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0:16And another Anima Podcast is about to
0:18begin, the most Catholic podcast in
0:20this Brazil. I'm Kenny, I'm here with
0:23Bertaldinho, always blue.
0:26Very well. And our guest today, as we
0:30continue our trilogy on the archangels,
0:33is him, Rafael Brito. Welcome, Rafael.
0:37It's good to be here once again. Thank
0:38you.
0:38It's a joy, you know? We are very happy
0:41because today we are starting our
0:42second episode of this trilogy, where
0:44we will talk about Saint Gabriel.
0:47Rafa, or Rafael, he can already ask for
0:49a song.
0:50It's the third time he's here, that's
0:52true.
0:52Third time.
0:53Third time. You can ask for a song.
0:55He's the first one, the first one to
0:57come three times.
0:58No, no,
0:59he's the second. Balbino.
1:00Ah, Balbino, that's right,
1:01that's true. There are two people
1:02asking for songs now.
1:03Father Balbino, no, but Bino has been
1:05on the Mass series 30 times, so he
1:07already asked for a song, he's done it
1:09all.
1:11Before I introduce our dear guest to
1:13you, for those who haven't seen the
1:14other episodes.
1:16Whoever hasn't seen them isn't
1:17subscribed to the channel. I'm
1:18absolutely sure.
1:20Whoever hasn't seen the one about Saint
1:22Michael yet, man, that episode was, huh
1:24? Spectacular.
1:26It was a real mind-blowing explosion
1:28about Saint Michael.
1:29It really was, really, talking to you
1:31about the store. I am enchanted, what a
1:34beautiful thing. Enchanted,
1:37with. It hurts. It doesn't hurt. It's
1:39just good. With this image of Our Lady.
1:43I think it's beautiful and I like this
1:45tone because, well, I think it's a
1:46woody tone. It goes with the with the
1:49with ours. Oh, there's also, there's
1:50one in a blue tone. Yeah. And if you
1:52want, there's Our Lady of Bertaldo, the
1:54new devotion. Mariana,
1:56you said this one was Kenny's, the
1:57blonde one, right?
1:57Our Lady of Bertaldo is blue. He said
2:00it was Bertaldo's and it's blue.
2:01Look over here. Turn it over here,
2:02please. Blue.
2:03Here. And look at me, oh.
2:05Our Lady of Bertaldo.
2:07There's an Our Lady for everyone, for
2:09the blondes and for various others.
2:11It's the most popular Our Lady we have
2:13at Anima today. I'll leave Our Lady of
2:15Bertaldo here.
2:16No, you're going to ruin our decoration
2:18. Put it back, put it back. Store,
2:21we're in the store. The official store
2:24has our lady, as Bertaldo is saying,
2:26which is our blonde lady, anyway, but
2:29which I find very elegant. Uh,
2:31what is the address for Anima?
2:33Lojaanimaoficial.com.br.
2:36The Catholic family store. Oh my God,
2:38don't start with that family thing.
2:40We have this book combo that comes in
2:42this beautiful box.
2:44Whose is it?
2:44Oh, from a very special person. Who
2:46could it be? Who could it be? Rafael.
2:48The guy didn't write the book about
2:49Saint Raphael, man. I am outraged here.
2:51But the first one is Michael, the
2:53guardian of the secret place.
2:55I've read it.
2:55There's another one, the mystery of the
2:57guardian angel. Very good.
2:58I've read it. Go on.
2:59I've read it.
3:00The secret of the angels. Go on.
3:02I've read it.
3:02Very good. And they all come inside
3:05this box because it is also the trilogy
3:07he wrote about angels. Beautiful. And
3:10we also have angels in the store. So
3:12our store is like this,
3:14the family store. Wonderful, because it
3:17brings the sacred close to us.
3:18Very good.
3:19And let me tell you, those who don't
3:21yet know all the qualities of Professor
3:23Rafael will know them now. Why?
3:26Professor, master with four master's
3:28degrees. He is a master, master, he's
3:30already asked for more than music in
3:31the master's, look. And a doctoral
3:33student in theology and philosophy at
3:36the Gregorian in Rome.
3:38Four
3:38and also at the Spanish Salamanca. This
3:41is fancy. Four master's degrees. Still
3:43doing a doctorate. I would already be a
3:46master.
3:46Damn.
3:48Founder of the Saint Raphael Institute,
3:50specialist in Angels and Demons.
3:52Da-da-da-da. Author of those books I
3:55mentioned, and besides those, the
3:57Devotional Praying with the Holy Angels
3:59, married to the dear Lilian and father
4:01of two beautiful boys, Daniel and Lucas
4:02.
4:04And but are you also an exorcist? No,
4:05because she already said that you are a
4:06specialist in demons.
4:07No, I'm not.
4:08They are different things. I'm not a
4:11specialist, I just studied a little bit
4:13. Actually, my focus is more on angels.
4:16Demons, leave that to the exorcists
4:17here. Call little Andre, right?
4:19Leave it to little Andre. That's it.
4:20André Prazeres, our dear friend
4:22dear,
4:23beautiful,
4:24who was here for a wonderful podcast,
4:26an episode that was also very good, and
4:28is totally worth it. So, today we are
4:30going to unveil Saint Gabriel. Because,
4:35in the episode we did—whoever hasn't
4:36watched it, go watch it, it was the
4:38very first one—where we talked
4:40generally about all the angels, we
4:41really missed talking about Saint
4:43Gabriel. And some people said: "Man,
4:45talk more about Saint Gabriel". So, we
4:47had this idea, right, of doing this...
4:50about Saint Raphael, about Saint
4:51Michael, now about Saint Gabriel and
4:53later about Saint Raphael, but today
4:55it's Gabriel.
4:56That's it.
4:57Explain it to us. We want to know who
4:59the Saint is because we know a lot,
5:00right? that we know a lot, Saint
5:03Gabriel announced to Our Lady that she,
5:06right, would conceive by the Holy
5:09Spirit the Savior. But what else?
5:12Man, have you ever imagined? Have you
5:13ever imagined? Think with me. Think
5:15with me. Have you ever imagined when
5:17God calls Gabriel and says: "Gabriel,
5:19come here, my son. Go there and
5:21announce to Mary that she will be the
5:24mother of the Savior." Man, he must
5:27have been like: "Whoa,
5:30how did he go? How did he do it?
5:32How did he do it? Do it!
5:33Whoa! Seriously, man?
5:35Gabriel is really from Rio, isn't he?
5:37I was the one who was going to say that
5:38, man. Seriously,
5:39guys? Good heavens, this is a stand-up
5:41comedy act.
5:41Darn. Look at that. Hey, I liked it, I
5:44liked it. It was worth staying here.
5:46Look,
5:46I imagine something else. I imagine
5:48Mary looking.
5:50No, calm down. That's the second part.
5:51So that's what
5:52the second part is. The first part, God
5:54called him and said:" Come here, my son
5:55. Come here. You go there and announce
5:58that Mary will be the mother of my son.
6:01"
6:01So, with the floor, our expert Rafael
6:03Brito.
6:04It didn't happen, but tell us about it.
6:05Do you have the description of this
6:06scene, dear?
6:08The description, but the imagination is
6:10more or less like that.
6:11More or less like that, right? Huh.
6:13Exactly. Because, no, he must have been
6:15so happy, aside from the" whoa "I said,
6:16he must have been super happy. Super
6:19honored.
6:20Super honored.
6:21He received, Gabriel, he received the
6:23greatest
6:24of all missions for a messenger. No
6:28prophet, no angel received what he
6:31received. And he received the grace to
6:37announce, but not only to announce, but
6:40to be the very word of God in the name
6:44of God to ask that little girl from
6:47Nazareth, that 15-year-old young woman.
6:52They say she was younger, some say,
6:53right? They talk about 12, talk, but
6:55she was in that age range, she was in
6:56that mid, she wasn't
6:57middle-aged, right? Right?
7:01If she was willing to collaborate with
7:03the plan of salvation, that was going
7:05to change the history of all creation.
7:10So, this angel, this celestial being,
7:13Gabriel, he has a place in the heart of
7:17Jesus and in the Immaculate Heart of
7:20Mary that is only his.
7:24Did he go alone? He did.
7:27Didn't the seven archangels go? No,
7:29no. It's just him.
7:30It was just him, really.
7:31It is him.
7:32And then it's and it's clear, in Luke
7:34it's very clear. In the sixth month,
7:37the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a
7:40city of Galilee named Nazareth.
7:43But, but does he say it's Gabriel? No.
7:45He says
7:46to Mary.
7:47No. He doesn't say it, but Luke says
7:48it's Gabriel.
7:49No. So Luke says that. I know, but I
7:51didn't see Our Lady's narrative saying:
7:53" No, the archangel Gabriel came here.
7:55"And he must have she must have told
7:58Luke, right? In the text.
7:59No, when he speaks, look, when she asks
8:02, how will this be since I do not know
8:04any man, he says, look, for God nothing
8:06is impossible and your relative
8:08Elizabeth is in the sixth month, she
8:10who was said to be barren.
8:13Uh-huh.
8:13He announced six months earlier to
8:15Zechariah that and he says:" I am
8:18Gabriel. "
8:19We're going to get into that part. Ah,
8:22so Luke says:" It's Gabriel, because
8:23Luke doesn't make it up in his head, he
8:25interviewed Our Lady, so Our Lady told
8:26him. "So it was Gabriel who announced
8:31it now. Look at that spectacle. We've
8:34been talking in all these episodes
8:35about angels, the grandeur of angels,
8:38the heavenly figure, everything, right?
8:41about everything that leaves everyone
8:43enthralled. And this always gets to me
8:46a lot. And he reveres that young girl
8:51saying hail full of grace.
8:54Exactly.
8:54Look, look at this. Look at the
8:57importance of this. We're talking about
9:00an archangel greeting a young girl to
9:03see the importance of Mary.
9:06Exactly.
9:07Then we go back to that original fight.
9:10Uh-huh. where the demon was expelled
9:12from there, because Michael fought,
9:14right, as we talked about in the last
9:15episode.
9:17And and the angels loyal to Michael and
9:19loyal to God remained, right? But those
9:23who remained agreed that God was going
9:26to become incarnate in a man and
9:28through a woman,
9:31right? So he he goes about fulfilling
9:34what was done back then, doesn't he?
9:38That is, to serve the Lord and serve
9:40what the Lord wants.
9:42To serve the incarnate Lord and his
9:44mother, a woman. Well, let's start then
9:48.
9:49Redundancy. Let's start from the
9:50beginning. Who is Gabriel?
9:52Let's. Who is Gabriel?
9:53OK. Gabriel. Gabriel means strength of
9:58God or man of God. An older translation
10:03, champion of God. Eh, Saint John of
10:09Damascus even called him God’s
10:12gladiator, a champion. So, wait, we are
10:18back to the mystery again. He is not
10:21just someone who announces, no. When he
10:24is not announcing, what does he do? He
10:26is a warrior, too. He is a fighter, and
10:29he is the strength of God. In Jewish
10:33and Christian tradition, Gabriel has
10:36always been considered the second most
10:40powerful celestial being in paradise.
10:44So, when we speak of the archangels, we
10:47speak of seven who have their hierarchy
10:49among these seven: Michael, Gabriel,
10:52Raphael, and the other four whose names
10:55we do not know. However, seven, before
10:57that whole multitude I already told you
11:00about, of animate and inanimate beings,
11:02right, which Saint Thomas tells us are
11:04countless in number, what is seven in
11:07the face of
11:08ah, it is total command, right? Because
11:10, man,
11:11it is the council of angels in the
11:13presence of God. Therefore, if Michael
11:16is on the right as a minister—and
11:19Michael, just a small addendum to the
11:22continuation from last week—he is the
11:24expression of God’s goodness. Michael
11:27is the expression of goodness, of care,
11:30of protection, goodness. And Gabriel is
11:33the justice of God. He is on the left.
11:37So, for the Jewish tradition, for the
11:39rabbis too, and especially contemporary
11:42rabbis, it is Jesus. It is Gamaliel
11:45himself, who was the master of Paul of
11:48Tarsus, right, of Saint Paul, who
11:50teaches us about this reality. And he,
11:53Gabriel, he is the angel of God’s
11:56justice. OK? Now, for the Jews, in
12:00terms of power, the Jews, okay?
