Prayer To The Holy Angels During The Month Of October

O pure and happy spirits, whom the Almighty selected to become the angels and guardians of men! we most humbly prostrate ourselves before you, to thank you for the charity and zeal with which you execute this commission. Alas! how many pass a long life without ever thanking that invisible friend to whom they a thousand times owe its preservation! O charitable guardians of those souls for whom Christ died! O burning spirits, who cannot but love those whom Jesus eternally loved, permit us to address you in behalf of all those committed to your care, and to implore for them all, in general, a grateful sense of your many favors, and the grace to profit by your charitable assistance. O angels of those happy infants, who are as yet without spot before God, preserve their innocence, we earnestly conjure you. Angels of youth, who are exposed to so many dangers, conduct them in safety to the bosom of God, as Tobias was conducted back to his father. Angels of those who are employed in the instruction of youth, animate them with your zeal and love; teach them to emulate your purity and incessant view of God, that they may worthily and successfully co-operate with the invisible guardians of their young charges. O angels of the clergy, who have the eternal Gospel to preach, present their words, their actions, and their intentions to God, and purify them in that fire of love which consumes you. Angels of infidels, whom the true faith has never enlightened, intercede for them; that, practising what they know, they may at length discover the hidden secrets of the kingdom of God. O angels of all those who, throughout the world, are deprived of religious instruction, open for them some source of salvation; raise up some one to break for them the bread of the Word. And you, O guardian angels of sinners, charitable guides of those unhappy mortals, whose persistence in sin would embitter even your unutterable joys were you not established in the peace of God, oh, join us, we ardently beseech you, in imploring their conversion. Angels of all those who at this moment struggle in the agonies of death, strengthen, encourage and defend them against the attacks of their infernal enemies. O faithful guides, holy spirits, ardent adorers of the Divinity, guardian angels of all creatures! protect us all, teach us to love, to pray, to combat on earth, and rather obtain for us instant death than permit us to commit one mortal sin. Amen.