ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 17th 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.
BL. BEATRICE OF CAPPENBERG, VIRGIN
Blessed Beatrice (Beatrix), Countess of Cappenberg was born around 1100 in Castle Cappenberg (Kappenberg), Germany, sister of the blessed counts Godfrey and Otto.
THEY DONATED THE FAMILY CASTLE
Smitten by the preaching of St Norbert of Xanten, which the two brothers listened to in Cologne, they spontaneously decided to give the family castle near Selm in Westphalia with all its properties to him and turn it into a Premonstratensian monastery, the first in Germany. On August 15, 1122, the bishop of Münster dedicated the castle Cappenberg to a monastery.
Otto and Godfrey themselves entered the order. Godfredy's wife Jutta and his sisters Gerberga and Beatrice became canons or "choir ladies" in a separate founded monastery he had built in Averndorp by Wesel near Cappenberg.
A PRAYERFUL LIFE
The monastery was led by the blessed Hedwig of Cappenberg. Beatrice was a nun there and led a life full of prayer, contemplation and penance until she died on January 17, sometime in the 12th century. Her memorial day is the day of her death, January 17.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 🎨 1. Blessed Beatrice, 2. St Godfrey and St Norbert)
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