ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 7th 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 DINOOTH, ABBOT
(Dinothus, Dunawd, Dunod) Founder and first Abbot of Bangor Iscoed (Flintshire); flourished between 500 and 542. He was originally a North British chieftain driven by reverses of fortune into Wales.
HE WAS ORIGINALLY A NORTH BRITISH CHIEFTAIN
In conjunction with his three sons, Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, and under the patronage of Cyngen, Prince of Powys, he founded the monastery of Bangor on the Dee, which must not be confounded with Bangor in Carnarvonshire, founded by St Deiniol in 514, and afterwards a cathedral city.
THE COMMUNITY AT BANGOR WAS VERY NUMEROUS
The community at Bangor was very numerous, and the laus perennis was established there. The Triads say there were 2400 monks, who in turn, 100 each hour, sang the Divine Service day and night. More is known of this famous monastery than of its founder.
THEY SANG THE DIVINE SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT
He is mentioned by Bede in connection with the second conference at Augustine’s Oak, but no authority is given for the statement, and there are arguments against its correctness. The Conference was probably held in 602 or 603, at which time St Dinooth would have been far advanced in years, and the journey from North Wales to the Lower Severn would have been a difficult one for an aged man.
HE IS MENTIONED BY BEDE
It is true that delegates from Bangor attended the conference which was convened by St Augustine to raise the moral and spiritual condition of the British clergy, to wean them from their old method of computing Easter, to which they clung with great tenacity, and to induce them to co-operate with him in converting the Anglo-Saxons.
The document purporting to be St Dinooth’s "Answer" is the sole ground for connecting his name with this conference; but it is extremely doubtful whether the "Answer" has anything to do with this conference at all. St Augustine’s name is not mentioned in it, neither is there any allusion to the evangelisation of the English. It contains merely a firm repudiation of papal authority and an assertion of the supremacy of "the Bishop of Caerleon upon Usk" over the British Church.
Some time before the supposed date of the document St David had transferred the primatial See of Wales to Menevia. What is more authentic, however, is the fact that in consequence of the British delegates’ refusal to agree to St Augustine’s proposals he prophesied their destruction by the English.
THEY WERE MISTAKEN FOR COMBATANTS
In 613, when the monks of Bangor were praying for the success of their countrymen in battle against the army of Ethelfrid of Northumbria, twelve hundred of them were slain, being mistaken for combatants. The monastery itself was probably burnt about sixty years later, and extensive ruins remained for several centuries, which are described by William of Malmesbury, Camden, and Leland.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
Comments
Post a Comment