Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1913, Page 3

Friends at Court

* _i GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR October 26, Sunday. Twenty-fourth Sunday after 7. - . Pentecost. „ 27, Monday. —St. Übaldus, Bishop and Con- ,■■■':■■■■■.- " fessor. ~ 28, Tuesday. —SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. sj, 29, Wednesday. —St. Bade, Confessor and Doctor. ~ - 30, Thursday.—St. John Baptist do la Salle, Confessor. ~ 31, Friday.—St. Siricius, Pope and Confessor. Fast Day. 'November 1, Saturday. —Feast of All Saints. Holy Day of Obligation. St. Bede, Confessor and Doctor. St. Bede, commonly called Venerable Bede, was born not far from Newcastle-on-Tyne in 673. Piety and learning were in him equally conspicuous. Mabillon writes of him: ' Who ever applied himself to the study of every branch of literature, and also to the teaching of others, more than Bede? Yet who was more closely "united to heaven by the exercises of piety and religion - To see him pray,' says an ancient writer, ' one would think he left himself no time to study and when we look at his books we wonder how he could have found time to do anything else but write.' The works of Venerable Bede include several commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures, and a history of the Catholic Church in England, which have earned for him the title of Doctor of the Church, conferred on him by the late Pope. Venerable Bede died in 735. St. John Baptist" de la Salle, Confessor. This saint was born in France in 1651. Even before his ordination he took a keen' interest in the education of children, a work for which he was naturally fitted, and to which he afterwards entirely devoted .himself. . His zeal, his unalterable patience, and his Ihumility were brought into strong relief by the many .trials to which, like all reformers, he was exposed. He (died at Rouen in 1719, after having successfully established the well-known teaching Order of the Brothers tof the Christian Schools. GRAINS OF GOLD. THE HEART OF HEARTS. God's Sacred Heart—o sweetest words 'That ever waked the slumbering chords Of music in a human heart; More tender than the breeze that floats And sighs amid the wind-harp's notes, When evening's lonely steps depart. The Heart that loved us, first and best, And showed its depth by such fierce test, Our cold, forgetful hearts to move: One tear God's anger had appeased, One sigh man's fearful doom released. Yet He would die, His love to prove. Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are. A mean man can become religious, but he cannot stay mean and remain religious. % Being patient is the hardest work that any of us lias' to do through life. Waiting is far more difficult than doing. But it is one* of God's lessons all must learn one way or another.

When one works for something he believes to be right, he knows that every hour will increase the chances of his triumph, for he believes that back of truth stands God with an arm strong enough to bring victory "to his side.