Denver Newsroom, Oct 2, 2022 / 00:00 am
During the month of October, the Catholic Church celebrates guardian angels.
Guardian angels are instruments of providence who protect their charges from suffering serious harm, and care for their salvation.
It is a theologically certain teaching that every one one of the faithful has his or her own guardian angel from baptism, and it is the general teaching of theologians that every human person has his or her own guardian angel from birth.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their [angels’] watchful care and intercession. ‘Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.’ Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God” (CCC, 336).