Do you pray the St Michael prayer in your parish?

[ProVobis]

Only heard it during the Angelus and after Low Masses (EF).

In English the cadences usually come out horribly as some say “defend,” some say “protect”; some say “thrust” some say “cast” and so forth.

 

[suko]

We don’t say it here and I cannot understand why it was dropped in the first place.

My guess is that it initially was never part of the Novus Ordo mass (back in 1969?), and it’s only in recent times, that parishes have been inserting it.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Yes but we pray it at the beginning or actually before Mass. Along with the prayer for canonization of a blessed.

 

[pnewton]

We do not say it publically. It remains a private prayer in my family at night.

 

[vz71]

Never heard it at any Mass.

 

[27lw]

It was standard practice to pray this in the pre-Vatican II Mass.
From wikipedia - “By “the Prayer to Saint Michael” is usually meant one particular prayer among the various ones that are addressed to Michael the archangel. This is the Prayer to Saint Michael that was directed to be said after Low Mass in the Catholic Church from 1886 to 1964.”

Now I think it’s just done if the priest chooses to. Our priest does - - I can tell the congregation loves it!

 

[brigid12]

On the left coast, none of the many parishes (except one-which was very “old school”) I’ve attended say it. The one that said it said it right after the recessional.

 

[NeedsMercy]

It was standard prior to Vatican II. Now more than ever, we need it. I would love if our parish started saying it at the end of Mass again, as it used to be.