ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 7th 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.
ST CLAUDIA OF ROME
A British tradition is to the effect that one of the daughters of King Caractacus, taken with him prisoner to Rome in the time of the Emperor Claudius, became a Christian, and took the name Claudia in Baptism; further, that she married the Senator Pudens, and is the Claudia mentioned with him by St Paul (2 Timothy 4:21); that she was the mother of St Praxedes and St Pudentiana; and that she died at an advanced age in the second century.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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