Aliens in This World

The busy man who wrote “Deus Meus, Adiuva Me” also wrote a litany to St. Michael. Nice one, too! Translation by the Rev. Charles Plummer from a book called Irish Litanies, apparently.

O Angel!
Bear, O Michael of the mighty powers,
My cause before the Lord.

Hearest thou?
Ask of the forgiving God
Forgiveness for all my monstrous ill.

Delay not!
Bear my fervent longing
Before the King, the great King.

To my soul
Bring help, bring comfort,
In the hour of my departure from the earth.

In power,
To meet my waiting soul,
Come with many thousands of angels,
O Angel.

O warrior!
Against the crooked, foul, contentious world
Come to help me in very deed.

Pour thou not
Contempt on what I say;
While I live, forsake me not.

I choose Thee,
To free this soul of mine,
My reason, my sense, my flesh.

O Advocate,
Triumphant, victorious in war,
O angelic slayer of Antichrist!

O Angel.