The Narthex
Significance of Guardian Angels for Adults
God has given you a spiritual person to walk with you and point you where you need to go
By John M. Grondelski | October 3rd 2025 2:01 PMMany of this journal's readers likely grew up saying the poetic prayer, "Angel of God, my guardian dear." And not a few Catholic homes likely had some version of early 20th century German artist Fridolin Leiber's prints of Schutzengel -- the "guardian angel" -- usually supporting two children in some perilous…
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Guardian Angels are proof God does not leave us alone 'to work out our salvation'
By John M. Grondelski | October 2nd 2024 11:47 AMOctober 2 is the feast of the Guardian Angels. I hold a particular devotion to the Guardian Angels. Angels, after all, testify to a certain hierarchy of being: from inanimate things (rocks) to beings with simple vegetative souls (the principle by which something lives, e.g., flowers) to beings with simple…
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