| V. Choir | 27 January |
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| Angel of the pure | John Chrysostom |
The image of this angel is full of life; the most beautiful thing about him is his eyes. They are like two deep, blue mountain lakes… all clear and big and shining. You can see how the sun of God’s love is reflected in them, right down to the bottom.
He carries a white lamb resting on fresh, young, green branches, but he carries it in the midst of high, burning flames. He looks mighty, like a fortified castle, and yet he has a pure, childlike face.
Saint Rubiel,
from the choir of the High Powers, is the tenth in the group of twelve who, according to the will of God, carry the covenant of the Almighty with mankind… with His Chosen People.
The fifth choir of angels, standing in the middle of the nine choirs, lives up to its name; these angels are mighty in their being as well as in their doing. They separate the upper choirs, the Victors, from the lower choirs, the Fighters. They stand like great castles in the history of mankind, watching over them as High Powers, compelling them to battle as Sealed Powers, helping and guiding them as Lower Powers.
Six of the twelve High Powers carry God’s covenant with His chosen people, the Israelites, from Abraham—to whom God first gave the word: “I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name famous. I will bless those whom you bless and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gen. 12:2-3)—onwards until our Lord Jesus Christ, who concluded the Old Covenant and sealed the New Covenant with His people, the Holy Church, with His Blood.
This New Covenant of God is again carried by six angels, shimmering in the radiance of the Holy Ghost. John the Baptist once said of Jesus Christ:
Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.… And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptize with water, said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and I gave testimony, that this is the Son of God.”
John 1:29-35
Saint Rubiel, standing among the six angels of the New Covenant, bears the Lord’s covenant with the pure, the clean, and the truthful, in the words “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). These pure ones include not only all children, but also those who obeyed the word of the Lord, “Unless you become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of Heaven,” and walked this path of being children before God. The holy Apostle Andrew was also appointed as a guardian for these mostly hidden people in life, because they, like him, burned their souls in the blaze of love and kept them young… for the Lord.
Prayer: Holy Angel, Saint Rubiel, let the flames of love also purify our heart, that it may be pure and a tabernacle for the Lord! Amen.