12:03Uh-huh.
12:04Gabriel is more powerful than Michael
12:06because he is the angel of justice. He
12:08comes to resolve things. When Gabriel
12:10arrives—that is why no one talks much
12:11about Gabriel—because calling Gabriel
12:13is to solve problems, it is for eternal
12:15judgment. When he comes, he comes to
12:17pass judgment. He is terrible.
12:20It is true. Terrible.
12:22We are going to see this here. He is
12:23terrible. It is haunting to see
12:26the presence of Gabriel. When you
12:28invoke Gabriel, he comes to be able to
12:30remove the blindfolds from your eyes.
12:32He comes to remove the darkness, the
12:34mists that are before you. He comes to
12:38deliver a message from heaven that the
12:39Lord gave him regarding your life. And
12:44that is where the spiritual battle
12:46enters again, what happens with Daniel,
12:48because the evil spiritual world does
12:50not want you to have knowledge of who
12:52this archangel is, because this
12:54archangel is capable of opening doors
12:56that are closed. First thing, he has
13:00this power. So then you ask, for
13:04example, the Jewish tradition: so you
13:06are saying that Gabriel is more
13:09powerful, let's say, than Michael.
13:12That's strange, isn't it? Then they
13:15reply:" It's not that he's more
13:16powerful. Why is Michael first and not
13:20Gabriel? "Should it be Gabriel or
13:21Michael? No. Why is it? Why? God's
13:24goodness exceeds His justice. Because
13:28if God used justice with us in
13:29everything, what would become of us?
13:31The psalmist says.
13:32Not even dust would be left.
13:34Exactly.
13:35So, when Michael comes, Michael is the
13:37expression of care, affection,
13:39protection, the bond, and the covenant.
13:42That is why he fights, that is why he
13:43loves. He is the consuming fire of
13:46God's love to be with us. Gabriel is
13:49the side of justice. Well, let's look
13:53then here at Daniel chapter 10.
13:56Daniel chapter 10. Which verse?
13:59We will take it here. Let's start right
14:02at the beginning, at one. And following
14:04.
14:05In the third year of Cyrus, king of
14:08Persia, a message was revealed to
14:11Daniel, named Belteshazzar. This
14:14message was true and announced great
14:17struggles. Daniel understood the
14:20message and had knowledge of the
14:22meaning of the vision. At that time, I,
14:26Daniel, did penance for three weeks. I
14:30tasted no choice food. No meat or wine
14:34touched my mouth. I did not anoint
14:38myself with oil at all throughout the
14:40course of those three weeks. On the
14:4524th day of the first month, I was by
14:48the side of the great river, the Tigris
14:51. Lifting my eyes, I saw a man dressed
14:55in linen. His waist was girded with a
14:58belt of gold from Uphaz. His body was
15:03like chrysolite. His face shone like
15:06lightning. His eyes like burning
15:10torches. His arms and feet had the
15:13appearance of polished bronze. And his
15:17voice resounded like the roar of a
15:20multitude. I, Daniel, was the only one
15:24to see this apparition. His companions
15:28did not see him, but a great dread
15:32seized them so they fled to hide.
15:36OK? Up to here for now.
15:38OK.
15:38So you have here Daniel, who is in
15:41Babylon, in exile.
15:42Uh-huh.
15:43He is a prophet. God is revealing to
15:46him future times, also the time of
15:49anguish, the destiny of the people.
15:52Will Israel never return to worship God
15:55, to return home? Will they stay in a
15:57foreign land, will there be no savior,
15:59will there be nothing? What is
16:01happening, Daniel? This young man who
16:05was chained in the time of
16:07Nebuchadnezzar, who was likely from a
16:09priestly and noble family and who is
16:12taken away, castrated, becomes a eunuch
16:19traumatized in exile. And then you see
16:23someone very wounded upon whom God
16:26casts His gaze to reveal the future to
16:29him. The first lesson we learn here, it
16:32doesn't matter what you have been
16:34through nor even the wounds you carry
16:36in your soul. If God has looked upon
16:39you and wants you, no one can stop
16:42God's will in your life. First thing.
16:45So, God chooses Daniel. Daniel means—
16:48I have a son named Daniel—therefore
16:52God is my judge or God is my justice.
16:57Does the relationship of the prophet
16:59Daniel with the Archangel Gabriel make
17:01sense? Because Gabriel, the angel of
17:04justice, is speaking to someone whose
17:05name says that God is justice. And
17:09Daniel proposes to pray, to do 21 days
17:11of prayer and fasting, to understand
17:14what God wants to say to His people,
17:16and at the same time he is interceding
17:19for the people to return home. He is
17:21not happy with what is happening. For
17:2421 days. He is there fasting and
17:26everything else. And on the bank of the
17:28river, the Tigris river, he is there.
17:31And then he has this vision. And the
17:33vision is, returning to the text, he
17:36sees a man
17:39clothed in linen,
17:41clothed in linen. He girded his loins
17:43with a belt of gold from Ophir. So he
17:45is dressed in white. You can show, for
17:48example, the angel of peace of Portugal
17:50dressed in white.
17:54Oh, wait a minute. Are you seeing this
17:55here? This
17:56here, look,
17:57right? White. Why white? Because white
18:00for us, right, reminds us, for us
18:03Catholics, okay? The vestments of
18:06baptism that make us, when we were
18:08baptized, by receiving the baptismal
18:10tunic, it is nothing more than simply
18:13reminding us that through Jesus we are
18:15associated with the life of the angels.
18:18So, spiritually we also wear a garment
18:20like this. When this garment becomes
18:24stained, we need the sacrament of
18:25confession, which you are already,
18:27right, teaching a lot about and will
18:29start to teach people about, because
18:31the sacrament of confession restores
18:34baptismal purity to those who truly
18:36perform it in its truth. Well, white
18:39linen,
18:41keep it close to me, okay? with a
18:47golden belt girded around his waist.
18:49Then he says:" His body was like
18:51chrysolite. "Chrysolite is a stone
18:55called peridot in Portuguese. It is a
18:59it looks like a a it is a type of
19:01crystal, but it is green and it has the
19:04ability to let light pass through it
19:07when it is polished. It is very
19:09beautiful, translucent. Lucid.
19:10Remembering that green represents hope,
19:12and it also represents something new
19:15that is coming. So, his body has the
19:18appearance of eh a crystal like
19:21chrysolite. Light passes through him
19:24and he transmits this green color to
19:26Daniel. Hope in the face of the
19:28struggles he is living through. Eh, his
19:31face, the characteristics he is talking
19:33about of this this being he is seeing
19:36before him, his face, where is it?
19:41It is verse 5.
19:42Verse 5.
19:44Verse six.
19:45Six. His body was like chrysolite, his
19:47face shone like lightning. If someone
19:51had the chance to look at lightning,
19:53how it shines, it is terrifying from
19:56afar. In the middle of the darkness you
19:58see the lightning, right? So, his face
20:02like lightning, his eyes like burning
20:04torches and his arms and feet had the
20:07appearance of polished bronze, and his
20:09voice resounded like the roar of a
20:12crowd, in other words, of many waters.
20:17Polished bronze back then, it was also
20:20often used to try in some way to create
20:23a reflection before enemies in a war.
20:27They used plates of shields, to shine
20:28in the eyes, right? Exactly. So, think
20:31about this boy's vision. He is before
20:34him, before a being full of light, a
20:36being who has, when looking at his face
20:38, it seems like he is seeing someone
20:40who has lightning in his eyes, in his
20:42face. His eyes are like torches of fire
20:44. He looks at his arms, it reflects
20:46light the whole time. Light, light,
20:47light, light. Terrifying to the point
20:49that only he is having that vision. His
20:52companions who were praying with him
20:54are not seeing it, but they feel the
20:55presence which is so powerful,
20:56it is powerful
20:57that they run, they become terrified.
21:00It reminds us precisely of what
21:02happened with Moses before the mountain
21:04, when God when he entered the cloud
21:06and the whole mountain shook and the
21:09people were terrified because God came
21:11to speak in His glory with Moses in the
21:13Shekinah, in the cloud. That is what
21:16happens here. It is what happens, for
21:19example, of power in the resurrection.
21:22When the angel rolls away the stone,
21:24you feel thunder, the earth shaking and
21:26the soldiers leave, they faint, right?
21:28So this is a powerful one. You have
21:31something extraordinary like this. They
21:34run and flee leaving Daniel alone. And
21:36Daniel says, verse 7 continues. I,
21:39Daniel, was the only one to see this
21:41apparition. My companions did not see
21:44it, but such a great terror seized them
21:46that they fled to hide themselves. I
21:50remained, therefore, alone to
21:52contemplate this grandiose apparition.
21:56My strength abandoned me. The
21:59complexion of my face turned livid and
22:01I fainted. I then heard this man speak
22:06and at the sound of his words I fell
22:08unconscious with my face to the ground.
22:12Yet behold, a hand touched me and
22:15caused me to rise up on my knees and
22:19palms of my hands. Daniel, man of
22:23predilection, he said, pay attention to
22:26the words I am about to address to you.
22:30Stand up, for I have a message to
22:33entrust to you. As he spoke to me thus,
22:37I stood up trembling.
22:39So, it's here, you can see it here,
22:40look. Daniel is left alone. This man,
22:45this being, right, uh, is so powerful
22:47that when he approaches Daniel, Daniel
22:50loses his strength and and faints,
22:52becomes weak, because the weight is so
22:55strong
22:56just like the little shepherds were
22:58before the apparition of the angel. 6
22:59hours prostrate. Yes, but they also
23:02relate that and Lucia relates
23:05that the angel's apparition causes in
23:07her what it caused here in Daniel, but
23:09the apparition of Our Lady does not.
23:11For a very simple reason, I mean,
23:13simple, uh, my own interpretation.
23:16Yes.
23:16Our Lady, even though she has a body
23:19similar to the resurrected body, is a
23:22human body.
23:23The angel does not.
23:24How beautiful.
23:24The angel is pure energy.
23:26Yes. So it is this force, this light
23:29that is also described from the first
23:31to the last line in Fatima. In this
23:34light, there is a book that deals only
23:36with this light. The light that Our
23:39Lady put into their chests, the light
23:41that the little shepherds saw
23:43themselves in, with Francisco and
23:45Jacinta facing heaven and Lucia facing
23:47earth. The light that Our Lady put into
23:50their chests, they understood who God
23:51was and how God wanted to be loved. So,
23:54there is a whole there is a whole book
23:56that deals only with the light,
23:59of this light which is a, let's say,
24:01the light of God that Our Lady places
24:03and the angel places in the little
24:04shepherds.
24:06Beautiful thing.
24:06I mean, you see here we do a program,
24:08do a program, go here, go there, come
24:10there, come here and return to Fatima.
24:12Yes.
24:13There is no, there is no way to have a
24:14reference,
24:14because Fatima is theology. It is
24:16impressive, Jesus at the center of the
24:19message of Fatima. So,
24:21how wonderful.
24:22It is truly impressive.
24:23But go on.
24:24Go on.
24:25No, and this light that and this light
24:27that the angels carry, the Catechism of
24:29the Catholic Church itself tells us
24:30that the life of the angels is a
24:32Christocentric life from the beginning,
24:33right? Their lives are deeply turned
24:37toward the reality of the Word, the
24:38second person of the Holy Trinity. And
24:41when John says that Christ is the light
24:43, the Word is the light that enlightens
24:46every man, he is the light of the world
24:49that descends to earth, right? It is
24:51precisely this light. The angel is full
24:53of light, but the light is not his own,
24:55no. He is a bearer of light, just as we
24:58are. In truth, the angel, the saints,
25:02the blessed, those who are in the
25:04presence of God, carry within
25:06themselves the light of God, which is
25:08Jesus himself. And this light
25:10illuminates. So, and this light is
25:13capable. So, you have here that he is
25:16left without strength, he faints, he
25:18falls to the ground, and he trembles.
