Guardian Angel Travel Tag

To travel to as many caches as possible and to watch over all cachers.

A guardian Angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group.  Whether guardian angels attend each and every person is not consistently believed or upheld by the Church Fathers in Christian thought, and hence it is not an "article of faith", although the concept is clearly seen in both the Old and New Testaments. 

The concept of angels and their hierarchy was extensively developed in Christianity in the 5th century.  Belief in angels is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to and present prayer to God on that person's behalf.  The first Christian theologian to outline a specific scheme for guardian agels was Honorius of Autun in the 12th century.  He said that every soul was assigned a guardian angel the momemnt it was put into a body. 

The belief that God sends a spirit to watch every individual was common in Ancient Greek philosophy.  Modern rabbis clarify that people might indeed have guardian angels.  God watches over people and makes decisions direcly with their prayers and it is in this context that the guardian angels are sent back and forth as emissaries to aid in this task.  They are not prayed to directly, but are part of the workings of how the prayer and response comes about.

Below is the traditional Catholic prayer to one's guardian angel.

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