Prayer of St. Michael After Mass making a comeback

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I wish my Church said the St. Michael Prayer after mass…
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Apparently a number of bishops, including but not limited to Archbishop Chaput, have directed their dioceses to resume the practice of saying the Prayer to St. Michael after all Masses in response to the so-called crisis in the Church. I have heard this mentioned at a couple of Masses, and the prayer is now being said either after the final blessing or else during the announcement time right before the final blessing.

Just curious as to what other dioceses may be doing this?
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One Catholic Church in my area has been praying this prayer for a long time. Our Church prayed it this weekend, for the first time. I’m not sure if we’ll pray it weekly or not.
 
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My diocese just started doing this too, we are supposed to for a year, but I hope they decide to make it permanent.
 
Yes we do I’m part of the archdiocese of Portland Oregon my parish is and we recite the prayer.
 
My diocese doesn’t have an official directive in regards to saying the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel at the end of Mass, but it has been a tradition at many churches of the deanery I live in (for as long as I can remember) to say the prayer at the conclusion of every weekday Mass. One of the lay ministers at the weekday Mass usually starts the prayer, though occasionally the priest does. It’s not usually said at the end of a Sunday Mass, though.
 
The Bishop in my diocese of Orlando has not called for it but our parish priest leads the Saint Michael prayer during mass after the prayers of intercession.
 
Good news. The priests pray it where I go at. It takes only a few seconds and it is a powerful prayer related to a powerful ally
 
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I’ve not heard it said in the masses here, but it is on the Pope’s prayer network as a request for the faithful to add in the rosary for the month of Oct so perhaps that’s why?
I’ve always said it with my rosary anyway as I think it’s worth a note.
 
As to why it was discontinued…it was one of many good things the Council did not intend to be removed, that disappeared because some people wanted it out.

This was about the same time religion texts began omitting mention of angels, good or bad. Some began implying the Mass was primarily a community building activity. New hymns focused our attention on US. (Is God giving us sufficient recognition?) The St. Michael prayer didn’t fit into that new atmosphere.
 
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It looks like all these bishops were already consecrated or in process prior to Pope Francis. My guess is none of them would have been consecrated after he took direction of the bishop appointment process.
 
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The Pope seems to be in favor of the St. Michael Prayer, as Bluebright noted above, so if he has issues with these bishops, the prayer isn’t one of them.
I am sure all of these bishops as well as the Pope would also like to get rid of the problem of clergy sex abuse and bad sexual behavior.
 
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The Pope seems to be in favor of the St. Michael Prayer, as Bluebright noted above, so if he has issues with these bishops, the prayer isn’t one of them.
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I wasn’t making a point about Pope Francis personally, but about the kind of people he appoints, his spokesmen, and the kind of people who admire him the most. They grudgingly accept his exorcisms, his comments about “the devil”, as kind of a personal ideosyncrasy from his upbringing, not part of the real program. I suspect many of his strongest admirers don’t believe a devil exists at all, based on what they say about other things.

I bet if Pope Francis gets to replace those bishops, the St. Michael Prayer will gradually be phased out in those dioceses.
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Given that a lot of priests seem to make personal decisions whether or not to say the prayer irrespective of what the Bishop is advocating, I reckon it will continue to be said or not said on an individual church basis.
 
Lay people can respectfully request it be said. In my parish a family with many children says it quietly after Mass on their own, not in any way distracting to those who linger to pray.

The problem is most Catholics don’t know this prayer exists. Many no longer realize that angels or devils exist in any real way; they likely were taught they are strictly symbolic. It would be appropriate for a parish (and Catholic school) to at least teach people this prayer, and offer it as a congregation a few times a year.
 
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My bishop has asked all parishes within his diocese (Fort Worth) to say the prayer after mass during the month of October.
 
I am uncomfortable with Bishop Caggiano’s direction that the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel be recited at the end of each and every Mass in his diocese. I am pleased that my google searches for a similar announcement by Archbishop Chaput have been unsuccessful.

From
https://twitter.com/x/status/1032984939564855296

“I would also like to announce that the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel will be recited at the end of each and every Mass celebrated in the Diocese, beginning on the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. I ask that you begin to pray it personally as well.”

My problems are that it is not a prayer in the Roman Missal. Ending Mass with it is not in the Roman Missal. Bishop Caggiano seems to be reversing a decision made by Pope Paul VI and promulgated in the 1964 Instruction Inter Oecumenici, 48 (at http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdwinoec.htm ):

“j. The last gospel is omitted; the Leonine Prayers are suppressed.”

This was done following the 1963 Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium 50.

The Roman Missal tells us how Mass should end in the General Instruction. In the description of Mass without a Deacon:

“168. Immediately after the Blessing, with hands joined, the Priest adds, Ite, missa est ( Go forth, the Mass is ended ) and all reply, Thanks be to God .
  1. Then the Priest venerates the altar as usual with a kiss and, after making a profound bow with the lay ministers, he withdraws with them.
  2. If, however, another liturgical action follows the Mass, the Concluding Rites, that is, the Greeting, the Blessing, and the Dismissal, are omitted.”
In the description of Mass with a Deacon:

“185. … After the Priest’s blessing, the Deacon, with hands joined and facing the people, dismisses the people saying, Ite, missa est ( Go forth, the Mass is ended ).
  1. Then, together with the Priest, the Deacon venerates the altar with a kiss, makes a profound bow, and withdraws in a manner similar to the Entrance Procession.”
Does a Bishop have the authority to change the liturgy in this way?

From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal:

“387. The Diocesan Bishop, who is to be regarded as the High Priest of his flock, and from whom the life in Christ of his faithful in some sense derives and upon whom it depends,148 must promote, regulate, and be vigilant over the liturgical life in his diocese. It is to him that in this Instruction is entrusted the regulating of the discipline of concelebration (cf. nos. 202, 374) and the establishing of norms regarding the function of serving the Priest at the altar (cf. no. 107), the distribution of Holy Communion under both kinds (cf. no. 283), and the construction and ordering of churches (cf. no. 291). It is above all for him, moreover, to nourish the spirit of the Sacred Liturgy in the Priests, Deacons, and faithful.”

[Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010 ICEL. All rights reserved.]
 
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If the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel were a hymn, then the argument could be made that a recessional hymn is permitted by the 1967 Instruction Musicam Sacram (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_.../vat-ii_instr_19670305_musicam-sacram_en.html) :

“36. There is no reason why some of the Proper or Ordinary should not be sung in said Masses. Moreover, some other song can also, on occasions, be sung at the beginning, at the Offertory, at the Communion and at the end of Mass.”

But the idea that a bishop could direct a particular song be used at the end of every Mass is opposed by the next sentence in the Instruction:

“It is not sufficient, however, that these songs be merely “Eucharistic”—they must be in keeping with the parts of the Mass, with the feast, or with the liturgical season.”
 
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