They are often invoked in prayer and meditation for guidance, protection and healing, especially related to the specific virtues associated with them. The Archangel Gabriel is associated with the ...

O blessed Archangel Gabriel, we beseech thee ... didst announce to Mary the mystery of the Incarnation, so through thy prayers and patronage in heaven we may obtain the benefits of the same ...

That was how the Archangel Gabriel addressed Mary ... life that includes the appropriate practices of piety like mental prayer, recourse to the sacraments, waging ascetical struggle that would ...