Prayer to St. Michael, the Archangel

An additional prayer: "Dear Lord, we ask you to cover us with Your protection and the white light of the Holy Spirit against all harm and evil and to bind every spirit that may come against us. Into Your hands, Dear Lord, I commend my body, mind, soul and spirit.  St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us."  

May God rebuke him, 
  we humbly pray; 

and do thou, 
  O Prince of the heavenly host,
  by the power of God,
  thrust into hell, 
  satan and all evil spirits,
  who wander through the world
    for the ruin of souls.

 Amen.

The name Michael means "Who is like God." Since the very beginning of the Church, St. Michael the Archangel has been honored and invoked as its patron and protector. In art St. Michael is represented as the angelic warrior who defends us in battle.

On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said:

'"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power' (Ephesians 6:10). The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel (Revelation 12:7). Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to St. Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."'

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