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ST NENNUS, ABBOT - 14 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 14th of June 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 th...

ST NENNIUS, ABBOT - 17 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 17th of January WELCOME! SAINT NENNIUS, ABBOT  ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints (Nennidhius [Saint Ninnidh the Pious of Lough Erne])  Despising the vanities of the world, though of the race of the monarchs of Ireland, from his youth made the science of the cross of Christ the sole object of his ambition; and to engrave in his heart the lessons which our divine Redeemer taught by that adorable mystery, was the centre of all his desires.  THE SCIENCE OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST Having passed many years, first in the school of Saint Fiechus, archbishop of Leinster, and afterwards in the celebrated monastery of Clonard, in the province of Meath, under its holy founder Saint Finian, he retired into the isle of Inis-muighe-samb , in the lake of Erne, in the province of Ulster.  THE DIRECTOR OF MANY SOULS Here, in process of time, he became the director of many souls in the paths of Christian perfection, founded a gre...