- Angel of god, my guardian dear,
- To whom His love commits me here.
- Ever this day be at my side,
- To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
(Indulgence of 100 days; plenary indulgence on the feast of the holy guardian angels (Oct. z), to those who shall have said this prayer, morning and evening, throughout the year, on usual conditions; plenary indulgence at the hour of death. -Pius VI, Oct. 2, I795. Pius VII, on May 15, I821, granted a plenary indulgence, once a month, to all the faithful who shall have said it every day for a month, as above directed.) [Editor's note: An indulgence attached to a prayer by a pope was a way for the Church to show approval for a prayer and to encourage its use. Many indulgences were suppressed after Vatican II.]
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
O Lord, open my lips, And my tongue shall declare your praise. O God, come to my aid. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, etc. Alleluia.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
HYMN
- O Lord, permit us here to raise our voice
- And send before your throne our feeble praise,
- And thank you for those angels whom your choice
- has helped in our weakness to direct its ways,
- And free us from the envious foes that lurk
- To spoil the beauty of your cherished work.
Ant. O holy angels, our guardians, defend us in the combat, that we perish not in the dreadful judgment.
V. In sight of Thy angels I will sing to Thee, my God.
R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy. name.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
GOD has given His angels charge of thee, that
they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
O, God, incline unto, etc.
O, Lord, make haste, etc.
Glory be to the Father, etc. Alleluia.
HYMN
- Satan, driven from the happy land
- Where once he shone in splendor, ill can brook
- Kindly justice of the Almighty hand,
- That gives to man the throne that he forsook;
- And seeks to drag into his own disgrace
- Poor mortals thus designed to fill his place.
Ant. O holy angels, our guardians, etc.
V. In sight of Thy angels I will sing unto Thee, my God.
R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy name.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
O Lord, open my lips, And my tongue shall declare your praise. O God, come to my aid. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be without end. Alleluia.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
- HYMN
- Bright Spirit, whom a God supremely wise
- Has given to be the guardian of this land,
- Come armed with all thy power from the skies
- And bear its children harmless in thy hand.
- Safe from all evil that defiles the soul,
- Safe from disunion's withering control.
Ant. O holy angels, our guardians, defend us in the combat, that we perish not in the dreadful judgment.
- V. In sight of Thy angels I will sing unto Thee, my God.
- R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy name.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
O Lord, open my lips, And my tongue shall declare your praise. O God, come to my aid. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be without end. Alleluia.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
HYMN
- O JESUS! glory of the angelic choirs,
- Light of their brightness, sweetness of their bliss,
- You Who did leave a world where nothing tires
- To taste the pains and miseries of this:
- Be these same pains, endured to set us free,
- The germ of endless happiness with Thee.
Ant. O holy angels, our guardians, defend us in the combat, that we perish not in the dreadful judgment.
- V. In sight of Thy angels I will sing unto Thee, my God.
- R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy name.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
HYMN
- ANGEL Of peace! come, Michael, to our aid,
- You who did once chase discord from the sky,
- Come, calm those boisterous passions that have mode
- Such havoc here as they have made on high;
- Drive strife and rancor to their kindred gloom,
- To hell, their fitting, their eternal tomb.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
Ant. God has given His angels charge of you, that they keep thee in all thy ways. Amen.
- SPIRIT Of might! O Gabriel, display
- Thy matchless power against our ancient foes;
- Visit those sacred temples where we pray -
- 'Twas at thy potent word those temples rose;
- Whose worship raised these shrines throughout the earth;
- you were the herald of His future birth.
Ant. O holy angels, our guardians, etc. V. In the sight of Thy angels, etc.
God has given His angels, etc. V. Convert us, O God, our Savior.
R. And avert Thy anger from us. O God, incline unto my aid.
Glory be to the Father, etc. Alleluia.
- AND Raphael of the glorious seven who stand
- Before the throne of Him Who lives and reigns;
- Angel of health I the Lord has filled thy hand
- With balm from heaven to soothe or cure our pains
- Heal or console the victim of disease,
- And guide our steps when doubtful of our ways.
- Ant. O holy angels, etc.
- V. In the sight of Thy angels, etc.
- R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, etc.
O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, has granted to appoint Thy holy angels to be our guardians grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
- O Holy guardian at thy feet
- This wreath of humble flowers I lay;
- O that their odor were as sweet
- As he desires, who sings the lay,
- Protect me at death's awful hour,
- Receive my soul to thy embrace,
- Rich with the wonders of thy power,
- To thank, to praise thee, face to face. Amen.
- HOLY archangel Michael
- defend us in battle,
- that we may not perish in the
- tremendous judgment.
- (Indulgence of 100 days. -- Leo XIII, Aug. 19, I893.)
- Prayer to St. Raphael, Archangel
- Glorious archangel, St. Raphael, great prince of the heavenly court, illustrious by thy gifts of wisdom and grace, guide of travelers by land and sea, consoler of the unfortunate and refuge of sinners, I entreat thee to help me in all my needs and in all the trials of this life, as you did once assist the young Tobias in his journeying. And since you art the "physician of God," I humbly pray thee to heal my soul of its many infirmities and my body of the ills that afflict it, if this favor is for my greater good. I ask, especially, for angelic purity, that I may be made fit to be the living temple of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
- (Indulgence of 100 days. -- Leo XIII, June 21, 1890.)
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