ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 3rd 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.
SAINT HERESWITHA, WIDOW
Saint Hereswitha (Haeresvid, Hereswyde) was daughter of Hereric and Beorhtswith and sister of St Hilda of Whitby.
SHE WAS ST HILDA'S SISTER
She was the wife of Aethelhere, King of East Anglia, to whom she bore two sons, Aldwulf and Alfwold.
SHE TOOK THE VEIL
Her husband having been killed in the battle of Winwaed (655), St Hereswitha became a nun at the Abbey of Chelles, then in the Diocese of Paris, where she remained until the end of her life.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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