The Church celebrates the Feast of the Archangels on September 29th and the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels on October 2nd. This is the third of a series on excerpts from the Catechism on angels. The first and second parts can be read here and here.

334   In the meantime, the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels.

335   In her liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to adore the thrice-holy God. She invokes their assistance (in the Roman Canon's Supplices te rogamus. . .["Almighty God, we pray that your angel..."]; in the funeral liturgy's In Paradisum deducant te angeli. . .["May the angels lead you into Paradise. . ."]). Moreover, in the "Cherubic Hymn" of the Byzantine Liturgy, she celebrates the memory of certain angels more particularly (St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, and the guardian angels).

336   From infancy to 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.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

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