SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 21st of October WELCOME!   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

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 15th of November   WELCOME! SAINT FINTAN, MISSIONARY AND HERMIT     ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints St Fintan, 9th century Irish Saint and missionary in Switzerland and Germany, famous for his sublime prayer and spirit of penance.  He passed the last years of his life as a Recluse in an island in the River Rhine, and is still in great local veneration. He is said to have passed away A.D. 827. From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate PRAYER: Pour into our hearts, O Lord, we pray, a longing for heavenly glory, and grant that we may come, bearing in our hands sheaves of justice, to where Saint Fintan shines with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 17th of February WELCOME! SAINT FINTAN, ABBOT Saint Fintan, Abbot of Cluain-Ednech, Ireland - which Usher interprets the Ivy-Cave, in the diocese of Lethglean, in Leinster, in the sixth century.  ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES WAS ST COMGAL He had for disciple St Comgal, the founder of the abbey of Benchor, and master of St Columban.  Colgan reckons twenty-four Irish saints of the name of Fintan; but probably several of these were the same person honoured in several places. Another St Fintan. surnamed Munnu, who is honoured on October 21, was very famous. (From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints) PRAYER: May the intercession of the blessed abbot Fintan 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. ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints