ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 8th of April
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 AGABUS, PROPHET AND MARTYR
Saint Agabus is mentioned in Acts 11:28, and 21:10, as a prophet of the New Testament. Most probably both passages refer to the same person, who appears to have been a resident of Jerusalem.
ONE OF THE SEVENTY-TWO DISCIPLES
Tradition makes him one of the seventy-two disciples (Luke 10:1), and one of the martyrs who suffered at Antioch.
HE PREDICTED THE FAMINE
According to Acts 11:27-30, Agabus predicted the famine which apparently must be identified with that happening in the fourth year of Claudius, A.D. 45. In the year 58 the prophet predicted to St Paul his coming captivity, though he could not induce the Apostle to stay away from Jerusalem (Acts 21:10-11).
(Information from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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