25:22In the translation, for example, of the
25:24Jerusalem Bible and in the translation
25:27of the Navarre Bible, and also in the
25:29Vulgate, you have, instead of that, he
25:32says:" Oh, I was left, therefore, alone
25:34, my strength abandoned me. "" I heard
25:37then this man speak and, the sound of
25:39his words, I fell fainting. "" But then
25:41, a hand touched me "and he says:" Oh,
25:43Daniel, man of predilection, pay
25:45attention to the words, stand up, for I
25:48have a message to entrust to you. "In
25:50Saint Jerome's translation of the
25:52Vulgate it is:" Stand on your feet in
25:54your place, for I will speak with you.
25:56"Like, he raises him, puts him on his
25:59feet, now stand up so I can speak with
26:02you. The first thing Saint Gabriel does
26:05in someone's life when he arrives is to
26:07position you in the place where God has
26:09put you. No one talks to Gabriel
26:11prostrate; he puts you on your feet.
26:15Stand up, listen to what God has for
26:17you. Because to stand in the Old
26:20Testament is readiness, is service, is
26:22to be ready to serve. And you are weak,
26:26wait a minute, I will read to you. That
26:28is why he is the strength of God, that
26:30is why his name is God's fortress. He
26:32puts Daniel on his feet. And in putting
26:36Daniel on his feet, eh, he will also
26:38say, right?
26:40It is fortress or justice of God. He is
26:42God's fortress. Gabriel means God's
26:45fortress, the name
26:46for.
26:47OK. In this sense, then he stands up.
26:51This is very strong. And then when he
26:53stands in his place, then he will say:"
26:58Do not fear, Daniel, "he said to me,"
27:00for from the first day that you set
27:02your heart to understand and humbled
27:04yourself before your God, your prayers
27:06were heard, and that is why I have come
27:08. "Then you ask:" Rafa, how can you
27:10prove that to me? "I have received some
27:13comments on the internet from haters,
27:15even some Protestants, saying:" Where
27:17is it written here that it is Gabriel?
27:20"Calm down, I will show you where it is
27:22written, because there are phrases
27:24implied here, words that he uses with
27:26Zechariah, for example, when he speaks
27:30to Zechariah. And I am not saying this;
27:33this is not my own interpretation. It
27:34is the Catholic Church, the doctrine of
27:36the Church, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
27:37who interprets this text this way.
27:39It is not a Rafael Brito interpretation
27:40.
27:40God forbid, I'm not crazy,
27:43nor am I Paul.
27:44Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
27:45When it is Saint Rafael Brito, then we
27:47will cite it.
27:49Yeah, you have to be a doctor to do
27:50something like this; Saint Bernard is a
27:52Doctor of the Church.
27:53So he says, right, pay attention, do
27:56not fear, because from the time you set
27:59your heart to understand, eh, your
28:02prayers were heard. Many years later, a
28:06priest who wants a child, who cannot
28:07have one and is humbled, his name is
28:09Zechariah, he is praying in the
28:11presence of God—we will get to him—
28:12who is a cousin of Our Lady, who is the
28:14father of John the Baptist. The angel
28:16arrives and says:" Do not fear,
28:18Zechariah, because your prayers were
28:19heard in heaven and the Lord sent me to
28:21you. Behold, your wife will conceive
28:24and give birth to a son, and you shall
28:26call him John. "See that there is a
28:31connection. These are attitudes, these
28:36are specific characteristics of this
28:38person. As I have always said, angels
28:41are persons, and persons have
28:43characteristics. They are not
28:45mass-produced; each one is unique. The
28:48Psalm itself, Psalm 147, says that God
28:50fixed the stars in the sky—it is not
28:52talking about stars, it is talking
28:54about spiritual beings—and calls them
28:57each by name. Each one has their own
28:59name, and God knows them individually
29:00with their character. Well, then he
29:03continues, the prince of the kingdom of
29:05Persia; we used this text last week to
29:07talk about the presence of Michael and
29:10the collaboration of the angels. The
29:12prince of the kingdom of Persia
29:14resisted me for twenty-one days, but
29:15Michael, one of the chief princes, came
29:17to my aid. So I remained there with the
29:19king of Persia. I am here to help you
29:22understand what must happen to your
29:24people in the final days, for this
29:26vision concerns distant times. Continue
29:29, Bertaldo, verse 15. As he was
29:32speaking to me, I kept my eyes fixed on
29:35the ground and remained silent.
29:38Suddenly, a being with human form
29:41touched my lips. I opened my mouth and
29:44spoke. I said to the figure who stood
29:48before me," My Lord, this vision has
29:51shaken me and I have no strength. "How
29:55could the servant of my lord speak with
29:58his lord when he is without strength
30:01and breathless? Then, the being in
30:06human form touched me again and revived
30:09me. Do not fear anything, man of
30:13predilection. May peace be with you.
30:16Courage, courage. As he spoke to me, I
30:21felt revived. Speak, my Lord, I said,
30:25for you have restored my strength.
30:29When you see here, for example, in the
30:31Ave Maria translation, speak to me,
30:32lord, it is not Lord with a capital
30:34letter, but lowercase.
30:36Right. Lowercase, because it is
30:38addressed to the angel and not to God.
30:40Exactly. Not to God.
30:41Right.
30:42Then you speak, okay? He says that
30:45afterwards he left, right, Michael
30:47fighting, he will return later, he
30:48delivers the message, anyway. Then you
30:51come here to chapter 9
30:54of Daniel.
30:55Of Daniel, chapter 9.
30:57Yes. The enigmatic oracle of Jeremiah.
31:02Sorry, chapter 8, sorry,
31:06chapter 8, visions,
31:07verse 15. 8 15. It is still about
31:10visions. Daniel is having visions about
31:12the domains of that time, of the
31:14governments that Israel would go
31:16through, about the kingdoms that
31:18oppressed them. And then a being
31:21appears very similar to this one in
31:23chapter 10. Wow, how interesting. There
31:26in chapter 10 it does not say the name,
31:27but here it does and it is very similar
31:29. Let us read what the Bible says here.
31:31Go ahead. Now, as I contemplated this
31:34vision and sought the meaning, I saw
31:37standing before me a being in human
31:40form and I heard a human voice coming
31:43from the middle of the Ulai. Gabriel
31:48cried out, explain the vision to him.
31:53He then headed toward the place where I
31:58was. As he approached, I was terrified
32:03and fell face down on the ground. Son
32:06of man, he said to me:" Understand well
32:09that this vision symbolizes the end
32:12time? "
32:13Done. Up to here again. He got close to
32:16Daniel, Daniel fainted again.
32:18Dan, Daniel faints, right?
32:20He faints. And it was intense, because
32:22if he appeared twice to me, I think I
32:23would just stay there right then. The
32:26power of this angel,
32:27no. The angel's power leaves the person
32:29feeling annihilated.
32:30Exactly. So you have Gabriel in this
32:32reality that is terrifying and he says:
32:35" Calm down, do not be afraid. "Because
32:38imagine you having that vision before
32:41this powerful being, you are terrified.
32:44Daniel says:" I am shaking to my core.
32:46"I, I couldn't stay on my knees be
32:48But I think it's not so much because of
32:50what you see, but because of what you
32:51feel
32:51also. Also. Because when you see Our
32:55Lady, by analogy,
32:57yes,
32:57you don't feel the same thing.
32:59Uh-huh.
33:01So, when you see the angel, you see him
33:04as you see Our Lady, but you feel
33:06distinct things.
33:08Exactly.
33:09This is the account of the little
33:10shepherds. It's wonderful.
33:12Do you know what I imagine? When we are
33:14praying, and uh, whoever has been
33:16through this experience of being in
33:18deep prayer, where you become so
33:20absorbed in it, you become so, you know
33:22, surrendered, you don't even want to
33:24move, you don't even want to blink,
33:26because it seems like a pleasant weight
33:28that you feel, something so different,
33:30it must be that, magnified to I don't
33:32know what degree. So you must really
33:35stay prostrated, kind of annihilated
33:37indeed. And Lucia describes that the
33:39prostration lasts for days.
33:41Look,
33:42it's not like the moment the angel left
33:43, it was over. It's not quite like that
33:45. This lasts for days, two, three, four
33:49days.
33:50My God.
33:52And you remain in a sensation of heaven
33:53.
33:54Uh-huh.
33:54And
33:55the body doesn't keep up.
33:56And the body doesn't keep up. There
33:58you go.
33:58That's exactly it.
33:59Beautiful thing.
34:00This is the description of the little
34:02shepherds. And that's it. So: Gabriel,
34:05he is that angel that later you will...
34:07We won't go through every text so this
34:09podcast doesn't get too long, but, for
34:11example, you have Gideon in chapter 6,
34:14a young man who was threshing wheat in
34:16a hidden winepress, because the
34:18Midianites were setting fire to
34:20everything everywhere. His father had
34:23built an altar to Baal, which was a
34:24false god. And at a certain moment he
34:27sees an angel, an angel, he didn't know
34:29it was an angel yet, but the angel of
34:31the Lord, the word says, he goes and
34:33sits under the terebinth of Ophrah. He
34:36uses a word for that young man who is
34:38dying of fear and is saving his
34:40family's bread in the dark. He says:"
34:44Hey, courage, valiant warrior. "Then he
34:47says:" What do you mean, courage? Look
34:48at what is happening. If I were
34:49courageous, I wouldn't be here, I would
34:51be fighting. "Then he says:" Go with
34:53the strength you have. "
34:55Uh-huh. Here, this word" go with the
34:58strength, "courage, rise up, go, the
35:00Lord sent me so that you may
35:03Fortitude.
35:04It's the experience of those who live
35:06with Michael. You are finished. When he
35:09arrives and sets you on your feet with
35:11Gabriel, he arrives and sets you on
35:13your feet. In other words, when we are
35:17going through a situation in our lives
35:19where we are feeling exactly like that,
35:22without strength in the face of a
35:25situation we are living, in the sense
35:27we are talking about here, we can
35:30invoke the help of Saint Gabriel, right
35:33? And say, since he is the strength of
35:36God, ask:" Gabriel, give me a little of
35:38God's strength, come to meet me, help
35:40me, assist me. "Can't one make a prayer
35:42like that? Yes, he is, he is ready for
35:45that. The prayer to Saint Gabriel, at
35:47least when I need to connect with him,
35:50it is precisely:" Saint Gabriel, look,
35:52I first need the Lord to help me find
35:54this strength that is in God, right? "
35:57Because it doesn't come from him, it
35:58comes from the Lord." That in the face
36:00of the situation I am living, I am
36:01truly giving up, I am tired, help me to
36:03stand in my place. "Interesting.
36:06He will intercede for you so that you
36:09remain in the purpose, asking God to
36:12pour out upon your life the gift of
36:14fortitude and perseverance in the
36:17purpose. Gabriel is that presence,
36:20because if you look at it, think
36:22carefully about the life of Daniel,
36:23Daniel is not at the fulfillment of the
36:25promise, he is in the process. He did
36:28not see what God showed him happen. So,
36:30Gabriel's presence happens in the
36:33process before the fulfillment.
36:35Sometimes we need strength in the
36:38valley, not on the mountain. And it is
36:41in the valley that we are tested. And
36:42Gabriel, he is present here to help you
36:45remain. For example, when you go to the
36:50chapter Second Kings, chapter 19,
36:52Second Kings, way back, the Old
36:54Testament, chapter 19.
36:56What page helps me more here? Second is
36:59page 421. You have a problem. You have
37:07here
37:0819,
37:09that's it, chapter 19. You have King
37:11Hezekiah.
37:12Uh-huh.
37:13Who is desperate because Assyria is
37:15destroying everything, arriving, and
37:16striking terror throughout all of
37:18Israel. And the and the the King of
37:22Assyria sends a letter to Hezekiah
37:23saying the following:" Look, here in
37:25Galilee I killed children, I did
37:27everything that had to be done, horrors
37:29, impaled people, anyway, I was I was
37:31spreading terrorism. "He arrives in
37:34Jerusalem and says:" Did you hear what
37:35I did? So I'm going to do it to you
37:38there in Jerusalem. Are you not going
37:40to open the gate? I'm not going to
37:42start. "So what did he do? He would
37:44take people and crucify them, impale
37:46them, do everything outside so those
37:48inside could see what was happening.
