The Chaplet of Saint Michael the Archangel / From the Marian Devotional Movement

 The Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel 

 

The Chaplet of St. Michael is a wonderful way to honor this great Archangel along with the other nine Choirs of Angels. What do we mean by Choirs? It seems that God has created various orders of Angels. Sacred Scripture distinguishes nine such groupings: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels and Angels (Isa. 6: 2; Gen. 3: 24; Col. 1: 16; Eph. 1: 21; Rom. 8: 38). There may be more groupings but these are the only ones that have been revealed to us. The Seraphim is believed to be the highest Choir, the most intimately united to God, while the Angelic Choir is the lowest. 

The history of this Chaplet goes back to a devout Servant of God, Antonia d'Astonac, who had a vision of St. Michael. He told Antonia to honor him by nine salutations to the nine Choirs of Angels. St. Michael promised that whoever would practice this devotion in his honor would have, when approaching Holy Communion, an escort of nine angels chosen from each of the nine Choirs. In addition, for those who would recite the Chaplet daily, he promised his continual assistance and that of all the holy angels during life, and after death deliverance from purgatory for themselves and their relations.

 

The Chaplet of St. Michael 

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the father, etc. 

Opening Prayer 

 

O Mighty Prince of the Heavenly Host Saint Michael, we beg you to protect and defend us in all struggles against the everyday temptations in this world, help us to overcome all evils and strengthen us that we may declare our faith in loyalty to the most High, so that together with all the angels and saints in heaven we may glorify the Lord. Saint Michael, please intercede for us together with the Blessed Virgin Mary and obtain for us all the intentions on our chaplet. Present to God the Father all these petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord together with the Holy Spirit, forever and ever, Amen 

[Say one Our Father and three Hail Marys after each of the following nine salutations in honor of the nine Choirs of Angels] 

1. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Seraphim may the Lord make us worthy to burn with the fire of perfect charity.  
Amen. 

2. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Cherubim may the Lord grant us the grace to leave the ways of sin and run in the paths of Christian perfection.  
Amen. 

3. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Thrones may the Lord infuse into our hearts a true and sincere spirit of humility.  
Amen. 

4. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Dominations may the Lord give us grace to govern our senses and overcome any unruly passions.  
Amen. 

5. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Virtues may the Lord preserve us from evil and falling into temptation.  
Amen. 

6. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Powers may the Lord protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil.  
Amen. 

7. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Principalities may God fill our souls with a true spirit of obedience.  
Amen. 

8. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Archangels may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works in order that we may attain the glory of Heaven.  
Amen. 

9. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Angels may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted in the life to come to Heaven.  
Amen. 

Say one Our Father in honor of each of the following leading Angels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael and our Guardian Angel. 

Concluding prayers: 

O glorious prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King and our admirable conductor, you who shine with excellence and superhuman virtue deliver us from all evil, who turn to you with confidence and enable us by your gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. 

Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises. 

Almighty and Everlasting God, Who, by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, has appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael Prince of Your Church, make us worthy, we ask You, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into Your Presence. This we ask through the merits of Jesus Christ Our Lord.  
Amen. 

 

Why Was the Latin Mass Really Attacked? With Dr. Janet Smith Coffin Nation - Episode 241

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"from 1962 to 1965 you had Soviet Communism taking route everywhere: China, North Korea, Eastern Bloc Countries, You had Cardinal Mindszenty , Primate of Hungary in jail being tortured. You have
Father Walter Ciszek still in prison in the Soviet Gulag. You had actual priests and Prelates in Communist jails and there was at least one Schema presented to the Council Fathers on Communism and not only was it not edited, it was ignored. Not one line in Vatican 2 Condemning Communism" 

taken from this episode starting about 60 minutes into the podcast

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O Canada We Stand on Guard for thee!

We love you Canada!

Happy birthday to the baby of our family!

We love you Barb!

Dallas gives emotional award speech for The Chosen

The Kingdom of God - Parking Lot Mass - Annunciation Parish Ottawa

When a society actually endorses evil, where will it end?

 From He Leadeth Me  ( pages 120-121 )

 by Father Walter Ciszek S.J.

