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Police Officer's Prayer to St. Michael
Saint
Michael, heaven's glorious commissioner of police,
who once so neatly
and successfully cleared God's premises
of all its
undesirables, look with kindly and professional
eyes on your
earthly force.
Give us cool heads, stout hearts, and uncanny flair for
investigation and
wise judgement.
Make us the terror of burglars, the friend of children and
law-abiding
citizens, kind to strangers, polite to bores,
strict with
law-breakers and impervious to temptations.
You know, Saint Michael, from your own experiences
with the devil
that the police officer's lot on earth is not
always a happy
one; but your sense of duty that so
pleased God, your
hard knocks that so surprised the
devil, and your
angelic self-control give us inspiration.
And when we lay down our night sticks, enroll us in your
heavenly force,
where we will be as proud to guard the
throne of God as
we have been to guard the city of all
the people.
Amen.
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