SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 4th of July SAINTS OSEE AND AGGAEUS, PROPHETS Today, we also commemorate Saints Osee and Aggaeus. The Roman Martyrology states:  "The prophets Osee [ Hosea ] and Aggaeus [ Haggai ]." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Osee and Aggaeus 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 DECEMBER   Saints celebrated on the 16th of December   WELCOME! SAINT HAGGAI, PROPHET Aggeus [Haggai], the tenth among the minor prophets of the Old Testament, is called in the Hebrew text, Haggay , and in the Septuagint Haggaios , whence the Latin form Aggeus . It is an abbreviated form of the noun Haggíyyah , " my feast is Yahweh ", a Jewish proper name found in 1 Paralipomenon 6:15, Vulgate (1 Chronicles 6:30). THERE IS GREAT UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING THE PROPHET'S PERSONAL LIFE Great uncertainty prevails also concerning the prophet’s personal life. The book which bears his name is very short, and contains no detailed information about its author. The few passages which speak of him refer simply to the occasion on which he had to deliver a divine message in Jerusalem, during the second year of the reign of the Persian King, Darius I (B.C. 520)  In the second year of the reign of Darius the son of Hystaspes (B.C. 520), Aggeus came forward i...