Prayer of St. Michael After Mass making a comeback

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We do sometimes at our parish as it is named for St Michael.

As for the prayer being too scary, my kids say that after Mass too. But the funny thing is that it’s the prayer I have them say when they are worried about nightmares. I remind them of that and that they can turn to St Michael for protection and that’s the end of the conversation.
 
“So-called” in the sense that this is the popular phrase being used to describe what is going on.

We have had this particular “crisis” rear its head so many times over the last 20 years, and dozens of other unrelated crises involving different Church issues prior to that. Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown dioceses already went through their “crisis” from grand jury investigations about 10 years back.

The Church is perpetually assailed and in crisis, and in my opinion we should all be saying this prayer daily regardless of whether the Bishop has called for it to be said after Mass. I already have been saying it daily for a long time.
 
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Rather than frightening children, I think that talk of sin, evil and the devil makes adults more uncomfortable than it does children. Probably for good reason too. I think that children will quite readily accept that there is a spiritual battle for souls (including theirs) raging all around them. I think adults have more of an issue with confronting and accepting this than children do.
 
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Ours said it a few times, but it seems to have petered out. Don’t know why.
 
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The prayer was usually said after Low Mass (Latin).
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I think the real reason was because the new Mass sort of replaced the High Mass.

In the Extraordinary Form, a Low Mass (not sung) has different rubrics from the High Mass. But in the Ordinary Form, a sung mass and unsung mass are almost the same - except that you hear part of the mass that you would normally not hear.

So basically, there is no “low mass” in the Ordinary Form. I honestly think that was the reason, nothing more, nothing less.

In my parish, we have been praying it a few years now after all daily masses. It will be interesting to see if we pray it on Sundays or not. And if so, if we pray it after Mass or during the intercessory prayers
 
Children would also be more likely to trust in Jesus to save them from a devil, the same way they trust their dad when he shoos the monster from under their bed. It’s adults who sit up at 3 in the morning having anxiety they can’t shake. (I’ve been there)
 
My parish does, but we visited a different parish in the same diocese last Sunday and they did not. As of 2 years ago none of the parishes I ever attended in Ohio did it. (Diocese of Toledo) I am currently in the Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend.
 
Excellent!

We are in a time of testing. We are in a time of healing. We are in a time of strengthening. We are in a time of unification.

God’s infinite love of us is being revealed through all of this.
 
The Diocese of Pittsburgh is again. Our family has privately recited it after Mass (and at the end of our family prayers) for quite some time. It’s nice to do it as a parish now.

My sons are all quite young but they LOVE St. Michael. My oldest states that he will ask St. Michael to intercede for him against nightmares. They think it’s awesome that there’s a super strong angel “with a sword” who fights against the Devil.
 
I read an article a few years ago that St. Michael was an awesome saint for young boys because he fought the evil devil with a sword and was the ultimate superhero. I’ve seen a lot of T-shirts with this type of motif too.
 
That’s a shame. You can still say it privately if you like. After Mass or any other time.

I myself say it at the end of every Rosary, after the Hail Holy Queen.
 
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Thank you for evoking a fond memory of being on vacation with our son. He’s 30 now, but he was 8-9 had had a St. Micheal tee shirt on at Mass somewhere in Utah or Nevada. The elderly Irish priest rushed out afterward just to see his shirt.
 
I do not believe our diocese has any policy on this, but all of the parishes around here say it after daily mass, most of them for years.
 
We’ve been praying to St Joseph instead since the crisis, didn’t catch the reason yet
 
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Yeah he might have said something like that, but with all the football banter after Mass I had tuned out by then
 
I started saying it myself after Mass because of this very thread*

Edit: Not this one; a recent one
 
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