{"id":4067,"date":"2016-12-27T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-feast-of-archangel-gabriel\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T05:48:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T05:48:02","slug":"the-feast-of-archangel-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-feast-of-archangel-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of Archangel Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><b><i>December 26, 2016<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">By Kassa Nigus<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4066\" height=\"320\" width=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px\" title=\"206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" alt=\"206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg 262w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>According to his homily, St Gabriel is one of the archangels who strongly contended for the honor and wisdom of God when the fraud angle wished to be the highest in heaven, even above God. During that time of mystification, St. Gabriel heartened his fellow angles saying, &quot;we shall persist till we realize our Creator&rdquo;<\/span>. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">All heaven fell in commotion as Satan attempted to conquer the Son of  God and those who were submissive to his will. But the good angels  prevailed, and Satan, with his followers, was driven from heaven.  (Isaiah 14:12-20; Ezekiel 28:1-19; Revelation 12:7-9) <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">St Gabriel is also the angel who announced to Zacharias the priest that his  sterile wife will give birth to a son who will be called John (Luke  1:13). He mentioned some prophecies about that son, which shows that  angels are capable of knowing what will happen in the future as revealed to them by God. Gabriel is also the one who was sent to the Holy Virgin and said to her, &quot;The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of  the Highest will overshadow you; therefore also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God&quot; (Luke 1:35). <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">Gabriel  also clarifies visions when ordered by God. This appears in the vision  of the prophet Daniel. When Daniel was perplexed with the vision, the  Lord sent Gabriel to clarify the meaning of the vision to Daniel. (Dan.  8:16) In the subsequent chapter, the angel said, &ldquo;O Daniel, I now come  forth to give you skill and understanding.&rdquo; (Dan.9: 22) <\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> &nbsp; <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church celebrates colorfully the Feast of St. Gabriel on 19th day of each month.<\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">Tahisas 19 (December 27) is dedicated to commemorate the deliverance of the  three youths (Sidraq, Misaq and Abdenago) from the burning fire of  Nebuchadnezzar through the help of St Gabriel (Daniel 3). <\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\"><i>May the intecesion of St Gebriel be with us !<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><b><i>December 26, 2016<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">By Kassa Nigus<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4066\" height=\"320\" width=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px\" title=\"206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" alt=\"206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n.jpg 262w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/206585_380170615408811_476023965_n-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>According to his homily, St Gabriel is one of the archangels who strongly contended for the honor and wisdom of God when the fraud angle wished to be the highest in heaven, even above God. During that time of mystification, St. Gabriel heartened his fellow angles saying, &quot;we shall persist till we realize our Creator&rdquo;<\/span>. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}