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Prayer to Your Guardian Angel

 

Traditional version

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

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Or:

O most faithful companion, whom God has appointed to watch over me, my guide and protector, ever at my side, what thanks can I offer you for your love, your constancy, and your innumerable benefits? You watch over me in sleep, you console me in sorrow, you raise me when I fall, you ward off dangers, you prepare me for the future, you withdraw me from sin, you urge me to good, you move me to do penance, and reconcile me with my God. Already, perhaps, I should have been thrust into hell, but you by your prayers have averted from me the dreadful wrath of God. Desert me not, then, I beseech you; encourage me in adversity, restrain me in prosperity, protect me in dangers, and assist me in temptations, lest at any time I yield to them. Offer to the Divine Majesty all my prayers and sighs and works, and obtain for me the grace to die in the friendship of God, and so to enter into eternal life.
Amen.