Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 11 August 1910, Page 1251

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR August 14, Sunday. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. St. Hormisdas, Pope and Confessor. ~ 15, Monday. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Day of Obligation. ~ IG, Tuesday.—St. Roch, Confessor. ~ 17, Wednesday. Octave of St. Lawrence, Martyr. ~ 18, Thursday. —St. Hyacinth, Confessor. ~ 19, Friday. Blessed Urban 11., Pope and Confessor. ~ 20, Saturday. —St. Bernard, Confessor and Doctor. St. Hyacinth, Confessor. St. Hyacinth, called by the Church ' the Apostle of the North,' was born in Silesia, then a part of the kingdom of Poland. As a missionary he visited Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, traversed Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and even penetrated through Turkestan to Thibet and China. His labors were crowned with success, due to the eloquence of his preaching and the example of his life, as well as to the numerous miracles which everywhere marked his presence. Ho died in Cracow in 1257, in the seventysecond year of his age. St. Bernard, Confessor and Doctor. St. Bernard, the glory of Christendom during the twelfth century, was born at Dijon, in France, A.D. 1091. On the death of his pious mother, in 1110, he retired with somo thirty companions into the solitude of a Cistercian monastery. He there gave a perfect example of the virtues proper to the monastic state, while, at the same time, on occasions when duty called him, his intervention in public affairs was attended with the happiest results. He so ably defended Catholic doctrine with his voice and pen that his efforts in this direction have earned for him the titlo of Doctor. St. Bernard died in 1153. GRAINS OF GOLD THE SACRED HEART. 0, Heart, that doth the world enfold Within Thy Depths Divine, And burns, and yearns with Love untold ' That our hearts be like Thine; Unworthy wo turn to Thee, And say, as oft before, May glory, praise, and honor be, Thy measure, more and more ! Yet, wo would come because we fain Our loyalty would prove, And ' All for Theo make our refrain When telling of our love. 0, grant wo may, from day to day, Till life for us bo o'er— Our grateful homage strive to pay, And love Thee, more and more Ho who overcomes and captures his enemy with love is the greatest of all conquerors. ' Where there's a will there's a way,' and if we wish , to get anywhere we must go the way. A life is great not by the measure of few mistakes, but by splendid mastery over all mistakes. Men of understanding are instructed by reason, the ignorant by necessity, and beasts by nature. A laugh to bo joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy. Daily ought wo to renew our purposes, and to stir up ourselves to greater fervor. Thomas a Kempis. Let us cultivate charity in judging; let us seek to draw out latent good in others, rather than to discover hidden evil. One of the fundamental principles of religion is growth. Our devotion is not very warm if increased love and strictness do not keep pace with it. Let us not leave the smallest interval between our duties. Let one duty interlace with another like the branches of a hedge, like the links in a chain. Happy is ho who has pity on the poor and destitute, for ho will receive a hundredfold from God, and even in this life the Most High will bo his greatest Benefactor. Only an ideal can bo eternal, but every honest attempt to give it shape has a longer life than any living creature. Nature makes only to destroy, but art creates for the very sake of preserving tho beautiful. P**" Tho road to right is not nearly so narrow as some folks I would have us believe. It is a bit narrow in one or two I places, but having passed these, you'll find it wide enough for every right desiro and every high ambition.