37:52Hezekiah is terrified. And then the
37:55word, verse one, says, says the
37:56following:" When King Hezekiah heard
37:58this, he tore his clothes, covered
37:59himself with sackcloth, and went into
38:01the temple of the Lord. He sent the
38:04palace administrator, the scribe, and
38:06the leading priests to cover themselves
38:08in sackcloth. "So, everyone went into
38:11penance, asking God for mercy. What are
38:14we going to do? We don't have an army.
38:17We have no way to respond to this this
38:19military force. Lord, we our fathers
38:22told us that the Lord in Egypt drowned
38:25and destroyed Pharaoh's army. But look,
38:28this uncircumcised guy here, he said he
38:30will enter the temple, he will steal
38:32the ark, he will set fire to everything
38:33, he will end your worship. And the
38:35Lord has a promise in this city that
38:37the Lord said no one would touch the
38:38worship. But he said he will do it. And
38:41we and then he is before the Lord
38:45terrified. Then the word says that the
38:48king's servants went to the prophet
38:51Isaiah, verse 5. And he answered them.
38:54And he answered them:" This is what the
38:57Lord says. Do not be afraid of the
39:00words you have heard and the insults
39:02that the king of Assyria's servants
39:04have uttered against me. I will send
39:06him a spirit so that when he hears a
39:08certain report, he will return to his
39:10own land, where I will make him fall by
39:13the sword. "The prophet already
39:14announces it. Then Isaiah, in a few
39:17words, is saying this to Hezekiah:" Are
39:20you worried? "" I am. "" Are you afraid
39:23? "" I am. "" What did the Lord ask me
39:25to do, Isaiah? "Practically Isaiah is
39:28saying:" The Lord told me to tell you
39:30to go to sleep. Wait a minute.
39:35Everything's falling, it's breaking
39:36loose here. How so? How am I going to
39:38sleep? Go to sleep because the Lord
39:41feeds the righteous while they sleep.
39:44Okay? "So what happens later on?
39:47Chapter is verse 35. See if the guy
39:49managed to get some sleep.
39:51Verse 35. Next, read it for me, see
39:53what happens.
39:55Now, that same night, the angel of the
39:58Lord appeared in the Assyrian camp and
40:01struck down 185,000 men. The next
40:05morning, there were only corpses.
40:08Guys, 185,000.
40:10It wasn't 185, it was 185,000.
40:12But one sweep of the angel's sword
40:13takes out 200,000, right? That's easy
40:15for him.
40:16Uh-huh. Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
40:19withdrew, returned to his land, and
40:22stayed in Nineveh. One day, while he
40:26was bowing in the temple of Nisroch,
40:30his god, his sons Adrammelech and
40:34Sharezer struck him down with the sword
40:39and fled to the land of Ararat. His son
40:44Esarhaddon succeeded him on the throne.
40:47I mean, his own sons killed the guy.
40:48Exactly.
40:50And they killed him where? Inside a
40:51temple,
40:52a pagan temple.
40:53Exactly. It's what he wanted to do to
40:55Hezekiah. He wanted to kill Hezekiah in
40:56the presence of the Lord.
40:57Of the Lord. And he died
40:59in the presence of his false god.
41:01After all his people were wiped out.
41:03Exactly.
41:03No, just 185,000.
41:051,000.
41:06And the Jewish tradition
41:07it's talking about one angel.
41:08One angel.
41:09It's not talking about an army of
41:10angels. No.
41:11One angel is enough, Kenia.
41:14One angel destroys
41:15the entire earth.
41:16The entire earth. Rest easy. A single
41:19angel.
41:20Then I go back to Fatima, right? The
41:22angel with the sword pointed, penance,
41:24penance, penance, and Our Lady holding
41:26the angel's hand, because that
41:29is enough to end everything.
41:31Our biblical exegesis returns to Fatima
41:34every two seconds.
41:36But weren't you saying something about
41:38the justice of Gabriel? Yes, this here
41:40is justice. First thing, look, God
41:43sends this angel to the Jews, to the
41:45Jewish tradition, because the tradition
41:48here says the angel of the Lord, but it
41:50is an angel, an angel of God, the
41:52correct translation, an angel of God is
41:55sent. This angel is Gabriel to them. So
41:59, Gabriel is sent to do justice,
42:01especially because of the little
42:04children who perished by the sword. For
42:08the innocents that Sennacherib
42:10massacred, Gabriel comes to ask for
42:15restitution, for justice. The concept
42:18of justice, according to Saint Thomas
42:20Aquinas, is to restore or give to
42:21another what is due to them, right, Mr.
42:23Lawyer? Yes, sir.
42:25So, if a person—here I go again—if
42:27a person is going through a moment of
42:29injustice in their life, for any
42:31situation, was wronged, I don't know,
42:33at work, wronged by friends, was
42:34accused of something that wasn't fair,
42:36they can turn to Gabriel's Action to
42:38help them in that situation.
42:40Ah,
42:41Gabriel, he will help you in processes
42:43of justice.
42:44Interesting.
42:46Yeah, so we saw his power here. When he
42:50arrives, it's to resolve things. Just
42:53the shadow of his wings killed everyone
42:55. Well, now let's go to the New
42:57Testament.
42:58Let's go. Luke chapter 1.
43:01Luke.
43:03Luke chapter 1. Gospel of Saint Luke
43:05chapter 1. We are going to see the
43:11beautiful characteristics of this angel
43:13, of this powerful being.
43:18Luke 1.
43:19That's it.
43:21At 26?
43:22From 5, verse 5, onwards. Yeah.
43:27In the time of Herod, king of Judea,
43:30there was a priest named Zechariah, of
43:32the division of Abijah. His wife, a
43:36descendant of Aaron, was named
43:37Elizabeth. Both were righteous in the
43:42sight of God and observed all the
43:44commandments and precepts of the Lord
43:48blamelessly, but they had no children
43:51because Elizabeth was barren and both
43:54were advanced in age. Now, while
43:58Zechariah was performing his priestly
44:01duties before God in the order of his
44:04division, it fell to him by lot,
44:07according to the custom among the
44:10priests, to enter the sanctuary of the
44:13Lord and there offer incense. All the
44:17people were waiting outside. No, all
44:19the people were outside at the hour of
44:22the incense offering. Then an angel of
44:26the Lord appeared to him, standing at
44:28the right side of the altar of incense.
44:32Seeing him, Zechariah was troubled, and
44:35fear gripped him.
44:37Done. Up to here for now. Zechariah,
44:41who was of the division of Abijah, eh,
44:44some exegetes say that back then there
44:46must have been around more or less over
44:5020,000 priests in Israel, each in their
44:53own divisions, right? I don't remember
44:56now how many divisions eh there were of
44:58priests. So, each one took care of a
45:00duty, one who took care of the incense
45:01altar, another who took care of
45:03cleaning, anyway. So, it was, like, for
45:05you to be chosen
45:08to officiate in the temple at the time
45:10of Passover or at the time of such a
45:11celebration, it was something that
45:13priests lived through that they had
45:15never done in their lives.
45:17Important, of course,
45:18right? So, Zechariah, who lived in the
45:21mountains, who was afraid, ashamed,
45:23because he had no children; in that
45:25time, there was this very strong social
45:27pressure. So, how can that be? You are
45:30a priest? You serve the Lord, and where
45:31is your God who didn't give you a son?
45:34So, why go live in the mountainous
45:36regions? And so you have Saint Bernard
45:40of Clairvaux saying:" Out of shame he
45:42did not live on the plain, he lived
45:44hidden, he hid himself, he isolated
45:47himself, and so with his wife, that
45:49love with Elizabeth, they completed
45:51each other in solitude and at the same
45:54time in the sadness of not having
45:56offspring. "And they prayed a lot, for
45:59a long time, pleading, asking God for
46:01this, to the point that, when he is, by
46:04chance, he arrives to be able to offer
46:06on the altar of incense, in the midst
46:09of the brazier, he is offering incense
46:11to the right of the altar, he sees this
46:13being in the midst of the fire, this
46:16powerful being who is at the altar of
46:18God. And this angel, right, said:" Do
46:22not be afraid, Zechariah. "Why? Because
46:25Zechariah, like Daniel, is in shock.
46:27Everyone is, right?
46:29Because he terrifies again, his
46:31presence is terrifying. You get, yeah,
46:33so he stays and he said:" Do not be
46:35afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer
46:37has been heard. "Just like he spoke to
46:40Daniel, and your uh, your wife will
46:44give you a son; call him John." Then he
46:47talks about what will happen to this
46:49boy, anyway. And then the word tells us
46:54in verse 18, go on, Bertalo. Verse 18.
46:59Zechariah asked the angel: "How will I
47:02be sure of this? For I am old and my
47:05wife is advanced in age." The angel
47:09answered him: I am Gabriel, who stands
47:12before God, and I was sent to speak to
47:15you and bring you this good news.
47:19Behold, you will be silent and unable
47:23to speak until the day these things
47:26happen, since you did not believe my
47:30words, which will be fulfilled in their
47:34time. See how
47:37however, the Ah, okay here. Oh, you
47:41didn't believe. Stay silent. Therefore,
47:44you will be silent. Look, look at how
47:47strong he is, how he is, it is a sword,
47:49it is terrifying. He becomes silent,
47:51the people think he died in there, they
47:53get worried, he comes out silent, he
47:54can't speak. The people understand that
47:57he had a vision and will only open his
47:59mouth when the baby is born, they said
48:02to write the name, months silent. Well,
48:05that's taking into account that
48:06Elizabeth conceived right away, right?
48:08Yeah, actually it's because later there
48:10is a chronological idea when the angel
48:13appears and speaks to Our Lady, it's
48:15been six months that the one who was
48:17considered barren is
48:19No, that's fine, but from this day at
48:21the temple
48:22yeah
48:23onwards we don't know, for example, if
48:25because he says here
48:27sa
48:28that this would happen in due time.
48:31Yes. So imagine that Elizabeth, I don't
48:35know, got pregnant two years later.
48:38Man, the guy must have really
48:39been something, Zechariah mute, doing
48:41mime, huh? Who is Zechariah? He learned
48:44a new profession, now he's a mime,
48:46since he can't speak. Oh, so that's
48:48where those people who talk with their
48:50fingers came from. Because Zechariah
48:52had to manage, man.
48:53He managed. Imagine, I'm thirsty, I'm
48:56hungry, and let's sleep. Exactly. Or
48:58he'd take a little tablet there and
49:00keep writing.
49:01I personally think that because they
49:06lived in the mountains, they lived in a
49:08deep retreat of silence.
49:11Poor Elizabeth, who wasn't deaf or mute
49:14, had to stay quiet. That's not the
49:17problem.
49:18Or she took advantage of it, like every
49:20good wife, to talk a lot and Zechariah
49:22couldn't talk back, he just had to
49:23listen.
49:24No, it's not even that. Just imagine.
49:26Yeah, that could be it too, but imagine
49:29that she talks to Zechariah. For
49:32example, women call their husbands 60
49:35times a day, right? Per second. I mean,
49:37it's enough, yeah, isn't it? It's
49:39enough that you're, like, you're in the
49:41room with your wife, she went to the
49:43bathroom, 30 seconds pass, you hear
49:45your name. Oh, yeah, it's just because
49:47you've been lying down for a minute,
49:49you know? It's just because you're
49:50lying down. There are some things that
49:51are like that,
49:52people, a woman can't see a man doing
49:53nothing without asking for something.
49:55There's that.
49:56And Ken, Ken, I'm going to have to
49:58expose you, but Kenia has the bathroom
50:00oracle. Someone talks to Kenia in the
50:01bathroom. Then she comes out and says:
50:03"I remembered something, you have to do
50:05this, this, and this." It's the
50:07bathroom oracle. Then his head pops, so
50:09he calls it the bathroom oracle.
50:11She has an oracle in the bathroom. Are
50:13you understanding? She's there brushing
50:15her hair, doing her thing, someone
50:16talks to her, I don't know who it is,
50:18right? And then she starts bringing
50:20things up, she brings up subjects from
50:2230 years ago.
50:22It's true. The worst part is it's true.
50:24But didn't you ring the doorbell? I
50:26said, I didn't ring the doorbell. Where
50:27? Oh, it was at my aunt's house 30
50:29years ago. It's the oracle. Do you
50:31understand what the bathroom oracle is?
50:34The bathroom oracle is something else.
