The angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary...
Sun Jul 13thTroparion of the Archangel Gabriel
O Captains and Leaders of the Armies of Heaven, unworthy as we are, we beseech you without cease to surround us with your intercessions and cover us beneath the shelter of the glory of your ethereal wings. We bend our knee and cry out with perseverance: Deliver us from danger, O Prince of the Powers on High.
"And rightly an angel is sent to the virgin, because the virgin state is ever akin to that of angels. Surely in the flesh to live beyond the flesh, is not a life on earth but in heaven."
St Jerome