Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 22 May 1913, Page 3

Friends at Court

CLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR May 25, Sunday.—Within , the Octave of Corpus '"' ;•;--..:;'•'■•:"' ■'■■-. y ■■::/■ k^y 'SGhristi/^^V>.:^"'--'-^ : --'^ }i 26, Monday.—Within the Octave. ~.'■-'" ~ 27, Tuesday. Within the Octave. • ~ 28, Wednesday. —Within the Octave. , ■ ' ~ 29, < Thursday. of Corpus Christi. ~"- 30, Friday. Feast of the Sacred Heart.: ; „ 31, Saturday.-—Octave of the Feast : of Blessed . d i ,---'-:- Virgin * Mary, Help of . '• '' . Christians. :■■' Feast of the Sacred Heart. . - ;Since .the. Person of Christ, including His human nature, is the object of divine adoration, the worship which is due to His Person is due to all that is united to His Person. For this reason the Fifth General Council condemned the Nestorians, who introduced two adorations as to two separate natures and to two separate persons. The. Council affirms that one adoration is to be'offered-to the Word united to His humanity. The material object of this divine adoration is Christ, God and man; the formal object or the reason for which this divine adoration is given to Him in 1 both natures is the divinity of the Incarnate Son. Thus the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the human heart which the Son of God took from the substance of His Immaculate Mother, is adored with divine worship in heaven and on earth—at the right hand of His Father and in His real presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. 'Devotion to the Sacred Heart reveals to us the personal love of our Divine Redeemer towards each and every one for whom He died. It is a manifestation of His pity, tenderness, compassion, and mercy to sinners and to penitents. Nevertheless, its chief characteristic and its dominant note is His disappointment at the return we make to Him for His love.'—-Cardinal Manning. GRAINS OP GOLD TO THE SACRED HEART. Within Thy Heart, O Jesus mine! I place whate'er my soul desires; When bliss uplifts, when sorrow tires, I'll make my hope those woes of thine, And that sad death Thou didst embrace My trusting love, my better part: So Lord, to-day's requests I place Within Thy. Heart! Within Thy Heart, O Jesus mine ! Leave I this weary load of sin; Bethink Thee, how' Thy Blood did win " My stricken soul from wrath divine. So will I seek Thy wounded Side - Whence Love leaped up to meet the dart. My sin, my shame, all, all I'll hide Within Thy Heart! Within Thy Heart, O Jesus mine! I'll place my every care, and rest Securely on Thy sacred Breast, Till all my love be wholly thine. There keep me while the years go by, There let me know Thee as Thou art, So shall I live, so sweetly die Within Thy Heart!

Come what may, succeed or fail what will, I need b© no failure. My field may be stony or swampy, my "plough may be poor, my strength small, the weather bad, but if heartily as unto the Lord ’ I do the best I can and look not back, but keep right on, I am no failure.