ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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 ETHELDRITHA, VIRGIN
St Etheldritha was daughter of Offa, king of the Mercians in England, and of Queen Quindreda.
SHE TOOK THE VEIL
Having refused to marry Ethelbert, king of the East-Angles, from an ardent desire of consecrating herself entirely to God, she quitted the court, and retired to a small cell near Croyland, in Lincolnshire, where she lived during the space of forty years.
SEVERAL MIRACLES GAVE TESTIMONY OF HER EMINENT SANCTITY
Several miracles gave testimony of her eminent sanctity; and assiduous prayer, accompanied with the practice of other Christian virtues, rendered her worthy of the society of angels, to which God was pleased to remove her about the year 834. Her relics were lost during the ravages of the Danes.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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