ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 4th of March
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 CASIMIR, PRINCE AND CONFESSOR
St Casimir was the son of the King of Poland. Trained from his youth in piety and learning, he sharply chastised his body with a hair-shirt and wore himself thin by frequent fasts.
HE WORE A HAIRSHIRT
The Passion of Christ was the constant subject of his meditations, and he never relaxed his spirit of prayer. He had great zeal for the propagation of the Catholic Faith and the suppression of the Ruthenian schism. Such was his charity and mercy to the poor and all sufferers that he won the name of father and defender of the needy.
FATHER AND DEFENDER OF THE NEEDY
He constantly preserved his virginity untarnished to the end of his life. Made perfect in a short time, and rich in virtues and merits, he foretold the day of his death and gave back his soul to God in the twenty-fifth year of his age. Leo XIII entered him, renowned for miracles, among the number of the saints.
(From: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, Burns & Oates, London, 1964)
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