Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 16 June 1910, Page 923

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR June 19, Sunday. Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. St. • Juliana Falconieri, Virgin. „ 20, Monday.St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr. ~ 21, Tuesday.—St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor. „ 22, Wednesday. Blessed Innocent v., Pope and Con- ': -;• ■. fessor. -

„ 23, Thursday.—St. Ferdinand, King and Confessor. ~ 24, Friday.—St. Join! the Baptist. ' ~ 25, Saturday.St. Ghllican, Martyr.

St. Aloysius. Gonzaga, Confessor.

St. Aloysius belonged to a noble family of Lombardy. Through the tender care of his virtuous mother, he attained even in childhood a high degree of spiritual perfection. He has been designated by the Holy See as special patron of young persons, to whom he has left an example of all the virtues, but particularly of spotless purity, rigorous mortification, and profound humility. He died in Rome in 1591, of an illness contracted while attending the sick during a malignant pestilence.

Blessed Innocent V., Pope and Confessor. ’

This saint was a native of France. While he was Archbishop of Lyons, his virtues not only won for him the esteem of his own flock, but also excited the admiration of the faithful in distant countries. As a consequence, his election to the Papacy, • in 1276, raised the hopes of "all who desired the advancement of religion, but these hopes were destined to be blighted by his death five months after his election.

THE ACTS. i. v - _ My God, with heart and soul and mind I do in Thee believe; Because Thou art the very Truth, that never can deceive. ■ ii. ;'.- My God, with heart and soul and mind I hope in Thee for aye; For, Thou art very Faithfulness, that never can betray.. .... in. - My God, with heart and soul and mind I give my love to Thee For Thou are the unfailing Love, the very Charity. IV. My God, with heart and soul and mind I grieve for sin's distress; For Thou, 0 Truth, 0 Faith, 0 Love, art perfect Holiness!

Ave Marin.

GRAINS OF GOLD A noble part of every true life is to learn to undo what has been wrongly done. In all evil speaking the listener is the accomplice of the evil speaker, and commits the same wrong.

Perseverance in. righteousness brings increase in spirituality. For ‘He who sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.’

If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another. This facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity; like an absent-minded man hunting for his hat while it is in his hand or on his head.

Never was there a more mistaken idea than that triumphs in the world bring happiness to women. For the things that make for the happiness of women cannot be bought with power, personal attractions, or worldly triumphs. The things that make a woman truly happy must be won by goodness and virtue and work well done. Have you ever noticed how an icicle is formed ? If you have, you noticed how it froze one drop at a time until it was a foot or more long. If the water was clear, the icicle remained clear, and sparkled almost as brightly as diamonds in the sun; but if the water was slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul, and its beauty was spoiled. Just so our characters are formingone little thought or action at a time. If each thought be pure and right, the soul will be lovely and sparkle with happiness; but if impure and wrong, there will be deformity and wretchedness. What sort of a character are you forming for yourself?

' There is one sin which, it seems to me, is everywhere, and by everybody underestimated, and quite too much overlooked in valuation of character. It is the sin of fretting. It is common as air, as speech—so common that, unless it rises above its usual monotone, we do not even observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together of people, and see how many minutes it will be before somebody frets that is, makes more or less complaining statements of something or other, which probably everyone in the room, or in the car, or on the street corner, it may be, knew before, and probably nobody can help. Why say anything about it?.