ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 23rd 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 FELIX, BISHOP OF BRESCIA
Saint Felix, Bishop of Brescia, lived in the 7th century. He was the twentieth Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy, which diocese he governed during over forty troublous years.
He struggled successfully against the Arian Bishop, intruded into his See by Rotharius, King of the Lombards, and energetically opposed the inroads of the heresy, then making its last great effort against the Catholic Faith.
He was a zealous pastor, and built and endowed several churches. The date of his death, about the middle of the seventh century, is variously given.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Felix, your blessed bishop, 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.
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