Tobit 5: Rafael
Monday, March 24, 2025
A Favorite from May 12, 2010.
I have always loved this story of synchronicity, healing and steadfastness and each time I read it I reflect upon – and marvel at – the number of times that the angel Rafael has been present in my life. Sometimes I know he is present in the healing hands of physicians, ministers and friends. Other times it is only until well after an event that I realize I have been visited by an angel. God constantly sends us his guides; we may or may not be aware of their presence.
We are created to experience joy rather than sorrow, reunion rather than separation, salvation rather than abandonment. We are meant to be free from bondage, free to enter into relationship with the force that created us, free to enter fully into our divinity. In yesterday’s MAGNIFICAT Meditation by Fr. Maurice Zundel we read: We are called into a heart-to-heart relationship with the Lord in which our whole being must enter . . . The only way to enter into the mystery of the universe is through the divine presence. When we are hidden in the presence of God . . . we are at the heart of the true universe.
Humans have a yearning to belong, an ache to be part of something significant, and I believe that this is what makes human love so alluring to us. We want to be the center, the axis point, the object of someone’s love . . . and yet we already are. Rafael walks with us and guides us more times than we even know; and he arrives as the healing messenger of God. Let us give thanks and be glad. Let us rejoice and praise God.L et us keep a sharp look out for the Rafaels in our lives, and let us repeat our stories of God’s power to save, of God’s infinite and compassionate love, for we are creatures of joy and not woe.
Cameron, Peter John. “Meditation of the Day.” MAGNIFICAT. 3.11 (2010). Print.
To learn more about Fr. Maurice Zundel, a Swiss theologian, visit: https://amishcatholic.com/2018/02/28/maurice-zundel-on-prayer/
Images from: https://www.pictorem.com/99562/Tobias%20and%20the%20Archangel%20Raphael.html and https://amishcatholic.com/2018/02/28/maurice-zundel-on-prayer/
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