Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 29 June 1911, Page 1179

Friends at Court

* .;,.., :- . -» ——- .• QLEANFNGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR July 2, Sunday.—Fourth Sunday after Pentecost. The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin. Mary. „ 3, Monday.— of the Most Precious Blood. „ 4, Tuesday. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr. „ 5, Wednesday.St. Anthony Zaccaria, Confessor. " .„ 6, Thursday.— of SS. Peter and Paul. „ 7, Friday.— St. Benedict XI., Pope and Confessor. ~ .8, Saturday. —St. Kilian, Bishop and Confessor. , Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The event which this feast commemorates is the visit of congratulation paid by the Blessed Virgin to her cousin, St. Elizabeth. The circumstances of this visit, as narrated in the Gospel of St. Luke (chap. 1., 36, etc.), reveal to us the greatness of Mary's charity, and teach us that we ought to rejoice at the favors which God bestows on our neighbors, as if we ourselves had received them. Feast of the Most Precious Blood. This feast' commemorates the intense love which led the Son of God to shed His Blood for the salvation of men. ' Oh, my soul! redeemed by the Blood of Christ, give thy heart to Him by Whom thou art so loved; seek Him Who seeks thee; love Him Who raised thee out of the depths of misery.'—St. Augustine. St. Anthony Zaccaria, Confessor. St. Anthony was born in 1500 at Cremona, in the north of Italy. After having labored for some time in his native city as a secular priest, he founded, in conjunction with two Milanese nobles,-a congregation of monks, called Barnabites, from the Church of £>t. Barnabas, where they came together, like the early Christians, to live a life in common, and to devote themselves to the office of instructing the young. ■ GRAINS OF GOLD BELOVED, IT IS MORN! Beloved, it is morn! A redder berry on the thorn, A deeper yellow on the corn, For this good day new-born. Pray, dear, for me, That I mav be Faithful to God and thee. Beloved, it is day! And lovers work, as children pray, With heart and brain untir'd for aye, Dear love, look up, look up and pray— Pray, pray for me, That I may be Faithful to God and thee. Beloved, it is night! Thy heart and mine are full of light, Thy spirit shineth clear and white. God keep thee in His sight! Pray, dear, for me, That I may be Faithful to God and thee. — Ave Maria. . Some people will never listen to the voice of God until ft speaks to them from a coffin. tt- Jesus Christ lavished upon Mary all the glory which His Heart measures only by its power.—St. Bernard. _ Good resolutions seldom fail of producing some good effects in the mind from which they spring. Cheerfulness is like music to the soul; it oils tho wheels of affliction makes duties very light, and religion ride swiftly on the wings of delight. No soul was ever lost because its fresh beginnings broke down, but thousands of souls have been lost because they would not make fresh beginnings. •; Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit alwavs sweet, and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability—is an idea as .noble as it is difficult. An imperturbable; demeanor comes from perfect Eatience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, ut go on in fortune or misfortune at. their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson. He who sets first the kingdom of love and truth, who learns of the Great Master the joy of service and the blessedness of living for others, who takes life just as the chance to achieve some good and to help men know their God, he finds within the food of the life everlasting, and he knows what that promise means, and he shall hunger and thirst no more. .--- - « * i i i-'J i ■■±::'J i 'Ji.j.-j