3/24/03
Traditional Feast day of Archangel Gabriel
A day of orderliness. It was commemorated for centuries on this day, the day before the Annunciation (which remembers the day Mary conceived Jesus), but has been transferred by the Catholic Church to September 29, which Gabriel now shares with fellow archangel, St Michael.
Archangel Gabiel is the patron saint of communications (chiefly because of the messages he delivered for God – the word ‘angel’ means ‘messenger’), and the Internet you are now using.
The official Catholic site writes:
"’Fortitudo Dei’, one of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible. Only four appearances of Gabriel are recorded:
In Dan., viii, he explains the vision of the horned ram as portending the destruction of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian Alexander the Great, after whose death the kingdom will be divided up among his generals, from one of whom will spring Antiochus Epiphanes.
In chapter ix, after Daniel had prayed for Israel, we read that "the man Gabriel . . . . flying swiftly touched me" and he communicated to him the mysterious prophecy of the "seventy weeks" of years which should elapse before the coming of Christ. In chapter x, it is not clear whether the angel is Gabriel or not, but at any rate we may apply to him the marvellous description in verses 5 and 6.
In N.T. he foretells to Zachary the birth of the Precursor, and to Mary that of the Saviour.
Gabriel, or Jibril, is an important angel in the Muslim, as well as the Jewish and Christian faiths.
We are reminded of that modest Jewish girl Mariam (Mary), whose life was completely changed by the message which the Angel Gabriel, did bring to her, being that she would give birth to a son who would be called Essa (Jesus).
- Angels and Jinns, Celestial Beings (Muslim article)
A day of orderliness. It was commemorated for centuries on this day, the day before the Annunciation (which remembers the day Mary conceived Jesus), but has been transferred by the Catholic Church to September 29, which Gabriel now shares with fellow archangel, St Michael.
Archangel Gabiel is the patron saint of communications (chiefly because of the messages he delivered for God – the word ‘angel’ means ‘messenger’), and the Internet you are now using.
The official Catholic site writes:
"’Fortitudo Dei’, one of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible. Only four appearances of Gabriel are recorded:
In Dan., viii, he explains the vision of the horned ram as portending the destruction of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian Alexander the Great, after whose death the kingdom will be divided up among his generals, from one of whom will spring Antiochus Epiphanes.
In chapter ix, after Daniel had prayed for Israel, we read that "the man Gabriel . . . . flying swiftly touched me" and he communicated to him the mysterious prophecy of the "seventy weeks" of years which should elapse before the coming of Christ. In chapter x, it is not clear whether the angel is Gabriel or not, but at any rate we may apply to him the marvellous description in verses 5 and 6.
In N.T. he foretells to Zachary the birth of the Precursor, and to Mary that of the Saviour.
Gabriel, or Jibril, is an important angel in the Muslim, as well as the Jewish and Christian faiths.
We are reminded of that modest Jewish girl Mariam (Mary), whose life was completely changed by the message which the Angel Gabriel, did bring to her, being that she would give birth to a son who would be called Essa (Jesus).
- Angels and Jinns, Celestial Beings (Muslim article)