Feast of St. Michael And All Angels

A 13th-century Byzantine icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

Readings:

Eucharistic:
Psalm 103 or 103:19-22
Genesis 28:10-17
Revelation 12:7-12
John 1:47-51

Daily Office:
AM Psalm 8, 148
Job 38:1-7;
Hebrews 1:1-14
PM Psalm 14, 150 or 104;
Daniel 12:1-3 or 2 Kings 6:8-17;
Mark 13:21-27 or Revelation 5:1-14

PRAYER

Everlasting God, who 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.

Do you prefer the icon above or the statue below?


St Michael's Victory over the Devil, sculpture above the main entrance to St. Michaelis in Hamburg, Germany.
Or the coins?


Archangel Michael as represented on a coin of Emperor Michael V.

Oy! Render unto Ceasar....

Orders of angels according to Pope Gregory I:

Seraphim
Cherubim
Thrones

Dominions
Principalities
Powers

Virtues
Archangels
Angels

Hymn

Ye watchers and ye holy ones,
Bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones.
Raise the glad strain, Alleluia.
Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers,
Virtues, archangels, angel choirs.
Oh, praise Him! Oh, praise Him!
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia.

J Athelstan Riley

Images from Wiki.
Hymn and list of orders of angels from James Keifer at the Lectionary.