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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May 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...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May 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, afte...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May 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...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May 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...

  ROGATION DAYS The tradition of Rogation Days and prayer processions goes back to the 4th century, when a large prayer procession was introduced across the fields on St Mark's Day (April 25) in Rome (Major Rogation Day). MAJOR ROGATION DAY In the late 5th century, after an earthquake and crop failures in southern France, Bishop Mammertus of Vienne ordered three days of atonement before the Ascension, combined with fasting and prayer processions. The Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the Feast of the Ascension are also traditionally observed as days of solemn supplication, these are the Minor Rogation Days. MINOR ROGATION DAYS This custom was adopted throughout the Roman Church in the 8th century. People asked God for mercy, for fertility in fields and fields, for protection from hail, frost and other storms. The Litany of the Saints and the associated prayers are recited in procession. BLESSING OF THE FIELDS To this day, the prayer days are a living tradition in many places, ei...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 21st of May 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...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May WELCOME! SAINT DESIDERIUS, BISHOP OF VIENNE, MARTYR  When Queen Brunehaut governed the courts of her two sons, Theodebert, king of Austrasia, and Theodoric of Burgundy, this zealous pastor boldly reproved her for her incests and cruelties. HE FEARLESSLY PREACHED THE TRUTH But a sermon which he preached before her and Theodoric on chastity, chiefly in the words of St Paul, procured him the crown of martyrdom; for, in his return home, he was by their order and contrivance murdered by three assassins in a village now called St Didier de Chalaraine, near the brook of that name in the principality of Dombes, in 612.  FURTHER READING See Fredegarius, Aimoinus, Jonas, etc. quoted by Henschenius the Bollandist; and Acta vel Passio S. Desiderii M. a Sisebuto Rege (Hispaniæ) composita, published by Flores, Espana Sagrada, t. 7, Append. 4, p. 337. From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: May the intercession of ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May 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...

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May WELCOME! SAINT JULIA OF CORSICA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR (Fifth Age.) Saint Julia was a noble virgin at Carthage, who, when that city was taken by Genseric in 439, was sold for a slave to a pagan merchant of Syria.  SHE WAS SOLD AS A SLAVE Under the most mortifying employments of her station, by cheerfulness and patience she found, besides her sanctification, a present happiness and comfort which the world could not have afforded.  FASTING AND PRAYER All the time she was not employed in her master’s business was devoted to prayer and reading books of piety. She fasted very rigorously every day but Sunday; nor could all the entreaties of her master, who was charmed with her fidelity and other virtues, nor the hardships of her situation, prevail with her to be more tender of herself.  THE BUSINESS TRIP The merchant thought proper to carry her with him in one of his voyages to Gaul, where he imported the most valuab...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May WELCOME! WIPERT, BISHOP OF RATZEBURG  Wipert of Blücher (Wipert von Blücher) was made bishop of Ratzeburg (Germany) in 1356, although he did not belong to the Premonstratensian order like the other bishops of Ratzeburg.  HE LED HIS DIOCESE WITH GREAT WISDOM He was the successor of Otto von Gronow. He led his diocese with great wisdom and knew how to keep neighbours striving for church property in check. Wipert died in 1376 and was buried in the Ratzeburg Cathedral. His successor was Heinrich II von Wittorf. ➡️ More information about Wipert, Bishop of Ratzeburg

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN FOREST, PRIEST AND MARTYR  ⬅️ Martyrs of England and Wales Blessed John Forest was born in 1471, presumably at Oxford, where his surname was then not unknown; he suffered May 22, 1538. At the age of twenty he received the habit of St Francis at Greenwich, in the church of the Friars Minor of the Regular Observance, called for brevity’s sake “Observants”.  QUEEN CATHERINE'S CONFESSOR Nine years later we find him at Oxford, studying theology. He is commonly styled “Doctor” though, beyond the steps which he took to qualify as bachelor of divinity, no positive proof of his further progress has been found. Afterwards he became one of Queen Catherine’s chaplains, and was appointed her confessor.  THE OBSERVANTS' OPPOSITION TO THE KING'S DIVORCE In 1525 he appears to have been provincial, which seems certain from the fact that he threatened with excommunication the brethren who opposed Card...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May WELCOME! SAINT BOBO, CONFESSOR  Saint Bobo was a gentleman of Provence and a great soldier, the father of the poor, and protector of his country against the Saracens , whom he often defeated when they poured into Provence by sea from Spain and Africa.  A PILGRIMAGE TO ROME He afterwards led a penitential contemplative life for many years; and being on a pilgrimage to Rome, died at Voghera, near Pavia, in 985.  HE IS VENERATED IN PROVENCE His name is in great veneration in Provence, and his festival a holiday of precept in most cities in Lombardy. See his exact life in the Acta Sanctorum.   From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: May the intercession of the blessed Bobo commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of May WELCOME!   SAINT IVO OF KERMARTIN, CONFESSOR  Saint Yvo Helori, or son of Helor [also known as Yvo, Ives, Erwan, Iwan, Youenn, Yves Hélory ] descended from a noble and virtuous family near Treguier in Brittany, was born in 1253.  HIS STUDIES He studied grammar at home with unusual application and success, and at fourteen years of age was sent to Paris, where he learned the liberal arts and divinity: he applied himself to the civil and canon law at Orleans.  His mother was wont frequently to say to him that he ought so to live as became a saint, to which his answer always was, that he hoped to be one. This resolution took deep root in his soul, and the impression of this obligation was in his heart a continual spur to virtue, and a check against the least shadow of any dangerous course.  A HORROR OF EVIL The contagious example of many loose companions at school served only to inspire him with the g...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May 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, aft...