ST HYPERECHIOS, HERMIT - 7 AUGUST

 

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 HYPERECHIOS, HERMIT 

St Hyperechios is an Egyptian Desert hermit. A collection of sayings attributed to him were published in the Vitae Patrum by Heribert Rosweyde S.J.

SOME OF HIS SAYINGS RUN THUS:

• The monk who is not master of his tongue when he is angry will never master his passions.

• Let your mouth not pronounce an evil saying, for a grapevine does not bear thorns.

• The monk in control of himself will be honoured on earth and will be crowned in heaven before the most high.

• The body of the monk, dried out by fasting, waters a soul from the depths, and the fasting of the monk dries up the channels of fleshly delights.

• It is good to eat flesh and to drink wine and not to eat the flesh of your brothers in backbiting.