Perhaps some might think it odd that the statue of Saint Michael slaying Satan sent in by a very generous and kind reader has made it to the gradines at the back of the ad orientem altar at Holy Souls Hermitage: “Satan has no business being so near the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!” To which I respond: Jesus didn’t think so. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the Calvary part of the Last Supper — took place on the Cross amidst all hell breaking loose. All hell breaking loose… Jesus is just that good and just that kind.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle;
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray:
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.