How Guardian Angels Actually Work

Are angels real? Why did God make them? What do guardian angels do? Do I have one? Does it have a name? Can I name it?

...All these questions and more answered today by Fr. Mike Schmitz.

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[melissasaint]

A good friend's mother once told me, long ago, that if you're having difficulties with someone, you ask your guardian angel to talk to theirs, to help resolve the problem and bring graces and peace to the situation.

[wbl]

you might think I'm crazy but often when I am at Mass I have a sense/feeling that my guardian Angel is standing behind me, his presence like behind me around my shoulders. One Sunday when I was particularly down and discouraged I felt this presence tell me " take strength, you are greatly loved"...it nearly made me weep and it was just what I needed to hear.

[FINTZZZ]

As a firefighter I could feel my Guardian Angel's protective arm in every situation

[heathsavage]

Many years ago as a silly young woman, I was very drunk. I fell asleep in front of an electric fire, with my heard on a cushion from the couch. I was alone in the house. At some point, I recall being, literally, shaken awake, and someone shouting: "Wake up!" in my ear. As I came to, I saw the cushion I had my head on, smouldering and about to catch fire. The smoke was toxic and noxious. I would have either burned to death or died of inhalation of smoke, for sure. I was out cold. I know that was my Guardian Angel, saving me.

[borbalaequestrian]

A prayer I was taught in Catholic school in early 1960's and will always remember...
"Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light, to guard, to rule, to guide,
Amen

[twopintsofmilk]

For anyone who sees this could you pray for Bridget from Ireland. She's my mother. She's a beautiful God loving woman who has been battling cancer for the past few years.

*** She got the all clear the other day. She will be going for follow up checks every 6 months for the next while. Thank you all so much. God is good. God bless you all ♥️

[GR]

As an alcoholic, I'm sure that my guardian angel was paid hazard pay for looking after me during those years of insanity. In all seriousness, I'm sure he looked out for me in ways that I may never know, but I'm sure he helped to guide me in finding sobriety.

[vczunyj]

When my little boy died I had been sitting in a chair in the ICU while doctors tried to revive him. As I prayed and cried I felt someone walk up next to me and put their left hand on my right shoulder. I thought it was a member of the medical team trying to comfort me. After quite awhile this "person" stepped forward and I could see him. He was in a long white robe, he took several steps and then disappeared.

[nicole]

Father Mike, I’d love to know your take on this.

Years ago, my mother’s cat bit me on the hand. I washed it off in the sink, put peroxide on it, and went about my day. That night as I was sleeping, my arm was throbbing. When I woke up in the morning, it was locked in an L shape. I got a shower with one hand, I put on my jeans and zipped up with one hand, which is not easy. I went to my weekend job, which was cat adoptions through a shelter but at a local pet store. The first thing I would do was clean the cages. A very old man showed up in a polo shirt with the animal shelter logo on it. I had never seen that type of shirt before. He also wore a name tag from the shelter. We didn’t have name tags. I said hello and asked him why he was there - I never had anyone help me before. He told me he was sent there to help me. I told him that he could play with the cats and keep them occupied while I clean the cages. He said, no, he would do what I was doing and clean the cages. Well, I wasn’t about to let anyone do my dirty work. I told him I was going to clean the cages. He raised his voice slightly but firmly, and he again said he was sent there to help me. if it was a woman of any age, I would not have backed down. If it was a man around my age, I would not have backed down. But being that it was an older man, I did not want to offend him. I stood up from the bottom cage I was about to clean, and I let him clean the cages. When he was finished, he left. The employees of the store asked who he was because they had never seen anyone else there before. I said he must’ve been a volunteer from the shelter.

It turned out that I had acute sepsis and was hospitalized a few hours later. I was there for over a week. A doctor came in and questioned me thoroughly. I think he wanted to make sure the cat didn’t have rabies. I told him everything that happened. He told me that if I had cleaned the cages myself, my blood would’ve started pumping faster, and the overall outcome might not have been as favorable.

I had to contact my manager at the shelter to call off for the next weekend. I asked her who the man was that she sent out to help me. She said she didn’t send anyone.

I think he was an angel.

