Give thanks to the Lord, all his hosts,
his servants who do his will. PS 102:21
EXODUS 23:20-23
My Soul's Beloved,
Each of us is given a guardian angel when we are conceived in our mother's womb specially created for us and charged with watching over and guarding us all our days. He prays for us, carries our prayers to the Throne of Mercy and Grace, and brings Your blessing down to us. He warns us when danger is approaching whether real, spiritual, or supernatural dangers. We would save ourselves a great deal of trouble and sorrow if we were attuned to our Guardian Angel. He weeps when we sin and separate ourselves from You. He rejoices when we listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and to him and strive to be holy and perfect. He steadies us when we stumble and picks us up when we fall.
Lord Jesus, I thank God today on the Feast of the Guardian Angels for the incomparable gift of my Guardian Angel specially created and appointed to watch over me, to guard and protect me, and to help me in my journey from this place of exile to the place created for me by God in heaven.
My dear Guardian Angel, forgive me for the times I neglected you, I did not call to you for help, for taking your help and your presence for granted for so many years, for forgetting this precious gift that God has given me. I am sorry. I promise with God's help to be ever mindful of your presence, and your help, and I will listen to you and be glad always of your guidance, protection, help, and strength to lean on when life becomes especially difficult. I praise and thank God for you. I love my dear Guardian Angel. Thank you for your loving faithfulness.
The Lord says this: ‘I myself will send an angel before you to guard you as you go and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Give him reverence and listen to all that he says. Offer him no defiance; he would not pardon such a fault, for my name is in him. If you listen carefully to his voice and do all that I say, I shall be enemy to your enemies, foe to your foes. My angel will go before you.’
PSALM 90(91):1-6,10-11
The Lord has commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
and abides in the shade of the Almighty
says to the Lord: ‘My refuge,
my stronghold, my God in whom I trust!’
It is he who will free you from the snare
of the fowler who seeks to destroy you;
he will conceal you with his pinions
and under his wings you will find refuge.
he will conceal you with his pinions
and under his wings you will find refuge.
You will not fear the terror of the night
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the plague that prowls in the darkness
nor the scourge that lays waste at noon.
nor the plague that prowls in the darkness
nor the scourge that lays waste at noon.
Upon you no evil shall fall,
no plague approach where you dwell.
For you has he commanded his angels,
to keep you in all your ways.
For you has he commanded his angels,
to keep you in all your ways.
The Lord has commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways.
MATTHEW 18:1-5,10
My Soul's Beloved,
My Soul's Beloved,
The older I get the more I understand that the gates of heaven are thrown wide open for the little ones, the humble, the lowly, the poor in spirit, the anawim of God, the simple-hearted. The greatest saints have always understood that everything is a gift from God we are nothing without Your help and Your grace. Without You we are nothing and we can do nothing. It is You who give us our talents and our gifts, all that we possess is given to us and we will called to give an exact account of our stewardship.
The world has no use for humility and the world is presently under the rule of Satan. Lucifer, once God's brightest angel, filled with envy and pride, claimed equality with God forgetting that he was but a creature. All that he possessed were gifts from God. The great battle in heaven with the good angels found Satan and his minions cast out of heaven and into the everlasting flames of hell.
The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, ‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
‘Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven.’
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