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The Church makes clear that from infancy to death, guardian angels intercede for believers (CCC 336). After death, if one goes to purgatory, guardian angels might provide support during this purgative period, but that is theological speculation. In his Summa Theologiae (ST), St. Thomas Aquinas argues:
And therefore as guardians are appointed for men who have to pass by an unsafe road, so an angel guardian is assigned to each man as long as he is a wayfarer. When, however, he arrives at the end of life he no longer has a guardian angel; but in the kingdom he will have an angel to reign with him, in hell a demon to punish him (ST, I, q. 113, a. 4, resp.).
In any event, we can safely conclude that we get to meet our guardian angels once we are in heaven. Do our guardian angels have subsequent duty in another person’s life? The Church has not pronounced on this matter.