ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 30th of October
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 GERMANUS OF CAPUA, BISHOP
The holy prelate, Saint Germanus of Capua, was sent by Pope Hormisdas as legate to the Emperor Justin, in 519, to engage the Orientals to put an end to the schism which had continued forty years.
The embassy was attended with the desired success; the heretics were condemned, and the schism entirely abolished. In it St Germanus and his fellow legates suffered much from the heretics, but escaped out of their hands.
HE WAS DELIVERED BY ST GERMANUS' PRAYERS
St Gregory the Great relates that this saint saw Paschasius, the deacon of Rome, long after his death, in the flames of purgatory, for having adhered to the schism of Laurence against Symmachus, and that he was delivered by the prayers of this holy bishop.
Also that St Benedict at Mount Cassino saw in a vision the soul of St Germanus, at the hour of his departure, carried by the ministry of angels to eternal bliss. His death happened about the year 540.
(Excerpts from Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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