The Guardian Angel Prayer, also known as the Angel of God Prayer, invokes the protection of one\u2019s guardian angel. Often one of the first prayers taught to children, it consists of two rhyming couplets:<\/p>\n
\u201cAngel of God, my guardian dear, The exact authorship of this prayer is unknown. Scholars previously attributed it to St. Anselm of Canterbury, though many now believe a version composed by Reginald of Canterbury in his Life of Malchus<\/em> serves as the prayer\u2019s inspiration.<\/p>\n Guardian Angels are referred to in Scripture in the Book of Daniel (Dan. 12:1), the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 18:10), and the Psalms (91:10-13).<\/p>\n \u201cFrom its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession,\u201d says the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 336).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a9 LPi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Guardian Angel Prayer, also known as the Angel of God Prayer, invokes the protection of one\u2019s guardian angel. Often one of the first prayers taught to children, it consists of two rhyming couplets: \u201cAngel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God\u2019s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-parish","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto whom God\u2019s love commits me here,
\never this day be at my side,
\nto light and guard, to rule and guide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n