Let us pray against evil in this time of war and affliction by calling on the mercy of God and the protection of His people. The following time of war prayers can be said before or after the Holy Rosary for all the souls in danger during this time of war.
"The fifth commandment forbids the intentional destruction of human life. Because of the evils and injustices that accompany all war, the Church insistently urges everyone to prayer and to action so that the divine Goodness may free us from the ancient bondage of war."
Prayer in Time of War list of Prayers:
Below is a list of each time of war prayer on this page. Use these links to pray the time of war prayer of your choice, or pray them all in a holy hour of adoration.
This time of war prayer was written by Fr. Francis John Bartholomew. He was a Passionist monk of SS. John and Paul at Rome. Fr. Francis had frequent revelations. Once while saying Mass, the following prayer was revealed to him as he thought of the scourges about to fall on the world – wars, famine, pestilence, etc. Fr. Francis was told that whosoever recited it with devotion, would be preserved from all dangers with which the whole world would be visited. This prayer can be found in the Precious Blood and Mother prayer book, which carries an Imprimatur.
Prayer in Time of War
In War and Affliction
by Fr. Francis John Bartholomew
O Jesus, Divine Redeemer,
Be merciful to us
and to the whole world. Amen.
O Powerful God!
O Holy God!
O Immortal God!
Have pity on us,
and all who are in the whole world. Amen.
Pardon and mercy,
O my Jesus,
During these present dangers.
Pour on us
Thy most Precious Blood.
Amen.
O Eternal Father,
Be merciful to us.
By the Blood of Jesus Christ,
Thy holy Son,
Be merciful to us,
We beseech Thee.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
O God,
Be appeased by the supplications
We address to Thee,
and through the intercession
of the ever Blessed Virgin Mary,
The glorious Saint Joseph,
and all the Saints,
Defend us from all dangers,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
O angel of God,
my holy guardian,
given to me from heaven,
enlighten me this day,
and save me from all evil.
Instruct me in doing good deeds
and set me on the path of salvation.
AMEN.
The binding prayer is a prayer of spiritual protection against the attacks of evil spirits. This prayer is provided by Fr. Chad Ripperger, a Catholic priest and exorcist. It is approved for the laity, and a time of war prayer to pray for protection.
Prayer in Time of War
Binding Prayer Against Evil Spirits
by Fr. Chad Ripperger
In the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and God,
Jesus, I ask You to render all spirits impotent, paralyzed and ineffective in attempting to take revenge against me, my family, my friends, my community, and those who pray for me and my family.
I ask You to bind all evil spirits, all powers of the air, the water, the ground, the fire, under ground, or wherever they exercise their powers, any satanic forces in nature and any and all emissaries of the satanic headquarters.
I ask You to bind by Thy Precious Blood all of the attributes, aspects and characteristics, interactions, communications and deceitful games of the evil spirits.
I ask You to break any and all bonds, ties, and attachments in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
AMEN.
This prayer in time of war, the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, was written in the 1500s by St. Bernardine of Siena and his student St. John of Capistrano. The pair used this devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus as a way of healing the faithful who were embroiled in bitter and violent class struggles in Italian city-states. The name of Jesus is powerful against the forces of evil, and this prayer repeatedly calls on the Holy Name of Jesus and asks Him to have mercy on us in our current state.
Prayer in Time of War
Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus
by Ss. Bernardine of Siena and John of Capistrano
℣. Lord, have mercy on us. ℟. Christ, have mercy on us.
℣. Lord, have mercy on us. Jesus, hear us. ℟. Jesus, graciously hear us.
℣. God the Father of Heaven. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. God the Holy Spirit, ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Holy Trinity, one God, ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, Son of the living God, ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, splendor of the Father, ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, brightness of eternal light. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, King of glory. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, Son of justice. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, most amiable. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, most admirable. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, the mighty God. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, Father of the world to come. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, angel of great counsel. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, most powerful. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, most patient. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, most obedient. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, meek and humble of heart. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, lover of chastity. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, lover of us. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, God of peace. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, author of life. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, example of virtues. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, zealous lover of souls. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, our God. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, our refuge. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, father of the poor. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, treasure of the faithful. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, good Shepherd. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, true light. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, eternal wisdom. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, infinite goodness. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, our way and our life. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, joy of Angels. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, King of the Patriarchs. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, Master of the Apostles. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, teacher of the Evangelists. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, strength of Martyrs. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, light of Confessors. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, purity of Virgins. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Jesus, crown of Saints. ℟. Have mercy on us.
℣. Be merciful, ℟. spare us, O Jesus.
℣. Be merciful, ℟. graciously hear us, O Jesus.
℣. From all evil, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From all sin, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From Your wrath, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From the snares of the devil, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From the spirit of fornication, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From everlasting death, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. From the neglect of Your inspirations, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By the mystery of Your holy Incarnation, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your Nativity, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your Infancy, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your most divine Life, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your labors, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your agony and passion, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your cross and dereliction, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your sufferings, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your death and burial, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your Resurrection, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your Ascension, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your institution of the most Holy Eucharist, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your joys, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. By Your glory, ℟. deliver us, O Jesus.
℣. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, ℟. spare us, O Jesus.
℣. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, ℟. graciously hear us, O Jesus.
℣. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, ℟. have mercy on us, O Jesus.
℣. Jesus, hear us. ℟. Jesus, graciously hear us.
℣. Let us pray.
