Do guardian angels read our minds?

The holy Curé of Ars called the guardian angels “our most faithful friends”. Invisible creatures, they are our companions for life, always present, always ready to listen to us and even more ready to console us. But do they have the ability to interfere in our minds without our knowledge?

Catholics as well as many Christians believe in the existence of guardian angels appointed by God to protect and guide us during our journey on earth. These “heavenly companions” contain, for men, a part of mystery and can give rise to questions, such as knowing, for example, whether or not they have the ability to read our thoughts.


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A priori, The answer is no. Guardian angels do not have access to our thoughts and therefore cannot interfere in our minds. Only God is able to know exactly what is going on in our heads, since he created us. Saint Thomas Aquinas makes this clear in his Sum of Theology (I, 57, 4):

What belongs to God does not belong to angels. But knowing the thoughts [des cœurs] is proper to God.

However, if the angels do not have the ability to access our thoughts without our knowledge, they can become aware of them if we decide to entrust them with them. Indeed, if we wish, we can share our thoughts and our secrets with our guardian angel as we would with a saint in heaven or a friend on earth.


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In most cases, it is therefore up to us whether or not to entrust our thoughts to our guardian angel. That said, our celestial companions are endowed with a great intelligence as well as a sense of observation much sharper than ours. Which means that, although they don’t have access to our minds, they can know what we’re thinking by dint of observing and being around us. Saint Thomas Aquinas explains this phenomenon well in his work (I, 57, 4):

The thoughts of hearts can be known […] first in their effects. In this way they can be known to the angel as well as to the man; but the more penetration is needed the more concealed the effect. For the thought can reveal itself not only by an outward act, but also by a change in the expression of the face; doctors can even know certain affections of the soul by our pulsations. A fortiori the angels […] they will be able to, since they perceive in a much more penetrating way these hidden bodily modifications.


Guardian angel

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If we want our guardian angel to know us in depth, we must therefore confide in him regularly. In this way, he will be better equipped to protect us and lead us to eternal life. Here is a little prayer so that our guardian angel intervenes and prays in our place, when we cannot, and enters into dialogue with the guardian angels of those we love, when the cross they carry on their shoulders is done increasingly heavy:

My Holy Guardian Angel, I greet you and I thank you. Please pray for me and pray for me whenever I cannot formulate my prayers. Deign also, in the divine Light, to meet with the Guardian Angels of those whom I love the most, of all those in whom I am spiritually interested, to enlighten them, protect them and guide them. So be it

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Guardian angel

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Do guardian angels read our minds?


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