Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 30 October 1913, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR November 2, Sunday. Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 3, Monday. Commemoration of All the . / • N Faithful Departed. ~ 4, Tuesday.—St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 5, Wednesday.—St. Paulinus, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 6, Thursday.—St. Rose of Lima, Virgin. ~ I, Friday.—Of the Octave. „ 8,, Saturday.—Octave of All Saints. St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop and Confessor. This great reformer of morals in the north of Italy was born of an illustrious Milanese family in 1538. From his youth he gave evidence of great talent, combined with well-grounded piety. At the early age of twenty-six we find him discharging the arduous duties of Archbishop of Milan with, a zeal and prudence which evoked the admiration of all Italy. The wise provisions which he made for the education, of the clergy and the advancement of religion in his province have ever since served as a guide for those whom the Church has called to the episcopal office. That. he possessed the good shepherd's love for his. sheep was shown by the heroic charity with which he ministered to the sick and dying in a terrible pestilence which visited Milan during his episcopate. Compelled as Cardinal Archbishop to maintain a certain exterior state, his private life was simple and austere. The death of St. Charles, which occurred in 1584, was in perfect keeping with his saintly life. St: Paulinus, Bishop and Confessor. St. Paulinus was born at Bordeaux in 353. He spent a very large property, inherited from his parents, in assisting the poor and ransoming captives. Finally, in order to.secure the release of a widow's son, he gave himself up as a slave, and was carried over to Africa. After regaining his liberty, he became Bishop of Nola, in the south of Italy, where he died in 431. GRAINS OF GOLD MY LIFE. My life is but a. weaving Between my. God and me I may but choose the colors He worketh steadily. Full oft He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, .Forget He sees the upper And I the under-side. —Father Tabb. ■ There is only one sort of shabbiness that matters —a shabbiness of the soul. The troubles of marriage only begin when a man tries to shirk its" responsibilities. The test of good manners is to be good-mannered in the presence of bad manners. There are some folk who think everything is too good to be true. They are professional pessimists. He who knows how to laugh, when to laugh, and (tfiat to laugh at, has achieved a philosophy all his . Remember that as a weapon of defence ' I'm sorry!' is a far better medium than It wasn't my fault!' . J . Consider carefully what you say. The indigestion . caused by being compelled to eat your own words is ' distressing. A masterful and tyrannical nature has the advantagesand disadvantages of a stone wall: it protects, yet barricades.