Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1913, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

May 11, Sunday;—Pentecost Sunday. ■,, 12, Monday .—Pentecost Monday. >, 13, Tuesday.— Tuesday. » 14, Wednesday. Within .the Octave. Ember -■' -' ' Day. ; ' . ■:-■';:■_., r ~ 15, Thursday. Within the Octave. „ 16, Friday. Within the Octave. Ember. Day. ~17, Saturday.—Within the Octave. Ember Day. _ No Abstinence. ~~ ;'

Pentecost. Sunday.

On this day, in accordance with the promise of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Adorable Trinity, descended on the Apostles. This day,' Butler remarks, -is the birthday of the Church. Christ had indeed begun to form His Church during His ministry on earth, when He assembled His disciples, selected His Apostles, and placed St. Peter at their head. But by the descent of the Holy Ghost He completed His Revelation, and gave to His Apostles a special and .extraordinary assistance, by which they were directed and preserved from all error in teaching. He thus, as it were, infused a soul into His mystical body—the Church—and ' endowed it with a vigorous principle of life and action. From this time its rulers, ministers, and officers, being completely commissioned and qualified by the miraculous effusion of the Holy Ghost, set themselves to exercise their respective functions in governing and propagating the spiritual kingdom of Christ, which was then perfectly settled and established.' .-

GRAINS OF GOLD DOMINI EST TERRA. The fulness of the earth is thin©, And all that dwell therein; The surging waters is its base, The rivers run athwart its face, And who shall to His holy place Ascend or enter in? The innocent and clean of heart Whose soul is free from fraud; Thy blessing, Lord, upon him flows, Who justice to his brother shows, For he is of the race of those,

Who seek for Jacob's God.

Lift up your gates, ye princes, Oh! rise, eternal gates, For lo! without the portal stands The Captain of the might bands, The Prince and Ruler of the lands The King of glory waits.

Catholic Bulletin.

God does not take care of us because we are worthy but because He is so infinitely good.

Body and mind ought to be cultivated in harmony, and neither of them at the expense of the other.

Every harsh and unjust sentiment, every narrow and unworthy thought consented to and entertained, remains like a stain upon the character. Bishop Spalding. -

All things are posible to him who believes they are less difficult to him who hopes ; they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

Do not be as those who have that tragic blindness of the spirit which misses seeing things that are hopeful and generous and lovely; things alight with young enthusiasms, or beautiful with a patience that has had time to grow gray.