Prayers to St. Michael the Archangel

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I love St. Michael :extrahappy: and I love praying this prayer to him:

**Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.**

ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/michael.htm :gopray2:

I also love praying this Chaplet to St. Michael: catholicdoors.com/prayers/chaplets/chap08.htm :crossrc:

Thank you for reading 🙂
 
I have a devotion to Saint Michael as well and because of that I chose him as my patron for Confirmation. I pray the prayer you quoted above quite frequently. However, I have never really liked the Chaplet of Saint Michael. I guess it is because I have not been able to get my head around all of the “Hail Mary’s” in a devotion to Saint Michael. Don’t get me wrong, I love our Blessed Mother and I say Hail Mary’s with great regularity. It just doesn’t make sense to me in a devotion to Saint Michael.

For that reason, I put together my own devotion to Saint Michael that I will attach to this post. You are free to use it should you desire or modify it to your taste should you see fit. Or, you are free to ignore it all together. I put it together using very traditional prayers of the Church centered around the Archangel himself.

I hope you like it.

Peace of Christ,

Jason
 
jwinch2 said:
I have a devotion to Saint Michael as well and because of that I chose him as my patron for Confirmation. I pray the prayer you quoted above quite frequently. However, I have never really liked the Chaplet of Saint Michael. I guess it is because I have not been able to get my head around all of the “Hail Mary’s” in a devotion to Saint Michael. Don’t get me wrong, I love our Blessed Mother and I say Hail Mary’s with great regularity. It just doesn’t make sense to me in a devotion to Saint Michael.

For that reason, I put together my own devotion to Saint Michael that I will attach to this post. You are free to use it should you desire or modify it to your taste should you see fit. Or, you are free to ignore it all together. I put it together using very traditional prayers of the Church centered around the Archangel himself.

I hope you like it.

Peace of Christ,

Jason
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Very nice Jason. I will try praying your modified version soon. Thanks.
 
jwinch2 said:
I have a devotion to Saint Michael as well and because of that I chose him as my patron for Confirmation. I pray the prayer you quoted above quite frequently. However, I have never really liked the Chaplet of Saint Michael. I guess it is because I have not been able to get my head around all of the “Hail Mary’s” in a devotion to Saint Michael. Don’t get me wrong, I love our Blessed Mother and I say Hail Mary’s with great regularity. It just doesn’t make sense to me in a devotion to Saint Michael.

For that reason, I put together my own devotion to Saint Michael that I will attach to this post. You are free to use it should you desire or modify it to your taste should you see fit. Or, you are free to ignore it all together. I put it together using very traditional prayers of the Church centered around the Archangel himself.

I hope you like it.

Peace of Christ,

Jason
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Thanks Jason 👍. It was nice of you to post your own version. I love Our Lady, as I can see you do also. For me, whatever prayer, chaplet or rosary that asks us to say a Hail Mary, I do so without question. All prayers are good prayers, so long as we say them with love and faith.

God bless 🙂
 
jwinch2 said:
I have a devotion to Saint Michael as well and because of that I chose him as my patron for Confirmation. I pray the prayer you quoted above quite frequently. However, I have never really liked the Chaplet of Saint Michael. I guess it is because I have not been able to get my head around all of the “Hail Mary’s” in a devotion to Saint Michael. Don’t get me wrong, I love our Blessed Mother and I say Hail Mary’s with great regularity. It just doesn’t make sense to me in a devotion to Saint Michael.

For that reason, I put together my own devotion to Saint Michael that I will attach to this post. You are free to use it should you desire or modify it to your taste should you see fit. Or, you are free to ignore it all together. I put it together using very traditional prayers of the Church centered around the Archangel himself.

I hope you like it.

Peace of Christ,

Jason
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Not include our Blessed Mother when you pray to St. Michael? Our Blessed Mother is the queen of the angels and the saints, of heaven and earth. She is the arch enemy of Satan. Her yes to the Holy Spirit was the reason our Lord was able to come to earth as a man and defeat Satan. She is the only sinless human being to ever exist (outside of her Son, of course). She is the one person Satan was never able to touch. In some ways I would say Satan hates her more than he hates Jesus because Jesus is God and of course Satan could not tempt him. But Mary was just a lowly human being like the rest of us, and yet he couldn’t get near her. He never once defeated her in any way.

Don’t you think that St. Michael, the prince of God’s spiritual army, would work right next to his Queen, our Blessed Mother? Why would you ever want to separate them in any way when it comes to fighting Satan and all his evil spirits?

