ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 15th of January
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
ST ITA, ABBESS
Saint Ita [Ite, Mide] was a native of Nandesi, now the barony of Dessee in the county of Waterford, Ireland, and descended from the royal family.
AN AUSTERE LIFE
Having consecrated her virginity to God, she led an austere retired life at the foot of the mountain Luach, in the diocese of Limerick, and founded there a famous monastery of holy virgins, called Cluain-cred-hail.
THE MONASTERY
By the mortification of her senses and passions, and by her constant attention to God and his divine love, she was enriched with many extraordinary graces.
The lesson she principally inculcated to others was, that to be perpetually recollected in God is the great means of attaining to perfection.
She died January 15, in 569. Her feast was solemnised in her church of Cluain-cred-hail, in the whole territory of Hua-Conail, and at Rosmide, in the territory of Nandesi.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
Comments
Post a Comment