Pope Francis said on
Thursday that guardian angels exist and people who listen to their advice are
less likely to make the wrong decisions.
"The doctrine
on angels is not fantasist. No, it's reality," the pope said during his
daily mass in the small chapel in his residence at the Vatican.
"According to
Church tradition we all have an angel with us, who protects us and helps us
understand things," he said in a message to mark the feast of the guardian
angels, celebrated by Catholics on October 2.
The up-beat message
that humans are helped along in life by an otherworldly guardian was in stark
contrast to former pope Benedict's insistence in 2012 that angels did not sing
at the birth of Christ -- news that devastated many a carol singer and earned
him the epithet "killjoy pope".
Francis asked
"how often have we heard 'I should do this, I should not do this, that's
not right, be careful ...'. So often! It is the voice of our travelling
companion."
The pope advised
sceptics to ask themselves "how is my relationship with my guardian angel?
Do I listen to him? Do I say good morning to him? Do I ask him to watch over me
when I sleep?
"No one
journeys alone and no one should think that they are alone," he said.
Source:
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