BL. ROGER, ABBOT AND CONFESSOR - 13 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

 Saints celebrated on the 13th of February

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.

BL. ROGER, ABBOT AND CONFESSOR 

Having embraced the Cistercian order at Loroy, or Locus Regis, in Berry, he was chosen abbot of Elan in Champagne, and died about the year 1175. 

HIS RELICS

His remains are enshrined in a chapel which bears his name, in the church at Elan, where his festival is kept with a mass in his honour on February 13.

HIS VITA

His life was written by a monk of Elan. It can be read in Chatelain, on January 4, on which day his name occurs in a Cistercian calendar printed at Dijon.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of the blessed Roger may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.