At every step this infernal power is amplified and magnified in these
Novenas. Not only is the devil deemed among the enemies of the soul,
together with our body and the entire humanity, but at every moment
we tremble at his snares, we consider ourselves weak to resist him
and even at times seemingly fearing that the self same God will not
know how to defend Himself from the devil because at every step it is
sought to awaken God and place him as a sort of guard against this
infernal power. "Help us Lord from heaven, our strong liberator in
this struggle with the powers of darkness; and as other times thou
hast freed thy son, Jesus, from imminent peril of life, so now defend
the Holy Church of God from the snares of their enemies and from all
adversity, and keep each one of us under thy eternal protection." (Page
54, Ofrecimiento al Santisimo Rosario, Manila, 1905.)