ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 3rd 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 GAMALIEL
He was of the sect of the Pharisees, and a doctor of the law, in the highest reputation at Jerusalem. St Paul recommended himself to the Jews by saying that he had been his scholar.
THE WORK OF GOD
When the Jews were deliberating to put the apostle to death, Saint Gamaliel prevented such a resolution, and indirectly showed the Christian religion to be the work of God; yet this he did with so much prudence as not to incur any suspicion.
HIS CONVERSION WAS BEFORE THAT OF ST PAUL
Though he had not then embraced the faith, his conversion was more early than that of St Paul, as St Chrysostom assures us.
Having buried St Stephen at his own estate, twenty miles from Jerusalem, he was afterwards himself interred in the same sepulchre, and discovered his relics to Lucian, in a vision, in 415.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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