ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 25th of March
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.
BL. GUIDO OF REGGIOLANO, RELIGIOUS
Blessed Guido was born in Reggiolano on the Arno, in the Bishopric of Arezzo, of very honourable parents. After completing his studies, he opened a school of grammar and rhetoric, while at the same time he zealously devoted himself to the following of Jesus.
HE BECAME A RELIGIOUS
Once he attended the morning service in the Dominican church in Florence and was so moved by the pious singing of the brothers that he applied for admission to the Order.
"HE WAS LOVED BY GOD AND BY MEN"
He combined the greatest gentleness and love towards his neighbour with extraordinary penance towards himself. For this reason the writers of the Order apply the words of the Ecclesiasticus to him: "He was loved by God and by men" to him. On March 25, 1394, he committed his soul into the hands of Jesus.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 March 25, Stammenbuch aller Heyligen und Seeligen... Fortunatus Hueber)
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