News — archangels

You’re the newest recruit in your company of the Archangelic Special Forces and it’s your first solo op. Your squad has been good-naturedly hazing you for weeks, and all Angelic Intelligence Assets suggest today is the day you complete the mission and finally earn your place on the team. The company commander has your blood wings ready back at the base, just waiting on word that you’re headed back so he can get the troops in formation for your award ceremony. You’re pretty sure the squad leaders have a few six-packs stowed away behind the barracks. They might have even...

Resurrecting an old blog post with a few variations on prayers to the seven archangels by days of the week. I could have sworn I had a blog post about lorica here, and I was gonna introduce it in the context of the prayer we usually call the Breastplate of St. Patrick, since that is a type of lorica prayer. But I can’t find the blog post I could swear once existed. Maybe it didn’t make the livejournal-to-wordpress transition intact… In any case, these are prayers for protection that are uniquely Irish in character and that work in remarkably somatic...

St. Michael Niner Chaplet St. Expedite Chaplet

Dusting off this article from 2013 because someone asked about St. Michael and punitive miracles. *** I’m posting this as a blog entry 1. because I can’t seem to comment on Cat’s blog (maybe she turned off comments or my browser is jacked up), and 2. I don’t want to take over her blog with my rambling anyway. Anyway, this is in response to her blog post here. I just want to chime in on the “saints punishing you” thing (if you read this whole thing, you’ll see that I am not disagreeing with her – I’m just elaborating). People tend...

This one of a kind chaplet bracelet is handmade with 5mm ruby red glass beads, an ornate crucifix with a bronze-toned antiqued patina imported from Italy, a chain extension and lobster clasp if you want to wear it or secure it around a statue or rearview mirror, and a holy medal of St. Michael handpainted in bright and durable enamels.  The saintly protector par excellence, Michael is called on to defend against dangers both spiritual and physical and from enemies both known and unknown. Unclasped, this chaplet’s length from end to end is 8.75″. Will fit a 7.5″ wrist, but I’m...