MICHAEL, LEADER OF THE SOLDIERY OF HEAVEN

On this Michaelmas Day, 2014, it is helpful to remember our Defender in battle.  We are surrounded, our natural leaders have more or less fled and left us to the tender mercies of the despisers of Christ and His Church, we are left with no voice with which to influence those in ecclesiastical power.

But we have St Michael, the Archangel in "his splendor and about him the soldiery of Heaven".(Hilaire Belloc).