HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS

WEDNESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis
The Lord has commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways.

First ReadingJob 9:1-13,14-16 How can man be in the right against God?

Job spoke to his friends: Indeed, I know it is as you say: 

how can man be in the right against God?  
If any were so rash as to challenge him for reasons, one in a thousand would be more than they could answer. His heart is wise, and his strength is great:  who then can successfully defy him? He moves the mountains, though they do not know it; he throws them down when he is angry. He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place, making all its pillars tremble. The sun, at his command, forbears to rise, and on the stars he sets a seal. He and no other stretched out the skies, and trampled the Sea’s tall waves. The Bear, Orion too, are of his making,  the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South. His works are great, beyond all reckoning,  his marvels, past all counting. Were he to pass me, I should not see him, nor detect his stealthy movement. Were he to snatch a prize, who could prevent him, or dare to say, ‘What are you doing?  

How dare I plead my cause, then, or choose arguments against him? Suppose I am in the right, what use is my defence?   For he whom I must sue is judge as well. If he deigned to answer my citation, could I be sure that he would listen to my voice?

Responsorial Psalm: Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord.

or: Exodus 23:20-23 I myself will send an angel before you

The Lord says this: ‘I myself will send an angel before you to guard you as you go and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Give him reverence and listen to all that he says. Offer him no defiance; he would not pardon such a fault, for my name is in him. If you listen carefully to his voice and do all that I say, I shall be enemy to your enemies, foe to your foes. My angel will go before you.’

Gospel Matthew18:1-5,10 Anyone who welcomes a little child in my name welcomes me

The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, ‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

‘Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven.’

Jesus, I trust in you. Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, pray for me. Saint Joseph, pray for me. My Angel Guardian, pray for me. All you Angels of God, pray for me.

Let us pray our Rosary: Ave Maria.

Lecture: AELF


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