ST MUNCHIN OF LIMERICK - 2 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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.

ST MUNCHIN OF LIMERICK, ABBOT

Saint Munchin was Prince of the Blood of the chieftains of North Munster. As Abbot of Mungret he ruled over a community of fifteen hundred monks. 

UNCEASING PRAYER

Of these, five hundred were devoted to preaching; five hundred to the chanting of the Psalmody, which it was sought to make unceasing through the day and the night: and five hundred to the doing of other good works to the Glory of God and advantage of man. 

PATRON SAINT OF LIMERICK

St Munchin is the Patron Saint of Limerick City and Diocese, of which he is venerated as the first Bishop. He died late in the fifth century. 

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)