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18/01/2024

Today is the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The theme for this year's Week is "You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbour as yourself"

03/10/2023

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒
02 October 2023 | Monday

𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦:
𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒” - 𝑆𝑡. 𝐴𝑙𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑜𝑟𝑖
𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦, 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠!

03/10/2023

October 2 | Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

Perhaps no aspect of Catholic piety is as comforting to parents as the belief that an angel protects their little ones from dangers real and imagined. Yet guardian angels are not only for children. Their role is to represent individuals before God, to watch over them always, to aid their prayer, and to present their souls to God at death.

The concept of an angel assigned to guide and nurture each human being is a development of Catholic doctrine and piety based on Scripture but not directly drawn from it. Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:10 best support the belief: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.”

Devotion to the angels began to develop with the birth of the monastic tradition. Saint Benedict gave it impetus and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century reformer, was such an eloquent spokesman for the guardian angels that angelic devotion assumed its current form in his day.

A feast in honor of the guardian angels was first observed in the 16th century. In 1615, Pope Paul V added it to the Roman calendar.

PRAYER

Angel of God
My guardian dear
To Whom His love
Commits me here
Ever this day
Be at my side
To light and guard
To rule and guide.
Amen

14/09/2023