ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 1st 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.
ST ANNA, PROPHETESS
Saint Anna, a first century widow, is commemorated on September. She was a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser.
After seven years of married life she consecrated her widowhood to the service of God in the Temple of Jerusalem, where she remained night and day in prayer and fasting.
SHE BEHELD THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
At the age of eighty-four she beheld the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:36-38).
In the Greek Church she is honoured on February 3.
(From the "Book of Saints", 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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