SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of January 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, ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 18th of December WELCOME!   SAINTS RUFUS AND ZOZIMUS, MARTYRS (From   St Polycarp ’s Epistle, p. 94) From the eminent spirit of sanctity which the actions and writings of the great St Ignatius breathe, we are to form a judgment of that with which these holy martyrs were animated. They had the happiness to share in his chains and sufferings for Christ, and likewise glorified God by martyrdom under Trajan, about the year 116.  St Polycarp says of them, "they have not run in vain, but in faith and righteousness; and they are gone to the place that was due to them from the Lord, with whom they also suffered. For they loved not the present world, but Him who died, and was raised again by God for us."  "IN FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS" Whether Antioch or Philippi, where they seemed to have preached, or what other city of the East was the theatre of their triumph, is uncertain.  St Polycarp, writing to the P...