Sunday Corner. CALENDAR.—MARCH 4—lo.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 44, 2 March 1894, Page 16

Sunday Corner. CALENDAR.— MARCH 4—lo.

Bunday, 4th — * Fourth Sunday of Lent (" Laetaru" Sunday). Monday, 5th — 8t Casimir, king and confessor. Tuesday, 6ib — St Fridolin, abbot. Wedneaday, 7th — 8t Thomas of Aquin, confessor and doctor. Thursday, 8tb — St Cataldus, bishop and confessor. Friday, 9th — Prtcious Blood of our Divine Redeemer. Saturday, 10th — t Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.

* The fourth Sunday of Lent is called " Laetare" Sunday, from the first word in the Introit of the Masß " Laetare Jerusalem, etc." (Rejoice O Jerusalem, etc). It is sometimes Btyled Mid-Lent or Refreshment Sunday. The Cburch on this day lays aside the emblems of sorrow observable ou other Lenten Sundays. Flowers are again placed on the a'tar, the organ is played at Mass, and the sacred cbant is joyous in tone. Trie Church setting before tb« minds of her children the happiness of Heaves, encourages them to continue the works of penance prescribed and recommended for this boly senson. \ Passion Sunday will fall this year on March 11. Towards evemug of Saturday, tbeeve of Passion Sunday, the crucifixes pictures and statues in the cburch are covered with purple cloth and remain i bus veiled till Gocd Friday after the Adoration of the Gross, when the crucifixes in the cburch are uncovered, and Holy Saturday at tbe " Gloria in excelsis " (or, more conveniently, immediately after tbe Moruing Office), when the sacred images are again exposed to view, Euring Passiontide images are not placed upon tbe altar. Tbe representations of Christ and His Saints are veiled or removed to excite tht faithful, by suithble reflections, to sorrow for their sioa, and because during the Sacred Passion the Divinity of Jeans was hidden and veiled. He allowed himself to be apprehended and bci urged, as if He were » mere man and had not in Himself tbe power of the divinity. Hence, in the Gospel of Pat-sion Sunday I are read the words, " Jesus bid Himself and and west out of tbe I Temple."