Angel a Sends Telegram

Short Summary: After a car crash, Cecil Humphrey-Smith's friend received a telegram from Padre Pio, who had already sent prayers before being informed of the accident.

Details

Location: Wigan, England

Year: 1955

Prayer: Today let us ponder the words of Padre Pio, regarding our guardian angels: “Oh delicious intimacy, oh blessed company! Oh if all men could understand this great gift that God, in His excess of love for man, assigned to us, this celestial spirit. Often remember his presence. You must fix on him the eyes of your soul. Thank him; pray to him. He is so refined, so sensitive. Respect him; be in constant fear of offending the purity of his gaze. Invoke often this Guardian Angel, this benevolent Angel and repeat the beautiful prayer: Oh Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God’s love commits me here Ever this day be at my side To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

Verse: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. -1 Jn 4:1-3

Full Story

Cecil Humphrey-Smith was a British biochemist at Heinz Co. and a spiritual disciple of the Italian mystic Padre Pio. After a terrible car crash, he experienced a near-death experience, and was brought to the hospital by a passer-by. Some days later, his friend went to the post office to send a telegram to Padre Pio, to ask for prayer. Arriving at the telegrapher's desk, the clerk had in fact already received an incoming telegram from Padre Pio, assuring of his continued prayers for Cecil's recovery. After Cecil recovered, he visited his spiritual father and asked how he knew of the accident before word was sent. He replied, “Do you think the angels go as slowly as the planes?” Many similar testimonies had been recorded, highlighting the friar's relationship with angels. In one letter, he writes to one of his devotees, "Well, your good Guardian Angel sometimes transmits these necessities of yours and then I, in my unworthiness, always do my duty with Jesus, recommending you to his Fatherly goodness." In another letter he writes, "Treat this dear little Angel, I do not say as a friend, but as one of the family."

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