Their angels are constantly before the Lord
2nd October, 2015: Celebrating the Guardian Angels
Bar 1: 15-22; Matthew 18:1-5,10
The Guardian angels are a special way of God's expression of protective concern over God's children. Every time I think of the Guardian angels I am led to think of a saint of recent times, Padre Saint Pio. He had many a times vivid experiences of the angel protecting him and those he followed up spiritually. There is something that I read recently that comes to my mind.
In those days when the cellphones were not yet that common, and the whatsapp and twitter were still in the oblivion, one of his Spiritual sons who lived in the States met with an accident. A friend of his knew the bonding between Padre Pio and his friend, and so rushed to a nearby post office to send him a telegram. When he reached there, the post master handed him a telegram from Padre Pio which read, "take care and get well soon". The friend was awestruck and he asked Padre Pio, how he managed it. Padre Pio answered with a smile, "do you think the angels travel as slow as your trains? "
Let's count on the protecting grace of God so concretely experienced in the angels. God be blessed in the Angels and Saints!