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The guardian angels illuminate the intellect not by
infusing species but by adapting truths to our
understanding, by representing truths by likenesses of
sensible things, by suggesting good thoughts, and they
excite the will to good by admonition and persuasion.
They supply occasions for good and remove occasions for
evil; they offer our prayers and sacrifices to God; they
ward off exterior evils, they help us in worldly affairs,
they do battle with evil spirits, they inflict remedial
penalties, they help us particularly in the hour of
death, and lead our souls to heaven or purgatory. We in
turn owe them reverence, loyalty, and confidence.
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