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For He will give His angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.  (Ps 91:11)

When we think of angels, we remember the angel Gabriel coming to the Blessed Virgin Mary and asking her to be the mother of Jesus or the heavenly host announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds, or the angel warning Joseph to take Mary and Jesus and flee to Egypt.  We think of them being in Heaven, but we often forget they are among us.  Scripture mentions angels 96 times – 80 times in the New Testament.  Many times the angels are helping people in need, and they have not stopped helping in our modern times either.

Each of us has a guardian angel.  As a child I somehow knew that I had a guardian angel although I don’t remember if anyone told me about it.  When I grew up, no one talked about angels and I grew to believe that it was something that I had made up in my own head.  It wasn’t until Bob and MaryLou’s prayer group when they told us that our guardian angel loves us the way that our mother loves us that I developed a relationship with my own guardian angel.

In honor of the Feast of the Guardian Angels (October 2), I have compiled stories submitted by readers anonymously about the miracles they have experienced through the intercession of their Guardian Angels. If you would like to contribute your story, feel free to post it in the comments section. Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints.

Our miracle is also one attached to the rosary. We were heading to my parents for Thanksgiving on Wednesday after school had finished. It was a 6 hour drive in North Carolina, so chilly but dry. We had just left the city behind and were going through farmland, with signs warning us not to pick up hitchhikers for there was a jail nearby. We just finished the rosary when the car died. No system worked. Chris and I looked at each other, wondering what to do. It wasn’t just the two of us, there was 2 month old Nicholas in the backseat. Cell phones were not ubiquitous then. While we were trying to decide if Chris should try to go to the house I thought I saw a little while back, a police car drove up behind us. The police man asked if we were the gray car that needed help. We were definitely in need of help and our car was gray. We are sure that our quick rescue was the result of Mary and our Guardian Angels watching over us.

I was on my way out to lunch with a friend who happened to be a devout atheist.  I lost my footing and started falling head first down a flight of concrete steps. My friend was behind me and tried to reach out but couldn’t grab me.  When I was three-quarters of the way toward getting my face smashed, I suddenly felt a force on my chest pushing me upright.  My friend was surprised to see me pop up.  He asked how I was able to defy the laws of physics.  I told him, “I didn’t, my guardian angel did.”

Our family was driving home late on a moonless night on Highway 280, which is four lanes in each direction. There had been a big storm that produced lots of flooding and lots of car accidents. I normally drive in the far left lane so that I only have to deal with cars transitioning in and out of the lane on one side of me. I felt like an interior voice was telling me to move to the second lane so I did. The entire left lane had been flooded but I couldn’t see that until I was right on top of it. To the right of me up ahead was the front bumper of a mini van that was still laying in the lane after an accident. Just after I passed a flooded area on a curve, a car coming up really fast on the left hit the puddle, hydroplaned, hit the barrier, and spun around; there were no more headlights or brake lights visible. We called 911 and reported the accident and thanked the guardian angel for warning us about the danger and keeping us safe all the way home.

We used to have a weekly prayer group at my mom’s house. One night between the Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, I went to the kitchen to get water for everyone. I opened the cabinet and a glass literally came flying out of the cabinet (it didn’t fall out — it wasn’t near the edge at all) and smashed on the counter sending shards of glass everywhere. In that instant I was aware of another force — my angel wrapping his wings around me. Everyone came running into the room and saw that the glass was everywhere including behind me. I was barefoot and wearing bermuda shorts but I didn’t have a single cut on me. Thank you guardian angel.

My Mother-in-Law died in 2000, and her husband re-married a number of years later. The lady whom he married, had a daughter that changed the wills, which went against all initial (pre-nuptial) agreements. We found out accidentally when my Father-in-Law went in the hospital and required a pacemaker, and was close to death. The daughter at this time started to withdraw funds from her mother’s joint account, with my father-in-law. We were able to sort out these issues, get power of attorney, draft a new will (to match the old will), but had been very close to losing everything. We had no idea that the daughter was doing this behind our backs, and taking advantage of a Senior Citizen. I credit divine assistance to St. Michael the Archangel, as I say the St. Michael Prayer daily. I also have a website to honor St. Michael www.https//saintmichaelthearchangelusa.com, which can be found through Duck Duck Go. I’m very grateful and thank God for these graces and protection in time of need.

Thanks to Stephen Clulow on Flickr for his stained glass angel photograph.