PIETRO DA CORTONA - "The Guardian Angel"
Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here,
ever this day,
be at my side
to light and guard,
to rule and guide.
At the Close of Day - Collect
Visit this place, O Lord, and drive far from it all snares of the enemy; let your holy
(Book of Common Prayer - p. 140)
Image from The Web Gallery of Art.
Bless you and your guardian angels, Grandmere.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, it's the way I was brung up - angels all around.
ReplyDeleteI bet your guardian angel has to take a lot of medication.
ReplyDeleteMadPriest, not at all. I assure you that my angel would rather be busy than bored.
ReplyDeleteBusy? Even I, a Church of England priest, sympathise with your guardian angel's pay and conditions! I can imagine him thinking _ "Why didn't I listen to my mother when she told me never to work with children and animals?!"
ReplyDeleteChildren? Animals?
ReplyDeleteYes. You have to admit that your particular children and animals seem to flirt with disaster far more than what a bog-standard guardian angel has to put up with.
ReplyDeleteOh. I thought this conversation was all about me.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that June Tabor was a librarian just like me?
She may have been a librarian but "just like you" stretches the imagination somewhat.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't heard me sing....
ReplyDeleteI thought that was what the "Wounded Bird" title referred to.
ReplyDeleteNo one noticed the misspelling of "angels" in the post. The word is misspelled in the online version of the BCP from which I copied and pasted, and I didn't catch the mistake.
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