GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

Ndvember 2i, Sunday.— Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost. St. John of the Cross Uonfessor. * \ : „ 25, Monday.— St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. „ 26, Tuesday. —St. Sylvester, Abbot. „ 27, Wednesday.— St. Virgil, Bishop and Confessor. „ 28, Thursday.— St.' Gregory 111 Pope and Confessor. „ 29, Friday.— St. Gelasius, Pope arid Confessor. „ 30, Saturday.— St. Andrew, Apostle. St. John of- the Cross, Confessor. St. John was a Spaniard. JHe received his sur- ?, anr . < V rom his s P ec i.al devotion to the Passion of Christ. He was associated with St. Teresa in reforming the Carmelite Order, of which he was a member w ™- +lUme1 Ume of his death ' in 1591 > St - John w as in his fiftieth year. St. Gregory HI., pp Ope O pc and Confessor. m During his pontificate of nearly eleven years, beg J nn iu S i n 731 > St - Gre gory boldly resisted the efforts of the Emperor Leo, the Isaurian, to propagate the heresy of the , Iconoclasts, or image-breakers, and eloquently explained and defended Catholic teaching regarding the respect to be paid .to the images of Christ and the saints. St. Gelasius, Pope and Confessor. Of this holy pontiff a" contemporary states : ' He was fairous through the whole world for his learning and iinfnrm^ yfoy f 0f + u his l^ ln 4M he Polished, for the information of the faithful, an authentic list of the divinely inspired books of the Old and New Testament. He died in 496. St. Andrew, Apostle. St. Andrew was brother to St. Peter, and the first of the Apostles to follow Christ. After the AscenS \ r vLi reaC £ ed t] L e Gospel in Scythia, and .afterwards in Gieece; where he was crucified for the Faith He is honored as the patron of Scotland.