UBIQUITOUS GOD

 

Omnipresent,

Omnipotent

Omniscient being

Ever present,

All powerful

All knowing, all seeing

Awesome,

Ubiquitous God

Of our spiritual wellbeing

Of everlasting life,

Salvation guaranteeing

THE FOURTEEN HOLY HELPERS - BLAISE

 

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession was believed to be particularly effective against various diseases.

This group of "helpers in need" originated in 14th century Rhineland, due largely as a result of the epidemic that grew to become the Black Death, but their veneration spread almost as quickly as the plague.

 

Saint Blaise was a physician, and later bishop of Sebastea, which in antiquity was in Armenia.

He was martyred, according to the Acta Sanctorum, by being beaten, attacked with iron carding combs, before being beheaded.

His patronage protected against illness of the throat and of domestic animals.

In the Latin Church his feast day falls on 3rd February, in the Eastern Churches on 11th February.

THE FOURTEEN HOLY HELPERS - BARBARA

 

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession was believed to be particularly effective against various diseases.

This group of "helpers in need" originated in 14th century Rhineland, due largely as a result of the epidemic that grew to become the Black Death, but their veneration spread almost as quickly as the plague.

 

Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr.

She lived in 3rd century Nicodemia, now in Turkey.

In images Saint Barbara is often portrayed with miniature chains and a tower.

As one of the Helpers, Barbara continues to be a popular saint in modern times.

She has a wide range of patronage, artillerymen, military engineers, miners, and explosives technician’s as well as mathematicians and protects against fever and sudden death.

Saint Barbara’s Feast Day is December 4th

THE FOURTEEN HOLY HELPERS - AGATHIUS

 

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession was believed to be particularly effective against various diseases.

This group of "helpers in need" originated in 14th century Rhineland, due largely as a result of the epidemic that grew to become the Black Death, but their veneration spread almost as quickly as the plague. According to Christian tradition Saint Agathius, also known as Acacius of Byzantium, was a Cappadocian Greek centurion of the imperial army.

He was arrested for his faith on charges of being a Christian in Thrace, tortured, and then taken to Byzantium (Istanbul), where he was scourged and beheaded.

He was martyred in 303 because he would not give up his Christian Faith.

In Greece during the reign of the Ottoman Empire in which the Ottomans attempted to forcibly convert everyone to Islam he became very popular in the Christian resistance.

His patronage is against headaches and his feast day is observed on May the 8th.

BY GODS GRACE

 

At the end I am serenely at peace

In the moments of my final hour

I feel the presence of the Lord

Who gently plucks me like a flower

KISSING FRIDAY

 

The tradition of kissing Friday

Was called Nippy Hug Day

When Leicestershire men

Could demand on that day

A kiss from any woman

Of his choice by custom

And if she was to refuse

He could then pinch her bum

But since world war two

Kissing Friday doesn’t apply

It has fallen from favour

I can’t understand why

WHAT DO YOU CALL THE DAY?

 

What do you call the day?

That comes after Ash Wednesday

And before kissing Friday

Well, we just call it Thursday