Sunday, October 2, 2016

Is it fitting for each man to have an angel guardian?

"MAN while in this state of life, is, as it were, on a road by which he should journey towards heaven. On this road man is threatened by many dangers both from within and from without, according to Psalm 141:4: "In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me." And therefore as guardians are appointed for men who have to pass by an unsafe road, so an angel guardian is assigned to each man as long as he is a wayfarer. When, however, he arrives at the end of life he no longer has a guardian angel; but in the kingdom he will have an angel to reign with him, in hell a demon to punish him."

~ St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica, I, q. 113, a. 4

Read more about guardian angels here

The Guardian Angel, by Pietro da Cortana. Oil on canvas, 1656;
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

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