GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

January 20, Sunday.— Second Sunday after the Epip- . hany. Feast of the Most Holy -- . ' _ Name of Jesus. . '"~" „ 21, Monday.— St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr-: „ 22, Tuesday.— SS. Vincent and Anastasius, Martyrs^ „ 23, Wednesday.— lisipousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „... „ 24, Thursday.— St. Timothy, Bishop and Martyr. . __- v.' „ 25, '^Friday.— Conversion of St. Paul. „ 26, Saturday.— St. < Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr. *. " -

The Holy Name of Jesus. St. Paul tells us that Our Lord ' humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of ithe CrOiSS 1 . For -which cause Cio.d also' hp.th exalted Him,' and given Him a name, which is aboive all names; that in. the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of tfaose that are in heaven, on earth, and under the- earth.' The object of the Church in instituting the r feast which we celebrate to-day was to bring - before her children the sacredness of the name of Jesus, and to make atonement for the sins of uiose who use it irreverently. Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 " > In this feast we commemorate the providential care with which God assigned to the Virgin Mother and 1 her Divine Child, in^ the person of" St. Joseph, a faithful guardiani and protector in . the necessities and trials of their daily life. St. Timothy, Bishop and Martyr. St. Timothy was a disciple of St. Paul. He Was Bishop of Ephesus, and martyr, and died in 97. Born at Lystra, Lyaconia ; attached himself abmit the year 51 to St. Paul, who associated him in all his - apostolic labors ; became the< first Bishop of Ephesus in • (>5, where, being opposed to the celebration of- a feast in honor of Diana, he' was stoned to death. We have two Epistles of St. Paul to Timothy.