There is a story that in one of her appearances to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, there was an evil growling sound coming from one of the caves. All our Blessed Mother did was turn and look in that direction and the growlling stopped immediately. Satan is completely powerless in the presence of Mary. Our Lord uses his Mother to defeat Satan.

I, too, have a great devotion to St. Michael. I say the chaplet every day (with the Hail Mary’s). I could never think of separating our Blessed Mother from St. Michael, and personally, I don’t think he wants to be separated from her.
 
Brooklyn said:
Not include our Blessed Mother when you pray to St. Michael? Our Blessed Mother is the queen of the angels and the saints, of heaven and earth. She is the arch enemy of Satan. Her yes to the Holy Spirit was the reason our Lord was able to come to earth as a man and defeat Satan. She is the only sinless human being to ever exist (outside of her Son, of course). She is the one person Satan was never able to touch. In some ways I would say Satan hates her more than he hates Jesus because Jesus is God and of course Satan could not tempt him. But Mary was just a lowly human being like the rest of us, and yet he couldn’t get near her. He never once defeated her in any way.

Don’t you think that St. Michael, the prince of God’s spiritual army, would work right next to his Queen, our Blessed Mother? Why would you ever want to separate them in any way when it comes to fighting Satan and all his evil spirits?

There is a story that in one of her appearances to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, there was an evil growling sound coming from one of the caves. All our Blessed Mother did was turn and look in that direction and the growlling stopped immediately. Satan is completely powerless in the presence of Mary. Our Lord uses his Mother to defeat Satan.

I, too, have a great devotion to St. Michael. I say the chaplet every day (with the Hail Mary’s). I could never think of separating our Blessed Mother from St. Michael, and personally, I don’t think he wants to be separated from her.
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I am fully aware of who Mary is so you can spare the lecture. I don’t include her because it is a devotion and act of consecration to Saint Michael, not to our Blessed Mother. Silly me, I like to include the actual prayers to Saint Michael in my devotion to Saint Michael.

Don’t like it? Don’t use it.

Its private devotion and can be done however one prefers as long as it is in line with the teachings of the Church. Every prayer I included is a traditional prayer of the Church.
 
This website has some very nice sacramentals which can be used in praying your devotion to Saint Michael. I have one of the “niner” chaplets and it is beautiful, with great quality. I always use it when I do my devotion to the Archangel.

rosaryworkshop.com/CHAPLETS-C9-SMA-MichaelArchangel.htm

They have many beautiful rosaries if you are looking for one of those as well.
 
jwinch2 said:
I am fully aware of who Mary is so you can spare the lecture. I don’t include her because it is a devotion and act of consecration to Saint Michael, not to our Blessed Mother. Silly me, I like to include the actual prayers to Saint Michael in my devotion to Saint Michael.

Don’t like it? Don’t use it.

Its private devotion and can be done however one prefers as long as it is in line with the teachings of the Church. Every prayer I included is a traditional prayer of the Church.
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You said you didn’t see any reason to include the Hail Mary’s when praying to St. Michael and I tried to show you why I do think it is important. You may get upset with me for writing this, but I wonder if you know the history of the St. Michael Chaplet.

It was given to a Portugese Carmelite nun, Antonia d’Astonac, by St. Michael himself. St. Michael is the one who told her to say the Hail Marys with the prayer. From my Kindle version of the St. Michael Chaplet:

The devout servant of God, Antonia d’Astonac, had a vision of Saint Michael. In the vision he asked Antonia to honor him by honoring the nine Choirs of Angels. He also promised that whoever practiced this devotion would have nine angels from each of the nine Choirs accompany them to Holy Communion. In addition, Saint Michael said in the vision that whoever recites the Chaplet daily will receive his continual assistance along with that of all of the holy angels throughout our earthly sojourn.

I have nothing against your prayer, it seems perfectly fine. But you’re right, I think I’ll stay with the one that came directly from St. Michael. I need all the help I can get. 🙂
 
Brooklyn said:
You said you didn’t see any reason to include the Hail Mary’s when praying to St. Michael and I tried to show you why I do think it is important. You may get upset with me for writing this, but I wonder if you know the history of the St. Michael Chaplet.

