Saint Michael is one of only four angels called by name in the Bible. As the angel who wards off evil from God's people, the Archangel Michael also delivers peace to God's people at the end of life's struggles. It is on this Holy Feast Day of Sept. 29th that we recognize God's holy angels who serve and worship Him in heaven, and who also help and defend us here on earth.
The name "The Great Taxi Arch" draws attention to the archangel's senior rank in the celestial army. The cryptogram in the sphere held by Michael is interpreted as "Christ the Righteous Judge". The name Michael is translated "Who is like God" and was the war cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against Satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes Michael as one of the chief princes', and leader of the forces of heaven in triumph over the powers of hell.
Let us pray;
O great and holy Michael, Archangel of God, standing at the head of the angels before the everlasting +Trinity, O advocate and preserver of mankind, who - with your hosts - has broken in heaven the head of the daystar, Satan, the exceedingly proud one, and who always puts to shame his evil and cunning servants on earth, we run to you with faith and pray to you with love: be an unbreakable shield and firm bastion for the Holy Church and for our nation, protecting them with your lightning sword. Be for us a guardian angel, a wise counselor and helper of our land bringing to it from the throne of the Eternal Ruling King and Lord our God enlightenment and strength, joy, peace and comfort. Be for us the chief captain and fellow-fighter of our honorable country, crowning it with glory and victory over unjust adversaries that all who oppose us may know that God and His holy angels stand ready to defend us. Be the physician and healer of those wounded. Be the pillar and defender of those children of the Church of God that are in captivity. Forsake not, O Archangel of God, with your help and protection, those of us who today glorify your holy name. For, behold, though we are great sinners, yet we desire not to perish in our iniquities but to turn to the Lord and be made by Him to live for good works. Illuminate our minds with the light of the Countenance of God that shines without ceasing on the lightening-like forehead, that we may understand that the will of God concerning us is good and perfect and knows all that is right for us to do, and even that which is right to omit and overlook. Strengthen by the grace of the Lord, our weak and feeble purpose that made firm in the commandments of the Lord we may cease to wallow in earthly thoughts drawn by the lusts of the flesh as senseless children through the sorrow and contrition for our sins before God, that we may spend the remaining number of our days in this temporal life, not in the satisfying of our feelings and in the bondage to our passions, but in the blotting out of the evil we have done by tears of faith and heartfelt compunction, by works of charity, chastity, and holy acts of loving mercy. We give glory, honor and thanksgiving to You, Father+, Son and Holy Spirit, now and ever. AMEN