Our daily Bread: Bar 1:15-22; Matt 18:1-5, 10

Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Most of us were little children when we learned of the Guardian Angels, the special emissaries assigned to watch over each of us, aid us in prayer and represent us before God. As children, we may have offered them our heartfelt prayer: "Ever this day be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide." But in growing away from the vulnerability and dependence of childhood, we may have lost our affinity for these specially assigned agents of the Lord. Even so, God’s love commits them to us and they have never lost sight of us.

*For gratitude for God’s provident love, care and protection, we pray.