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Daily Reflections

Monday, 2^ndOctober 2017.

Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

Ex 23: 20-23;

Ps 90: 1-6, 10-11;

Mt 18: 1-5, 10

ANGELS – THE PROTECTION OF GOD ON US.

The Catholic Church teaches that we must remember how admirable was the intention of Divine Providence in entrusting to the angels the mission of watching over all mankind, and over individual human beings, lest they should fall victims to the grave dangers which they encounter. The readings too highlight the same message.

In the first reading we hear that Israel was assigned an angel to guide them through the exodus, and that if they obeyed him God would grant them success and victory against their adversaries. In the Gospel we learn that children should never be despised, for insignificant as they may appear to adults, they are not insignificant to God, for their angels are constantly in God’s presence. In our day-to-day life angels are more likely manifest their voice through the words of a friend or any other person that show us the wrong we have done and recall us to the right way, or through a combination of circumstances that challenge our chosen course of action, or simply through the voice of our conscience, but they never override our free will. Yet we are blessed if we have the wisdom not to resist their gentle invitation to turn away from evil and towards good.

Reflect, today, upon the gift of your own guardian angel. This celestial being was created for the sole purpose of caring for you and getting you to Heaven. Speak to your angel, today. Rely upon your angel’s intercession and allow this holy angel to communicate to you God’s abundant grace.

Prayer: Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom His love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. Angels of God, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You. Amen.