I must say I was shocked when I read your post. I pray for the angels help all the time and love this chaplet. What bothers you about this prayer? It’s an intercessory prayer, much like many others where we will address a Saint in heaven and ask them to pray for us. There certainly is no worship involved. I pray this chaplet every day, if I can.
The end prayer is particularly great which sums up that God has appointed the Archangel St. Michael as a prince of the Holy Church of Jesus Christ and through God’s mercy and desire for salvation for all men, He has given us St. Michael and the other angels, to deliver us from evil. This talking about the unseen spiritual battle that comes against us constantly-- not delivering us from evil in the sense of salvation (Christ’s role).
I have always thought of any intercessory prayer as praying to the Lord through a saint. I ask for that saint to join me in my prayer and give it to the Lord from their righteous hands-- for any saint in heaven is more righteous than I am and the prayer of the righteous avails much! However, it does take the assumption that God has given that saint the power to hear our prayer which many protestants don’t believe in that. Personally, I think God giving saints the ability to hear us and intercede is much like a charism is for us. If we can receive the gift of tongues or the power to heal or work miracles (see 1 Cor 12) then I reason that it is certainly possible that God’s heavenly army has been given all sorts of grace to help Him save souls.
