Novena in Honor of St. Michael and All the Holy Angels - Day 1

The following Novena is in honor of St. Michael and All the Holy Angels. Angels are perfectly loyal servants of God who have been given to us as guides, protectors, and intercessors. Please consider praying the following Novena each day, with whatever private intention you seek, as well as the intentions of the Church, the Holy Father, and those intentions mentioned within the prayers.

The way to pray the novena is to pray the day's prayer, with the above intentions in mind, followed (if you desire) by the second prayer. This can be done at home, work, or in a church or chapel. You may also add to this devotion a Rosary, St. Michael Chaplet, private prayer, or other approved prayers.

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Novena In Honor of St. Michael and All the Holy Angels

First Day:

Ardent Seraphim, you who dwell in the eternal home of love, unceasingly absorbed in the rays of the Sun of Justice, we beg you in virtue of the Divine Blood, to enkindle in our hearts the holy fire with which you are consumed.

St. Michael, the Archangel, and all ye Holy Angels, protect us in our combats, that we may not perish in the tremendous judgment of God.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen

(Optional prayer): 

O all ye Holy Angels, who contemplate unceasingly the uncreated beauty of the Divinty, in company with our ever glorious Queen, we present and offer to you this novena not only as a means of obtaining favors (here specify your request), but also as a reparation for our past ingratitude, and that of all men. Deign to accept it, O amiable Spirits, in union with the love and devotion of such saints as were especially devout to you, and obtain for us the grace to spend this life fervently that it may be be commencement of that blessed life which we hope to live forever with you in heaven.

O God, who with wonderful order has regulated the functions of angels and men, grant that those who always assist before Thy throne in heaven may defend out lives here on earth, through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

N.B.:
A novena may be made at any time of the year, with any form of approved prayers, of which these are. By this exercise, the faithful may gain an indulgence of five years on each day, and a plenary indulgence at the end of their novena under the usual conditions. - "Preces et Pia Opera," 409. 


This Novena is from: St. Michael and The Angels, TAN Books, 1977.
You can purchase the Book at Aquinas and More.

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