Deliverance & Spiritual Protection

Prayer of Deliverance

A litany-form deliverance prayer widely used in Italian Catholic practice and circulated in English through Fr.

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My Lord, You are all powerful, You are God, You are Father. We beg You through the intercession and help of the archangels Michael, Raphael and Gabriel, for the deliverance of our brothers and sisters who are enslaved by the evil one. All saints of heaven, come to our aid. From anxiety, sadness and obsessions, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From hatred, fornication and envy, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From thoughts of jealousy, rage and death, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From every thought of suicide and abortion, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From every form of sinful sexuality, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From every division in our family and every harmful friendship, we beg You: free us, O Lord. From every sort of spell, malefice, witchcraft and every form of the occult, we beg You: free us, O Lord. Lord, You who said, "I leave you peace, My peace I give you," grant that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary we may be liberated from every evil spell and enjoy Your peace always. In the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

Traditional; Fr. Gabriele Amorth; Fr. Chad Ripperger, Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity

About the prayer

Gabriele Amorth and later collections such as Fr. Ripperger's. Its repeated response, "free us, O Lord," is the structure of the Litany of the Saints, and its list moves deliberately from ordinary interior afflictions — anxiety, sadness, rage — to the openly occult, reflecting the pastoral judgment that most spiritual distress is ordinary before it is ever extraordinary. It closes with the Lord's own words at the Last Supper (John 14:27).

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