Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 2 September 1909, Page 1

Friends at Court

■■• '■ ♦ GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 5, Sunday. — Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. „ 6, Monday. — St. Rumold, Bishop and Martyr. „ - 7, Tuesday .— St. Eugene 111., Pope and-Confes-sor. „ 8, Wednesday. — Nativity of T tlfe Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 9, Thursday. — St. Kyran, Abbot. „ 10, Friday. — St. Hilary, Pope and Confessor. „ 11, Saturday. — St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary . The birth of the Blessed/ Virgin has been from very ancient times the occasion of a' special feast in the Church. Conceived without stain, she was brought into the " world pure, holy, and beautiful, adorned with all the mo it jiecious graces, which became her who was chosen to be the Mother of God. The Church finds an additional reason for . rejoicing in the fact that, as the aurora heralds- the sunrise, so the birth of the Blessed Virgin announced that the advent of the promised Redeemer was nigh. St. Kyran, Abbot. St. Kyran, an Irishman, founded, and gave a rule of life to many communities of monks in his native country. He established, among others, the famous abbey of Clou- . macnoise, on the Shannon. After his death, in 549, he was honored as principal patron of Connaught. . -•