In planning their black mass, the OKC satanists overlooked one little fact

 "St. Michael the Archangel," Vatican City

The OKC satanists have bragged about using a consecrated host in their upcoming black mass, but you can only get a consecrated host from one place - a Catholic church.  And since Catholics would never knowingly give a consecrated host to satanists,  they must have obtained it by fraud or by stealing it.   Which means the satanists do not have a legal right to possess the host.  The archbishop of OKC has just sued for the return of the host within 5 days, and the judge has already ordered the satanists not to destroy the host in the meantime.

The archbishop of OKC has asked people to pray to St. Michael the Archangel during the next five days for help in winning this fight.  Here is the prayer:

St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Archbishop drops suit; consecrated host returned.   The leader of the satanists explained: “I don’t feel like wasting thousands of dollars fighting over a cookie.”  Yeah, right.  Sounds just like something the father of lies himself might have said.   Still, no one will claim Satan got the best lines in this particular epic.  
Deo gratias et Michaeli Archangeli gratias. 

Happy Michaelmas Day!

                         "St. Michael the Archangel," Hamburg, Germany


Today is the feast of St. Michael the Archangel. It's also the feast of the Archangel Gabriel and the Archangel Raphael (see Catholic Encyclopedia articles here and here ).

Angels are not to be dismissed as trifling, pious whimsy.  Not only have angels inspired serious reflection from such fine theological minds as St. Basil, St. Robert Bellarmine and St. Bonaventure, but Catholic tradition has accorded them important offices.  For instance, tradition, in accordance with scripture, gives the following duties to St. Michael:

    - To fight against Satan.

    - To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.

    - To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.

    - To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. The Shepherd of Hermas, Book III, Similitude 8, Chapter 3).

It is fitting, then, on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel to pray: 

St. Michael the Archangel,

defend us in battle.

Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,

and do thou,

O Prince of the heavenly hosts,

by the power of God,

thrust into hell Satan,

and all the evil spirits,

who prowl about the world

seeking the ruin of souls.  Amen



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