First, Raphael tells us that God sends His angels to help us in our needs. This is the teaching of the Church and the deeper and more grave our needs, the more sure we can be that God is providing us with angelic assistance. In other words, the more serious the need the more sure we can be that an angel is there to help us. This is not angelic poetry, this is our faith. Raphael tells us Tobit and his son and is telling us “Bless God.”
1 posted on
01/23/2007 2:19:54 PM PST by
stfassisi
To: Salvation; Pyro7480; jo kus; bornacatholic; Campion; NYer; Diva; RobbyS; Running On Empty; SuzyQ
2 posted on
01/23/2007 2:21:14 PM PST by
stfassisi
("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
To: stfassisi
Your angel Raphael’s name means “God heals,” Four of them nearly everyone agrees on.
- Raphael - "God heals"
- Uriel - "God is my light"
- Michael - "Who is like God?"
- Gabriel - "Strong man of God"
The identities of the other three are somewhat contested.
3 posted on
01/23/2007 3:02:26 PM PST by
Enosh
To: stfassisi
Nice thoughts but this: "Unfortunately as we know, this book is missing in both the Jewish and the Protestant Old Testaments. Jews, after Christianity was established, dropped this book because it was not originally written in Hebrew. And the Protestants dropped the same book saying, “Who better than the Jews know what belongs in the Old Testament.” It is however, one of the inspired writings of the Catholic Church."
isn't quite the case.
5 posted on
01/23/2007 3:43:13 PM PST by
swmobuffalo
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
To: stfassisi
7 posted on
01/23/2007 4:43:47 PM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
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