saint michael the archangel

ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL - St. Michael is one of the seven Archangels who stands in the immediate presence of God Himself. God created everything and therefore every personal being and thing created is, of its very nature, subject to God. Before entering Paradise God gives to those creatures, destined for eternity, the choice of accepting that reality or rejecting it. This He did for the Angels. This He does for us. To reject reality is a form of insanity and nothing insane can enter God’s Heaven.  When God gave the angels the same choice He gives to us, about one third of them - led by the greatest of all the angels, Lucifer - refused to submit to this reality with their declaration of: “Non serviam” (in English “I will not serve”). St. Michael, although being of a lesser importance than Lucifer in the Angelic Hierarchy, defended the honour of God as creator with the war cry of “Quis ut Deus?” (in English “Who is like God?”) There is no being like unto God. St. Michael therefore waged an angelic war against Lucifer and Lucifer’s followers and defeated them: And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels. And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.  

INTERVENTIONS:  As First Minister of God, St. Michael has no doubt made many interventions in history on behalf of his Divine Master. Apart from defeating Lucifer (Satan) here are some other examples:  Daniel: In the Old Testament the prophet Daniel had a vision of St. Michael, described as the Protector of Israel (Daniel 10:13-21). Daniel also speaks about St Michael at the time of the tribulation: But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book. (Daniel 12:1)  Joshua: Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?" And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.  

Joan of Arc:  Joan, who lived during the 1400s in France , said that it was her relationship with Archangel Michael that helped her defeat English invaders during the Hundred Years War.  

Fatima: The year before Our Lady of the Rosary appeared at Fatima , St. Michael prepared for her visits by his own apparitions to the children.  As the Angel of Peace, St. Michael visited Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta in 1916 to prepare them for the work of the Blessed Virgin and through them, to prepare us for our work in this present crisis as the prophecy of Fatima draws to its calamitous close.  

Garabandal: Because it hurt Our Blessed Mother too much to deliver the second message of Garabandal, she entrusted the delivery of this message to St Michael, the Commander of all of the angels, of whom Our Blessed Mother is Queen: “At the beginning, the chalice was filling, now it is overflowing. Many cardinals, bishops and priests are on the path of perdition and with them are many souls. "Less and less IMPORTANCE IS BEING GIVEN TO THE EUCHARIST, you must turn away the wrath of God upon yourselves with your efforts. If you ask forgiveness with the sincerity of your souls, He will forgive you. I, your Mother, through the intercession of the angel St. Michael, want to tell you that you need to amend yourselves. You are already in the last warnings, I love you very much and I do not want your condemnation.