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.
