has sp...

2008-09-19T20:50:00.000-06:00

My guardian angel, my dear sister Tziporah, has spoken to me with her heart and I have seen her in mine. It is a funny image--a six year old girl dragging a sword behind her but slashing any thorns in my way with ease. She glows with light and blinds easily all demon eyes...but you look at her and see a little tiny innocent schoolgirl type! It would make a great painting. but this is what I have seen in my heart. She spoke her name to me softly in my heart as well. Ours is a mystical relationship, fairly hard to describe but nevertheless beautiful. She is with me every step of the way, all the days of my life. She stood beside me on Confirmation night, I remember. but I have only seen and heard her with my heart.

The experiences that come most readily to mind inv...

2008-09-19T11:53:00.000-06:00

The experiences that come most readily to mind involve my children, actually. Two of them happened just yesterday! So many times I have seen my children come within a literal inch of serious, sudden injury (yesterday it was a head crack against a sharp corner and cement, and a near plummet down three uneven steps to a road below) that just didn't happen -- the child was unfazed.

This also happened to my adopted son about two days after he came home. He lost his balance sitting up and just barely missed, in two directions, slamming his head against two steel chair legs.

Children of course as so innocently prone to physical danger that could cause them untold trauma, so I know that is why angels are thought of especially in their physical protection of them.

Here's one that happened to me: I was driving home on a Friday night from college, in a large city on a four lane highway. Something happened that I lost control of the car and spun on the highway. After screaming, and recollecting myself and the car, I looked around and saw that there was about two football fields of empty road before and behind me, but the rest on both sides of the road was packed with rush hour traffic. How?