GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 27, Sunday.— Twenty-third Sunday after Pente-' cost. - - ' „ 28, Monday.— SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. „, 29, Tuesday.— St. Bede, Confessor and Doctor. - „ 3U, Wednesday.— St. John Baptist de la Salle, = " Confessor. '. „ 31, Thursday.— St. ' Siricius, Pope and Confes- : - ' sor. Fast Day. • -■ '- Nosv-emfoer 1, Friday.— Feast of All Saints. Holiday of Obligation. •" „, 2, Saturday. — Commemoration of the Faifcbl " ful Departed. i . r - '.- < * t „ : - St. Bede, Confessor and Doctor. ~ I ; St. Bede, commonly called Venerable JBede, was born not far from' Neweastle-on-Tyne in .'673. ""- Piety -andwere in him eqjually conspicuous. lviafoiillon writes of him:. 'Who" ever applied himself to the study of ■- every -branch of literature «'~and also to the. teachr ing -of others, more than -Bede ? Yet who was more closely united to Heaven by the exercises ,ot piety and religion ? ' To see him pray;' says an ancient writer, • one would think he left himself no time to study ; and when we look at his books, we wonder how he could have* found time- to do anything else' but write.' The works of Venerable Bede include several commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures,' and- a history of the .Catholic Ohurch in England, which have earned -for him the title' of Doctor of the Churchy conferred on him by -the late Pope.- Venerable -Bede died in 735. Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. On this Say the Church solemnly commemorates and prays for all the souls in purgatory that Jhey may be speedily released from their -suffering. :