[Amy-ybne]

I got run over when I was 2. My neighbour was reversing in her driveway and backed over me. I saw my guardian angel. Still to the day I have a memory of being under the car and seeing her. I still feel the warmth and safety she gave me. Mum took me to hospital and despite bumps, some gashes and scratches I had no broken bones no serious injuries and no scars from it.
I believe that my guardian angel has saved me time and time again.. but that one I remember clear as day even now at 36years old.
Amen!

[happykat]

Wow, I just completed day 4 of my Padre Pio novena, and it talked about calling on your guardian angels. I know nothing about guardian angels and made a mental note to learn about them. Then I did a Bible lesson and opened my YouTube feed to find you, Father Mike, at the top of my feed, discussing them! Wow. God does indeed work in mysterious ways. :)

[cehson]

Guardian Angel saved my life when i was, stupidly, tried to climb a mountain, and got stuck 3 times in a spot for like 40 minutes at a time, and last time i could not see way out, only was to let fall. I was not practising believer back then, but i prayed to God and i heard voice look to then right, and i found way out of the situation. When i god back down i was totaly sure i got new life. Praise be to God! And thank you my Angel Guardian!

[wrrck_svcks]

When I was 18 I was driving drunk and high on marijuana. I was completely blacked out and couldn’t even remember the drive. I was basically driving without being conscious.
Suddenly I came to my senses when I was driving towards a massive steel gate with 50 mph. I instantaneously dodged to the right and crashed through a small fence with my car on the side and slided 50 meters onto the property. I only got a little scratch in my finger and no serious injury at all. Had I come to my senses half a second later I might be dead or disabled for life.
I wasn’t Christian at that time and thought I just got lucky. Now I know it was the lord and his angels who saved me.
Praise the lord.

[oldtymer]

I had a guardian angel experience once: it was the early 90's the day after Thanksgiving. I was out and about on foot (no car at the time) doing stuff. I was waiting to cross the street and was starring at the stoplight watching it as it changed from Green to yellow to red. I put my foot out to step into the street when a voice (I'd never heard this voice before, it wasnt mine!) inside my mind said: "You always look before crossing the street. You should look now". Then the foot that i had extended and was about to plant onto the street with pulled back all on its own! I turned my head to look and a car ran the red light probably going 50mph in a 25mph speed zone! Had i put my foot down that car would hit me killing me instantly!
True story. I believe they exist.

[jimgriffin]

I can recall many instances where my guardian angles delivered me from danger. I say the "Guardian Angel" prayer twice daily.

[dannytriplett]

I’m currently in RCIA and I was told that during the week when we do good deeds/sacrifice’s our guardian angels place them in vessels and when we are at Mass they carry them to the altar for us. How beautiful is that

[BogoGog]

When I was little, I was standing at the top of the staircase in my parents' house by myself (my parents were ordinarily very vigilant but for some reason this time they were doing something else). I was too young to be able to walk down the stairs by myself, but I started to, and I distinctly remember my feet lifting slightly off the ground and I slowly glided down the stairs, then touched down softly at the bottom of the landing. I ran and told my mom, who said, "It must have been your guardian angel." That's exactly what it felt like, as if an angel had lifted me up and gently carried me down the stairs so I wouldn't fall and injure myself. I still think about this often and have recounted the story to many friends and family over the years.

[Timblisi]

I had an experience in high school where I had to defend myself from an enormous kid who was literally close to three times my bodyweight. At the start of the scuffle, i got my shoulder under his center of gravity and just barely started to tense my legs up to throw him over. Not only did he go off his feet and onto his back, but it felt to me completely effortless, and it even felt like his body accelerated faster than my shoulder, as if someone or something had lifted him off my shoulder, and when he landed, his face was white, and the look on his face was one of that total terror a person gets when they've experienced something that just isn't supposed to exist in this world, like a ghost, or an alien, or something. And not only did he never mess with me again, but as a chronic bully to that point, he never messed with anyone again and became quite the decent gentleman. I've always wondered if an angel had thrown him off his feet, and he either saw the angel or otherwise knew it.

[kath.]

Father you crack me up! I talk to my G.A. all the time. He wakes me up at 3 am every night to say the Divine Mercy Chaplet. I am never tired in the morning.

[hillerymcdonald]

I spent the last half hour or so just reading this incredible comments. This has to be the BEST comment section on all of youtube!! There is such goodness emanating from this channel and all the beautiful stories of Guardian Angels intervening in our lives at the moment we need it most. ❤