The Holy Father has decided to invite all the faithful, from around the world, to pray the Rosary every day throughout the Marian month of October and to unite in communion and penitence, as the People of God, to ask the Holy Mother of God and Saint Michael the Archangel to protect the Church from the devil, who always seeks to separate us from God and from one another.<\/p>\n
Recently, before departing for the Baltic States, the Holy Father met with Fr. Fr\u00e9deric Fornos S.I., International Director of the World Prayer Network for the Pope, and asked him to spread his call to all the faithful of the world, inviting them to end the Rosary with the prayer of the ancient invocation \u201cSub tuum praes\u00eddium\u201d<\/em> and with the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel, who protects and helps in the fight against evil (see Revelation 12:7-12).<\/p>\n The prayer \u2013 the Pontiff affirmed a few days ago, on September 11 in a homily at Santa Marta, citing the first chapter of the Book of Job \u2013 is the weapon against the great accuser who \u201croams the world seeking accusations.\u201d Only prayer can defeat him. Russian mystics and great saints from all traditions advised, in moments of spiritual turbulence, to take shelter under the mantle of the Holy Mother of God by pronouncing the invocation \u201cSub tuum praes\u00eddium\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n The invocation \u201cSub tuum praes\u00eddium\u201d goes as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cSub tuum praes\u00eddium conf\u00fagimus, [Under your protection we take refuge, Holy Mother of God; do not despise our pleas in our necessities, but deliver us from all danger, oh, always virgin, glorious and blessed!]<\/i><\/p>\n With this plea for intercession, the Holy Father asks the faithful around the world to pray that the Holy Mother of God may place the Church under her protective mantle, to defend her from the attacks of the evil one, the great accuser, and at the same time make her ever more aware of the sins, errors, and abuses committed in the present and past, and committed to fighting without hesitation so that evil does not prevail.<\/p>\n The Holy Father has also requested that the recitation of the Holy Rosary during October conclude with the prayer written by Leo XIII:<\/p>\n \u201cSancte M\u00edchael Arch\u00e1ngel, def\u00e9nde nos in pr\u00f3elio;
\nsancta Dei G\u00e9netrix;
\nnostras deprecati\u00f3nes ne desp\u00edcias in necessit\u00e1tibus,
\nsed a per\u00edculis cunctis l\u00edbera nos semper,
\nVirgo glori\u00f3sa et bened\u00edcta\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n
\ncontra nequ\u00edtiam et ins\u00eddias di\u00e1boli esto praes\u00eddium.
\nImperet illi Deus, s\u00fapplices deprec\u00e1mur,
\ntuque, Pr\u00ednceps mil\u00edtiae cael\u00e9stis,
\nS\u00e1tanam ali\u00f3sque sp\u00edritus mal\u00edgnos,
\nqui ad perditi\u00f3nem anim\u00e1rum pervag\u00e1ntur in mundo,
\ndiv\u00edna virt\u00fate, in inf\u00e9rnum detr\u00fade. Amen\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n