50:36Write in the comments bathroom oracle.
50:38That's comments. Bathroom oracle.
50:40Write that down. No, you can say it
50:42like this to the women, if the husbands
50:44can say: "It's true, my, my wife does
50:46this, and women". I do that too. I go
50:49into the bathroom, and inspiration
50:50strikes to talk to my husband.
50:52No. And so, you, for example, are
50:53starting,
50:54you Ah, I, I, I've been away from home
50:57for some time on a mission. I'm already
51:00afraid to go home, because when I get
51:02back there are 300,000 ideas she had
51:05while I was gone. And
51:07that's it. It's stored up. It's a dam
51:09that's going to burst when you arrive.
51:11Being. It's true.
51:13Have you ever just been sitting at home
51:15, nice and quiet, just you with
51:16yourself, and your name is called every
51:1815 seconds? When the kids were
51:20it's the oracle, get it? So you already
51:24know, when your wife calls you, if she
51:26went to the bathroom,
51:26get her out of there, man. Block the
51:28bathroom.
51:28So, so, so we can say then, in light of
51:31this interpretation of yours, that
51:34Saint Gabriel gave Zechariah a good
51:36penance, huh? Yeah,
51:39yeah, he really did.
51:41Just having to listen to Elizabeth
51:42without being able to say anything, or
51:44talk back, or say, "be quiet, woman,
51:45geez, I'm tired," nothing, he couldn't
51:46say a thing.
51:47Exactly.
51:48Yeah.
51:48Because silence precedes the power and
51:53the manifestation of God. Whoever has
51:57the ability to silence their heart,
51:59even amidst the hustle and bustle of
52:01life, can hear what the restless do not
52:03.
52:05It's true.
52:06Doubt. Truth.
52:08This is something powerful that we
52:10learn in this silence, right? For
52:13example, for those who come to the
52:15sanctuary here at the little chapel of
52:18the apparitions here in Rio de Janeiro,
52:20for me, having lived in Portugal for a
52:23long time, it's beautiful because I'm
52:25in Fatima when I come here, right? And
52:29silence doesn't just connect you, it
52:31puts you in your place. That is very
52:34beautiful. So you realize that for
52:37Zechariah to understand who visited him
52:40, he needed to reflect for 9 months, or
52:432 years in your line of thought,
52:46because heaven thought of him. Look,
52:51Gabriel is saying: "Your prayers have
52:54been heard in heaven and God has sent
52:56me to you to tell you this happy news:
52:59you are going to be a father." And the
53:03guy didn't believe it.
53:03No. And Gabriel is happy.
53:05Of course, all he wanted was to be a
53:07father.
53:07Gabriel is happy to deliver that
53:08message. Imagine you deliver a message,
53:10a gift to someone. The person says this
53:13: "
53:13No, man, look, the one who delivered it
53:15was an archangel, right? So, like,
53:18uh, okay.
53:19And he was incredulous. No, I'm not, no
53:21, no, no. Look at his question, his
53:25question is different from Our Lady's
53:27question. Yeah, we're going to
53:30His question is:" How can I be sure of
53:32this? "
53:33Exactly.
53:34Our Lady says:" How will this be? "
53:36Exactly.
53:37They are distinct things. Our Lady
53:39already believed and just asked:"
53:41Alright, but how is it going to happen?
53:42Tell me about it. "
53:43And he said:" But how will I be sure
53:44you're not lying to me? "Exactly.
53:46The guy wasn't, the guy wasn't cool
53:47here, no.
53:48No, he wasn't.
53:49Because, look, it wasn't, uh, it wasn't
53:51another priest who entered the temple
53:53to tell him about an inspiration. An
53:55archangel appeared right in front of
53:56him.
53:57Exactly. Exactly.
53:58So he really deserved to stay quiet for
54:00a while. Honestly.
54:02Uh-huh.
54:02Or not.
54:03Good thing you aren't, you aren't God,
54:04huh? Because, damn, no, no, no, no,
54:07that couldn't be.
54:08Now we're doing this exercise of
54:10thinking, right? Eh, oh, he stayed
54:12quiet for so long that Elizabeth had to
54:14do the talking. We're having a
54:17lighthearted conversation to approach
54:19the subject in a fun way, but I
54:21remember a sermon by Father Léo very
54:23well, doing exactly this with Mary,
54:25saying that Mary on the donkey, walking
54:28for days and days and days...he said:"
54:30Folks, Mary was surely stinking, dusty,
54:32hungry, tired; she wasn't beautiful,
54:35graceful, smelling nice, on top of the
54:37donkey, it wasn't like that. "And it's
54:40true. It's life as it is.
54:42It's exactly that fact, this matter of
54:44us taking it and humanizing, because
54:46Zechariah existed, he was a person, he
54:48was married to Elizabeth, because
54:49otherwise it becomes too fanciful.
54:52So we're humanizing, man, the guy was
54:54shut up for a long time, unable to
54:56speak, look at the difficulty, right?
54:58Look at all of that. This is important,
55:00this exercise, because it brings
55:01reality, putting ourselves in their
55:03shoes. I even thought just now, would I
55:05have replied to the Archangel, to
55:07Gabriel, the same thing he said? How am
55:10I going to be sure of this? You know?
55:12We don't know,
55:13man. But it's an archangel, right?
55:15Oh, I don't know. But in the moment,
55:16can you be sure, man? Right?
55:18Everything's fine, right? But the word,
55:20this phrase, I had never stopped to
55:22think or reflect on this phrase before,
55:24no. First time in my life.
55:26But how will I be sure of this?
55:29Well, let's see what Our Lady said here
55:31. Lord,
55:31no, now we are going to Our Lady.
55:32Oh, we are going to Our Lady. Okay,
55:34because it's different.
55:35Yes. Now, now another thing occurred to
55:40me, that God calls Gabriel, the
55:42archangel, but he tells him to notify
55:45two people.
55:46Yes.
55:47He tells him to notify Our Lady and to
55:49notify Zechariah.
55:50First, he calls him to speak about John
55:52the Baptist, then he calls him to speak
55:54about Our Lady.
55:56Yeah, it couldn't be in the same
55:58audience, right? No,
56:00no. It is very clear here that he is
56:03sent specifically for John the Baptist.
56:06Oh, it wasn't on the same trip. No,
56:07no, it was six months later that he
56:09appears to Our Lady.
56:10Oh, that's true.
56:12He didn't just take the opportunity to
56:13go while he was there, did he?
56:15Why? Because when God thinks
56:20of you, it is for you, exclusively for
56:23you. You have God's exclusivity. Want
56:30an example? When the Lord demands
56:33Israel to make the covenant happen, he
56:37gives the first commandment. Therefore,
56:41we learned from Saint Michael in the
56:43other podcast.
56:46You shall love the Lord your God with
56:48all your heart, with all your soul,
56:50with all your mind, and with all your
56:51strength. What is that? Everything that
56:56you are entirely must be turned towards
56:59God, all to the Lord. That is
57:02exclusivity. God, he doesn't want a
57:05third person in the story. There are
57:09things that God deals with you that he
57:11won't even deal with her.
57:12Without a doubt.
57:14There are things where God will take
57:16you, bring you to a desert where you
57:18can scream, kick, ask Our Lady, ask the
57:20angels, ask a prophet. God won't send a
57:23prophet, won't send anyone, he will
57:25deal with you. And I wanted to tell you
57:27who is going through a desert. The
57:31desert is the place where it is between
57:34you and God, no one else. In the desert
57:39, Israel stayed 40 years without
57:41planting, without harvesting, and the
57:44one who feeds them is God. Are you
57:46thirsty? Water from the rock. Want to
57:48eat meat? Quails from heaven. God
57:51personally deals with those in the
57:53desert. If you are in the desert, be
57:56grateful, because you have the
57:58privilege of the Almighty dealing
58:00directly with your life. First thing,
58:02many people might not be understanding
58:04what desert this is that you are
58:06defining. Explain it to the people.
58:08Aridity, the lack of perception of
58:10presence, perhaps that reality.
58:12I pray, I pray, and I feel nothing.
58:14My life seems lukewarm, stagnant. No,
58:18no, nothing ever happens in my life
58:19like that. I cry out so much, but I
58:21hear nothing, I feel nothing, nothing.
58:23Yeah. So you're screaming, asking God
58:25to come, and God is already here.
58:30Zechariah, in this process of silence,
58:33a priest, any Jew, would do the
58:35Berakhot at 5 in the morning.
58:38Uh-huh.
58:39He would wake up in the morning, go to
58:41the door, look toward, turn toward the
58:43temple, and begin:" Blessed be the Lord
58:45, God of Israel. "And bless the Lord
58:48out loud, right? And now, how are you
58:50going to say the morning prayer? You
58:52don't speak?
58:55Ah, go there and ba-na-na.
58:58No.
59:00He learned the prayer of the secret, of
59:03interiority, of looking inward, of
59:05turning to oneself, of meeting the Lord
59:08who is not outside, but inside. That is
59:12just beautiful. Now let's talk about
59:14time.
59:15No, but just a little thing here, look.
59:16Yeah, it's that I also located it.
59:1823, right?
59:19The 23.
59:21When his time of service was completed,
59:24he returned to his home. After some
59:28time, Elizabeth, his wife, conceived.
59:31So, it was some time, it wasn't years,
59:33no. Some time later. It could even be
59:35just a few days.
59:36And for.
59:36And for 5 months she remained in
59:38seclusion, saying:"
59:40The Lord has done this for me. In these
59:43days he has looked with favor and taken
59:46away my disgrace among the people. "In
59:49other words, she, she had a pain with
59:51this, right?
59:51She had a pain. And because she stayed
59:53hidden, she should have announced," Hey
59:54guys, I'm pregnant! "I'm pregnant.
59:56Weren't you all talking about me?
59:57But the man was mute, he couldn't tell
59:59anyone. No, no. This here has a, has a
1:00:01beautiful mystery. The idea is what God
1:00:04gave you. First, keep it in secret to
1:00:08reveal what God, that which God will
1:00:11reveal externally to the masses. First,
1:00:14He deals with it inside the house.
1:00:16But they would say," Yeah, you adopted
1:00:18this child. "
1:00:20Exactly.
1:00:21But they would say that.
1:00:22Yeah, but her belly grew, right, man?
1:00:24Yes. The belly grew. Later, people saw
1:00:25her with a big belly, right? She didn't
1:00:27go out and tell everyone right away,
1:00:28but later, people saw. So, all right
1:00:31then. And then you have after six
1:00:33months, in the sixth month, he will
1:00:36visit.
1:00:37In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel
1:00:40was sent by God to a town in Galilee
1:00:42called Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to
1:00:45be married to a man named Joseph, of
1:00:47the house of David, and the virgin's
1:00:50name was Mary. The angel entered and
1:00:54said to her," Hail, full of grace. "Oh
1:00:58my God, I turned more than one page
1:00:59here. Wait a second. The Lord is with
1:01:02you. She was troubled by these words
1:01:06and began to wonder what such a
1:01:09greeting might mean. The angel said to
1:01:13her," Do not be afraid, Mary, for you
1:01:15have found favor with God. Behold, you
1:01:19will conceive and give birth to a son
1:01:21and you are to call him Jesus. He will
1:01:23be great and will be called the Son of
1:01:25the Most High. And the Lord God will
1:01:27give him the throne of his father David
1:01:29. He will reign over the house of Jacob
1:01:32forever, and his kingdom will have no
1:01:35end. "Mary asked the angel," How will
1:01:38this be, since I am a virgin? "" See,
1:01:41she didn't say she didn't believe it. "
1:01:43Uh-huh. The angel answered her," The
1:01:45Holy Spirit will come on you, and the
1:01:48power of the Most High will overshadow
1:01:50you. So the holy one to be born of you
1:01:53will be called the Son of God. Even
1:01:56Elizabeth, your relative, has also
1:01:59conceived a son in her old age, and she
1:02:02who was said to be barren is in her
1:02:05sixth month, for nothing is impossible
1:02:08with God. "Then Mary said," I am the
1:02:12Lord's servant; may your word to me be
1:02:15fulfilled. "And the angel departed from
1:02:19her.
