ST CYNFARCH, CONFESSOR - 8 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 8th 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 CYNFARCH, CONFESSOR 

Saint Cynfarch (Kingsmark) has his feast day on September 8. Having lived during the 5th century, there remains a place name commemorating our Saint. One or two chapels or churches in the West country are dedicated to him. 

HE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN A SCOTTISH CHIEFTAIN

He is said to have been a Scottish chieftain, and to have afterwards come to Wales, where, remaining in the world, he sanctified himself and acquired such popular repute for holiness as after his death to have been at once canonised by the clergy and people. He, it would seem, married a granddaughter of the famous Brychan of Brecknock. 

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 📷 St Cynfarch Church, Hope, Flintshire, Wales)