Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 2 May 1912, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR

[ay 5, Sunday. Fourth Sunday after Easter. Octave of the Patronage of St. Joseph. ~ 6, Monday. —St. John at the Latin Gate. „ 7, Tuesday.—St. Benedict 11., Pope and Confessor. ~ .8, Wednesday.—Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel. „ 9, Thursday.—St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor.

„ 10, Friday.—St. Comgall, Abbot. ~ 11, Saturday.—St. Alexander 1., Pope and Martyr.

St. John at the Latin Gate

I In this feast the Church commemorates the miraculous deliverance of St. John the Evangelist, when, paving been cast, by order of the Emperor Domitian, into a caldron of boiling oil, he emerged uninjured. jihis miracle happened in Rome in the year 95, near the f 'ata of the city through which passed the road to 1j at mm. . -

St. Benedict 11., Pope and Confessor.

St. Benedict, a Roman by birth, was elected Pope on the death of Leo 11., in 683. ‘He did not,’ says Alban Butler, ‘ complete eleven months in the pontificate, but filled this short term with good works.’ i Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel. The feast which we keep to-day was instituted by the Church to commemorate a famous apparition of St. Michael on Mount Gargano, in the kingdom of Naples. This was the -origin of a noted pilgrimage, and gave occasion to the erection of a magnificent church in honor of the great Archangel.

GRAINS OF GOLD

O LITTLE LAMP.

0 little lamp that glows before the shrine Of Christ the Lord, here in the chapel dim, 1 would the tireless constancy were mine Wherewith your radiance serves and honors Him.

O little lamp! your steadfast worship shames My hours of deep discouragement and doubt, When fitfully with love my heart upflames, And then in dark forgetfulness goes out.

Exchange.

Where there is no faith in man, there can be no

faith in God.

When you hear one person trying to belittle another you may be fairly sure that the other is the superior individual.

. All controversy between the Church and the world is rapidly resolving itself into this: Is God to be placed in the foreground of His universe, or is man The Church strenuously affirms the former; the world, the latter.

The shortest sentence in the Gospel, ‘Jesus wept,’ is I one of the most beautiful, in that Christ’s tears showed the tenderness of the Man. No man is completely a man unless he has the tenderness of heart of a woman. The highest type of heroism is to withhold the blow, which is the instinctive way of resenting an insult, and to forgive an enemy. Cardinal Gibbons.

As a pastor of souls I have before me the wreck of men, women, and children, homes and all the sanctities of domestic life. I see prosperity turned into temptations; the wages of industry not only wasted, but as thoy increase making the plague more deadly. If by defying myself in this which I am free to renounce, I ahull help or encourage even one soul who has fallen through intoxication, to rise up and break his bonds, then I will gladly abstain as long as I live.—Cardinal Manning.