1:02:20Very well. So, you have here, if you
1:02:23look at all the ancient representations
1:02:26, uh, of the iconographies, icons, you
1:02:29have, for example, uh, the paintings by
1:02:32Fra Angelico, who is a Franciscan, who
1:02:35are, who is the one who painted the
1:02:37Basilica of Assisi. For example, in the
1:02:41Annunciation, Gabriel is always before,
1:02:43before Zechariah, he is standing;
1:02:45before Daniel, he is standing; he is
1:02:48imposing, as he is. But before the
1:02:50virgin he is bowed like this. That is
1:02:54the question, but why is he bowed?
1:02:56First, why does he tell her not to be
1:02:58afraid? Mary was afraid. Why does he
1:03:01say:" Do not be afraid, Mary? ""
1:03:02Because what Mary is seeing before her
1:03:04is the vision that Daniel saw of a
1:03:06being with eyes of fire, right? "
1:03:09He repeated, he repeated the phrase he
1:03:10said back there to them. To everyone.
1:03:13Do not be afraid. Calm down. I didn't
1:03:15come here to harm anyone. I am a big
1:03:18guy, looking like this with these big
1:03:20red eyes, but no, I won't do anything.
1:03:22And he is bowing. Why is he bowing? And
1:03:25why is it Gabriel and not Michael?
1:03:28Precisely for that reason, because it
1:03:30is just—that concept of justice again
1:03:33, right? Of giving to the other what is
1:03:35rightfully theirs. It was an angel who
1:03:37deceived a woman in paradise. It was an
1:03:40angel who, disguised as a serpent,
1:03:42tricked Eve, our first mother, right?
1:03:45It’s a fallen angel, isn't it? Of
1:03:46course.
1:03:47He deceived. He also deceived Adam,
1:03:48clearly, both of them. And so we lost
1:03:52paradise, we lost the place of Eden.
1:03:56And therefore, it is just that among
1:03:59the angels, it should also be an angel
1:04:01to announce the restitution, and it
1:04:04should be the one who is the angel of
1:04:06justice who restores in God's name. So,
1:04:10when Gabriel enters the place where Our
1:04:13Lady is and announces it, Gabriel is
1:04:15administering God’s justice
1:04:20concerning what Satan tried to do by
1:04:22stealing paradise. Now, paradise was a
1:04:26place, a garden that was made. Man was
1:04:29happy and God met man in that place.
1:04:33With Mary's" yes, "even ontologically,
1:04:36the place of paradise changes in the
1:04:40world and in creation. What do you mean
1:04:42by that, Rafa? Paradise is no longer a
1:04:45place. Paradise is a person and
1:04:46paradise is not outside. Paradise is
1:04:48within. Therefore, then, life with God
1:04:50becomes what? It becomes an interior,
1:04:53internal life. The sacraments of the
1:04:55Eucharist, I can adore Jesus, the
1:04:56Blessed Sacrament, but that is not the
1:04:58end. The end of the most holy sacrament
1:05:01of the Eucharist is for me to have God
1:05:03inside me. The end of baptism is to
1:05:06have you be immersed in life in Christ,
1:05:09within Christ. All the sacraments place
1:05:12you in God, in Jesus. I really like
1:05:16that Eucharistic liturgy of ours in
1:05:19Brazil, when it says:" The Lord be with
1:05:21you, "we respond:" Our heart is in God.
1:05:25"Our life is hidden. Father Jonas,
1:05:30right, that song, eh, I don't remember
1:05:31the name of the song, but I remember
1:05:33what it says, right? I walk through the
1:05:35streets without my heart. How does it
1:05:36go? You’re the one who sings? Sing it
1:05:38then.
1:05:38I don't sing.
1:05:39I—you were singing there, I was
1:05:40seeing you sing better than me.
1:05:41I walk through the streets without my
1:05:43heart. The lights of this night don't
1:05:45hold me anymore, huh?
1:05:46I left it in the tabernacle after
1:05:48communion and I carry in my breast the
1:05:49deepest peace. To me, this song
1:05:52demonstrates the mystery of the
1:05:54Eucharist in such a way that in my life
1:05:57, I walk with the heart of God within
1:05:59me, while my life is kept in the
1:06:02tabernacle, while my life is kept in
1:06:04Jesus. So, therefore, what do you have?
1:06:08Through Mary's" yes, "the same Holy
1:06:10Spirit, the same Spirit that hovered
1:06:12over the waters in chapter 1 of Genesis
1:06:15, now hovers over the amniotic fluid of
1:06:17Our Lady's womb. Interesting.
1:06:21Gabriel is bowing because he is not
1:06:23simply before Mary; he
1:06:25is before Jesus as well.
1:06:26He is before the entire Trinity.
1:06:28Yeah,
1:06:29he is sent with what he has to say. It
1:06:34says:" Oh, you will say this, this, and
1:06:36this. "And he leaves the presence of
1:06:38the Most Holy Trinity and enters where
1:06:40Our Lady is. What he saw in heaven, he
1:06:42saw in Our Lady's room. He who he left
1:06:45in glory is there. So he is bowing
1:06:47before such glory of God's presence
1:06:50there, and at the same time, such grace
1:06:53—you have found grace before God.
1:06:56Hail, full of grace, right? Full of
1:06:58grace. Full of grace. Uh, and you have
1:07:01here the angel who then announces it,
1:07:03and the word says:" And the angel
1:07:05departed from her. "Our Lady saw the
1:07:07angel only once. Padre Pio used to say
1:07:09something beautiful. He said that on
1:07:12Christmas night, contemplating the
1:07:13manger, the grotto, he says:" Look, see
1:07:16, see in the grotto. "You have the
1:07:18grotto, and then you have the Holy
1:07:21Family, right? Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
1:07:23in the manger. The angels up here
1:07:25singing. Everyone who is outside sees
1:07:28the angels singing. But Our Lady is
1:07:30inside the grotto, she doesn't see. She
1:07:31sees Christ.
1:07:32I mean, the angel appeared to her only
1:07:34once. She didn't need extraordinary
1:07:37manifestations to say yes to God. So,
1:07:41therefore, uh, Gabriel, he is that
1:07:44righteousness, and he contemplated for
1:07:47the first time, he was the, let's say,
1:07:50eyewitness who saw the Word become
1:07:53flesh, God descend from heaven and
1:07:55become man. That is why he is the angel
1:07:58of the Incarnation. Gabriel's mission,
1:08:01Gabriel's life, is deeply linked to the
1:08:03life of Jesus. To the point that
1:08:07Bernard of Clairvaux would go so far as
1:08:09to say that Our Lady's guardian angel
1:08:11was Gabriel.
1:08:14Wow.
1:08:15Saint Bernard says this: Because the
1:08:18Virgin's mission and the place the
1:08:21Virgin held would require an angel of
1:08:23such stature.
1:08:25Yes. I'm kind of different from
1:08:26everything. Sure.
1:08:27It's different from Jesus. Someone once
1:08:29asked me, did Jesus have a guardian
1:08:30angel? No, Jesus doesn't have a
1:08:32guardian angel because he is the Lord
1:08:33of the angels.
1:08:34He doesn't need one,
1:08:35doesn't need one. He guards the angels
1:08:37even while incarnate.
1:08:39In other words, he doesn't have one,
1:08:40yet at the same time, he has them all.
1:08:42He is their life, right? He is the
1:08:44reason for the angels.
1:08:45Exactly. Exactly.
1:08:46Very good. That's Gabriel.
1:08:48That's Gabriel. But anyway, you
1:08:50still have two here. Let me tell you a
1:08:52very interesting story.
1:08:55Uh, I was talking to Sami, Sami Marcile
1:08:57, who many people know, right? She was
1:09:00here on the podcast too. And she said
1:09:04to me:" Kenia, Henrique Lima, who was
1:09:06also here on the podcast, told me a
1:09:08story, and well... "Then she went ahead
1:09:10and told me the story, and I found it
1:09:12very interesting, so I called Henrique
1:09:14and said," Henrique, tell me this story
1:09:17. "And he told me the story. It's as
1:09:20follows: he was...he was praying. And
1:09:23Henrique has a beautiful conversion
1:09:25story. He's from the Assembly of God
1:09:27and had a beautiful conversion years
1:09:28ago, and he does beautiful work against
1:09:30abortion; anyway, he's a really great
1:09:32guy. He has been on our podcast twice:
1:09:34once telling the story of his
1:09:35conversion and another time talking
1:09:37about abortion, right, about the
1:09:38gravity of abortion. So, for those who
1:09:40haven't watched it, it's worth watching
1:09:42. And he said he was praying and went
1:09:44to sleep. And before sleeping, he said
1:09:47the following prayer. I'll put it in my
1:09:48own words; it won't be exact, but
1:09:50you'll understand the general context."
1:09:53Uh, my angel, my angel, I would really
1:09:55like to see you, not for me to be
1:09:56glorified, not for my glory, not for
1:09:58any of that, but to increase my faith.
1:10:00"He said that prayer, and he prayed
1:10:03with great contrition, with a lot of
1:10:05faith, and went to sleep. Suddenly, in
1:10:08the middle of the night, he wakes up
1:10:09because he sees a bright light, and he
1:10:11immediately realizes that they...they
1:10:12have children, right? That he is with
1:10:14his wife, his wife is by his side, he
1:10:15sees that his wife is sleeping, he sees
1:10:17that this light wasn't, you know, one
1:10:19of his children getting up and turning
1:10:20on the light, nothing like that. He
1:10:22sees a bright light. When he looks at
1:10:24the bedroom ceiling, he sees two wings,
1:10:26two shadows of wings that are huge,
1:10:28huge, and he becomes completely
1:10:29entranced. Then he goes to lo-, when he
1:10:33looks, he sees two red eyes staring at
1:10:35him. Then he asks:" Is that you, my
1:10:38angel? Is that you, my angel? "He asked
1:10:41twice and then that image disappeared.
1:10:44He said that he immediately went back
1:10:46to sleep,
1:10:47he didn't just dwell on it, thinking,
1:10:49ecstatic. He just went back to sleep.
1:10:51The next day, when he woke up, he
1:10:53remembered everything. It wasn't like a
1:10:55dream you had early in the night that
1:10:57you forgot.
1:10:58He woke up and remembered, he
1:10:59remembered everything.
1:11:00And he was very impressed by this dream
1:11:02. So I sent this story to Rafael.
1:11:05Uh-huh.
1:11:06Right? I said:" Rafael, look at this.
1:11:08He told me all this just now. Please,
1:11:10give Henrique an answer for this, and
1:11:12for everyone watching, because it's so
1:11:14interesting. "I said," But was it
1:11:15really an angel of God? How does that
1:11:17work? "I found the first question you
1:11:18asked me interesting. The first
1:11:21question, I'll bring it up because
1:11:23we've talked about so much, you might
1:11:24not remember. The first question you
1:11:26asked me was, is he a man connected to
1:11:28justice? You asked me that question. I
1:11:31said:" Is h-What is he? "
1:11:32He is a prosecutor for the Public
1:11:34Ministry of the Court of Accounts. And
1:11:37then I said:" Yes, he is connected to
1:11:39justice. "Then you said," Tell me what
1:11:41you said. "
1:11:42I said:" It's Gabriel he saw, because
1:11:44of Daniel's vision that had eyes of
1:11:46fire. "Because then you might say:" But
1:11:49wasn't it a demon? "No. If it were a
1:11:50demon, he wouldn't have been at peace
1:11:52like he was.
1:11:52He was at peace. He said he was at
1:11:54peace
1:11:54and it got him back on his feet, it
1:11:56strengthened him inwardly. It was a
1:11:59visit, an extraordinary visit in his
1:12:01life.
1:12:01And what I found incredible was you
1:12:03asking, is he, does he work with
1:12:05justice?
1:12:06Yeah, the discernment comes to my heart
1:12:07right away.
1:12:08To see, because Gabriel is connected to
1:12:11justice with red eyes. Did you already
1:12:13make the whole connection? I said:" Wow
1:12:15. "And he said:" He didn't answer me
1:12:16anything. "I said:" But you only asked
1:12:18to see, you didn't ask to hear, did you
1:12:19?
