Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity

Throughout the history of the Church, various saints and even the Church herself has provided the laity with means of combating the demons that afflict their lives. We are thinking, for example, of the short form of the Prayer to Saint Michael, or even the recommendation for the laity when they are tempted to say to Satan, “In the Name of Jesus Christ, be gone!” The practice of the saints and the Church from the beginning has been one in which strict lines of authority, rights and duties are observed.