Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel
The Chaplet of St. Michael, also called the Angelic Crown, honors St. Michael and the nine choirs of angels. According to tradition, St. Michael revealed it to a Portuguese Carmelite, Antonia d'Astonac, and Blessed Pope Pius IX richly indulgenced it in 1851. It is prayed on a special chaplet of nine groups of three beads, but you can also use your fingers or an ordinary rosary.
For each of the nine salutations, pray one Our Father and three Hail Marys, then the invocation for that choir of angels. Finish with four Our Fathers (to St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, and your guardian angel) and the closing prayers. It is especially fitting on Michaelmas (September 29), during the St. Michael's Lent from August 15, and in times of spiritual struggle.
The Prayer
V. Incline unto my aid, O God. R. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father... 1. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of the Seraphim, may it please God to make us worthy to receive into our hearts the fire of His perfect charity. Amen. 2. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of the Cherubim, may God, in His good pleasure, grant us grace to abandon the ways of sin and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen. 3. By the intercession of St. Michael and the sacred choir of the Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts the spirit of true and sincere humility. Amen. 4. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of the Dominations, may it please God to grant us grace to have dominion over our senses and to correct our depraved passions. Amen. 5. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of the Powers, may God vouchsafe to keep our souls from the wiles and temptations of the devil. Amen. 6. By the intercession of St. Michael and the choir of the admirable heavenly Virtues, may it please God to keep us from falling into temptation, and may He deliver us from evil. Amen. 7. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of the Principalities, may it please God to fill our souls with the spirit of true and sincere obedience. Amen. 8. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of Archangels, may it please God to grant us the gift of perseverance in the faith and in all good works, that we may thereby be enabled to attain the glory of paradise. Amen. 9. By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly choir of all the Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant us their guardianship through this mortal life, and after death a happy entrance into the everlasting glory of heaven. Amen. Michael, glorious prince, chief and champion of the heavenly host, guardian of the souls of men, conqueror of the rebel angels, steward of the palace of God under Jesus Christ, our worthy leader, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtue: vouchsafe to free us all from every ill, who with full confidence have recourse to thee; and by thy incomparable protection enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our God. V. Pray for us, most blessed Michael, prince of the Church of Jesus Christ. R. That we may be made worthy of His promises. Let us pray. Almighty and eternal God, who in Thine own marvelous goodness and pity didst, for the common salvation of man, choose the glorious Archangel Michael to be the prince of Thy Church: make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficent protection from all our enemies, that at the hour of our death none of them may approach to harm us; rather do Thou vouchsafe unto us that, by the same Archangel Michael, we may be introduced into the presence of Thy most high and divine Majesty. Through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sources: The Angelical Crown, as translated in The New Raccolta (Philadelphia, 1903), public domain.
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