The Angel Raphael

Then Tobias answered his father Tobit, “I will do everything that you have commanded me, father,

So Tobias went out to look for a man to go with him to Media, someone who was acquainted with the way. He went out and found the angel Raphael standing in front of him, but he did not perceive that he was an angel of God.

So Tobit said to him, “Blessings be upon you, brother.” Then he called his son and said to him, “Make preparations for the journey, my son, and set out with your brother. May God in heaven bring you safely there and return you in good health to me, and may his angel, my son, accompany you both for your safety.” Before he went out to start his journey, he kissed his father and mother. Tobit then said to him, “Have a safe journey.”

for a good angel will accompany him; his journey will be successful, and he will come back in good health.”

So she stopped weeping.

Journey to Rages

The young man went out, and the angel went with him,

But the angel said to the young man, “Catch hold of the fish and hang on to it!” So the young man grasped the fish and drew it up on the land.

Then the angel said to him, “Cut open the fish and take out its gall, heart, and liver. Keep them with you, but throw away the intestines. For its gall, heart, and liver are useful as medicine.”

Then the young man questioned the angel and said to him, “Azariah, my brother, what medicinal value is there in the fish’s heart and liver and in the gall?”

and he wept and said to him, “I see you, my son, the light of my eyes!” Then he said, “Blessed be God. May his great name be upon us, and blessed be all the angels throughout all the ages.

I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the Lord.”

They kept blessing God and singing his praises, and they acknowledged God for these marvelous deeds of his, that an angel of God had appeared to them.