Prayers to the Angels
Scripture presents angels as messengers and protectors sent by God, and Christian prayer has long asked for that protection.
The best known here is the prayer to St. Michael, but there are also simple guardian angel prayers children can learn easily.
15 prayers
- A Prayer for the Protection of Children
A contemporary parents' prayer of protection, drawing on Christ's words in Matthew 18:10 that the angels of children "always see the face…
- August Queen of the Heavens
A nineteenth-century French prayer, widely circulated with ecclesiastical approval and included in Fr. Ripperger's collection among the…
- Commission of the Care of Soul and Body
A prayer of entrustment, given in the deliverance tradition for those who feel unable to keep watch over themselves — in illness,…
- Consecration to St. Michael the Archangel
An act of dedication to St. Michael, drawn from the traditional consecration prayer that circulates with the Chaplet of St. Michael and in…
- Invocation of the Entire Heavenly Court
A summoning of intercession rather than a command: the one praying asks God to send the whole company of heaven — Our Lady, the archangels,…
- Litany of St. Michael the Archangel
A traditional litany in honor of the archangel who appears in Daniel 10 and 12 as the guardian of God's people and in Revelation 12 as the…
- Novena to St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael appears in Daniel, Jude, and the Book of Revelation as the prince of the heavenly host who casts down the dragon. Devotion to…
- Prayer Against Every Evil
One of the most widely circulated deliverance prayers in the Catholic world, popularized by Fr. Gabriele Amorth, for many years the chief…
- Prayer Against Retaliation
One of the most practically important prayers in the lay deliverance collection. The consistent counsel of exorcists — Fr. Ripperger and…
- Prayer Against Satan and the Rebellious Angels
Composed by Pope Leo XIII and published in 1890 as part of the Roman Ritual, this text is drawn from the Pope's longer exorcism against…
- Prayer to My Guardian Angel
A rhymed version of the Latin Angele Dei, attributed in substance to St. Anselm of Canterbury in the eleventh century and taught to…
- Prayer to St. Michael (Longer Form)
The longer exorcism prayer to St. Michael composed by Pope Leo XIII in 1890 and later published as a private devotional prayer. The shorter…
- Prayer to St. Raphael the Archangel
St. Raphael, whose name means "God heals," appears in the Book of Tobit as the angel who accompanies Tobias and restores his father's…
- Sealing Prayer of Protection
A short "sealing" prayer that a lay person may pray over himself and those under his lawful authority — spouse, children, household. It…
- The Chaplet of St. Michael
Based on a private revelation reported by the Portuguese Carmelite Antónia d'Astónaco in the eighteenth century and approved for devotional…