Prayer to St Michael & Recessional

[jude700]

Being in my late 70s, am used to saying the prayer to St Michael immediately after the dismissal response and before the recessional. Note that many organists have blasted and drowned out the celebrant’s trying to lead the St. Michael salutation. :tsktsk: There seems to be a difference as to when and if the Prayer is to be said. What is the liturgy form for this?:tsktsk:

 

[Elizium23]

The Leonine Prayers were suppressed in 1965, so technically there are no rubrics about the recital of the St. Michael prayer. In my parish we pray it during every Mass after the “Ite, missa est” and before the reverence of the altar. Your mileage may vary.

 

[pianistclare]

There’s not one single parish that does this around here. I haven’t seen it in years.

Sometimes, people stay behind to pray the rosary, and then you might hear it.
But never at Mass.

One can always pray it as a post-communion prayer, along with the Anima Christi.

 

[China123]

Our parish does it after communion and before the dismissal.

Only one of our priests regularly says it at all hi Masses. The other priests do not say it.

I think it varies priest to priest and might have fallen out of fashion for a lot of them.

 

[TigerKitty]

We say it after the final blessing and before the recessional hymn.

My old parish used to say it during the rosary.

 

[Elizium23]

I think it varies priest to priest and might have fallen out of fashion for a lot of them.

It did not “fall out of fashion”, it was suppressed explicitly by the Holy See in 1965. So priests who are adding it during/after the Mass now are more or less following a new trend of re-adding it.

 

[Brendan]

It did not “fall out of fashion”, it was suppressed explicitly by the Holy See in 1965. So priests who are adding it during/after the Mass now are more or less following a new trend of re-adding it.

Any priest who does so DURING Mass is acting in an illict fashion. But the Vatican placed no restrictions on what prayers a priest or congregation may say after Mass is over.

 

[InNomineDomini]

In my parish we pray it during every Mass after the “Ite, missa est” .

This is what mine does, at least during Daily Mass. Two of the other parishes in my area do the same.

 

[Sunbreak]

It’s not part of the liturgy anymore, but some parishes say it. A lay person leads this prayer after the Mass ends and the priest has left the sanctuary.

 

[IrishAm]

Being in my late 70s, am used to saying the prayer to St Michael immediately after the dismissal response and before the recessional. Note that many organists have blasted and drowned out the celebrant’s trying to lead the St. Michael salutation. :tsktsk: There seems to be a difference as to when and if the Prayer is to be said. What is the liturgy form for this?:tsktsk:

I often have the same challenge but, realizing it is a private devotion, I either get it in quickly (before the singing starts) or wait until after the singing is completed. When I am at a church where the celebrant leads the prayer to St. Michael or it is a expected devotion, I don’t have that problem. And, yes, many churches still end with the Prayer to St. Michael, it seems especially popular in those in areas with a large military population.