ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 25th of August
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.
BL. ALESSANDRO DORDI, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Blessed Alessandro Dordi was born on January 23, 1931 and he served as a priest in his birthplace of Bergamo.
Dordi had administered to Italian immigrants in Switzerland and he served in watch factories there as a worker-priest. It was there that he became aware of the concerns of the working class and decided to place great focus on social matters.
A GREAT FOCUS ON SOCIAL MATTERS
He was also a member of the missions of Fidei Donum and travelled to Peru where he did work in the missions there.
He served in the Santa parish and was committed to the farming sector while helping them implement rural development programmes.
HE KEPT SAYING THAT HE WOULD BE THE NEXT VICTIM
At the time he learned of the fates of the two Polish Conventual Franciscan Fathers friars, Fr Tomaszek and Fr Strzalkowski, who were killed by Maoist terrorists on August 9, 1991, and with whom he was friends with, he kept telling his close collaborators that he would be the next victim of the Shining Path group; indeed, they deemed Dordi a great threat.
HE WAS AMBUSHED AND SHOT
He was returning from a chapel to baptise children and celebrate Mass when he was ambushed and shot, thus murdered on August 25, 1991.
(Information from Wikipedia - https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Dordi -📷 1. Bl. Alessandro Dordi, 2. Polish Conventual Franciscan Fathers Michal Tomaszek, top left, Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Italian Father Alessandro Dordi, are pictured during their beatification Mass at Chimbote stadium in Peru. The three priests were killed by Maoists in Peru in 1991. CNS)
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