My Dear Friends,

As we come to a close to the month of January, I cannot help but look around and see terrible evil being unleashed. For a Catholic, indeed for any follower of Jesus Christ, our true enemy is and has always been Satan. St. Paul and St. Peter both remind us of this in their letters. Jesus Himself mentions it in the Gospels. There are many ways for us to stay close to Christ and to win the battle against our enemy, the enemy of all mankind.

First, and very simply, we have the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Any prayer to our Lord is, of course, helpful, but the devotion to the Sacred Heart is a powerful weapon. Another powerful weapon is the Blessed Mother. With her, we have the rosary. Another devotion to the Blessed Mother besides the rosary is a devotion to her Immaculate Heart. She herself said at the apparition at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 that her Immaculate Heart would triumph. A third way to fight our enemy is with a devotion to the angel that defeated him in the Book of Revelation, St. Michael. Not only do we pray the St. Michael prayer after all our Masses, but Pope Leo XIII, who gave us the St. Michael prayer, has a longer form of the St. Michael prayer as well. I believe in the past I gave you this long prayer to St. Michael. It is easy to find on the internet. You can find it here.