Today the Church celebrates the Feast day of St. Michael and All Angels, also known as Michaelmas.
Ora pro nobis.
In Christian angelology, the Archangel Michael is the greatest of all the Archangels and is honored for defeating Satan in the war in heaven. He is one of the principal angelic warriors, seen as a protector against the dark of night, and the administrator of cosmic intelligence. In Anglican and Episcopal tradition, there are three or four archangels in its calendar for 29 September feast for St. Michael and All Angels: namely Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, and often, Uriel.
Because it falls near the equinox, it is associated in the northern hemisphere with the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days. It is used in the extended sense of autumn, as the name of the first term of the academic year, which begins at this time, at various educational institutions, especially seminaries.
Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals: Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your appointment they may help and defend us here on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
