Angels of Purgatory.

Saint Azariah says: "The mission of the Guardian Angel is believed by people to end with the death of the one being guarded. This is not always the case. It ceases, as a consequence, at the death of the unrepentant sinner, and to the great sorrow of the Guardian Angel of the unrepentant. And it is transfigured into joyful and eternal glory at the death of a saint who passes from Earth to Heaven without pauses in purgative service.

But it continues as it was, as a protection that intercedes and loves its charge, for those who pass from Earth to Purgatory to atone and be purified. So we, the Guardian Angels, pray with charity for you before the throne of God, and united with our prayers of love, we offer the suffrages that your relatives and friends offer you on Earth. Oh! I cannot express fully how alive, active, and sweet is the bond that still unites us to you in Purgatory.

Like mothers watching for the return of health in a child who was ill and is convalescing, like wives counting the days that separate them from the reunion with their imprisoned husband, so do we. We, not even for a moment, cease to observe divine, loving Justice and your souls being purified in the fires of love. And we rejoice as we see Love increasingly appeased toward you, and you ever more worthy of His Kingdom.

And when the Light commands us: "Go and bring him out here," more swiftly than lightning, we rush to bring a moment of Paradise—which is faith, which is hope, which is comfort—to those who still remain to atone, there in Purgatory. And we embrace the beloved soul for whom we labored and suffered, and we ascend with her, teaching her the heavenly hosanna.

The two sweetest moments in the Guardians' mission, the two sweetest moments, are when Charity says to us: "Come down, for a new man is born and you must guard him as a gem that belongs to me," and when we can ascend with you to Heaven. But the first is less than the second.

The other moments of joy are your victories over the world, the flesh, and the devil. But just as we tremble at your fragility from the moment you are taken into custody, so we always tremble after each of your victories, for the Enemy of Good is vigilant, trying to destroy what the spirit builds. Therefore, joyful, perfect in its joy, is the moment when we enter Heaven with you. For nothing can destroy what is already accomplished.

And now, my soul, I respond to your inner question: is God pleased that there is another Guardian in your house? [A mother with her newborn child is staying at Maria Valtorta’s home.] O you, who never ask us questions but keep your spirit open [...], know that it is sweet to answer those like you, and to give you comfort, a soul dear to God and tormented by men. Yes. God is pleased. Pleased because in your house there is an angel happy to watch over a newly created soul, a gem of God, and pleased because Jesus is the One who loved little ones.

Maria Valtorta, The Notebooks 1945-1950, July 16, 1947, pp. 403-404.

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