Chaplet of St Michael

℣.O God, come to my assistance.℟.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

First salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys, to the first choir of Angels.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of the Seraphim, may it please God to make us worthy to receive into our hearts the fire of his perfect charity. Amen.

Second salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of the Cherubim, may God grant us grace to abandon the ways of sin, and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen.

Third salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the sacred choir of the Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts a true and earnest spirit of humility. Amen.

Fourth salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of the Dominations, may it please God to grant us grace to have dominion over our senses, and to correct our depraved passions. Amen.

Fifth salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of the Powers, may God vouchsafe to keep our souls from the wiles and temptations of the devil. Amen.

Sixth salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the choir of the admirable celestial Virtues, may our Lord keep us from falling into temptations and deliver us from evil. Amen.

Seventh salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of the Principalities, may it please God to fill our souls with the spirit of true and hearty obedience. Amen.

Eighth salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of Archangels, may it please God to grant us the gift of perseverance in the faith and in all good works, that we may thereby be enabled to attain unto the glory of Paradise. Amen.

Ninth salutation: one Our Father and three Hail Marys.At the intercession of St Michael and the heavenly choir of Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant that the Holy Angels may protect us during life, and after death may lead us into the everlasting glory of heaven. Amen.

Then say the Our Father four times: to St Michael, to St Gabriel, to St Raphael, and to your Guardian Angel.