From Opus Sanctorum Angelorum:
On the day my wife and I made our Consecration to the Guardian Angel, at which ceremony Fr. Wolfgang was to preside, I had to buy two candles on short notice, since they had been forgotten. Since I was not a local, I drove around looking for a store that sells candles. Finally, I found a store that sells Halloween decorations. I thought “they will have candles.” So, I went in and found a package of two red candles. “Perfect!” I thought. When I began to walk for the cash register, I perceived an overwhelming impulse in my mind, “Not these candles.” So, I stopped and looked at the package, wondering, “What is wrong with these candles?” I saw no reason not to buy them and continued to the cash register. Once again but much more forcefully I had the overwhelming urge “NOT THESE CANDLES!”
I stopped again and this time I read all of the instructions on the package. It turned out that these were special Halloween candles. When the flame from the candle would melt the wax, at a certain point the wax would appear to spit “blood!”
Can you imagine what it would be like, if, during our Consecration to the Guardian Angel, the candles suddenly began to spit “blood” all over? I put the Halloween candles back onto the shelf and left the Halloween store. Quickly thereafter I found a grocery store that sold very fitting candles. Thank you, my good Guardian Angel, for saving me from myself, saving my wife and myself from such an embarrassing situation from which I might have never recovered. Instead, luckily, I have a very funny story to share!
~Tom
I was climbing down Mt. Krizevac (Cross Mountain) in Medjugorje one time—they say coming down is more dangerous than going up. It takes me about an hour and a half to go up to the huge concrete Cross at the top.
As I was coming down the steep hill—at an exceptionally steep segment of the Way of the Cross —my body weight shifted a little too far forward, and I lost my balance. I headed outward and down toward a treacherous, rocky descent far below. A second after I began falling, I literally felt as though I hit an invisible wall, standing directly in front of me, firm yet soft, which popped me right back to a secure standing position. I was astounded! I went from falling forward completely without any control of my body, to being stopped in mid-air by an invisible Guardian, forcing me back, who had been watching my every step. I most surely would have sustained some kind of painful injury, perhaps even quite serious or even permanent!
As I replayed the event over and over in my head, I remained astounded. That invisible Force felt more real than the mountain below my feet! My holy Guardian Angel couldn’t have been more apparent to me than if I’d have seen him in a visible form!
Holy Lord God and Mary, Queen of Angels, dear holy Angels and especially my Guardian dear, I thank you all with a humble heart! Please, lead me safely to the Promised Land!
Cum Sanctis Angelis [In Communion with the Holy Angels],
~Maria
I would like to share a recent guardian angel experience that I had. I live in a suburb of Los Angeles, CA, that happens to be very near the Port of Los Angeles. I work in a city nearby and I have to travel on the Los Angeles Freeways to and from work. My route home from work takes me on a stretch of freeway that is heavily travelled by huge Semi-trucks. For most of my travel home the trucks stay in the slower right lane. These trucks have numerous huge double-wheels that are located under the metal shipping containers that they are hauling. One thing that you will often see on the freeways are large pieces of rubber tread that come off of their worn tires. These treads often have zig-zag pieces of steel that has been embedded into the tire itself during manufacturing. I guess you would say that they are ‘steel belted’ tires that helps them to grip the road.
I was on my way home one evening and as usual I was almost to the off ramp that I needed to take to get home on a connecting freeway. All of a sudden, I see this car in front of me swerve as though they were trying to avoid something, we were both traveling at around 65 mph, but the car in front of me had ran over this huge piece of steel belted tire from off of one of the big rigs! I saw the piece fly up into the air and it was twisting as it came down and it was coming straight in the direction of my windshield. I knew that it was going to hit my windshield and there was nothing that I could do to prevent it. But, the most incredible thing happened. It seemed like everything went into slow motion, even though my car continued traveling at the same speed, the movements outside of my car were in slow motion.
I have no explanation as to how this happened, other than it was my Guardian Angel that was watching over me. Everything grew completely silent, I could no longer hear the radio. I just tried to prepare myself for the impact. But, all of a sudden this huge piece of tire seemed to stop in mid air and then it slowly fell straight down onto the freeway. I mean, it was as though it had hit this glass barrier and slid down it, until hitting the ground right in front of my car. But, yet my car didn’t roll over it the way the other car had. To this day I can’t explain what I saw and I can only say that it had to be my Guardian Angel who prevented this piece of tire from crashing into my windshield! I feel most certain that I would have died that day in a car accident. It was definitely divine intervention — my Guardian Angel.
~Anonymous