℣. O Lord Jesus Christ, You have said, “Ask and you shall receive, seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened to you.” Grant, we beg of You, to us who ask it, the gift of Your most divine love, that we may ever love You with our whole heart, in word and deed, and never cease praising You. Give us, O Lord, as much a lasting fear as a lasting love of Your Holy Name, for You, who live and are King for ever and ever, never fail to govern those whom You have solidly established in Your love.
℟. Amen.
This Chaplet of St. Michael is a prayer for spiritual protection in time of war. Evil seems to be present in all things in our world. Satan and his fallen angels seem to have risen to the top of government powers, corporate powers, educational systems, health care industries, banking systems, churches, families, and in our own hearts. St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us!
Prayer in Time of War
Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel
Pray one “Our Father” and three “Hail Mary” prayers after each of the nine salutations in honor of the nine Choir of Angels:
OPENING PRAYER
O My God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishment. Most of all, because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasion of sin. Amen.
INVOCATION
O God, come to my assistance! O Lord, make haste to help me! Glory be to the Father……..etc.
FIRST SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Seraphim, may it please God to make us worthy to receive into our hearts the fire of his perfect charity. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
SECOND SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Cherubim, may God in his good pleasure, grant us grace to abandon the ways of sin, and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
THIRD SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the sacred Choir of Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts the spirit of true and sincere humility. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
FOURTH SALUTATION
By 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.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
FIFTH SALUTATION
By 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.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
SIXTH SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the admirable heavenly Choir of the Virtues, may it please God to keep us from falling into temptation, and may He deliver us from evil. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
SEVENTH SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Principalities, may it please God to fill our souls with the spirit of true and sincere obedience. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
EIGHTH SALUTATION
By 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 be thereby enabled to attain the glory of paradise. Amen.
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
NINTH SALUTATION
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of all the Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant us their guardianship through this mortal life, and after death a happy entrance into the everlasting glory of heaven. Amen
Now pray one Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
Say an “Our Father” for each: The first one to St. Michael, The second one to St. Gabriel, The third one to St. Raphael, The fourth one to your Guardian Angel.
CONCLUDING PRAYERS
Anthem Michael, glorious prince, chief and champion of the heavenly Host, guardian of the souls of men, conqueror of the rebel angels, steward of the palace of God under Jesus Christ, our worthy leader, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtues: vouchsafe to free us all from every ill, who with full confidence have recourse to thee; and by thy incomparable protection enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our God. V. Pray for us, most blessed Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ. R. That we may be made worthy of his promises.
Final Prayer Almighty and Eternal God, who in thine own marvelous goodness and pity didst, for the common salvation of man, choose the glorious Archangel Michael to be the prince of the Church: make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficent protection from all our enemies, that, at the hour of our death, none of them may approach to harm us; rather do Thou vouchsafe unto us that by the same Archangel Michael, we may be introduced into the presence of thy most high and divine majesty. Through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
AMEN.
This prayer in time of war to St. Michael the Archangel was written by Pope Leo XIII and published in the Roman Raccolta on July 23, 1898. This prayer to St. Michael the Archangel was recited after Low Mass from 1886 to 1964 in the Catholic Church.
Prayer in Time of War
Long St. Michael the Archangel Prayer
by Pope Leo XIII
O Glorious Prince of the heavenly host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and in the terrible warfare that we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits. Come to the aid of man, whom Almighty God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of Satan.
Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee, nor was there place for them any longer in Heaven. That cruel, ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels.
Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of God and of His Christ, to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out, as a most impure flood, the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart, the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity, and of every vice and iniquity.
These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.
Arise then, O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and give them the victory. They venerate thee as their protector and patron; in thee holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious power of hell; to thee has God entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude. Oh, pray to the God of peace that He may put Satan under our feet, so far conquered that he may no longer be able to hold men in captivity and harm the Church.
Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that they may quickly find mercy in the sight of the Lord; and vanquishing the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, do thou again make him captive in the abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations.
AMEN.
℣. Behold the Cross of the Lord; be scattered ye hostile powers.
℟. The Lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered, the root of David.
℣. Let Thy mercies be upon us, O Lord.
℟. As we have hoped in Thee.
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto Thee.
Let us pray.
O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we call upon Thy holy Name, and as supplicants, we implore Thy clemency, that by the intercession of Mary, ever Virgin Immaculate and our Mother, and of the glorious St. Michael the Archangel, Thou wouldst deign to help us against Satan and all the other unclean spirits who wander about the world for the injury of the human race and the ruin of souls.
AMEN.
Psalm 144
a Psalm of David
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war; My safeguard and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
LORD, what is man that you take notice of him; the son of man, that you think of him? Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
LORD, incline your heavens and come down; touch the mountains and make them smoke. Flash forth lightning and scatter my foes; shoot your arrows and rout them. Reach out your hand from on high; deliver me from the many waters; rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.
Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths.
O God, a new song I will sing to you; on a ten-stringed lyre I will play for you. You give victory to kings; you delivered David your servant. From the menacing sword deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.
Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths.
May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, Our daughters, like carved columns, shapely as those of the temple. May our barns be full with every kind of store. May our sheep increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields; may our oxen be well fattened.
May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, no outcry in our streets.
Blessed the people so fortunate; blessed the people whose God is the LORD.
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Beautiful prayers worded so simply n genuinely submitting ourselves to God through His only son.