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To the angels

Prayer to your Guardian Angel

Angele Dei

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

In Latin

Ángele Dei, qui custos es mei, me tibi commíssum pietáte supérna, hódie illúmina, custódi, rege et gubérna. Amen.

When this prayer is prayed

On waking, before a journey, and taught to children as their first prayer after the Sign of the Cross. Your angel does not sleep and has never once been more than a thought away (Mt 18:10).

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