Feast Day of the Holy Guardian Angels - 2 October 2025
2nd October 2025
Our Guardian Angels are our dedicated defenders and helpers. This day gives us an opportunity to honour and thank our Guardian Angel for accepting their role to be our angelic companion throughout our life.
The Holy Guardian Angels belong to the third hierarchy of angels. Many of the early Church fathers taught that each person is assigned a guardian angel to watch over them day and night. As St Basil the Great wrote, “Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.”
So pray to your guardian angel. Teach your children to love and speak to them. St Padre Pio recalled that during his childhood he had gotten to know his guardian angel through prayer and meditation and developed a close bond of friendship with his angel. "Do not forget the guardian angel who is always with you and never leaves you, no matter what wrong thing you might do.' St Carlo Acutis, recently canonised, said that our Guardian Angel is our friend so talk to him as a friend.
Prayer to the Holy Guardian Angels
O Holy Guardian Angels, to whose care we have been entrusted by God, enlighten, preserve, and govern us this day; defend us from all temptations, and obtain for us all needful grace, that we may love God, and serve Him here, until we join with you to love, praise, and enjoy God’s presence, in everlasting life. Amen.