ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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 ELEAZAR THE PATRIARCH
His name, Eleazarus, is derived from the Hebrew El'azar = God helps, Gotthelf, etc.
Saint Eleazar was Aaron's third son and successor to his father in the high priestly office (Exodus 6:23, 25). He was born in Egypt and was not yet 20 years old when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, which is why he did not die in the desert, but was among the number of those who entered the promised land.
Around the year 1452 B.C., according to God's command, Moses led Aaron and his son Eleazar to Mount Hor, and clothed them with the high priestly robes of Aaron, who died on the same day and was buried by Eleazar on the mountain (Numbers. 20:22 ff .)
AFTER AARON'S DEATH HE APPEARS AS THE SPIRITUAL HEAD NEXT TO MOSES AND JOSHUA
After Aaron's death he appears as the spiritual head of the theocracy everywhere next to Moses and Joshua, especially in charge of the distribution of the land with Joshua (Numbers 3. 32; 27.19 ff.). He died around 1440 B.C.
Holy Scripture also does not say much about his further work, so it cannot have been anything other than beneficial, as is testified by the veneration that his grave in the city of Gabaath on the mountain Ephraim (Joshua 24:33) still enjoyed at the time of St Jerome.
ALL PRIESTS DESCENDED FROM HIM AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER
Since his two older brothers Nadab and Abihu were childless, all priests in Israel are descended from him and his younger brother Ithamar. [Some authors give his feast day as July 1.]
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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