SAINT MOCHONNA - 13 MAY

 

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Saints celebrated on the 13th of May

SAINT MOCHONNA

⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints

Mochonna is listed as a "saint" in the Bollandists'  Mart. Taml.* and with the addition: Essa-Mac-Neire in Kelly*. In the same source, the name appears once more on March 8 with the location: Daire (Derry) and also on May 3, further on March 27, mentioning the place: Maighi Eo (Mayo). On May 13 and June 7, he occurs yet again, and on May 19 with the detail: Chille Comairthe. He may well be the same person as Saint Mochua. Colgan* reckons he may be St Dachonnas. According to Kelly* (p. 90) St Mochonna took part in the first great synod of the Irish Church at Flan Febhla in the year 696 and lived until the year 705. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 468)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Mochonna may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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.

➡️ Irish Confessors and Martyrs 

🇮🇪 PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART FOR IRELAND 🇮🇪

O most Sacred and most Loving Heart of Jesus! to which the Irish nation is most solemnly dedicated, preserve our nation in faith, in purity, and in charity. Through all its trials, its sorrows, its persecutions in the past, it remained faithful to the teaching of its great Apostle, St Patrick. May the former glory of its apostolic faith again appear.

May it become again the seat of learning and religion. May the rising generation see its rights restored. May the zeal of its holy priesthood increase. May the purity of its daughters preserve its stainless character. May the honour of its sons remain unsullied. May the evil of intemperance cease. May the spirit of infidelity and rationalism never reach its shores. May its attachment to the See of Peter, and its obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, never suffer diminution. May sanctity be its atmosphere and may it daily render greater glory and honour to thee, Most Sacred Heart, to which every Irish heart is, and will ever be, most devotedly attached. Amen.

(From St Anthony’s Treasury, 1916)