When I was about 5, I asked my mother what my guardian angel's name was.  I expect for lack of any real answer but not wanting to brush off my question, she said, "Fred".  That has been his name ever since.  I hope he doesn't mind.  

My patron saint was chosen for me in kind of the same fashion that your angel's name was. When I was a child, I remember being told by someone (I don't know who) that my patron saint is St. John the Baptist.

12 years later, I'm finally about to be confirmed in the Church, and even though I have no special connection to him or know much about him, I chose St. John the Baptist to be my patron saint...because, well, somebody said that he was when I was a kid!

Thank you, Daegus.

from the Cong. for Div. Wrsp. ( 2001 ) "Guide to Popular Piety & Liturgy"

You can verify this on the Vatican website....

216. Down through the centuries, the faithful have translated into various devotional exercises the teaching of the faith in relation to the ministry of Angels: the Holy Angels have been adopted as patrons of cities and corporations; great shrines in their honour have developed such as Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, San Michele della Chiusa in Piemonte and San Michele Gargano in Apulia, each appointed with specific feast days; hymns and devotions to the Holy Angels have also been composed.

Popular piety encompasses many forms of devotion to the Guardian Angels. St. Basil Great (+378) taught that "each and every member of the faithful has a Guardian Angel to protect, guard and guide them through life"(292). This ancient teaching was consolidated by biblical and patristic sources and lies behind many forms of piety. St. Bernard of Clarivaux (+1153) was a great master and a notable promoter of devotion to the Guardian Angels. For him, they were a proof "that heaven denies us nothing that assists us", and hence, "these celestial spirits have been placed at our sides to protect us, instruct us and to guide us"(293).

Devotion to the Holy Angels gives rise to a certain form of the Christian life which is characterized by:

devout gratitude to God for having placed these heavenly spirits of great sanctity and dignity at the service of man;

an attitude of devotion deriving from the knowledge of living constantly in the presence of the Holy Angels of God;- serenity and confidence in facing difficult situations, since the Lord guides and protects the faithful in the way of justice through the ministry of His Holy Angels.Among the prayers to the Guardian Angels the Angele Dei(294) is especially popular, and is often recited by families at morning and evening prayers, or at the recitation of the Angelus.

217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:

when, as sometimes can happen, the faithful are taken by the idea that the world is subject to demiurgical struggles, or an incessant battle between good and evil spirits, or Angels and daemons, in which man is left at the mercy of superior forces and over which he is helpless; such cosmologies bear little relation to the true Gospel vision of the struggle to overcome the Devil, which requires moral commitment, a fundamental option for the Gospel, humility and prayer;

when the daily events of life, which have nothing or little to do with our progressive maturing on the journey towards Christ are read schematically or simplistically, indeed childishly, so as to ascribe all setbacks to the Devil and all success to the Guardian Angels. The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.

What this New Age fruit doing this TV interview is referring to, conceptually, is completely different than your Catholic understanding of a Guardian Angel.

Just because this person used the same terms, does not mean it's the same thing.

It is a fairly widely and much sought after goal of ritualistic magic to attain a conversation with one's "Holy Guardian Angel" but the prescribed way of going about it (ritual magic, ceremony, fasting, lengthy preparation) and its status as one of the greatest works of occult practice should disabuse you all of any mistaken notions that whatever this person is communing with or getting her information from, it is neither 'holy' nor her Guardian Angel.

I am glad none of you know this, nor have studied this subject as I had (before becoming Catholic), but now that you know this you should neither make light of this witch's relationship with her familiar, not treat your own guardian angel as such with diminutive names or folksy customs.

Your guardian angel is a powerful protector commissioned as such by God, this is not writing a letter to Santa.

I echo Iuvenalis' comments here.

This is NOT some sentimental feel-good person to hold your hand. An angel is commissioned by God for a purpose and mission , much like a paid bodyguard is employed to protect another's life even by use of deadly force on an acting aggressor.  It is a grave matter and not one for frivolous attitudes or to be talked about in a joking atmosphere.

There are some really good books available for free on Angel Guardians.