1:12:20You didn't say: 'I want to see you and
1:12:21hear you.' You said: 'I want to see you
1:12:22.' He went there. "
1:12:23Anyone who deals with lawyers, anyone
1:12:25who works in the legal field, you have
1:12:28to be cut and dried. Don't beat around
1:12:30the bush too much. They don't like
1:12:31dragging things out. Gabriel is exactly
1:12:33the same. Don't stall me. What do you
1:12:35want? Speak. You asked to see me, I'm
1:12:37here. You didn't ask for anything else.
1:12:38Bye.
1:12:40I loved that. Next time, Henrique Lima,
1:12:43next time you ask:" My angel, I want to
1:12:45see you and hear you. "Bragged." And
1:12:48there, done, you get the full combo. "
1:12:49There's there's a dialogue with you.
1:12:51My Bar Association ID is even red.
1:12:54No, look at that,
1:12:56look,
1:12:57look there, look there, look there.
1:12:59Red Bar Association ID. You know the
1:13:02Bar ID, a side note,
1:13:04yeah,
1:13:04right? I kissed my Bar ID more than my
1:13:07diploma, because that exam is much
1:13:10harder. That exam is agonizing, it's a
1:13:13test.
1:13:14But then Saint Gabriel interceded.
1:13:16Yeah, he interceded, man. It must be.
1:13:18Have you ever seen a Bar exam in your
1:13:20life?
1:13:20No.
1:13:21At any competition site?
1:13:22I've seen the ones coming back from the
1:13:23exam?
1:13:24No, the ones coming back from the exam
1:13:25is fine. But like, I took it there at
1:13:27UERJ and it looked like an airport.
1:13:30Imagine a 15-story building that looks
1:13:32like an airport. Everyone with luggage,
1:13:34rolling suitcases,
1:13:36yes, all the students with rolling
1:13:37suitcases. Because it's that exam where
1:13:39you can consult everything.
1:13:42So you bring
1:13:43And but you won't be able to consult
1:13:44everything
1:13:44no? So stay calm. Either you know it
1:13:47or you don't.
1:13:47It's a bombshell. In my exam, only 87%
1:13:51failed.
1:13:53My God.
1:13:54There are a lot of poorly educated
1:13:55people, right? Who don't study.
1:13:5713%passed.
1:14:00Let me ask you something. You and I
1:14:01remember the episode we did on Saint
1:14:04Michael, right? You talking about the
1:14:06armor, the sword, and all that, but
1:14:08Saint Gabriel, a different take on the
1:14:09attire. Now I'm I'm on the attire of
1:14:12the archangels. Something else. right?
1:14:15Because he doesn't have he doesn't have
1:14:16anything, a sword, he has nothing in
1:14:18his hand. It's a it's a white robe with
1:14:20how is it
1:14:23But he doesn't have a little sword?
1:14:24Really? An archangel without a sword.
1:14:26Well, when he appears to
1:14:28he appears with the scales of justice.
1:14:30No, that's that's Saint Michael,
1:14:33but he isn't the one from Now you're
1:14:34confusing my thoughts. Wait a minute.
1:14:36No, the attribute of the scales belongs
1:14:38to Saint Michael, who weighs souls.
1:14:40Oh,
1:14:40that's not that scale over there, it's
1:14:41not a
1:14:41The one of justice is different. Speak.
1:14:43Oh, I see. Understood. Understood. The
1:14:46one of justice.
1:14:46No, so it was important to mention that
1:14:48too. Well, notice that when the angel
1:14:50Gabriel appears to Daniel, he is not.
1:14:54He is dressed in white, dressed with
1:14:57this golden belt around his waist, but
1:15:00he is saying:" I left Michael in my
1:15:03place fighting the Prince of Persia. "
1:15:07So he must have combat attire as well.
1:15:09He does, but to announce he lays down
1:15:11his arms. Oh, how beautiful. I liked
1:15:14that.
1:15:15He wouldn't go all armed, right? The
1:15:16guy isn't going to announce with a
1:15:17rifle too. It can't be like that.
1:15:19And one of the titles of Saint Gabriel
1:15:23that the church uses is Nuncio of God.
1:15:26Oh, great.
1:15:27What does the Nuncio do?
1:15:28The Nuncio is the ambassador.
1:15:30What does the Nuncio, the ambassador,
1:15:32do?
1:15:32So, what does the Apostolic Nuncio do?
1:15:35Or rather, what does the ambassador do?
1:15:38The state, so to speak, has two primary
1:15:42officials, let's say. What are they?
1:15:48The ambassador's team, that is, the
1:15:49Foreign Ministry, or rather, the
1:15:53huh, diplomats or the soldiers? They
1:15:59are the two, the two primary officials
1:16:01of a state: the soldier and the
1:16:03ambassador. So, the
1:16:08in other words, all diplomats, consuls,
1:16:10the...an Apostolic Nuncio is an
1:16:12ambassador of the Holy See, of the Holy
1:16:14Father in a country. So he is the one
1:16:19who speaks in their name, right, who
1:16:21speaks,
1:16:22that is, who represents them. He does
1:16:24not have the final word. The final word
1:16:26is with the Pope; he represents that
1:16:28country, that is, he is a delegate
1:16:31from that country to that nation.
1:16:33It's
1:16:34the same thing for the Nuncio. So the
1:16:36Apostolic Nuncio does that. The
1:16:38Brazilian ambassador, I don't know, in
1:16:40Paris, and the Brazilian ambassador, I
1:16:42don't know, in Malaysia, I don't know.
1:16:45It's just that when a president fights,
1:16:46the first thing they do is pull the
1:16:48embassy out of there. Bring the
1:16:49ambassador here.
1:16:50What is And what is the reciprocal
1:16:52thing? First of all, what happens when
1:16:55something like that occurs, if an
1:16:57ambassador is expelled from the country
1:17:00, the one here also leaves at the same
1:17:02time.
1:17:04The other thing is, one of the most
1:17:06serious acts before expulsion is when
1:17:08you summon the ambassador to give you
1:17:11clarification.
1:17:12OK?
1:17:12That is one of the most serious things
1:17:14there is. So, uh, and making an analogy
1:17:18to this nuncio, this ambassador, uh,
1:17:21the, the, the angel speaks in God's
1:17:24name.
1:17:25Yes.
1:17:26He does not speak for God.
1:17:27Yes,
1:17:28he speaks what God ordered.
1:17:29Exactly.
1:17:29He doesn't, he doesn't act as
1:17:32It's like an ambassador doesn't do that
1:17:33either as an apostolic nuncio. For
1:17:35example, the
1:17:36you said he is a nuncio, what did you
1:17:37say?
1:17:38Nuncio of God. Nuncio of God.
1:17:40Yes, meaning he announces what God
1:17:42desires, right? the will of
1:17:44apostolic nuncio who is at the United
1:17:46Nations.
1:17:46Yes,
1:17:47he speaks in the Pope's name at the
1:17:49United Nations, in fact he was here,
1:17:51celebrated here.
1:17:51What a blessing.
1:17:52One of them, right? Since it has
1:17:53already changed now.
1:17:54So look, when Gabriel then appears to
1:17:57Our Lady, it's an angel, but he
1:18:00received the message as an ambassador
1:18:03of how he had to announce it to her.
1:18:05That is why Gabriel's attributes,
1:18:07he has the scroll in his hand," Ave "
1:18:09full of grace, right? But this scroll,
1:18:11actually, is the message. There is
1:18:14another one which is the lily, which
1:18:16represents purity. He is the guardian
1:18:19of the children, of the baptized
1:18:20children, for example, of vocations. He
1:18:23is the protector of altar boys, of
1:18:25vocations.
1:18:26Oh, I didn't know that.
1:18:26It's Saint Gabriel.
1:18:27Interesting.
1:18:28Of purity. He is the angel who protects
1:18:31children during their first communion.
1:18:34So, why? Because he is precisely linked
1:18:37to this reality of of the birth, of the
1:18:42incarnation, of all this early
1:18:44childhood. He is considered the
1:18:46archangel of childhood, of early
1:18:47childhood. I wonder if at births he,
1:18:49together with the baby's guardian angel
1:18:51, also assists there, is there to
1:18:52protect that child, something like that
1:18:54.
1:18:54He is part of, he enters into the
1:18:56profound mystery of the mystery of the
1:18:58incarnation, right? To the point that,
1:19:01uh, if we take the three archangels, it
1:19:04is not by chance when we, it's just to
1:19:07give an overview that in the
1:19:10iconographic tradition, the visit of
1:19:13the three angels, of the three men who
1:19:16appear to Abraham, right? You have the
1:19:19Jewish tradition, it will say that it
1:19:21is Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, those
1:19:22three men. And the church will see it
1:19:26as a theophany. the presence of the
1:19:29Holy Trinity visiting Abraham. So, for
1:19:33the Jewish and Christian tradition, at
1:19:35the same time, you have Michael, who
1:19:37goes to liberate uh Abraham. You have
1:19:42Gabriel who goes to announce the birth
1:19:44of Isaac and Raphael who goes to cure
1:19:46Sarah's sterility. These three, at the
1:19:49same time, for Eastern angelology—
1:19:51when I say Eastern, I'm not talking
1:19:54about the East in Asia, I'm talking
1:19:56about Eastern Catholic theology, okay?
1:19:59Uh, Greek, Byzantine, anyway. Michael
1:20:03is deeply linked, when he expresses
1:20:04himself, to the glory of God the Father
1:20:06. He is the one who defends the
1:20:09Father's glory, the will of God the
1:20:10Father for his son to become incarnate.
1:20:12Anyway, Gabriel is deeply linked to the
1:20:14mystery of Christ, the mystery of the
1:20:16Word, the second person of the Trinity.
1:20:18So you have him here in the
1:20:20Annunciation, him with Our Lady, and so
1:20:22on. And Raphael is deeply linked to the
1:20:25reality of the Holy Spirit. So much so
1:20:29that when he is sent into the life of
1:20:31Tobias, of Tobit, Tobit goes blind on
1:20:33the feast of Pentecost. So you see,
1:20:37these archangels, they express, right,
1:20:39they clearly always express God in the
1:20:42Holy Trinity, but they express in their
1:20:45own way the virtues and, at the same
1:20:47time, the characteristics of the divine
1:20:50persons. So, Gabriel, if you want to be
1:20:55close to him, be very close to Our Lady
1:20:58, because he saw the conception of Our
1:21:01Lady, the Immaculate Conception of the
1:21:04Virgin Mary. That is
1:21:08intimate.
1:21:09Look, this is really cool, guys. And
1:21:11it's important for us to learn this.
1:21:13Now, I remembered something here. Uh,
1:21:17we are talking, right, about the
1:21:19conception and the angel being near. Uh
1:21:22, it's because someone sent me a
1:21:24message and I know that many women,
1:21:26many couples, go through this pain,
1:21:29which is losing a baby.
1:21:30Yes.
1:21:32And she, and she asked like this:"
1:21:33Kenia, what happens to these babies? "
1:21:36People don't talk about this. And it's
1:21:38a pain, and it really is a very great
1:21:40pain. You are waiting for that baby,
1:21:42right? Or that baby, you had that
1:21:43miscarriage, you lost that baby while
1:21:45pregnant or just after it was born,
1:21:47anyway. And she said:" Talk a little,
1:21:50see, I needed to know something about
1:21:52what happens to the soul of this baby.
1:21:55"So, it's important for us to talk
1:21:57about this. And I remembered just now
1:21:59because we are talking about Gabriel
1:22:00and, anyway, Gabriel and conception and
1:22:02children and all that. I think it's
1:22:04nice. Summarizing, because this enters
1:22:07into the part of eschatology, but what
1:22:09does the church think about children
1:22:11who passed away, who weren't baptized?
1:22:13Maybe you want to ask about this, that
1:22:16the child who wasn't baptized, are they
1:22:18in heaven? How does it work?
1:22:20Exactly. You lost it while pregnant,
1:22:21right?
1:22:21The child wasn't baptized. That was a
1:22:24discussion from the time of Saint
1:22:25Augustine, then there was the reality
1:22:26of limbo, anyway, it’s all a
1:22:27theological discussion. But, in fact,
1:22:31if you look at the Holy Innocents that
1:22:34we celebrate after Christmas, Jesus
1:22:36hadn't died yet, the mystery of
1:22:39redemption hadn't happened yet. He is a
1:22:43newborn Jesus. You have another reality
1:22:46with the Holy Innocents, as they
1:22:47weren't even circumcised, therefore
1:22:49they didn't even have the first
1:22:50covenant. And the Church celebrates
1:22:52them, they celebrate them as holy
1:22:54innocents. Does the Church have the
1:22:56Holy Innocents?
