BL. DIDA, ABBESS - 25 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 25th of January

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.

BL. DIDA, ABBESS 

Blessed Dida was an abbess in the monastery of St Peter of Lyons. She is particularly remembered for her vision of the holy bishop Bonitus of Clermont, in which he admonished her to set in motion his transfer from Lyons to Clermont. She died in the 8th century. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the holy abbess Dida commend us to you, O God, so that through her merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.