Daily Prayer to our Guardian Angels

Devotions to the Holy Angels

"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?"--Heb.1: 14

"The Angels," says Saint Augustine, "love us as their fellow-citizens, and hope to see us fill up what has been lost to their own number by the fall of the rebel angels. For this reason they are always present with us, and watch over us with the greatest care. At all times, and in every place, they are ready to help us, and to provide for our wants. They walk with us in all our ways; going out and coming in, they follow us still, anxiously considering whether we live piously and purely in the midst of a wicked world. They assist those who labor; they guard those who rest; they encourage those who light; they crown those who conquer; they rejoice with the joyful, and sympathize with the suffering. When we do well, the angels are glad, but the devils are sad. When we sin, the devils rejoice, but the angels are cheated of their joy." We ought, therefore, to honor these blessed spirits with very great reverence and affection, and to pray to them, especially our guardian angels, to whom God has given charge over us, to keep us in all our ways , and we may be sure that this devotion will be most pleasing to them, and most useful to ourselves.

Angel Psalter
(Extracted from various Psalms)

O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise Him and exalt him above all forever.
Praise the Lord from the heavens: praise ye Him in the high places.
Praise Him, all ye His angels; praise ye Him, all His hosts.
Bless the Lord, all ye His angels, you that are mighty in strength, and execute His word, hearkening to the voice of His orders.
Bless the Lord, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His that do His will.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all He hath done for thee.
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.
For He hath given His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
In their hands they shall bear thee up, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk, and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
The Angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear Him, and shall deliver them.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning , it is now and ever shall be , world without end. Amen

I will sing praise to thee, O my God, in the sight of the Angels.
I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to Thy name.

Prayer:

O God, who, in most admirable order, dost assign the various offices, both of angels and of men: grant, we beseech Thee, that they who always minister before Thy face in Heaven, may also defend us in this our life on earth. Through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord. Amen.