The EWTN News portal (September 29, 2026) publishes a devotional piece by Daniel Payne, relying heavily on Michael Aquilina of the St. Paul Center, celebrating the joint feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. The article presents a sanitized, culturally accommodating hagiography that reduces the celestial hierarchy to functional “patrons” of modern professions, cites the apostate “Pope” John Paul II as a spiritual authority, and treats the suppression of the Leonine Exorcism Prayer after Vatican II as a mere historical footnote rather than a diabolical disarmament of the Militant Church. This pious chatter serves as spiritual morphine for the faithful trapped in the conciliar sect, obscuring the reality that the true battle today is not against abstract “wickedness” but against the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) — the usurping hierarchy of the neo-church.
The Facade of Orthodoxy: Scriptural Truths Weaponized for Sectarian Legitimacy
On the Factual Level, the article recites standard biblical and traditional data regarding the three Archangels: Michael the warrior (Dan. 10:13, Jude 1:9, Apoc. 12:7), Gabriel the messenger (Dan. 8:16, Luke 1:19, 26), Raphael the healer (Tob. 12:15). Aquilina correctly notes the Rabbinic tradition placing Michael at the center of salvation history and the patristic identification of Gabriel with the “voice of the archangel” at the Parousia (1 Thess. 4:15). However, the selection and framing of these facts serve a deceitful purpose. By presenting a prima facie orthodox narrative, the conciliar media outlet EWTN — a flagship propaganda organ of the “Church of the New Advent” — manufactures a veneer of continuity to legitimize its own schismatic existence.
The article references the St. Michael Prayer, composed by Leo XIII after a vision of Satan’s increased power. It states:
The brief one, he commanded, should be prayed at the end of every Mass. This was a regular feature of the Mass until the Vatican II era, after which it came to an end — though Pope John Paul II in 1994 urged Catholics to make the prayer a regular part of their lives.
This admission is catastrophic for the neo-church’s claim to legitimacy. The suppression of the Leonine Prayers (mandated by Supremi Apostolatus Officio, 1884, and reinforced by Pius XI for the conversion of Russia) was not a “liturgical reform” but a deliberate disarming of the Church Militant at the precise moment the “smoke of Satan” entered the sanctuary (Paul VI, 1972). The article treats this suppression as a neutral historical transition (“Vatican II era”), ignoring that the Novus Ordo Missae — the “table of assembly” — was fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini precisely to strip the Mass of its propitiatory, militant character. To cite the heretic Wojtyla (“John Paul II”) as a restorer of this prayer is to invoke a false prophet; his 1994 exhortation was a placebo for a corpse, devoid of the juridical authority of the Motu Proprio that originally mandated it.
Bureaucratic Piety: The Linguistic Reduction of Celestial Princes
On the Linguistic Level, the rhetoric betrays a thoroughly naturalistic, modernist mentality. Aquilina describes the Archangels not as Princes of the Heavenly Court (Princes caelestis curiae) who tremble before the Majestas Dei, but as functionaries of a divine bureaucracy. Michael is a “character” in a “story” with a “comeback journey.” Gabriel is the “Bible’s great communicator,” the “natural patron of broadcasters,” “postal workers,” and “diplomats.” Raphael is a “friend” who “stays around for the whole story,” a patron for “singles in search of a mate” and “pharmacists.”
This language — patron of broadcasters, patron of pharmacists, patron of singles — reduces the Angeli et Archangeli who incessantly cry out: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus (Isa. 6:3) to the level of pagan numina or New Age “spirit guides” assigned to manage human affairs. It is the language of religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 15, 16, 18): the treatment of religion as a utility for temporal needs (“professional reasons,” “search of a cure,” “search of a friend”). The salus animarum — the supreme law of the Church — is entirely absent. There is no mention of the Particular Judgment, the General Judgment, the necessity of the state of grace, or the role of St. Michael in weighing souls (Psychostasia). This is not Catholic piety; it is therapeutic moralistic deism.
The Theological Vacuum: Angels Without the King, Liturgy Without the Sacrifice
On the Theological Level, the article commits the gravest error of the conciliar sect: separation of the angelic ministry from the Kingship of Christ and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches authoritatively: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth… He reigns also in the wills of men… He is said to reign in the hearts of men… This kingdom is primarily spiritual… opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness.” The Archangels are ministers of this Kingdom — ministers of His, who do His will (Ps. 102:20).
