What purpose do the Leonine Prayers or "prayers after Mass" in the EF have now?

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I often wonder this at the end of Mass. Although I love the practice of saying those prayers after Mass, do they actually serve their original purpose anymore? Originally they were to solve the question of the papal state I believe, when that happened it was for the consecration of Russia. I believe that has happened as well?
Or do we just say them because that’s generally what happened in the mass of the 1962 missal?
 
If I may ask, what do you base this on? I just see the Saint Michael prayer, along with some Marian prayers, and the Amina Christi, which just foster devotion to Saint Michael, the Blessed Mother, and the Blessed Sacrament…
 
All I am asking is, since they were originally said for a purpose to resolve something the Church was concerned about, since they have since been resolved , are we really just praying for the traditional aspect that it’s what was prayed for in the Tridentine Mass in 1962 or is there a new thing we pray for now? There are many things they could be said for I just don’t know whether the Church has made an official Proclamation on it.
 
So, based on this article, I would think that the intention can be shifted.

However, I don’t know if there’s a formal intention at the present moment due to the EF falling by the wayside…
 
I didn’t mean overall, but by the ‘establishment’ Church.

Since relatively few people are praying the Leonine prayers, a new intention has not been decreed.
 
Oh gotcha.
Well when Pope Benedict XVI released Summorum Pontificate there was mixed reaction from the Church. Many traditionalists loved it. I would say the majority of Catholics or even priests were indifferent. I think the diocesan level never wanted it to succeed because there is a priest shortage in many dioceses to begin with and testing your priests loyalty to the pope by requesting a EF mass was something many were concerned about. That’s why I don’t think it ever succeeded on the diocese level much. However I don’t think the pope ever really intended it for the diocese level as much as to appease the societies who use the EF and also in hopes to bring the SSPX back into full communion.

Of course this is only my opinion.
 
The Leonine Prayers are protection prayers against Satan.
I don’t think Satan has disappeared, so I think we should definitely all continue to say the prayers.
Many OF parishes are now also saying the Prayer to St. Michael at the end of the Mass.
I think it’s great and should never have been done away with in the first place.
 
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Russia was never really consecrated worldwide by all churchmen at the same time as intended. The strange thing though is that it is the West that has rejected Christian values and Russia is realizing the hell they went through with 75 years of Communism and is in some ways returning to its Christian roots. What Russia has rejected the West now embraces. Our Lady of Fatima was right only it isn’t called Communism anymore; now it’s about the everyday frame of reference within the minds of the majority of our college and university attending young adults. I doubt I would even send my kids to college or university nowadays. They would do far better with a library card.
 
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The name “Leonine” derived from the fact that they were initially introduced by Pope Leo XIII. They were slightly modified under Pope Pius X.

The intention for which the prayers were offered changed over time. Originally they were offered for the defence of the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See. After this problem was settled with the Lateran Treaty of 1929, Pope Pius XI ordered them to be said for the restoration to the people of Russia of tranquillity and freedom to profess the Catholic faith. This gave rise to the unofficial use of the name “Prayers for the Conversion of Russia” for the prayers.

The final form of the Leonine Prayers consisted of three Ave Marias, a Salve Regina followed by a versicle and response, a prayer for the conversion of sinners and the liberty and exaltation of the Catholic Church, and a prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel. Pope Pius X permitted the addition of the invocation “Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us”, repeated three times.
They are commonly known as Prayers ordered by the Pope and are said immediately following the Last Gospel. (John 1:1-14)
 
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Yah I can’t argue that. The Leonine Prayers were to me really a beautiful way for Mass to end and ask for Divine Grace from the Church militant.

The Leonine Prayers and the Last Gospel in my opinion I think are two things from the Liturgy of the EF that I wish were never suppressed when the Mass of Paul Vl came out.
 
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Or just the west in general.
I doubt you’d ever see a Pope do that these days. Might offend someone…
 
It’s ironic since they were no longer obligatory in 1965 look at what’s happened to the state of society in the west…🤔
 
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