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).