ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 27th 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.
SS. BASIL AND PROCOPIUS
Saint Basil, and Saint Procopius (who was from Decapolis) were two monks in Constantinople and, in A.D. 750, had to endure a lot in the persecution caused by Leo the Isaurian against the veneration of images.
THEIR FEAST DAY
Their names are found in the Roman Martyrology on February 27, but the Basilians celebrate their memory on the 28 of the same month.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
THEIR ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
"At Constantinople, in the time of the emperor Leo, the holy confessors Basil and Procopius, who fought courageously for the veneration of holy images."
PRAYER:
O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of Saints Basil and Procopius, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in their merits, we may be inspired by their example. 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.
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