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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 28th of May WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS FORDE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Portrait of Fr Thomas Forde The English Convent/Bruges Thomas Forde [Thomas Ford] was born in Devonshire; at Trinity College, Oxford, he took the degree of master of arts, in 1567, and was soon after admitted fellow of that college but not liking the protestant religion, he quitted his fellowship, and all other temporal hopes, and went over to the college or seminary lately instituted at Douay, where he arrived in 1571.  After having for some time there seriously applied himself to the study of divinity, he was made priest in 1573, at the same time with those two eminent divines, Richard Bristow and Gregory Martin; these being the three first that were presented to holy orders from Douay college. He took his degree of bachelor of divinity, in 1576; and soon after, returned into England upon the mission, where he laboured for some years with great fruit in the co...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 28th of May 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 that...