Say the Guardian Angel Prayers every single day and honor them often and there will be time after time that you know he helped in all types of dangers, in matters of conscience, in prompting you to pray...the list goes on and on.  All Guardian Angels are different, but they are your very best friend possible in this vale of tears.

 

No, but . . . I had just climbed/hiked a mountain here in Colorado and on my descent I was sliding down rugged terrain. As I slid down a face of a boulder about half the size of a compact car, it dislodged and rolled towards me a few, seemingly endless seconds. Then, without explanation, said boulder split in half and with each rolling to the side of me and then off the cliffs 1000's of feet below. I can only explain this as the work of my guardian angel, whom I did not see physically, but was the beneficiary of his work.  

Are you absolutely sure that you did not give the boulder one of these first?


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I mean, maybe you've stumbled on to something here?!?!

Also, for fear of being labeled a "sap"... Don't forget about Love! St Gemma Galagni sent ACTUAL letters to her confessor with her Guardian Angel. Countless other stories of the Saints describe their Angels helping them through every difficulty! St Padre Pio would tell his "children" to send their Angels to him with their intentions!
All care must be taken of course... We are weak beings, and the spirit world that we do not see is a place that we should not meddle in. But our Angels are not just like some mercenaries for hire or sour-faced black-belts who are just here to be our bodyguards! Plenty of literature has been written that attests that the Holy Angels LOVE us with a love that EXCEEDS a mother's love towards her child. They WANT us to go Home, and they WANT us to speak to them more than just a quick prayer in the morning and at night.
Please remember that we are called to be humble, like children if we are to go Home. If we get bogged down about which encyclical said what, our dear Angels won't be getting the love they deserve, and we run the risk of losing the simplicity that is called for. Of course, don't go out seeking signs and wonders, DON'T consult "mediums", but don't think Our Jesus and our dear Angels are going to be mad if we have a child's way of applying something finite to infinite concepts that we don't (and can't!) understand yet.
Not trying to be mean, please don't take offence!! :soapbox:
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Love,
michaela +

I believe we can actually meet our angel or AN ANGEL many times in our life. An angel can come to us in the form of a person if we need them.  For example, many years ago, driving to Spokane from California, with other people in my care, it was about midnight and we drove into a freak blizzard. A car in front of us stopped causing us to slip off the road into the ditch that had about 3 feet of fresh snow.  We could not get out of the ditch, no matter what.  

One of the women with me, (now R.I.P) started to pray, while I was trying to dig our way out with the top of a cooler, since we had no shovel.

Suddenly out of no where this very large pick-up truck, with a very large man got out of the truck, he took charge of our situation with such confidence.  Took out a very, very large chain, really big links, I noticed.  He told us to get into his truck and for some reason we had no fear of him.  He then drove us, leaving our car in the ditch.  He drove us about 1/4 of a mile to a motel, by this time it was about 1:30 A.M.  He then rang a bell for the manager to come, open the motel for us and with a stern voice he asked that we be given a room.  We all checked into the room, and he went back to pull our car out of the ditch and brought it to us.  I told him he must be our Guardian Angel, and he just smiled and left.

The strange thing is he never even asked us if we wanted to go to that motel, it was as if, he just wanted us to NOT go further that night.  

To this day I believe he was one of our angels, maybe the women who was in the car praying, while I was being stupid and trying to dig our way out with the top of a cooler.


Another little story from a women in our Church, her husband was dying, and while he lay there on his death bed, he told her he saw the angels coming for him, and he wanted her to know, that they really did not have any wings.  

My daily-Communicant Grandmother said she saw her friends on her deathbed..she was very devoted to Angels.

I was attacked by a psycho one night walking; he had me by the neck and told me he was going to have to kill me...I was floating ... I was prompted by something to say, "May God forgive you for what you are about to do".  He choked me but I couldn't feel it, something made him lose his grip and I bellowed, NO and he dropped me and ran. My jeans were shredded at the sides, my clothes torn up.   I am not doing such a great job of describing the story, but I had and have absolutely no doubt this was intervention by my Holy Guardian Angel.  I never had one bit of physical pain afterwards, not a mark, not even on my neck.

This is only one such story of this glorious majestic spirit given by a merciful God.