Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 3 April 1913, Page 3

Friends at Court

©LEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR April 6, Sunday. —Second Sunday after Easter. „ 7, Monday.—St. Celestine 1., Pope and Confessor. ~ 8, Tuesday. —Of the Feria. ~ 9, Wednesday.—Of the Feria. ~ 10, Thursday.—Of the Feria. „ 11, Friday.—St. Leo 1., Pope, Confessor, and Doctor. ~ 12, Saturday.—St. Julius 1., Pope and Confessor.

St. Celestine 1., Pope and Confessor. St. Celestine I. was successor to St. Boniface 1., and occupied the Papal throne from 422 to 432. He was noted for his zeal in suppressing Pelagianism, and confirmed the decrees of the General Council of Ephesus and the sentence of deposition pronounced by that body against Nestorius, This Pope sent St. Palladius and St. Patrick to convert the Scots and Irish. St. Julius 1., Pope and Confessor. St. Julius was Pope from 337 to 352, During the violent struggle with Arianism, St. Julius was the strenuous champion of the Nicene faith, and the constant defender of St. Athanasius' and other orthodox bishops oppressed by the heretics. The bishops whom the Eusebians had unjustly deposed, were reinstated by St. Julius, by virtue of the prerogative of the Roman See. With the concurrence of the two Emperors, Constans and Constantins, he, in 343, summoned the great Council of Sardica.

GRAINS OF GOLD , MOTHER MOST CHASTE. O gracious princess of the heavenly courts, The poet’s pen, the painter’s glowing brush, Their loftiest inspiration find in thee To whom the highest place, save one, is given ’Mongst heavenly thrones. And men who ponder deep Must feel the grandeur of the pure soul depths, Of her the gentle maid of Nazareth— The Mother who could call her God her Son. Alas! that men there be rejecting still Aught to her honor. She whom the Most High Was pleased to honor. Q most blessed one, Before whom angels knelt and murmured, ‘Hail!’ Plead till the world grown weary of the night, Weary of fruitless groping for the light, Sobs at last, ‘ O Mother, lead us home.’

There is nothing so undignified as anger. A noble aim faithfully kept is a. noble deed. Better a little well kept than a great deal forgotten. Self-sacrifice is the law of man’s life and development. We must do the thing we must, before the thing we may. Better die outright than be all one’s life long in terror. They who wait no gifts from chance have conquered Fate. , Don’t judge the value of a book from the beauty of its cover. In the reward they share a part alone who to the end can endure. Every thought which genius and piety can throw into the world alters the world. If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown. The course of life is fixed, and nature admits of its being run but in one way, and only once. Where we love much we always forgive, for we ourselves are nothing, and what we love is all. The pity which is not born from experience is always cold. It cannot help being so, it does not understand.