[Salvation]

I was talking with some friends on Monday and they were talking about the angels having names and somehow they knew their angels names. Is that possible?

[Titanites]

From CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS:

217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:

• when, as sometimes can happen, the faithful are taken by the idea that the world is subject to demiurgical struggles, or an incessant battle between good and evil spirits, or Angels and daemons, in which man is left at the mercy of superior forces and over which he is helpless; such cosmologies bear little relation to the true Gospel vision of the struggle to overcome the Devil, which requires moral commitment, a fundamental option for the Gospel, humility and prayer;

• when the daily events of life, which have nothing or little to do with our progressive maturing on the journey towards Christ are read schematically or simplistically, indeed childishly, so as to ascribe all setbacks to the Devil and all success to the Guardian Angels. The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve never seen anything in the Catholic literature about “knowing” your guardian angel’s name. However, Mother Angelica suggests giving your angel a name (sort of like a supernatural FR handle ;-), so maybe that’s what your friends meant.

My angel’s name is Amparo, which means “helper” in Spanish.