sending guardian angels

[Tony]

speaking of our own personal guardian angels

do the angels actually leave you when you send them somewhere?

just curious

Thanks and God bless

Edited October 18, 2004 by Tony

[Sinner]

only if you get on the elevator too fast. be careful out there.

[Theoketos]

Bi location would be an easy answer, after all they are sai

[Tony]

sai?

(bump)

[immaculata]

hehe...

My morality teacher was talking about guardian angels one day in class, and explaining how you can send them to go places for you.. We could smell the home ec class cooking brownies in the next hallway, so my teacher joked, "Guardian angel! Go get me some brownies!!" Sure enough, a few minutes later some home ec students knocked on our door, "Hey Mr. Roy! Do you want to try our brownies??"

[XIX]

Wait, I'm having a little trouble comprehending here...

Can guardian angels actually be in a place, per se? I always thought angels didn't occupy space.

[StColette]

Of course Angels can be in a place, our guardian angels have a tough job seeing as they probably never rest because they are watching over us 24/7, which is why I think it's important to say thank you to your angel . They never leave our side unless we request it or God orders it. Your angel will listen to you when you ask it to be elsewhere with someone who is in more need of spiritual help or protection at the time. I know while my brother was in Iraq for a year I always sent my guardian angel to be with him. Thanks be to God he made it through some very close calls. Don't take guardian angels for granted, many people owe their lives to them possibly many of us in fact.

[azaelia]

I :wub: my guardian angel. I should probably pay more attention to him

[FutureSoror]

Me too. That's a really cool story about the brownies. I'll have to remember that... (-;

[StColette]

For those with more questions about Angels etc. you can read this [url="http://www.raphael.net/StThomas/index.htm"]http://www.raphael.net/StThomas/index.htm[/url] It's the Summa Theologica's section on Angels It's very helpful

[StColette]

[quote name='XIX' date='Oct 18 2004, 11:02 PM'] Wait, I'm having a little trouble comprehending here...

Can guardian angels actually be in a place, per se? I always thought angels didn't occupy space. [/quote]
Body
I answer that, It is befitting an angel to be in a place; yet an angel and a body are said to be in a place in quite a different sense. A body is said to be in a place in such a way that it is applied to such place according to the contact of dimensive quantity; but there is no such quantity in the angels, for theirs is a virtual one. Consequently an angel is said to be in a corporeal place by application of the angelic power in any manner whatever to any place.

Accordingly there is no need for saying that an angel can be deemed commensurate with a place, or that he occupies a space in the continuous; for this is proper to a located body which is endowed with dimensive quantity. In similar fashion it is not necessary on this account for the angel to be contained by a place; because an incorporeal substance virtually contains the thing with which it comes into contact, and is not contained by it: for the soul is in the body as containing it, not as contained by it. In the same way an angel is said to be in a place which is corporeal, not as the thing contained, but as somehow containing it.

And hereby we have the answers to the objections.

[url="http://www.raphael.net/StThomas/SummaTheologiae/Q52.htm"]http://www.raphael.net/StThomas/SummaTheologiae/Q52.htm[/url]

[Theologian in Training]

Sending your guardian angel is a great practice. A very holy priest, who has since passed on, gave me some great advice. He said before you go to adore or even go to Mass, send your guardian angel ahead of you, this way you will have "already been there" by the time you actually get there. And this is a man who would send his guardian angel to Fatima and Masses all over the world.

St. Pio was also very fond of sending his angel to his spiritual children or asking his spiritual children to send their angel to him with their prayer requests. He thought it was faster than the mail

We should all thank and invoke our angel frequently and turn to him often during the day praying quite simply:

Angel of God
My guardian dear
To whom His love
commits me here
over this day be at my side
To light and guard
To rule and guide me. Amen.

[Birgitta Noel]

Guardian Angels are also good at finishing rosaries for you at night if you fall asleep mid Ave! -_-

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Theologian in Training' date='Oct 19 2004, 09:46 AM'] We should all thank and invoke our angel frequently and turn to him often during the day praying quite simply:

Angel of God
My guardian dear
To whom His love
commits me here
over this day be at my side
To light and guard
To rule and guide me. Amen. [/quote]
this was my litany while travelling.

[Tony]

Thanks everyone.. Im starting to think I am rationalising too much.. I have a tendancy to do that

[AfroNova No Limit Soldier]

this subject is so awesome i have to bump it

[cathgirl]

This is all really interesting!! I like the brownie story!

[lifeteenchick527]

i :wub: the brownie story too!!

God Bless
~LTC~

[Balthazor]

[quote name='Birgitta Noel' date='Oct 19 2004, 04:34 PM'] Guardian Angels are also good at finishing rosaries for you at night if you fall asleep mid Ave! -_- [/quote]
I am glad someone does for me
I don't feel so guilty now.

God bless,
Balthazor

[Quietfire]

Im sorry, the brownie story was cute and all, but this made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair.



[quote]only if you get on the elevator too fast. be careful out there.[/quote]


Peace.