Also known as Guardian Angel Prayer, Angele Dei
The prayer to one’s guardian angel — usually the first prayer a Catholic child is taught after the Hail Mary, and one many people go on praying all their lives.
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.
Ángele Dei, qui custos es mei,
me, tibi commíssum pietáte supérna,
illúmina, custódi, rege et gubérna.
Amen.
Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Appendix A: Common Prayers
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Composed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and prayed after Mass for most of the following century. Asked for when something needs to be defended rather than merely endured.
Prayed last thing. It looks back over the day honestly — thanks for what was given, sorrow for what went wrong — and then lets it go.