The mission of the Guardian Angel in our life

In the history of salvation, God entrusted the angels with the task of protecting his chosen people: “He will order his angels to guard you in all your steps. On their hands they will bring you so that you do not stumble your foot on the stone "(Psalm 90,11-12) and to lead it to the homeland of heaven:" Behold, I am sending an angel before you to keep you on the path and to let you enter the place I have prepared ”(Book of Exodus 23,20-23). Peter, in prison, was freed by his guardian angel (Acts 12,7-11. 15). In defense of the little ones, Jesus said that their angels always see the face of the Father in heaven (Gospel of Matthew 18,10:XNUMX).

The mission of the guardian angel ceases definitively with great pain, with the death of the custodian, only when he is an unrepentant sinner and is plunged into hell. Or it ends with great joy at the death of a saint, who passes from earth to heaven without purgative stops. But the angelic mission still continues for those who from the earth go to purgatory to atone and purify themselves. The guardian angels, in fact, pray before the throne of God with unceasing love for the souls entrusted to them and not yet in glory, and present to the Lord the suffrages that on earth apply to them family, relatives, friends, benefactors and devoted souls.

The bond that unites the guardian angel with the spirit that is in purgatory is very lively, active, sweet, compassionate, loving. As a mother who awaits the return of health in a child who was ill and is recovering; as a bride who counts the days that separate her from the meeting with her distant love, so the guardian angel eagerly awaits the release of her client. Not even for a moment does he stop looking at the heartbeats of divine Justice and the efforts of the human will that cleanses himself in the fires of Love, and he rejoices seeing God more and more placated towards the imperfect soul and it ever more worthy of his God. And when the Light orders the Keeper: "Go and bring it out to bring it here", then, like an arrow, rushes to bring a flash of paradise, which is faith, which is hope, which is comfort, to those who still remain atone in purgatory, and he holds the beloved soul for whom he has worked and anxiously to himself and gives her the announcement of his release, going up with her towards the Light and teaching her the heavenly hosanna.

The two most beautiful moments for the guardian angel, the two sweetest moments of his role as Protector, are when Charity tells him: "Go down to earth, because a new creature is generated and you must keep it as a gem that belongs to me ", And when he says to him:" Go get it and go up with it to Me in heaven ".