SAINT APRONIAN, MARTYR - 2 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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.

SAINT APRONIAN, MARTYR

Today, we also commemorate Saint Apronian, martyr. The Roman Martyrology states: 

"At Rome, on the Salarian road, the passion of Saint Apronian, a notary. Whilst he was yet a Gentile, and  was leading Saint Sisinius out of prison, to present him before the governor Laodicius, he heard a voice  from Heaven saying, 'Come ye, the blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the  beginning of the world.' At once he believed, was baptised, and after confessing our Lord, received sentence of death."

PRAYER:

O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of your martyr, Saint Apronian, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in his merits, we may be inspired by his 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.