ST ADELAIDE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS - 5 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 5th 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.

ST ADELAIDE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS 

Saint Adelaide (Alice, [Adelheid]) was daughter of Megendose, count of Guelders, and governed the nunnery of Villich on the Rhine, near Bonn, (now a church of canonesses,) but died in 1015, abbess of our Lady’s in Cologne, both monasteries having been founded by her father. 

HER FEAST DAY

Her festival, with an octave, is kept at Villich, where the nunnery which she instituted, of the order of St Benedict, is now converted into a church of canonesses. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Adelaide 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.