Serviam

{{Short description|Christian Prayer}}

{{for|the 2022 film|Serviam: I Will Serve}}

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File:GuidoReni MichaelDefeatsSatan.jpgServiam is Latin for "I will serve." This was the cry of St. Michael the Archangel as a response to Lucifer's "I will not serve" (Non serviam) when God put the angels to the test.

== In Catholicism ==

Bishop Gerard L. Frey, who once headed the dioceses of Savannah, Ga., and Lafayette used it as his motto.{{cite web|work=America Magazine|title=Retired Bishop Frey of Lafayette, La., dead at 93|url= http://www.americamagazine.org/content/catholic-news-briefs.cfm?newsid=2069|date=17 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827182636/http://www.americamagazine.org/content/catholic-news-briefs.cfm?newsid=2069|archive-date=2007-08-27}}

In the Caballero de Gracia church in Madrid, there's this word up in the altar{{cite web |last1=Real Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia |first1=Real Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia |title=Real Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia |url=https://caballerodegracia.org/ |website=caballerodegracia.org/ |publisher=RReal Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia}}

It is also recommended as a morning prayer or morning offering.{{Cn|date=March 2023}}