ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 18th of November
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.
SS. ROMANUS AND BARULA, MARTYRS
Saints Romanus and Barula were 4th century martyrs. St Romanus was a zealous Catholic of Antioch in Syria who, in the persecution under the Emperors Diocletian and Galerius, appears to have incited his fellow Christians to resist by force the Imperial Officials charged to desecrate and destroy their churches. For this, he paid with his life (A.D. 304). A little boy, Barula by name, for persisting that there is only One God, shared his happy lot.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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