ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 24th 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.
ST COLMAN MAC LENINE, BISHOP
Saint Colman Mac Lenine, founder and patron of the See of Cloyne, born in Munster, around A D. 510; he died November 24, 601.
HE WAS ENDOWED WITH EXTRAORDINARY POETIC POWERS
He was endowed with extraordinary poetic powers, being styled by his contemporaries "Royal Bard of Munster".
The Ardrigh of Ireland gave him Cloyne, in the present County Cork, for his cathedral abbey, in 560, and he laboured for more than forty years in his extensive diocese.
SEVERAL OF HIS IRISH POEMS ARE STILL EXTANT
Several of his Irish poems are still extant, notably a metrical panegyric on St Brendan. Colgan mentions a metrical life of St Senan by him. His feast is observed on November 24.
Another St Colman is also venerated on the same day, as recorded by Saint Aengus in his "Felire":
Mac Lenine the most excellent
With Colman of Duth-chuilleann.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 🎨 St Colman and the ducks)
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