ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 6th 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.
ST EVAGRIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BISHOP
Saint Evagrius of Constantinople is commemorated on March 6. When (A.D. 370) the See of Constantinople had been vacant for twenty years, usurped by Arian intruders, the Catholics seized a favourable moment and elected Evagrius, a personage otherwise unknown to history.
HIS MARTYRDOM
A few months later he was driven out by the Emperor Valens and died in exile. His merits were such as to entitle him in the opinion of his contemporaries to the honour of canonisation.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
PRAYER:
O God, who gladden us with the annual feast of Evagrius, your blessed bishop, mercifully grant that, while honouring the anniversary of his death, we may also imitate his good works. 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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