GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 18 October 1906, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 21, Sunday.— Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. The purity of* the Blessed Virgin Mary. -j „- 22, Monday.— SS. Cyril and Methodius, - Bishops and Confessors. - „ 23, Tuesday.— lhe Most Holy Redeemer 2A, Wednesday .—St. Raphael, Archangel. 25, Thursday.— St. Boniface 1., Pope and Confessor. 26, Friday.— St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr 37, Saturday.— St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor.

Feast of Our Most Holy Redeemer. This day is set apart by the Church to praise and glorify God for the great 'mystery of our Redemption, ,and to honor the person of His Son, Who by becoming man and dying on the Cross for us, has freed us from the slavery of satan, and restored to us our heavenly inheritance. """*" * St. Raphael, Archangel. ~ St. Raphael is one of the seyen Archangels who according to the Bible, are before the throne of God! Raphael was the protector and guide of Tobias and advised him to marry Sara. St. Boniface, I M Pope and Confessor. St. Boniface I. was Pope from 418 to. 422. Though a lover of peace, he strenuously "maintained the rights of the Holy See against the ambitious encroachments of the Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Evans tvs, Pope and Martyr. " The death of St. Evaristus took place in 112. He is honored in the calendar with the title of martyr but little is known of the events of 'his life or of has sufferings for o the faith.