ST JOHN OF MOUTIER, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR - 27 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 27th of June

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 JOHN OF MOUTIER, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR  

(Surnamed of Moutier, and of Chinon.) St Geegory of Tours informs us, that he was a native of Great Britain, and led a retired life at Chinon or Caion, a village in the diocese of Tours. He confined himself to a little cell and oratory, with an orchard over against the church, and declined all superfluous commerce with men. 

LAUREL-TREES

In his orchard, which he cultivated himself, he planted a few laurel-trees, which, says, St Gregory, are now so grown, that the boughs being brought together they form an agreeable shade. Under these laurel trees he used to sit reading or writing. 

THE SICK WERE RESTORED TO HEALTH

After his death he was interred in the same place, and many sick were restored to their health by his intercession with God, as the same author assures us. St John flourished in the sixth century. He is commemorated in the Roman, Gallican, and English Martyrologies on the 27th of June. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)