THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

Conclusion of Archangels

The Guardian Angel 19th Century Dutch

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 Plus Links to a few Angelic Sites

The Guardian Angel is our final consideration. Has God appointed a specific angel to watch over every one of us? The tradition of a guardian angel is an ancient one. Menander and Plutarch mention them and you can find them in Babylonians and Assyrian history. The early Church allowed this belief to flourish. Although not an official doctrine, the Guardian Angel is considered as part of the “mind of the Church.” St. Jerome said of Guardian Angels, “how great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it.”

The Technicolor God, the Archangels, with their flaming swords, thunder and lightening, beings that “shine brighter than the sun ,”¹² all seem out of place in our technology-driven world--a world that forces us to seek out absolute truths. Archangels, along with most religious thought, has very little that can be called absolute truth. The drive to understand the spiritual world is perhaps a yearning cry to make sense of our troubled world. Because angels are super-human beings, their concept gives us a more tangible connection to God, that all-encompassing indescribable force of the Universe. Do Angels and Archangels really exist? Each individual must answer that question. However, if you accept the belief that God is omnipotent, then creating angels and Archangels to help us through our journey of faith is reasonable.

The table below has several links to Angel information. You will find the link to the Archangel Meditation taken from Rabbi David Cooper’s book on Kabbalah, “God is a Verb.” There is also links to the websites devoted to the Gospel of Barnabas, Book of Enoch, Book of Tobias, and the Revelations of Peter within each profile and also in the table. 

Author's Note:  You are free to use any material you deem appropriate.  Please credit All Saints Church, San Francisco and John P. Chase, webmaster and author.   This was drawn from Internet sources and book sources the author felt appropriate. We have tried to insure this article reflects the historic traditions surrounding Angels and Archangels in the Christianity, Judaism and Islam.  Each fact about the four Archangels was confirmed by at least three sources.  There are many "new age" discussions on line concerning angels and archangels.  We will let you the reader make your own judgments about them but they are not included in these brief profiles.