ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 30th of September
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. CONRAD OF URACH, BISHOP
Blessed Conrad of Urach was Cardinal-Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina; he was born about 1180; he died in 1227.
At an early age he became canon of the church of St Lambert, the cathedral of Liege.
In 1199 he entered the Cistercian monastery of Villers in Belgium, of which he soon became prior and, in 1209, abbot.
In 1214 he was chosen Abbot of Clairvaux and, in 1217, Abbot of Citeaux and general of his order.
Pope Honorius III created him cardinal, January 8, 1219, and charged him with two important legations, one in France (1220-23), to suppress the Albigenses; the other in Germany (1224-26), to preach and arrange the crusade which Frederick II had vowed to undertake.
After the death of Honorius III the cardinals agreed to elect him pope, but he refused the dignity. The Cistercians venerate him as Blessed (September 30).
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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