Have you prayed to the guardian angel of your local diocese?

[Michie]

It is believed that God has appointed guardian angels over particular localities, in accord with various Old Testament passages that point to this possibility.

The Catholic Church teaches that each individual person is given a guardian angel at the beginning of their life on earth:

From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession."Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life." Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.
CCC 336

St. Francis de Sales, in his Introduction to the Devout Life, highly praises the practice of conversing with your own guardian angel, as well as the guardian angels of your family, friends and even your local diocese:

Seek to be familiar with the Angels; learn to realize that they are continually present, although invisible. Specially love and revere the Guardian Angel of the Diocese in which you live, those of the friends who surround you, and your own. Commune with them frequently, join in their songs of praise, and seek their protection and help in all you do, spiritual or temporal.

He explained that St. Peter Faber would often invoke the help of a local guardian angel when he was traveling:

Continued below.

Have you prayed to the guardian angel of your local diocese?

It is believed that God has appointed guardian angels over particular localities, in accord with various Old Testament passages that point to this possibility.

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[RileyG]

All you holy angels, Ora pro nobis.