"Abortion is legal in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants one can have it performed. The government says it has to be legal in order to prevent private abuses. The wages of husband and wife together make it hard to support more than one or two children so everyone wants an abortion. Yet the question haunts them. The hallways of the clinics adjoining the abortion rooms were full of posters, not praising abortion, but informing patients of the possible detrimental effects on both mind and body such an operation could have. The doctors, mostly women, and the nurses and other personnel would try to dissuade patients from the operation. Women confided years later that they could not rid themselves of feelings of guilt about it. And these were not "believers" but women and girls who had received a complete atheistic education in Soviet schools. 

Even for Communism, it is a basic question of life and death, of wrong and right. If life at its very roots can be treated so lightly, people would say, who is going to stop such a mentality from spreading? Society? Hardly. Society can't even handle properly its present problems of crime and other social disorders. And when a society actually endorses evil, where will it end? Can man alone be trusted to solve mankind's problems? Look at history and the depths to which civilized countries have sunk, time after time." 

Walter J Ciszek. S.J. (1904-1984 ) a servant of God, spent twenty-three years in the Soviet Gulag and is now being considered for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church

Pray the Mass Like Never Before - Father Mike Schmitz

 

The Kingdom of God

From Pope Benedict XVI by by ubique lucet

https://ubiquelucet.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/benedict-xvi-on-the-kingdom-of-god/

As an interlude between Catechism summaries, it’s worth looking a bit more at the concept of the Kingdom of God.

Pope Benedict XVI discusses the Kingdom in the first volume of  Jesus of Nazareth, especially in Chapter 3.

Benedict outlines three ways of interpreting the Kingdom, drawn from the Fathers of the Church:

• as Jesus Himself;
• as located deep within the believer;
• as being in close relationship to the Church.

Then he critiques a few modern theories that fall short: e.g., that the Kingdom is all about the end of the world, or that it is all about our efforts to bring about peace and justice on earth (“the secular-utopian idea”).

After mentioning that both the Hebrew and Greek words for Kingdom are action words — connoting “God’s actual sovereignty over the world” — Benedict goes on to offer his own explication of this richly evocative term, and espouses the interpretation of Jesus being the Kingdom in person:

The new and totally specific thing about his message is that he is telling us: God is acting now — this is the hour when God is showing himself in history as its Lord, as the living God, in a way that goes beyond anything seen before. ‘Kingdom of God’ is therefore an inadequate translation. It would be better to speak of God’s being-Lord, of his lordship (p. 56).

The new proximity of the Kingdom of which Jesus speaks — the distinguishing feature of his message — is to be found in Jesus himself. Through Jesus’ presence and action, God has here and now entered actively into history in a wholly new way (p. 60).

In Jesus, God is now the one who acts and who rules as Lord — rules in a divine way, without worldly power, rules through the love that reaches ‘to the end’ (Jn 13:1), to the Cross (p. 61).

…the Kingdom of God is ‘realized’ in his coming….Jesus, as the One who has come, is nonetheless the One who comes throughout the whole of history…(p. 188).

Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008).

March for Life, May 13, 2021

"The common outcry which is justly made on behalf of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family to culture, is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination." Pope John Paul II, Christifideles laici

"Those who deem themselves to be Christian must know this fact. They are bound by conscience to the basic, imperative duty of bearing witness to the truth in which they believe and to the grace that has transformed their soul. "Blessed Pope John XXIII

Photos from my sister, Pat 

 

Videos by Pat

Jeff Gunnarson President of CLC Speaks before the March

Mama Mary Pray for us and for our children and for our country

Videos and photos by Maureen

Videos are below the photos

 The Kingdom of God 

Scenes from the March

MP Derek Sloan 

Leaving Parliament Hill and footage of the entire March 

Returning to Parliament Hill - coming down Kent Street

Hymn to Mother Mary - Edgar Alan Poe

 https://www.churchpop.com/2015/10/04/edgar-allen-poes-forgotten-hymn-to-our-lady/

At morn – at noon – at twilight dim –

Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!

In joy and woe – in good and ill –

Mother of God, be with me still!

When the Hours flew brightly by,

And not a cloud obscured the sky,

My soul, lest it should truant be,

Thy grace did guide to thine and thee

Now, when storms of Fate o’ercast

Darkly my Present and my Past,

Let my future radiant shine 

With sweet hopes of thee and thine.

Edgar Allan Poe