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 judgment.
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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