A prayer for help from the angels; Angels: Day 209

St. Gildas  the Wise  lived in the time after the legendary King Arthur, when barbarians were destroying his native Britain. Here he prays God to send him help from all the angels.

Help, unity of trinity,

have pity, trinity of unity;

Help me, I pray, thus placed

as in the peril of a great sea, So that the plague of this year

will not draw me with it, nor the vanity of the world. And this very prayer I make to the high

powers of the heavenly warfare,

that they will not leave me to be harried by enemies,

but defend me with their strong armor;

that before me in the battle will go

those armies of the heavenly warfare, Cherubim and Seraphim with their thousands,

Gabriel and Michael with like ones.

May Thrones, Powers, Archangels, Principalities, Dominions, Angels,

defend me with their thick array,

and be strong to overthrow my enemies.

–St. Gildas the Wise, Lorica

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

When troubles surround me, do I remember that God has an army of angels ready to help me if I ask for their help?

CLOSING PRAYER

May Christ make with me a strong covenant, he whose terror scares away the foul throngs.

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