ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 25th 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.
ST CLEOPHAS, MARTYR
St Cleophas, Martyr (1st century). He was one of the two disciples of the Way to Emmaus (Luke 24), who is said to have been murdered by the Jews in the very same house where he gave hospitality to Our Lord on that first Easter Sunday.
It has been maintained, but without great probability, that this Cleophas is one and the same with Cleophas, the father of the Apostle, St James the Less (Matthew 10:3). According to Hegesippus, he would thus have been a brother of St Joseph.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
[His name is entered in the martyrology on September 25.]
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