ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 7th of April
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. MARIA ASSUNTA PALLOTTA, MISSIONARY
Blessed Maria Assunta, born on August 20, 1878, grew up in Castello di Croce, Marches of Ancona, Italy. She suddenly felt called to religious life and missionary life In 1898, she joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Rome.
SHE LEFT FOR CHINA
After training, she left with other missionaries to China and arrived at Tong-Eul-Keou in June 1904. In 1905, she died of Typhus. After the outbreak of the epidemic which left many people dead, she had prayed fervently that she would gladly sacrifice her life if someone else was spared death from the disease, which then happened. Her body was found incorrupt.
PRAYER:
O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of blessed Maria Assunta, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in her merits, we may be inspired by her example. 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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