SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th of September SAINT GREGORY, BISHOP Today, we also commemorate Saint Gregory . The Roman Martyrology states:  "The same day, Saint Gregory, bishop of Greater Armenia, who after many sufferings under Diocletian, rested in peace." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Gregory 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th 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 li...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 9th of March WELCOME! SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR [Also celebrated on January 10.] Saint Gregory of Nyssa was younger brother to St Basil the Great; and was educated in polite and sacred studies. HE RENOUNCED THE WORLD He afterwards renounced the world, and was ordained lector; but was overcome by his violent passion for eloquence to teach rhetoric. St Gregory Nazianzen wrote to him in the strongest terms, exhorting him to renounce that paltry or ignoble glory, as he elegantly calls it.  BISHOP OF NYSSA This letter produced its desired effect. St Gregory returned to the sacred ministry in the lower functions of the altar: after some time he was called by his brother Basil to assist him in his pastoral duties, and in 372 was chosen bishop of Nyssa, a city of Cappadocia, near the Lesser Armenia.  THE ARIANS TREMBLED AT HIS NAME The Arians, who trembled at his name, prevailed with Demosthenes, vicar o...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of January WELCOME! SAINT GREGORY, BISHOP OF LANGRES    Saint Gregory of Langres  was one of the principal senators of Autun, and continued from the death of his wife a widower till the age of fifty-seven, at which time, for his singular virtues, he was compelled from his private penitential life, and consecrated bishop of Langres, which see he governed with admirable prudence and zeal thirty-three years, sanctifying his pastoral labours by the most profound humility, assiduous prayer, and extraordinary abstinence and mortification.  EXTRAORDINARY ABSTINENCE AND MORTIFICATION An incredible number of infidels were converted by him from idolatry, and worldly Christians from their disorders. He died about the beginning of the year 541, some days after the Epiphany.  HIS DEVOTION TO SAINT BENIGNUS Out of devotion to Saint Benignus , he desired to be buried near that saint’s tomb at Dijon, which tow...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of December 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 live...