ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 8th 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 SENAN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR
Saint Senan [St Senan of Hy Conall] was born in the country of Hy-Conalls in Ireland, in the latter part of the fifth century, was a disciple of the abbots Cassidus and Natal, or Naal: then travelled for spiritual improvement to Rome, and thence into Britain. In this kingdom he contracted a close friendship with St David.
HE FOUNDED MANY CHURCHES AND A MONASTERY IN IRELAND
After his return he founded many churches in Ireland, and a great monastery in Inis-Cathaig, an island lying at the mouth of the river Shannon, which he governed, and in which he continued to reside after he was advanced to the episcopal dignity.
The abbots, his successors for several centuries, were all bishops, till this great diocese was divided into three, namely of Limerick, Killaloe, and Ardfert.
HIS FEAST DAY
St Senan died on the same day and year with St David; but was honoured in the Irish church on March 8. A town in Cornwall bears the name of St Senan.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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