Feast September 29
“And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her:
'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.'
Who having heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought with
herself what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said to
her:
'Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.
Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
He
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the
Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he
shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.
And of his kingdom there shall be no end'.” — Luke 1:25-33
The Strength of God
The message that St. Gabriel – which means “the strength of God”
– took to Our Lady is a message that affirms the Incarnation of the
Word and therefore the greatest act of power and domination that God
could exercise upon the world.
With the Incarnation of the Word, God was preparing to rescue the world. In doing this, He, who is king of the world by right, also became king by conquest. Thus, He – the second Person of the Blessed Trinity – entered the earth to conquer on the cross.
In this special way, He established His kingship upon the world. From this, we can draw some applications for the prayers we can still address to him today. St. Gabriel announced the coming and triumph of the Messiah to Our Lady and thus to all men.
Saint Gabriel's Intercession
First: We should ask that he now announce the recovery of God’s effective kingship upon the earth through the coming of the fulfillment of the Fatima message.
Today we are in a situation that is even worse than that of the ancient world before Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, we can ask that Our Lord Jesus Christ reign once again, that He establish His reign on earth in Mary and through Mary, and that this period of darkness in which we find ourselves come to an end. He has done one thing, let Him do the other. He had the key to do it to close the era of antiquity, and thus opened a new epoch. Let Him close this era and open the Reign of Mary.
Second: we should ask St. Gabriel for an enormous, superabundant devotion to Our Lady and that this devotion grow every instant until the end of our lives.
Third: we should ask him for a most ardent, intransigent, vigilant and therefore most militant love of purity; and to have every form of revulsion and disdain for impurity in every way and degree.
This is what we should ask him. May he thus protect us and bring us closer to Our Lady.
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