GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 September 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 15, Sunday.—Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. The Holy Name of Mary. „ 16, Monday.—SS. Cornelius' and Cyprian, * Bishops and Martyrs. „ 17, Tuesday".—Stigmata of St. Francis.. „ 18, .Wednesday.—St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor. Ember, Day. „ 19, Thursday. —St. Januarius and Companions, Martyrs. . , „ 20, Friday.—St. Agapitus 1., Pope and Confessor. Ember Day. ' N 21, Saturday.—St. Matthew, Apostle. Ember Day. The Holy Name of Mary. -. The name of Mary, according to St. Bernard, means ' Star of the Sea,' an emblem of hope in the midst of danger. St. Peter Chrysologus considers the meaning of- Mary to be ' Queen,' and this would accord with her royal dignity, as Mother of Him Who was truly King. St. Agapitus, Pope and Confessor. St. Agapitus, a Roman, succeeded Pope John 11. in 535. He died after a short pontificate of eleven months. St. Matthew, Apostle. St. Matthew is the same as Levi mentioned. in the Gospel of St. Luke (v. 27). He was the - son of Alpheus, and was born near Capharnaum. He was a collector of taxes which the Jews had to pay to the Romans. Tradition relates that he labored for some time jn Palestine, after the Ascension of Christ, and then preached the Gospel in Syria,, Persia, Parthia, and Ethiopia. In the last-named country he is said to have ended his course by martyrdom. Matthew was the first of the Evangelists who wrote a Gospel, which appeared between the years 64 and 67, or, according to others, in the year 42, about the time of the dispersion of the- Apostles. He wrote in Hebrew or Syro- . Chaldaic, the language spoken in Palestine at that time. The original is no longer extant, but the Greek version, even in the time of the Apostles, was of equal x authority.