SAINT IWY OF LINDISFARNE - 6 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER 

Saints celebrated on the 6th 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.

SAINT IWY OF LINDISFARNE

Saint Ywy [Iwi], feast day October 6, was a 7th century Saint of British birth.

A monk at Lindisfarne, he was ordained deacon by St Cuthbert. 

St Ywy appears to have died in Brittany about the end of the seventh century. His relics were translated to Wilton, near Salisbury.

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 🎨 St Cuthbert with some of his monks)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed Iwy commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.