ST DUMHADE OF IONA, ABBOT - 25 MAY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY

Saints celebrated on the 25th 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, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST DUMHADE OF IONA, ABBOT 

Saint Dumhade was an Irish or Scottish monk, who being made abbot of Hij, or St Columkille’s great monastery, introduced the Roman manner of celebrating Easter. After governing that abbey ten years, he died in 717. He is titular saint of the church of Kilclocair in the diocese of Armagh. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

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St Dunchadh died March 24, 717. He was born into the line of Conall Gulban. He became a monk at Killochuir in southeast Ulster. From 710 until his death he ruled the abbey of Iona, Scotland. During Dunchadh's abbacy, St Egbert (April 24) finally convinced the Celtic monks of Iona to adopt the Roman customs: tonsure, date of Easter, Benedictine Rule. 

Dunchadh is the titular saint of Killclocair, in the diocese of Armagh; he is patron of sailors in Ireland.

(Source: https://celticsaints.org/2014/0525a.html)