ST SIMEON SENEX - 8 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER 

Saints celebrated on the 8th of October

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 SIMEON SENEX 

St Simeon Senex, first century, memorial: October 8.

He is "The just and devout man, waiting for the consolation of Israel," who in the Temple took the Infant Saviour in his arms, and, inspired by the Holy Ghost, blessed God with the Nunc dimittis (Luke 2:25-35). 

Tradition has preserved nothing more regarding him; but he has always had in the Church a place in her Catalogues of Saints. 

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)