ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 31st 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 ARISTIDES, AUTHOR
Saint Aristides is a second century Saint; he is commemorated on August 31.
AN EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITER
Both Eusebius and St Jerome speak of St Aristides as an early Christian writer and an eloquent philosopher, who, like his contemporary Quadratus, presented to the Emperor Hadrian an Apology for the Christian Faith (A.D. 133).
THE PASSION OF DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
He is cited by Usuard (in his Martyrology for October 3) for his account of the Passion of St Dionysius the Areopagite. This work, which was treasured by the Athenians as a noble monument of antiquity, is now apparently lost.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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