ST EUTYCHIUS, CONFESSOR - 24 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 24th 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 EUTYCHIUS, CONFESSOR

Saint Eutychius [Eutyches] was a Phrygian in the first century, a disciple of St Paul, and conjectured to have been the young man raised from the dead by the Apostle at Troas (Acts 20), who on St Paul leaving the East, attached himself to St John the Evangelist, aiding him in his Apostolate and attending him to the Isle of Patmos. 

HE ATTACHED HIMSELF TO ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

He is said to have himself been imprisoned and put to the torture for the Faith, but to have lived to nearly the end of the first century and to have died a natural death. 

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