ALL SAINTS OF IRELAND

ALL SAINTS OF IRELAND - 6 NOVEMBER

ALL SAINTS OF IRELAND

Feast in Ireland

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

Let the peoples proclaim the wisdom of the saints: Let the assembly announce their praises: their name shall be remembered for ever.

Holy Mass readings: Ecclesiasticus 44:1-15; Psalm 14, response: "Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord"; Gospel: Luke 6:17-23

HE WAS NOT CANONISED

Fr John Murphy who in 1798 was martyred and buried in Ferns and many other Irish martyrs and saintly Christians were not canonised. A great part of the answer may lie in the fact that the canonisation process is so long and complex that only a very small percentage of saintly people are canonised.

GOOD AND SAINTLY LIVES

In canonising this relatively small number the Church is not saying that these are the holiest or only holy people in the world. Over the centuries a countless number of people have lead good and saintly lives, their faith and love known only to the small Christian community of which they were members. We ourselves may have encountered them in our own lives and indeed been influenced by their faith and the evident goodness of their lives.

The Church has always been aware of the many martyrs and saintly people who were never canonised and in an effort to remedy this to some small extent, representative groups in different parts of the world have been beatified. One such representative group was the seventeen Irish martyrs from the 16th and 17th centuries. They were beatified by Pope John Paul II. The amount of information we know about these seventeen varies. About some, such as Archbishop Dermot O’Hurley of Cashel, we know quite a lot; about others, such as the Wexford Martyrs, we know little more than their names and the fact of their death. These Wexford Martyrs were named as Matthew Lambert and sailors – Robert Tyler, Edward Cheevers and Patrick Cavanagh who died in Wexford 1581.

This article was published in “Saint Martin Magazine”, paper edition, issue May 2014 - 📷 Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, c. 1918

PRAYER:

Lord God, as we celebrate the power of the Gospel that you displayed in the Saints of our land, work for us, we pray, new wonders of your grace: that the faith may grow stronger among us, and true charity bind us in peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

⬅️ List: Irish Confessors and Martyrs

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BL. LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR 16th century houses, painted by Auguste Mayer He was born in the bishopric of Durham, according to Raissius ; others say at Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was master of arts in one of our universities; but going abroad to Douay, in Flanders, was received into the English college there, 1576, and made priest in 1577; and the year following sent upon the mission. Where he had not been long before he again went abroad, and travelled to Rome, partly for devotion, and partly for further improvement in learning. Here he remained in the English college till 1580, when he returned into England, and was not long after apprehended: for I find by a printed diary of things transacted in the Tower of London from 1580 till 1585, that on the 5th of December, 1580, Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam , and other priests, were brought to the Tower from other prisons; and that these two, on the 10th...

BL. RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR Richard Newport, alias Smith , was born in Northamptonshire and performed his studies abroad, partly in the college of Rheims (if he be the Richard Smith whom I find in the Douay diary sent to Rome in 1586) and partly in that of Rome, where he was made priest. From thence he was sent upon the English mission, and behaved himself in such a manner as justly to acquire the character of a laborious missionary; being withal remarkably successful in bringing home many strayed sheep to the fold of Christ, to which his apostolical way of living did not a little contribute. He was several times apprehended and cast into prison, and twice banished. His name occurs amongst those who were transported in 1606; at which time, we are told, he took that opportunity of making a pilgrimage to Rome, there to pour forth his prayers at the tombs of the apostles, in behalf of thi...

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