ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 4th of August
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 LUANUS, ABBOT IN IRELAND
(Saint Luanus, or Lugid or Molua, Abbot in Ireland.)
He was educated at Benchor under St Coemgall, and, as St Bernard assures us, founded one hundred monasteries in Ireland.
ONE HUNDRED MONASTERIES
Among these the chief was that of Cluain-fearta Molua, (1.) on the borders of Ossory and Queen’s county, in Leinster. St Lugid prescribes a monastic rule which was long observed in Ireland; in it he enjoined the strictest silence and recollection, and forbid women being ever allowed to approach the church of the monks. He passed to immortal glory on August 4, 622.
NOTE:
(1.) There was another Cluain Fearta, corruptly called Clonfert, in Connaught, founded by St Brendan.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 St Lugid's church and holy well, Roscomroe)
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