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L<\/span><\/span>a voz \u00e1ngel es nombre\u00a0del\u00a0oficio, no de la naturaleza, pues, aunque los\u00a0santos\u00a0esp\u00edritus de la patria celeste sean todos espirituales, sin embargo no a todos se les puede llamar \u00e1ngeles. Solamente son \u00e1ngeles (que significa mensajero) cuando por ellos se anuncian algunas cosas. De ah\u00ed que afirme el salmista: hace \u00e1ngeles suyos a los esp\u00edritus (Sal 103,4);\u00a0como\u00a0si claramente dijera que Dios, cuando quiere, hace tambi\u00e9n \u00e1ngeles, mensaJeros, a los esp\u00edritus celestiales que siempre tiene consigo.<\/p>\n

Los que anuncian cosas de menor monta se llaman simplemente \u00e1ngeles, y los que manifiestan las m\u00e1s importantes, arc\u00e1ngeles. De ah\u00ed que a Mar\u00eda no se le manda un \u00e1ngel cualquiera, sino el arc\u00e1ngel\u00a0San Gabriel\u00a0pues era justo que para esto viniese un \u00e1ngel de los m\u00e1s encumbrados, a anunciar la mejor de las nuevas. Por esta raz\u00f3n, los arc\u00e1ngeles gozan de nombres particulares, a fin de que\u2014por medio de los hombres\u2014se d\u00e9 a conocer su gran poder\u00edo (…).<\/p>\n

Miguel significa \u00bfqui\u00e9n\u00a0como\u00a0Dios?; Gabriel, la\u00a0fortaleza\u00a0de Dios; y Rafael, la medicina de Dios. Cuantas veces se realiza algo que exige un poder maravilloso, es enviado San Miguel, para que por la obra y por el nombre se muestre que nadie puede hacer lo que hace Dios. Por eso, a aquel antiguo enemigo que aspir\u00f3, en su soberbia, a ser semejante a Dios, diciendo: escalar\u00e9 el cielo; sobre las estrellas de Dios levantar\u00e9 mi trono; me sentar\u00e9 sobre el monte del testamento, al lado del septentri\u00f3n; sobrepujar\u00e9 la altura de las nubes y ser\u00e9 semejante al Alt\u00edsimo (Is 14, 13-14); al fin del mundo, para que perezca en el definitivo suplicio, ser\u00e1 dejado en su propio poder y habr\u00e1 de pelear con el Arc\u00e1ngel San Miguel, como afirma San Juan: se trab\u00f3 una batalla con el arc\u00e1ngel San Miguel (Ap 12, 7). De este modo, aqu\u00e9l que se erigi\u00f3, soberbio, e intent\u00f3 ser semejante a Dios, aprender\u00e1\u2014derrotado por San Miguel\u2014que nadie debe alzarse altaneramente con la pretensi\u00f3n de asemejarse a Dios.<\/p>\n

A Mar\u00eda es enviado\u00a0San Gabriel, que se llama la\u00a0fortaleza\u00a0de Dios, porque ven\u00eda a anunciar a Aqu\u00e9l que se dign\u00f3 aparecer humilde para pelear contra las potestades infernales. De \u00c9l dice el salmista: levantad, \u00a1oh pr\u00edncipes!, vuestras puertas, y elevaos vosotras, \u00a1oh puertas de la eternidad!, y entrar\u00e1 el Rey de la gloria… (Sal 23, 7). Y tambi\u00e9n: el Se\u00f1or de los ej\u00e9rcitos, \u00e9se es el Rey de la gloria (ibid. 10). Luego el Se\u00f1or de los ej\u00e9rcitos y fuerte en las batallas, que ven\u00eda a guerrear contra los poderes espirituales, deb\u00eda ser anunciado por la\u00a0fortaleza\u00a0de Dios.<\/p>\n

Asimismo Rafael significa,\u00a0como\u00a0hemos dicho, la medicina de Dios; porque cuando, haciendo oficio de m\u00e9dico, toc\u00f3 los ojos de Tob\u00edas, hizo desaparecer las tinieblas de su ceguera. Luego es justo que se llamara medicina de Dios.
\nEste extracto de una homil\u00eda de San Gregorio Magno sobre los Evangelios (Hom. 32, 8-9: PL 76, 1250-1251), es usado en el Oficio Romano para las lecturas de la Fiesta de los Arc\u00e1ngeles el 29 de Septiembre. San Gregorio es uno de los m\u00e1s prominentes Padres y Doctores de la Iglesia.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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