[Catholic Caucus] Paprocki defends Saint Michael prayer in Wall Street Journal

Rorate Caeli ^ | October 28, 2024 | Kenneth J. Wolfe

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[FamiliarFace]

At the behest of our Pastor, our parish says the St. Michael the Archangel prayer after every Mass. I say it every night with my usual bedtime prayers. I also say it during the day when I have a situation that I think about, where I think it could help. That prayer helps me. Every day. It is very powerful.

[posterchild]

I live in a city with 3 catholic churches. One church is ‘traditional’, one is more ‘modern’, and one is on the university campus. Only the one on the university campus ends mass with the Prayer to St Michael the Archangel.

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The Holy See suppressed this practice in 1964 because the prayer interferes with the integrity of the Mass.

VC II concluded a year later, in 1965. Connect the dots.

[steve86]

Interesting how you don’t capitalize “Catholic” or “Mass”.

[posterchild]

sorry mother superior, no slight intended.

[married21]

Weekday masses at our parish include the St Michael prayer. Our pastor leaves and then the lay people say it. The young associate from Africa, however, says it with the congregation before he leaves.
I understand from Relevant Radio that the pastor has it right, because it really is optional and people need to feel they can go ahead and leave if they like because mass is really over.
But on weekdays, the congregation is more likely to want to stay anyway so the associate’s habit is not really inconveniencing anyone.

[fidelis]

Many of the parishes in the diocese where I live pray this prayer after the mass is over. I pray it everyday; in the morning and after my rosary. And I include it on my daily devotional thread here on FR:

My Catholic Life! devotional thread

[Dr. Sivana]

Interesting how you don’t capitalize “Catholic” or “Mass”.

Not so interesting if he has to deal with a telephone touchscreen. This is a free-flowing computerized bulletin board, not a formal publication subject to style guides.

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Traditionally, the St Michael Prayer is prayed, together with the priest on his knees before the altar, after all Low Masses. It is not prayed after High Masses.

I don’t consider Relevant Radio to be relevant to me.

N.B. The Last Gospel, also prayed after Mass, was also eliminated in 1964.

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But on weekdays, the congregation is more likely to want to stay anyway so the associate’s habit is not really inconveniencing anyone.

P.S. I've never felt inconvenienced by praying after Mass, whether it be the St. Michael Prayer or Benediction.

[steve86]

I use Smartphone touchscreen exclusively and utilize punctuation and case extensively.

[Dr. Sivana]

I use Smartphone touchscreen exclusively and utilize punctuation and case extensively.

Great! But some people have small phones (e.g. original iPhone SE) and/or fat fingers. Some just aren't as good at it. Smartphone typing is still a clunky system compared to a real keyboard.

[steve86]

I agree but I have become so accustomed to phones (various cheap Androids) that it feels positively weird to sit down with an actual keyboard and monitor. Like being in an IMAX theater or something. My home desktop is banished as a security camera server now and the chair in front of it is accumulating dust.

[Dr. Sivana]

I LOVE my 43” screen and full sized clicky non-membrane keyboard. I love being able to back up and entire terabyte to a flash drive without slowing down anything else. The phone is great when I am out and about, but my first IT love is a full tower computer with terabytes of storage, 32 GB of RAM memory, and a good Blu-Ray/DVD/CD burner.

[steve86]

I am actually putting together a gaming system mainly for flight simulators so will have to get used to the big screen again. Accidentally ordered RAM for it twice so it will have 64GB Of DDR4.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I pray for the sad priest. Saint Michael, protect him from harm. Padre Pio, cheer him up you secretly hikarious guy! And take St Theres with you, crack that man up!!!!

All in the name and honor of Jesus Christ!

[Trump_Triumphant]

Absolutely. Who would want that prayer suppressed? Only the devil and his minions. Bugnini was back in Rome at this point, creating his counterfeit liturgy.

[Fedora]

The Jesuit-educated activist attorney-priest Bednar also hates the Gospel of John, kneeling for Communion, the Eucharistic revival. . .but he loves Amoris Laetitia, Islam, and speaking to homosexual-friendly denominations like the Painesville, OH First Congregational United Church of Christ.