This month, we are preparing for the Feast of the Archangels
(pssst–scroll to the bottom for ideas to celebrate!)
St. Michael the Archangel is the Patron of Police, soldiers, and all who work in danger.
Fr. Steve Gallagher–a 30-year police veteran and now a Catholic priest for over 13 years–wrote this devotional which includes inspiration from St. Michael for those who are in the most need of his protection.Â
A wife in New York sent us this message:
 “I bought this for my husband. It’s become a difficult climate for police officers, and I wanted to provide a touchstone for him that was both inspirational and faith based. This Police Officer’s Devotional fit the bill perfectly.”
Father Steve Gallagher is intimately familiar with the daunting challenges that confront our police officers.
His grandfather was the sheriff and retired captain of the Port Angeles Police Department.
His uncle was killed in the line of duty on Easter Sunday, 1949.
Before he was ordained a Catholic priest, Father Gallagher served as a police officer for 30 years in Washington State.
In this timely devotional, Father Gallagher has assembled a powerful collection of antiphons and canticles; readings from the Old and New Testaments; prayers and reflections written by the saints.
Formatted to fit a busy police officer’s daily schedule
A Police Officer’s Devotional is thoughtfully organized to be user-friendly, practical, and above all, helpful.
There are inspiring readings and prayers to begin and end each shift for every day of the week, as well as for holidays.
There are also sections dedicated to different special assignments, including patrol officers, traffic officers, detectives, S.W.A.T. officers, juvenile officers, police administrators, and others.
Help us get copies of Father Gallagher’s inspiring book into our police officers’ hands NOW. If you know a Catholic police officer, can you get this devotional for them?
The men and women who put their lives on the line for us every day are facing unprecedented stresses and challenges. Now more than ever, they need our concrete support and our prayers.
Using their copy of A Police Officer’s Devotional, they can “put on the full armor of God” every day as they can go out into our streets and neighborhoods and combat the forces of irrationality, racism, violence, and hopelessness with the “weapons” of compassion, faith, hope, and self-sacrificing love.
PS–we are celebrating angels all month!
Whether our beloved children’s book or this stunning poster, there are so many ways to celebrate angels with Holy Heroes!
Ken Davison created Glory Stories, which became a weekly radio series heard globally on the Ave Maria Satellite Radio Network and EWTN’s radio network, WEWN. In 2007, he and his wife, Kerri, founded Holy Heroes–and their children stepped in to help shortly thereafter to create the online “Adventures” for Advent, Lent, Spiritual Adoption, and Marian Consecration.