1:22:57But not ones that preceded Jesus, right
1:22:58? No, they precede Jesus.
1:23:01These children are contemporaries of
1:23:02Jesus, the ones Herod orders to be
1:23:03killed, right?
1:23:04So,
1:23:04exactly. But Jesus hadn't yet suffered
1:23:07on the cross and
1:23:08ah, so the celebration was already that
1:23:10. I mean, the celebration became that
1:23:12because of those children Herod killed.
1:23:14Exactly. So, I'm saying, these children
1:23:16didn't receive sacraments, they weren't
1:23:18even circumcised, apparently. So, the
1:23:21Church has always seen it that way,
1:23:23which is why there are funeral rites
1:23:25for unbaptized children, because of
1:23:27that phrase of Jesus," let the little
1:23:29children come to me, for theirs is the
1:23:31kingdom of heaven. "So, the Church has
1:23:34always understood that the Lord has
1:23:35always wanted these children close.
1:23:38These children do not have the age of
1:23:40reason; they possess original sin, but
1:23:43they don't have the deliberation, the
1:23:45will, the awareness of right and wrong.
1:23:50So, the Church over time, there's even
1:23:51a document from the International
1:23:52Theological Commission that deals with
1:23:54this subject. And in the end, after
1:23:57going through the entire journey across
1:24:00all areas of theology, it reaches the
1:24:03conclusion that the Lord welcomes them
1:24:06in His infinite mercy. In such a way
1:24:11that yes, there are funeral rites for
1:24:14children who were not baptized, but if
1:24:18someone did that, it’s not a
1:24:21tradition, I mean, a tradition that is
1:24:24always done. The child died. Oh, let's
1:24:28celebrate a seventh-day mass for that
1:24:30baby who
1:24:31was lost. Someone lost one?
1:24:33There is no seventh-day mass for a
1:24:35child who died. No,
1:24:36there isn't. Why? They return to heaven
1:24:38. They go straight to heaven, okay?
1:24:40Together with
1:24:40So, you who asked this question, I know
1:24:42, and I want to give you a hug. This
1:24:45pain that no mother deserves, and this
1:24:47pain of a mother who loses a child,
1:24:49only Our Lady can truly understand your
1:24:51pain. Have hope that one day you will
1:24:54hold them in your arms again.
1:24:55Yes. And besides that, the children too
1:24:58, those who passed away spontaneously
1:25:00or passed away very young, but those
1:25:02who were aborted.
1:25:03Yes.
1:25:04Who were martyrs.
1:25:05Yes.
1:25:05Yes. Exactly,
1:25:06right? They were killed in the womb.
1:25:08They didn't ask to die, nor did they
1:25:09kill themselves, right? They were
1:25:11murdered and are also in heaven.
1:25:12We are talking about induced abortion."
1:25:14I'm going to remove this baby, "right?
1:25:15That's what we're talking about. But
1:25:17God also takes these souls back to
1:25:19heaven.
1:25:19Yes. And the angels of these children
1:25:21are with them. The angels of these
1:25:24children...even one, like this:" Mommy,
1:25:26if you're ever missing, if you're
1:25:29missing your baby, your child who has
1:25:31departed, uh, so that you, if, if it
1:25:33were something canonical, safe, light a
1:25:37candle for the guardian angel of your
1:25:39child who departed and tell him: 'Give
1:25:40them a hug for me, okay?' "" Wherever
1:25:42they are, and know that the angel who
1:25:43is holy, who is in the glory of God,
1:25:45will do it. "
1:25:47Yeah, that's beautiful. And a kiss,
1:25:49right? You want to say a kiss.
1:25:50Kiss. A kiss. And a kiss for me. Give a
1:25:52kiss for me, a hug for me. Then the
1:25:55angel goes there and—oh my God in
1:25:57heaven, beautiful.
1:26:00Treat angels like real people and you
1:26:02will change your vision of what heaven
1:26:04is capable of doing on earth.
1:26:08I have no doubt about that. Zero doubt.
1:26:11Angels really help us, and a lot.
1:26:15Yeah, I got emotional imagining the
1:26:16angel there kissing them. Can you
1:26:18imagine? Yeah, anyway, guys, let me
1:26:21compose myself here because really,
1:26:23right, especially for—thank God I
1:26:25haven't gone through a—through a loss
1:26:27like that, but I imagine how difficult
1:26:29it must be for these women,
1:26:32right? No. And can you imagine, Kenia,
1:26:34for example, in the glory of the Lord,
1:26:36among that multitude that sings and
1:26:37worships before the Lord? I'm going to
1:26:40get emotional now too. Oh my God, now
1:26:41I'm the one who's going to cry again.
1:26:43Uh,
1:26:45before all of that, an angel comes and
1:26:49says this, thinking about my little
1:26:52brother that my mom lost when he was 8
1:26:54months old, my middle brother, right?
1:26:57Julio, remember when it had—when this
1:26:59thing about dengue started? That car,
1:27:02the fogging car, spraying that poison.
1:27:04So, my brother, he was born like me,
1:27:06with many respiratory problems, and Mom
1:27:08worked at the time and she was washing
1:27:10clothes in the back of the house, in
1:27:12the backyard, and the—and the window
1:27:14was open because it was hot. Then that
1:27:16car drove by and blew smoke, and all
1:27:19the smoke got inside. My brother
1:27:20inhaled that and died because of it.
1:27:23Seriously?
1:27:23Wow.
1:27:24My brother died from that.
1:27:25He was eight months old.
1:27:27Yes, months. His name was Júlio César
1:27:29. Yeah, little Julinho. Your mother
1:27:31must have been desperate.
1:27:32My mother still is to this day. Sending
1:27:34a kiss to mom, if mom is watching. Mom
1:27:36is still that way. Mom has, has pain,
1:27:38longing. My mother hasn't been the same
1:27:40since she lost Julinho. She has me, she
1:27:42has Juanito, Juanito, my brother. But
1:27:44Julinho is the pain, like, one day I
1:27:47want to find my son again. Yeah.
1:27:52Sometimes, when I'm going through a
1:27:55trial where I need a special grace
1:27:57related to my family's reality, even my
1:28:00mother's reality, I go there, take a
1:28:02candle, light it for Julinho’s
1:28:05guardian angel and say:" Holy angel of
1:28:07Julinho, please, he is there in heaven,
1:28:10I would like you to do me a favor. "
1:28:14Tell him that I, his older brother,
1:28:16Rafael, love him very much. Give him a
1:28:20hug for me. Send him my care, my
1:28:23affection. Now imagine, it happens, the
1:28:26angel arrives and says:" Look,
1:28:29so-and-so, Bertaldo, your son, your
1:28:32nephew, your grandson, asked me to tell
1:28:35you that he loves you, that he hasn't
1:28:38forgotten you. "" He's praying the
1:28:40rosary for you today. "Okay? Just to
1:28:41let you know. That is the communion of
1:28:44saints.
1:28:45That is the communion of saints because
1:28:46it's real. Wow.
1:28:49How beautiful. I've already sent so
1:28:50many kisses to my father since you
1:28:52taught me that.
1:28:52Yeah.
1:28:53Wow, I've sent so many kisses to my
1:28:54father. To my father's guardian angel.
1:28:56Go there, give him a kiss for me. Guys,
1:28:58I really miss him, you know? Give him a
1:29:00hug too. I've already sent several,
1:29:01guys. Seriously. Every now and then I
1:29:03send another kiss. He's going to say,
1:29:04another kiss, girl? It's another kiss.
1:29:06Another kiss.
1:29:07The theology of the communion of saints
1:29:08is something real, concrete. We profess
1:29:09this in the Creed," I believe in the
1:29:11communion of saints. "No one delves
1:29:14into this.
1:29:15We have to delve into it. There's so
1:29:17much to delve into in our Catholic
1:29:19faith, about how God created all this
1:29:21for our good, for our joy, isn't there?
1:29:24And so that everyone may be happy. Yeah
1:29:26.
1:29:26We have to do this. That is a mission
1:29:28of Anima,
1:29:29that
1:29:30doing this, reaching hearts, bringing
1:29:32good content, bringing good formation,
1:29:35isn't it? Now with the Anima community
1:29:38that is being launched, many great
1:29:41classes, right? So, many teachers,
1:29:43including you, will also be a teacher.
1:29:46So, like, we, I think it will do an
1:29:48incredible good to souls.
1:29:50Knowledge
1:29:52is an incredible good,
1:29:53my goodness, it sets you free, right?
1:29:54And it transforms everything, wow.
1:29:55Impressive.
1:29:56It makes us be Catholic in another way.
1:29:58Yes,
1:29:58deeper. Isn't it? It's not something
1:30:01like, if the wind blows, I don't want
1:30:03to be Catholic. On the contrary,
1:30:05sometimes the priest wasn't nice to me,
1:30:07I'm leaving the church, I'm doing this
1:30:08or that. There are things like that,
1:30:10right?
1:30:10Yeah, there are things that have
1:30:11nothing to do with it, right? But
1:30:12what can you do? I enjoyed it immensely
1:30:14.
1:30:14Look, Rafa. Very good, you see?
1:30:16Spectacular, really, everyone. This is
1:30:19the second episode. We already had
1:30:22Saint Michael, today is Saint Gabriel
1:30:24and we will still have Saint
1:30:26my love, Saint Raphael.
1:30:28Ah, with that name Saint Raphael.
1:30:30My great friend, huh? My great friend.
1:30:32And I want to remind everyone watching
1:30:35who wants blessings from Saint Gabriel.
1:30:37So come on, guys, subscribe to the
1:30:39channel, comment, say Saint, write
1:30:41there that Saint Gabriel is the
1:30:43Strength of God. Put it, write it.
1:30:44That's it. Strength of God. Write
1:30:46Strength of God there and send this
1:30:48episode. Give it a like, send this
1:30:50episode to all your acquaintances to
1:30:52see. Look at the richness we talked
1:30:53about here.
1:30:54Yes,
1:30:54right? Nobody can be left out.
1:30:57I wanted to take the opportunity to
1:30:59invite you to 10 PM from Monday to
1:31:00Saturday, I pray the powerful Rosary of
1:31:03the Angels on my channel Rafael Brito,
1:31:05Apostolate of the Holy Angels. And
1:31:07there we pray asking for their
1:31:08intercession as well.
1:31:10Wait a minute, say it again. What is
1:31:11the channel? Rafael Brito.
1:31:12That's on YouTube.
1:31:13On YouTube. Apostolate of Saint Raphael
1:31:16and the Holy Angels.
1:31:17Very well.
1:31:18At 10 PM, come. Let's pray with the
1:31:20angels. Excellent.
1:31:20Every day.
1:31:21Every day.
1:31:22Ah, but there is also an event that you
1:31:23will be doing.
1:31:24There is an event at Canção Nova,
1:31:26from November 1st to 3rd.
1:31:28What is the event called?
1:31:29Secret.
1:31:30I love that name. Secret.
1:31:31It is secret because it is precisely
1:31:33the place where the angels dwell and
1:31:34adore God. An adoration event. It will
1:31:37also be a landmark, because it will
1:31:38mark the return of Father Cristian
1:31:40Chancara to preach at Canção Nova.
1:31:41Look how wonderful, oh. Bring Father
1:31:43Cristian here.
1:31:44I already told him, he said he's coming
1:31:45.
1:31:45Yay. And very good, very good, very
1:31:47good. The event won't be broadcast,
1:31:49right? So you have to go to Canção
1:31:50Nova. In person. Let's go guys, to
1:31:52Canção Nova,
1:31:52in person. Free registration, so come
1:31:54along.
1:31:54That's it. Wonderful.
1:31:56Organize your caravan.
1:31:57That's it.
1:31:57Very well.
1:31:58Rafael Brito, thank you so much. We
1:32:00loved it. I'm so excited for our third
1:32:02episode.
1:32:02Yay. It’s going to be beautiful,
1:32:03everyone. God bless you, okay? Big kiss
1:32:06. Bye

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