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This booklet includes Prayers to St. Michael. From the Old Testament times until today, St. Michael the Archangel has always powerfully defended and assisted God's people on earth. Based on Scripture, Church history and saintly traditions, this book explains St. Michael's name, his rank among the Angels, his victory over Satan, his role among the Israelites, his role as Guardian Angel of the Catholic Church, as defender of souls, Heavenly Physician, helper in battle, advocate of the dying, consoler of the Poor Souls in Purgatory and guardian of the Blessed Sacrament and the Pope. Also included are the apparition and victory at Monte Gargano, the huge shrine to the Archangel on Mont St. Michel, the vision of Pope Leo XIII and St. Michael's role to come at the End of Time. Here too is a treasury of prayers, including the famous Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel. A goldmine of traditional facts which will be an eye-opener and an encouragement to all Catholics in our daily spiritual battles!

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Philosophie et théologie

Christian theology

Catholic Church

Christianity

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 décembre 2006
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780895552693
Langue	English

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St. Michael the Archangel
Including Prayers to St. Michael
Nihil Obstat:
William H. Baum, S.T.D.

Censor Librorum
Imprimatur: ✠
Charles H. Helmsing

Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph

September 19, 1962
Originally published at Clyde, Missouri under the title “ ’Neath St. Michael’s Shield.” 5th edition, 1962.
Retypeset and republished in 2006 by TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC.
ISBN 978-0-89555-844-2
Cover illustration and frontispiece: Photograph of “Saint Michael the Archangel” stained-glass window. Photo © 1992 Al Brown, Bardstown, Kentucky.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com 2012
      “. . . Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . .”
— Daniel 10:13IW
St. Michael casting Lucifer into Hell.
“A ND THERE WAS a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels: and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven, and that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.”
— Apocalypse 12:7-9
NOTE
In obedience to the decrees of Pope Urban VIII, no higher authority is claimed for what is related in this booklet than that which is due to human testimony, except insofar as the teaching of the Church is involved.
Contents
1. Devotion to St. Michael, Most Suitable for Our Times
2. Offices of St. Michael
3. Veneration of St. Michael
4. Prayers
       “But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book .”
— Daniel 12:1
    Chapter 1
Devotion to St. Michael
Most Suitable for Our Times
L UCIFER has placed his stamp upon the present age. Open and secret revolt against God and His Church, the spirit of criticism, unbelief and immorality are spreading. The arrogant boast of Lucifer, “I will be like the Most High!” re-echoes everywhere. Puffed up with their discoveries and the progress in material science, men loudly proclaim their self-sufficiency and deny the existence of a Supreme Being. Governments and secret societies, plotting against God and striving to blot out from homes and schools, from offices and factories, all traces of Christianity, show plainly whose standard they follow. Never before in the world’s history were God’s rights so blasphemously mocked and denied, or the rights of man so arrogantly asserted, as they are today.
These frightful evils must convince us that we must turn to St. Michael, the Archangel, that glorious prince of Heaven who rendered all glory to God, conquering Lucifer and casting him into the abyss.
Already three centuries ago, St. Francis de Sales wrote: “Veneration of St. Michael is the great remedy against despising the rights of God, against insubordination, skepticism and infidelity”—vices which are perhaps more prevalent now than ever before.
Surely, it is time for Christians to “rise from sleep” and to offer vigorous resistance to the enemies of salvation. The weapons in this conflict are not the arms of civil warfare, but the spiritual weapons of prayer and penance, increased fidelity to the Commandments of God, and frequent reception of the Sacraments. And surely we can choose no better leader in this conflict than the powerful captain who led the faithful Angels to victory.
Let us, then, with confident trust invoke the aid and the protection of this mighty Archangel whose shield bears the inscription: “ MI-CHA-EL”—“Quis ut Deus ”—“Who is like unto God?”
    Chapter 2
Offices of St. Michael
Prince of the Heavenly Hos