ST ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM, PRIEST - 4 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 4th 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 ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM, PRIEST 

Saint Isidore of Pelusium was a monk from his youth, and became superior of a monastery in the neighbourhood of that city, in the fifth age. Facundus and Suidas assure us that he was promoted to the dignity of priest. 

A LIVING RULE OF RELIGIOUS PERFECTION

He was looked upon as a living rule of religious perfection, and treated by his patriarch St Cyril, and the other prelates of his time, as their father. He chose St Chrysostom for his model. 

2012 LETTERS OF HIS

We have still extant two thousand and twelve of his letters, abounding with excellent instructions of piety, and with theological and critical learning. They are concise, and the style natural, very elegant, agreeable, full of fire and penetration. Possevin laments that they are not in use as a classic author for the Greek language. 

HIS HOLY DEATH

His prudence, undaunted zeal, profound humility, ardent love of God, and other virtues, shine admirably in them. He died about the year 449. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)