[MaryVitamin] St. Michael

Mary Vitamin for September 29^th

 

Topic: Our Lady, St. Michael  and St. Francis 

 

Quote:

St. Louis de Montfort

"Even St. Michael, as St. Augustine says, although the prince of the heavenly court, is the most zealous in honoring [the Blessed Virgin Mary]  and causing her to be honored, and is always anxiously awaiting the honor of going at her bidding to render service to some one of her servants."

True Devotion to Mary, (Tan Books: 1941), 5.

 

Meditation:

St. Francis of Assisi was a servant of Our Lady and completely dedicated to her honor. St. Francis was also very devoted to St. Michael the Archangel.  Two years before the death of the Seraphic Father, during his customary 40 day fast and time of retreat dedicated to St. Michael, St. Francis received the crowning event of his life: The Stigmata. 

 

St. Bonaventure relates in his biography of St. Francis,

"Early in the morning of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, as [St. Francis] was praying in a secret and solitary place on the mountain, he beheld a seraph, having six wings, all on fire, descending to him from the height of heaven ...

 

When he beheld this, he marvelled greatly, and his heart was filled with mingled joy and sorrow. ...

 

The vision, disappearing, left behind it a marvellous fire in his heart, and a no less wonderful sign impressed on his flesh. For there began immediately to appear in his hands and in his feet the appearance of nails ... When the lover of Christ had been transformed by his true love into his own image, having fulfilled the forty days which he had thus spent in solitude before the feast of the Archangel Michael, this angelical man, Francis, descended from the mount, bearing with him the image of the Crucified, engraven, not on tables of wood nor stone by the hand of the artificer, but written on his members of flesh by the finger of the living God."

The Life of St. Francis of Assisi, (Tan Books: 1998), 123-4.

 

Resolution:

It is very Marian and Franciscan to be devoted to the Archangel St. Michael. Today, I will pray the chaplet of St. Michael in honor of the Feast day of the Archangels and remember that St. Michael greatly desires the honor of Mary, the Mother of God. (If time is short today, I will only read the nine invocations.)

For the chaplet of St. Michael see below or http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/csm.htm

 

Marian Vow:

"[A] particular devotion to St. Michael the Archangel and all the Guardian Angels, our celestial and powerful protectors should be cultivated."

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Constitutions #32

 

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

Thanks be to God for graces received.

 

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

 

A Marian Chaplet of St. Michael

 

One Our Father and three Hail Marys with each salutation

O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory be . . .

 

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 of the Immaculate.

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

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 profound humility of the Immaculate

4.      By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Dominions, may the Lord give us grace to govern our senses and subdue our unruly passions  in imitation of the Immaculate.

5.      By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Powers, may the Lord vouchsafe to protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil.

6.      By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Virtues, may the Lord preserve us from evil and suffer us not to fall into temptation.

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

8.      By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Archangels, may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works, in imitation of the Immaculate in order that we may gain the glory of Paradise.

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 hereafter to eternal glory with the Immaculate

Four Our Fathers in honor of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael
& your own Guardian Angel.

Let us pray:
O glorious Prince St. Michael, Chief and commander of the heavenly host, guardian of souls and vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King and our most admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence and super-human virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil who turn to thee with confidence and enable us 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 worthy of His promises.

Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness
and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy we beseech Thee, that we may be delivered by his powerful protection from all our enemies, and that none of them my harass us at the hour of our death, and that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy Divine Majesty.
This we ask through the merits of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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