The Story of St. Michael: Why you Need Him!
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Who are the Angels and why did God create them? What do we know about them and how? Why is St. Michael given a special role and why do you need him? Fr. Chris answers these questions and tells the most incredible story about St. Michael who saved the life of a soldier. Also, he prays the ORIGINAL St. Michael prayer!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, thank you everybody for joining us here at a beautiful day at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:05.0 | We're coming to you live here from Stockbridge. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a great day because the relics of Saint Padre Pio are here, and St. Padre Pio had an awesome devotion to our topic today, |
| 0:18.0 | which I postponed from a few weeks ago now I know why not only other |
| 0:22.6 | relics of Padre Pio are here I'm gonna tell the story about my father as well and |
| 0:28.6 | today's topic is Saint Michael and so I think Chris Sparks for helping me verify |
| 0:35.6 | some of this information and I'm taking you back to the class of an elective I had in seminary called Angelology. |
| 0:41.3 | So this is a great topic and important one for you to be with us. |
| 0:46.3 | St. Michael the Archangel. Let us pray in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:52.3 | Amen. |
| 0:53.3 | St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. |
| 0:58.0 | Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. |
| 1:02.2 | May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. |
| 1:05.5 | And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, |
| 1:08.3 | by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits |
| 1:13.8 | who prowl about the world seeking the ruinous souls. Amen. |
| 1:18.5 | In the name of the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 1:23.2 | But you may not know that's not the original St. Michael Prayer. |
| 1:27.3 | And the original St. Michael Prayer. And the original St. Michael |
| 1:28.7 | prayer as penned by the greatest Pope ever, Pope Leo the 13th, we are going to pray at the end. |
| 1:35.7 | And there are so many graces from this prayer, the original prayer. I'm going to walk you through |
| 1:43.0 | it. You may have never prayed it in your life. |
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