Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 843

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

June 6, Sunday. — Trinity Sunday. „ 7, Monday. — St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop and . Confessor. „ 8, Tuesday. — St. Angela Merici, Virgin. „ 9, Wednesday.— St. Columba, Abbot. „ 10, Thursday. — Feast of Corpus Christi. „ 11, Friday.— St. Barnabas, Apostle. „ 12, Saturday. — St. Leo 111., Pope and Confessor. Feast of Corpus Christi. As the Adorable Trinity is the essential and primary object of all religion and of all festivals, so the august Eucharist is the perpetual sacrifice and the holiest worship we can render to the Trinity. In other words, every day is a festival of the Trinity which we adore, and of the Eucharist by which we adore it. The special feast of the Blessed Eucharist, which we celebrate to-day, was instituted in the thirteenth century. ' Without doubt,' says Urban IV., in the Bull of Institution, 'Holy Thursday is the true festival of the Holy Sacrament, but on that day the Church is so much occupied in bewailing the death of her Spouse that it was good to take another day, when she might manifest all her joy and supply for what she could not do on Holy Thursday.' St. Leo 111., Pope and Confessor. y St. Leo, a Roman by birth and a member of the Order of St. Benedict, was elected Pope in 795. During a pontificate of twenty years he displayed singular prudence in the management of public affairs. His zeal for the propagation of the Catholic Faith was equalled only by his solicitude for the poor "and sick. In the year 800 he crowned Charlemagne in St. Peter's, thus establishing the Empire of the West.