SAINT FEAST DAY 5 SEPTEMBER: ST MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 5th of September

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 MOTHER TERESA OF KOLKATA (FORMERLY CALCUTTA)

St Mother Teresa, original name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, (baptised on August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire - died September 5, 1997, Kolkata, India; canonised September 4, 2016; feast day September 5), is the foundress of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India. She was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. 

(More information at:  Encyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mother-Teresa - external link) 

PRAYER:

O God, who called the virgin Saint Teresa

to respond to the love of your Son thirsting on the cross with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor, grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession, to minister to Christ in his suffering brothers. Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Mother Teresa .org)

(More information at https://www.motherteresa.org/ - external link)

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