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Your wedding photo is probably still up somewhere in your house. Two people at an altar, a day you will never forget. If your marriage is a sacrament, the theologians say someone else was given to it that day, and you have probably never said one word to him. Not your guardian angel. Not your children's. One more. Fr. Ripperger, an exorcist, was teaching on the guardian angels. He had just explained that a priest is given another angel when he is ordained, to guide and protect his priesthood. Then he turned to married couples: "WHEN THE MARRIAGE BECOMES SACRAMENTALLY VALID, WHEN PEOPLE BECOME MARRIED, GOD CONSIGNS ANOTHER GUARDIAN ANGEL TO THE MARRIAGE." "THERE'S ACTUALLY A GUARDIAN ANGEL OF THE FAMILY." He is careful to call it the common opinion of the theologians. But think about what it means. The day you said your vows, God gave your marriage a guardian of its own. Before the first baby. Before the first hard year. He has been there through all of it, the fights and the making up, and most couples have never once asked him for anything. Fr. Ripperger's advice is simple: "YOU CAN ACTUALLY ASK YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL OF YOUR FAMILY TO PROTECT US" Later, answering a question, he added one more thing to ask, this time of each child's own angel: "THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT'S REALLY GOOD IS ASKING THE GUARDIAN ANGEL OF YOUR CHILDREN THAT THEY FIND THE RIGHT SPOUSE OR DISCERN THEIR VOCATION PROPERLY." Somewhere tonight is the person your child will marry, or the life God is calling them to. You cannot choose it for them. But you can ask. So tonight, before the lights go out, take your husband's or wife's hand. If you pray alone, say it anyway. Thirty seconds: "Guardian angel of our marriage, God gave you to us the day we said our vows, and we have hardly ever spoken to you. Thank you for every year you stayed with us, the easy ones and the hard ones. Guard the two of us tonight, and keep us faithful to what we promised. Guardian angels of our children, lead them to the right spouse, or to the life God made them for. Keep this family close to God. Amen." On your next anniversary, say it again. He was at the wedding too. 👇 One word if you just thanked the angel of your marriage, maybe for the first time: THANKED. And send this to a couple you love, because their marriage was given an angel too. — Father Chad Community