When I pray to my guardian angel, I often ask him what he would do in my place. How would he accept suffering if he were with me? When I hold our cross and Your medallion in my hand, I often pray to our guardian angels for both of us, to encourage us to follow our Lord as they would do if they lived on earth, and to help us fulfill all that our beloved Lord expects from us.
(Charles de Foucauld /1858–1916/, letter to a Trappist monk, November 29, 1896)