The Guardian Angels: how they bring us to Heaven and how they protect us on Earth

Angels are united with each other in tender and mutual love. What to say about their songs and their harmonies? St Francis of Assisi, finding himself in a state of great suffering, a single beat of music made him hear by an Angel was enough to stop feeling the pain and raise it in a great ecstasy of joy.

In Paradise we will find very cordial friends in the Angels and not proud companions to make us weigh their superiority. Blessed Angela da Foligno, who in her earthly life had frequent visions and found herself in contact with the Angels several times, will say: I could never have imagined that the Angels were so affable and courteous. - Therefore their coexistence will be very delicious and we cannot imagine what sweet interest we will enjoy in entertaining with them heart to heart. St. Thomas Aquinas (Qu. 108, a 8) teaches that "although according to nature it is impossible for man to compete with the Angels, but according to grace we can deserve a glory so great as to be associated with each of the nine angelic choirs" . Then the men will go to occupy the places left empty by the rebel angels, the devils. We cannot therefore think of the angelic choirs without seeing them studded with human creatures, equal in holiness and glory even to the most exalted Cherubim and Seraphim.

Between us and the Angels there will be the most affectionate friendship, without the diversity of nature hindering it in the least. They, who govern and manage all the forces of nature, will be able to satisfy our thirst for knowing the secrets and problems of the natural sciences and will do so with the utmost competence and great fraternal cordiality. Just as the Angels, although immersed in the beatific vision of God, receive and transmit to each other, from higher to lower, the beams of light that radiate from the Divinity, so we, although immersed in the beatific vision, will perceive through the Angels not little part of the infinite truths spread to the universe.

These Angels, shining like many suns, immensely beautiful, perfect, affectionate, affable, will become our attentive teachers. Imagine their outbursts of joy and the expressions of their tender affection when they see all they have done for our salvation with a happy outcome. With what grateful interest we will be told then by thread and by sign, each from his Anelo Custode, the true story of our life with all the dangers that have escaped, with all the help made available to us. In this regard, Pope Pius IX very willingly recounted an experience of his childhood, which proves the extraordinary help of his Guardian Angel. During his Holy Mass, he was an altar boy in the private chapel of his family. One day, while he was kneeling on the last step of the altar, during the offer-thorium he was suddenly seized with fear and fear. He was very excited without understanding why. His heart began to beat loudly. Instinctively, looking for help, he turned his eyes to the opposite side of the altar. There was a handsome young man who motioned with his hand to get up immediately and go towards him. The boy was so confused at the sight of that apparition that he dared not move. But the bright figure energetically made him a sign again. Then he got up quickly and went to the young man who suddenly disappears. In the same instant a heavy statue of a saint fell right where the little altar boy stood. If he had remained for a while longer than before, he would have died or been seriously injured by the weight of the fallen statue.