id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005459435 Wedge, Florence. Guardian angels 1955 .txt text/plain 10440 515 74 It is in this latter function that they are known as guardian angels. 3 The Catechism of the Council of Trent is most emphatic in its teaching on the existence of guardian angels: As parents, if their children have occasion to travel a dangerous and infested way, appoint persons to guard and assist them in case of attack, so does our heavenly Father place over each of us, in our journey towards our heavenly country, angels to protect us by their aid and vigilance, that we may escape the snares secretly prepared for us by our enemies, repel their dreadful attacks on us, and pro- ceed on our journey along the road that leads directly to our end.” cache/_005459435.txt txt/_005459435.txt