The article speaks of Michael “defending us in battle” but omits the object of the battle: the defense of the Social Kingship of Christ and the Integrity of the Faith against the mystery of iniquity (2 Thess. 2:7) now enthroned in the Vatican. It speaks of Gabriel announcing the Incarnation but ignores that the neo-church denies the necessity of the Incarnation for salvation via its false doctrine of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and universal salvation. It speaks of Raphael healing blindness but ignores that the “blindness” of the modern world is the loss of the True Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary — replaced by a Protestantized memorial meal where the “Prince of the Heavenly Host” is no longer invoked to “cast into hell Satan” at the foot of the altar.
Furthermore, the reliance on Michael Aquilina — a lay apologist for the “St. Paul Center,” an institution steeped in the “biblical theology” movement that historicizes and Protestantizes Scripture — guarantees a hermeneutic of rupture. The “St. Paul Center” operates within the Novus Ordo paradigm, accepting the false “canonizations” of Modernists (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II) and the validity of the new sacramental rites. To cite him as an authority on angelology is to accept the magisterium of the anti-church.
The Symptomatic Rot: Spiritual Morphine for the Conciliar Captives
On the Symptomatic Level, this article reveals the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure occupying Rome: distraction through pious sentimentality. While the true Church — the Ecclesia Militans — suffers the passio Ecclesiae, deprived of the Public Sacrifice, the true Hierarchy, and the Cathedra Petri (vacant since 1958), the neo-church feeds its captives stories about “patron saints of broadcasters” and “friends for singles.”
The mention of the St. Michael Prayer’s suppression “after Vatican II” is a limited hangout — a controlled admission of a crime to normalize the criminal regime. It frames the suppression as a past event (“came to an end”) rather than an ongoing sacrilege demanding resistance. The faithful of the conciliar sect are encouraged to pray the prayer *privately* (“urged Catholics to make the prayer a regular part of their lives”), effectively privatizing the Church’s public, liturgical warfare against Satan. This is the hermeneutic of continuity in action: preserve the words, destroy the liturgical law, empty the rite of its power.
EWTN, founded by the “Mother Angelica” (a figure of dubious mystical credentials, fully integrated into the “charismatic” neo-pentecostal wing of the sect), functions as the Ministry of Propaganda for the usurpers. Its “World” news feed serves to create a parallel reality where the “pope” is the Vicar of Christ, the “bishops” are successors of the Apostles, and the “Mass” is the source of grace. Articles like this are the “opium of the people” in the Marxist sense adopted by the Modernists: a comforting illusion that the Church is alive and well, celebrating feasts, offering prayers, providing “patrons” for worldly needs — while the Bride of Christ is crucified in the catacombs.
Conclusio: Non est hic, surrexit — The True Feast is in the Catacombs
The feast of the Dedication of St. Michael (Michaelmas, Sept. 29) was historically a day of station at the Basilica of St. Michael on the Via Salaria, a solemn assertion of the Church’s victory over the Dragon through the Sanguis Christi. Today, in the structures of the “Church of the New Advent,” it is a media event. The true Catholic, adhering to the lex orandi, lex credendi of the immemorial Tradition, knows that the angels assist only at the True Mass — the Tridentine Mass of St. Pius V, codified by Quo Primum (1570), offered by validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rites) in communion with the true hierarchy (sedevacantist bishops holding jurisdiction supplied by the Church for the salus animarum).
The “Archangels” of the EWTN article are idols of the neo-church’s making — domesticated, professionalized, stripped of the tremendum et fascinans of the Divine Majesty. Quis ut Deus? (Who is like God?) — the battle cry of St. Michael — is not a slogan for “broadcasters” or “pharmacists.” It is the ontological rejection of the Antichristus who sits in the Temple of God (2 Thess. 2:4). Let the faithful flee the “feasts” of the conciliar sect, which are strange fire (Lev. 10:1), and cleave to the Mass of All Ages where St. Michael truly presents the prayers of the saints ad thronum Dei (Apoc. 8:3-4). Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. This prayer belongs at the foot of the True Altar, not in the newsletters of the usurpers.
Source:
Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael: Meet the 3 great archangels of the Bible (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.09.2026