Sunday Corner.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 30 March 1894, Page 16

Sunday Corner.

CALENDAR— APKIL I—7.

Sunday, April I—Low1 — Low trunday. v Monday, April 2— Annunciation of the 8.V.11.'f (transferred from March 23). Tuesday, April 3— S Gabiicl, Aichangel (transferred fiom March 18). Wednesday, April I—3.1 — 3. Joseph, Spoutc cf H.V.M., and Patron of Universal Church t (transferred from March 19). Thursday, April b—B.b — 8. Vincent Ferrer, confessor. Friday, April G— B. Xyatus 1., Pope, martyr, tiatuida}, Apiil / — ts. Celeßtine 1., Pope, confessor,

•Low Sunday. 1891, will be the thirty-eighth anniversary of the consecraion i f the Most Rev. Dr Morar., Dr Moran was coosecrated Bishop of D*rd«num in partibus and Vicar-Apostolic of th« Eastern Provinces of Cape Colony by Archbishop (afterwards Cardinal) Cullen in Carlow Cathedral on I.nw Sundaj, 1856. Low Sunday, thu octave of Ea->ter, is so called because in olden times those newly baptised laid aside on this day the white robes with which nfter baptism they were clothed nn Holy Saturday. It is also called Q jaeimodo Sunday, from the first wotd in the Mass of the day. It used to be styled Close Easter, because it closed the Eaßter week. f Prom very earliest times the Latin Church celebrated this feast on the 25th March. In some partß of Europe for a while it was celebrated on the 18 h Dece-nber or 18th January. As Easter Suoday occurred this year on March 25th, the celebration is transferred to April 2. We are told that Mary, at the time of the armunciatim, waa a young girl 11 yeais old. She had vowed her virginity to God, and hence her trouble when the anstel declared ehe wag to become a mother, and her joy when sbo waa told that though the Word would be born of her she would remain a virgin. $ In 1871 St Joseph waa proclaimed by Pius IX. patron and protector of the whole Church. The special feast of bis pa»ronage is celebrated on the third Sunday after Eastor. St Teresa and St Francis de Sales were great propagators of devotion to Saint Joseph, which is daily increasing amonp the faithful.