It was given to a Portugese Carmelite nun, Antonia d’Astonac, by St. Michael himself. St. Michael is the one who told her to say the Hail Marys with the prayer. From my Kindle version of the St. Michael Chaplet:

The devout servant of God, Antonia d’Astonac, had a vision of Saint Michael. In the vision he asked Antonia to honor him by honoring the nine Choirs of Angels. He also promised that whoever practiced this devotion would have nine angels from each of the nine Choirs accompany them to Holy Communion. In addition, Saint Michael said in the vision that whoever recites the Chaplet daily will receive his continual assistance along with that of all of the holy angels throughout our earthly sojourn.

I have nothing against your prayer, it seems perfectly fine. But you’re right, I think I’ll stay with the one that came directly from St. Michael. I need all the help I can get. 🙂
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I know the history of the Chaplet of Saint Michael, which is why I do not call my devotion by the same name. I took the structure, and put together something that I liked. It was designed to be a personal devotion, nothing more. Then, I asked multiple priests to look at it, to include sending it to the Michaelite Fathers to be sure everything was OK. You will also notice that I actually added some prayers to Saint Mary by putting in the Litany, which the Chaplet does not include. Again, the purpose of putting together the prayer in the manner that I did is that it is designed to be a devotion and act of consecration to Saint Michael. The Chaplet of Saint Michael does not function in the same way. There are many venerable prayers to the Archangel himself which I wanted to incorporate into a devotion.
 
jwinch2 said:
I know the history of the Chaplet of Saint Michael, which is why I do not call my devotion by the same name. I took the structure, and put together something that I liked. Then, I asked multiple priests to look at it, to include the Michaelite Fathers to be sure everything was OK. You will notice that I actually added some prayers to Saint Mary by putting in the Litany, which the Chaplet does not include.

Regardless, as you are surely aware, we are not bound to private revelation so if I choose not to believe that particular report, that is not a problem at all as far as the Church is concerned. I am not saying that I don’t, merely that I am not obligated to do so.
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No, we are not required to believe private revelations, but the Church also says that this is one that is worthy of belief, so we also can’t be faulted for accepting them, either. If you know the history, and you know it was given to us directly by St. Michael, then why do you have a problem with the Hail Mary’s being included in it? St. Michael was the one who did that. If you put the Litany in your own prayer, then why is it a problem to say the St. Michael prayer as it was originally given to us?

I really don’t mean to be arguing with you. I’m sure you put a lot of time and effort into your prayer, and if you read my post, you will see that I agree that there is nothing wrong with your prayer. I originally reacted to your comment that you can’t see why we should pray to our Blessed Mother in the St. Michael prayer, and I tried to show you why it is important to include her. That’s all this is about. I’m not trying to attack you or your prayer in any way.

And you’re right, the St. Michael chaplet is a private devotion. But there are certain promises attached to the prayer given to us directly by St. Michael that cannot be said of a prayer constructed by a human being.
 
Brooklyn said:
I originally reacted to your comment that you can’t see why we should pray to our Blessed Mother in the St. Michael prayer, and I tried to show you why it is important to include her.
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I disagree, but perhaps I should be more clear. My issue was the fact that there was far more mention of the Blessed Mother than Saint Michael, in a devotion supposedly about him. When I was looking for a devotion to Saint Michael at the time and not Saint Mary, that did not make sense to me. Since it is a private devotion, I am free to pray as I like.
But there are certain promises attached to the prayer given to us directly by St. Michael that cannot be said of a prayer constructed by a human being.
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Perhaps, perhaps not. I have a very difficult time seeing Saint Michael not coming to the assistance of someone who asks for his intercession with pure intention. Pope Leo XIII, when he constructed the prayer to Saint Michael, did not choose to include prayers to the Blessed Mother at the same time. The construction of that prayer was based off of private revelation as well.
 
jwinch2 said:
I disagree, but perhaps I should be more clear. My issue was the fact that there was far more mention of the Blessed Mother than Saint Michael, in a devotion supposedly about him. When I was looking for a devotion to Saint Michael at the time and not Saint Mary, that did not make sense to me. Since it is a private devotion, I am free to pray as I like.

Perhaps, perhaps not. I have a very difficult time seeing Saint Michael not coming to the assistance of someone who asks for his intercession with pure intention. Pope Leo XIII, when he constructed the prayer to Saint Michael, did not choose to include prayers to the Blessed Mother at the same time. The construction of that prayer was based off of private revelation as well.
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I think we are just going around in circles here. You seem very defensive, and I’m sure it’s because you think I am attacking your personal prayer. I do not have a problem with your prayers, I don’t know how to put that any plainer. You have a problem with the St. Michael Chaplet that the Church says was handed down to us by St. Michael himself (you can believe that if you want to or not, your choice) because you don’t think we should be praying to our Blessed Mother when it’s suppose to be about St. Michael. If you believe what we are told in private revelation, this is the way St. Michael wanted it.

