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<romanliturgy lingua="en">
  <titulum>Holy Guardian Angels</titulum>  
  <gradus>Memorial</gradus>
  <elementum nomen="introitus">
    <referentia elibro="Dan"><confer/>
      <cap>3</cap>
      <vers>58</vers>
    </referentia>
    <para>
      Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord,<l/>
      praise and exalt him above all for ever.
    </para>
  </elementum>
  <elementum nomen="oratio-collecta">
    <para>
      O God, who in your unfathomable providence<l/> 
      are pleased to send your holy Angels to guard us,<l/> 
      hear our supplication as we cry to you,<l/> 
      that we may always be defended by their protection<l/> 
      and rejoice eternally in their company.<l/> 
      <conclusio longior="Through our Lord"/>
    </para>
  </elementum>
  <elementum nomen="oratio-super-oblata">
    <para>
      Receive, O Lord, the offerings we bring before you<l/> 
      as we venerate your holy Angels,<l/> 
      and graciously grant<l/> 
      that under their constant protection<l/> 
      we may be delivered from present dangers<l/> 
      and brought happily to life eternal.<l/> 
      <conclusio brevior="Through Christ our Lord"/>
    </para>
  </elementum>
  <elementum nomen="praefatio">
    <thema>God glorified through the Angels.</thema>
    <para>It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,<l/> 
      always and everywhere to give you thanks,<l/> 
      Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,<l/> 
      and to praise you without end<l/> 
      in your Archangels and Angels.
    </para>
    <para>
      For the honor we pay the angelic creatures<l/> 
      in whom you delight<l/> 
      redounds to your own surpassing glory,<l/> 
      and by their great dignity and splendor<l/> 
      you show how infinitely great you are,<l/> 
      to be exalted above all things,<l/> 
      through Christ our Lord.
    </para>
    <para>
      Through him the multitude of Angels extols your majesty,<l/> 
      and we are united with them in exultant adoration,<l/> 
      as with one voice of praise we acclaim:
    </para>
  </elementum>
  <elementum nomen="communio">
    <referentia elibro="Ps"><confer/>
      <cap>138 (137)</cap>
      <vers>1</vers>
    </referentia>
    <para>
      In the presence of the Angels I will praise you, my God.
    </para>
  </elementum>
  <elementum nomen="oratio-post-communionem">
    <para>
      As you are pleased to nourish us for eternal life<l/> 
      with so great a Sacrament, O Lord,<l/> 
      direct us by the ministry of Angels<l/> 
      into the way of salvation and peace.<l/> 
      <conclusio brevior="Through Christ our Lord"/>
    </para>
  </elementum>
</romanliturgy>
