Don’t normally read from the Book of Tobit, but it comes up in the lectionary today, the Feast of Michael and All Angels.
This extract from Wikipedia gives you an idea of what you’ve been missing:
“That night, he (Tobit) slept in the open and was blinded by bird droppings that fell in his eyes. That put a strain on his marriage, and ultimately, he prayed for death.
Meanwhile, in faraway Media, a young woman named Sarah had prayed for death in despair. She had lost seven husbands to the demon of lust, Asmodeus, ‘the worst of demons’, who abducted and killed every man she married, on their wedding night before the marriage could be consummated. God sent the angel Raphael, disguised as a human, to heal Tobit and to free Sarah from the demon.
Along the way, while washing his feet in the river Tigris, he (Tobit’s son, Tobias), was attacked by a fish which tried to swallow his foot. By order of the angel he captured it. The heart, liver and gall bladder were removed to make medicines, by order of Raphael.
Upon arriving in Media, Raphael told Tobias of the beautiful Sarah, whom Tobias had the right to marry, because he was her cousin and closest relative. He instructed the young man to burn the fish’s liver and heart to drive away the demon when he attacks on the wedding night.
The two were married, and the fumes of the burning organs drove the demon away to Upper Egypt, while Raphael followed him and bound “