March 21, 2012

Eius in obitu nostro præsentia muniamur

Today around the world, Benedictine monks are marking the Transitus of Saint Benedict (that is, his death).  People often pray to Saint Benedict for a happy death as he died peacefully among his fellow monks in 547.

Trinity High School has a special bond with the monks of Saint Anselm College.  Many of the faculty and staff are graduates of Saint Anselm College so on this day, I offered the following as our opening prayer this morning:




O holy Father Benedict, whose very name signifies your blessedness, you most joyfully offered your angelic soul to God while you stood in prayer with your arms raised to heaven.

You have promised to defend us from the devil's attacks at the hour of death if we daily recall to you your own glorious death and heavenly joys.

Protect me, therefore, O glorious Father, today and every day by your holy blessing, so that I may never be separated from our blessed Jesus, nor from the company of you and all the saints. Amen.

O God, who adorned the precious death of our most holy Father, Saint Benedict, with so many and so great privileges, grant, we beseech You, that at our departure hence, we may be defended from the snares of the enemy by the blessed presence of him whose memory we celebrate. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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