# Commission of the Care of Soul and Body (Intercessory) Into your hands, Mary, I commend the bodies and souls of N. and N. I ask you to provide for them and to protect them. I ask you to protect them from the evil one. I ask you to enlighten our minds, strengthen our will, and restrain our appetites by grace. I ask of you all the things I ask of our guardian angels. Saint Michael, call down from heaven the legions of angels to protect us. Our guardian angels, under your intellectual and volitional protection I place our bodies. I ask you to illumine our minds and restrain our appetites. I ask you to strengthen our cogitative powers, our memories, and our imaginations. Help us to remember the things we should and not remember the things we should not. Help us to associate the things we should and not to associate the things we should not. Give us good, clear images in our imagination. I ask you to drive away all the demons that might affect us while we sleep (or throughout the course of the day). Help us to sleep and, if you should deem it prudent, direct our dreams. Help us to arise refreshed. Amen. --- Source: Ripperger, Chad. *Deliverance Prayers for Use by the Laity*. Sensus Traditionis Press, 2018. [sensustraditionis.org](https://sensustraditionis.org) <!-- prayer-nav --> --- ← [[chaplet-to-the-infant-jesus|Chaplet to the Infant Jesus]] | [[deliverance-prayers|🛡️ Prayers for Inner Healing and Deliverance]] | [[commission-of-the-care-of-soul-and-body-intercession|Commission of the Care of Soul and Body (For Oneself)]] →