How I Met My Guardian Angel St. Edward

I was in charge of Eucharistic Adoration in my parish, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Tampa, Fl. We offered Adoration after every Saturday morning Mass.

I would pray all morning and one day thought I wanted to know the name of my Guardian Angel. I really needed to thank him as he had "saved" me multiple times! So for 2 weeks in a row I said my prayer.

During one of the next Saturdays, in walked this tall, handsome man with shoulder length blond wavy hair. He knelt in front of the Monstrance and with his arms, as if reaching out to Heaven started saying the most wonderful prayers to Jesus.

The chapel was full, and quiet, watching him pray to God. I can't even begin to tell you the beautiful things he said; I had never heard something so awesome in my life.

At the end after Benediction, I was outside greeting everyone as I always did. He walked by and I told him that every Saturday we were there, etc. He smiled as if he knew. I am only five feet 2 inches tall, so he had to bend down to look straight in my eyes. His eyes were the greenest I had ever seen, he took my hand and said, "My name is Edward, isn't it nice to finally meet your Angel?"

With that he walked away, my friend Kathy said, who was that? And when I turned back to look he had disappeared. Praise God in Heaven!

John 16:24. "Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."

I was raised Catholic in a small town in New York, called Sloatsburg. I went to public school and we would have to take a bus from school to our church for religious education. Back then public schools recognized religion, and accepted the diversity of different faiths, and allowed us to pray in school. It was such an innocent time. Today the kids have to pray before school, outside, even in the rain. It is pretty sad how our country has turned away from God. We just have to keep on praying that God will prevail over the devil.

This is what I found on New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia:
www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

"Personal Guardians"

"Throughout the Bible we find it repeatedly implied that each individual soul has its tutelary angel. Thus Abraham, when sending his steward to seek a wife for Isaac, says: "He will send His angel before thee" (Genesis 24:7). The words of the ninetieth Psalm which the devil quoted to our Lord (Matthew 4:6) are well known, and Judith accounts for her heroic deed by saying: "As the Lord liveth, His angel hath been my keeper" (13:20). These passages and many like them (Genesis 16:6-32; Hosea 12:4; 1 Kings 19:5; Acts 12:7; Psalm 33:8), though they will not of themselves demonstrate the doctrine that every individual has his appointed guardian angel, receive their complement in our Saviour's words: "See that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you that their angels in Heaven always see the face of My Father Who is in Heaven" (Matthew 18:10), words which illustrate the remark of St. Augustine: "What lies hidden in the Old Testament, is made manifest in the New". Indeed, the book of Tobias seems intended to teach this truth more than any other, and St. Jerome in his commentary on the above words of our Lord says: "The dignity of a soul is so great, that each has a guardian angel from its birth." The general doctrine that the angels are our appointed guardians is considered to be a point of faith, but that each individual member of the human race has his own individual guardian angel is not of faith (de fide); the view has, however, such strong support from the Doctors of the Church that it would be rash to deny it (cf. St. Jerome, supra). Peter the Lombard (Sentences, lib. II, dist. xi) was inclined to think that one angel had charge of several individual human beings. St. Bernard's beautiful homilies (11-14) on the ninetieth Psalm breathe the spirit of the Church without however deciding the question. The Bible represents the angels not only as our guardians, but also as actually interceding for us. "The angel Raphael (Tobit 12:12) says: "I offered thy prayer to the Lord" (cf. Job 5:1 (Septuagint), and 33:23 (Vulgate); Apocalypse 8:4). The Catholic cult of the angels is thus thoroughly scriptural. Perhaps the earliest explicit declaration of it is to be found in St. Ambrose's words: "We should pray to the angels who are given to us as guardians" (De Viduis, ix); (cf. St. Augustine, Reply to Faustus XX.21). An undue cult of angels was reprobated by St. Paul (Colossians 2:18), and that such a tendency long remained in the same district is evidenced by Canon 35 of the Synod of Laodicea."