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. BAUDACHARIUS, RELIGIOUS
Blessed Baudacharius - whose feast day is December 21 - was a monk in the monastery of Bobbio in Italy, who once fed 30 brothers with one single roasted duck at the time of the famine.
They themselves confessed after the meal that they had never felt better satisfied with any dish ever, about which his biography remarks: "Faith increased what was lacking in food."
He died around the year 650. His monastery celebrates also the translation of his mortal remains, which took place on August 31, 1482. The hagiographer Migne mentions him with the title "Saint".
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
PRAYER:
O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of blessed Baudacharius, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in his merits, we may be inspired by his example. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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