Angels
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…
