Let's Celebrate the Guardian Angels

It has long been a practice of Christians that we each have been gifted with a guardian angel.  Throughout history angels have guided and protected human beings.  Angels delivered messages from God (Annunciation, twice to St. Joseph, Tobias, and more).  They have also protected people from danger and rescued them (St. Peter was freed and led out of prison by an angel).

Today is the feast of the Guardian Angels, added to the calendar of saints by Pope Paul V in 1608.  It is a comfort to know that we have the blessing of our own guardian angel walking through life's ups and downs with us, protecting and guiding us.  So today we celebrate them.

Our family invokes the protection of our guardian angels daily during our morning prayers.  Today we said the prayer more slowly and tried to focus on the words and truly appreciate the gift our guardian angels are to each and every one of us.

Below is the guardian angel prayer and a few pics of our celebratory lunch (shout out to Suzy Younger for the idea for the pancake angels).

Prayer:

Angel of God my guardian dear,

to whom God's love commits me here,

Ever this day be at my side

to light, to guard, to rule, to guide.

Amen

Everyone's guardian angel pancakes

Pancake angel on a cloud of whipped cream and a banana halo

We served these with a side of scrambled eggs and extra bananas to top.  The rest of the pancakes I made as regular pancakes.  I used a ziplock bag with a little hole snipped in the corner.  Next time I think I will bust out my cake decorating supplies for better control and accuracy.  But these were easy, great for a meatless Friday meal, and highly approved by all the kids.  Happy Feasting!!!