But that really doesn’t matter. You are under absolutely no obligation to pray the St. Michael Chaplet. Of course you can pray as you like. If you want to do your own prayer, please, I wouldn’t think of telling you not to.

But there are those of us who associate St. Michael and the Blessed Mother together and I tried to explain to you why I feel differently than you do. Why can’t you just accept that without getting angry and defensive?

Of course St. Michael will listen to those who pray to him in good faith. But there are certain promises that are attached to the St. Michael Chaplet which just don’t attach to your own personal prayers. I personally like to think of angels surrounding me as I receive communion and also knowing that I will be protected by St. Michael and his angels for the rest of my life. Those are the promises attached to the St. Michael Chaplet.

The St. Michael Prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII is totally separate and apart from the St. Michael Chaplet. That prayer was composed by a human being. The St. Michael Chaplet was composed by St. Michael.

Can you please accept the fact that I am not attacking you or your prayer or your right to say it?
 
Brooklyn said:
Can you please accept the fact that I am not attacking you or your prayer or your right to say it?
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I understand that, and have from the get go. I just disagree with you on the rest. Can you please accept that?
 
Brooklyn said:
Not include our Blessed Mother when you pray to St. Michael? Our Blessed Mother is the queen of the angels and the saints, of heaven and earth. She is the arch enemy of Satan. Her yes to the Holy Spirit was the reason our Lord was able to come to earth as a man and defeat Satan. She is the only sinless human being to ever exist (outside of her Son, of course). She is the one person Satan was never able to touch. In some ways I would say Satan hates her more than he hates Jesus because Jesus is God and of course Satan could not tempt him. But Mary was just a lowly human being like the rest of us, and yet he couldn’t get near her. He never once defeated her in any way.

Don’t you think that St. Michael, the prince of God’s spiritual army, would work right next to his Queen, our Blessed Mother? Why would you ever want to separate them in any way when it comes to fighting Satan and all his evil spirits?

There is a story that in one of her appearances to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, there was an evil growling sound coming from one of the caves. All our Blessed Mother did was turn and look in that direction and the growlling stopped immediately. Satan is completely powerless in the presence of Mary. Our Lord uses his Mother to defeat Satan.

I, too, have a great devotion to St. Michael. I say the chaplet every day (with the Hail Mary’s). I could never think of separating our Blessed Mother from St. Michael, and personally, I don’t think he wants to be separated from her.
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:amen: I love your response so much :extrahappy:. I wouldn’t have thinking of saying all of that (even though I knew this already, I wouldn’t have been able to find the words). I fear I’m not as knowledgeable as a lot of you who are on these forums; and also I try to take care how to write things because I don’t want to offend anyone. But I love Our Lady so much and I know how powerful she is. She is my Mother (and Mother to all mankind) and I’m going to always run to her with open arms because I know she’ll protect me. That is why, without question or reserve, I will always pray to Her, in whatever prayer, chaplet or novena that asks me to :gopray2:.
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Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.**
 
hclws said:
I love St. Michael :extrahappy: and I love praying this prayer to him:

**Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.**

ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/michael.htm :gopray2:

I also love praying this Chaplet to St. Michael: catholicdoors.com/prayers/chaplets/chap08.htm :crossrc:

Thank you for reading 🙂
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I am a fan of St. Michael as well. I nearly chose him for my confirmation name, but went with Thomas Aquinas instead. Nevertheless my girlfriend, star of holiness that she is, bought me as part of a gift to celebrate my reception into the Church a 12-inch statuette of Michael slaying the Devil. I try to say his prayers every day.
 
sw85 said:
I am a fan of St. Michael as well. I nearly chose him for my confirmation name, but went with Thomas Aquinas instead. Nevertheless my girlfriend, star of holiness that she is, bought me as part of a gift to celebrate my reception into the Church a 12-inch statuette of Michael slaying the Devil. I try to say his prayers every day.
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Congratulations and welcome. That was a beautiful gift to receive from your girlfriend. I have one my sister-in-law bought for me about two years ago and I lit up when I got it. Truly a wonderful present to give or receive. 🙂
 
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