ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 9th of September
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. TEODULO GONZALES FERNANDES, MARTYR
Blessed Teodulo, born in Spain on April 2, 1911, was professed as a Salesian in 1929.
Known as an unassuming and virtuous religious, he completed his philosophical studies and from 1934 he did his theological studies. During the Spanish Civil war with its anti-Catholic persecution, he was denounced as a religious, he was detained by militiamen on September 8, 1936, and shot.
The following day, September 9, a telephone call was received at the police station. They reported that on the road to Maudes lay a corpse with several wounds caused by firearms. From the personal documentation he carried with him, he was identified.
Blessed Teodulo, pray for us.
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