ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 18th 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 MACARIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, ABBOT
Saint Macarius of Constantinople was a 9th century Abbot of a great monastery near Constantinople, renowned for learning and virtue, and favoured by Almighty God with the gift of healing.
His zeal for the Catholic Faith was so ardent that the Iconoclast Emperor Leo the Armenian singled him out as the special object of his fury.
HE WAS TORTURED
He was put to the torture and detained in prison until the death of the tyrant. Michael the Stammerer, successor of the latter, banished him to a neighbouring island, where he died about A.D. 830. [Memorial: April 1 or August 18 on some calendars]
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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