Twenty-ninth Day
What goodness does not God evince in giving us angels to watch over us! The princes of earth choose the most learned to train the heirs to the crown; and God gives us guides full of wisdom, science, and purity. He has deputed the princes of His court to watch over us. What high ideas we should conceive of our dignity, then, and how we should realize that we are called to great sanctity! Even a mother’s love cannot equal the angels’, and when we go to heaven we will be astonished on reviewing their services. St. Bernard exclaims, “O excess of goodness and love! O admirable condescension! He has given His angels charge over us.” The great God of heaven and earth has sent those elevated dignitaries of His heavenly court to watch over us, poor miserable sinners. Why does He do this? What can be His object in so caring for us? It is to His goodness alone we owe all. Let us prove ourselves grateful, then, to Him and to His holy angels, and may we one day join them in their songs of praise and gladness!
Prayer.
O angel of God, etc., etc.