Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 5 February 1914, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR February 8, Sunday.Septuagesima Sunday. „ 9, Monday.—St: Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 10, Tuesday.—St. Scholastica, Virgin. ~ 11, Wednesday.—Our Lady of Lourdes. ~ 12, Thursday.—The Seven Founders, Confessors. „ 13, Friday.—St. Gregory 11., Pope and Confessor.' ~ 14, Saturday.—St. Anthems, Pope and Martyr. , St. Scholastica, Virgin. St. Scholastica was a sister of St. Benedict, and, like him, she embraced the religious life at an’early age. She was for several years Superioress of a community of nuns at a convent near Monte Cassino, where her saintly brother was Abbot. St. Scholastica died about the year 543. Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1858, a few years after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the Blessed Virgin appeared to a young girl in a grotto, near Lou ides, in the south of France. In conseouence of the apparitions, and also of the miraculous favors which the Blessed Virgin obtains for those who invoke her inteicession at the grotto, Lourdes has become a centre of pilgrimage for the entire Catholic world. To commemorate, these wonders, the present feast was instituted by the late Pope Leo XIII. grains OF gold. MERGES MAGNA NIMIS. None other than''Thyself, my Love, my Lord!’ I do not ask that men should sneak mv name; The laurel leaves, the blatant trump of fame,’ A place of honor at a great man’s board, Nor fleeting riches lavishly outpoured— Not these my heart’s desire, not these mine aim Thee, and Thee only, do I dare to claim As mine exceeding and most great reward. So, if in shadow Thou wouldst have me be, The world unknowing, by the world unknown, What other lot were this if not Thine own ? What else, except in this to be like Thee? This, and no other gift, vouchsafe to me . F °r my reward and prize—Thyself alone. • Are Maria. Somewhere, some time, all good work will avail. Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life. * Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts. t . T . There is only one sort of shabbiness that matters the shabbiness of thq soul. , ■ They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Skill to do comes of doing /' knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working "hands and there is no knowledge that, is not power. ‘ / ' v . Pain comes to us from ' the hand of God for our good. Great are the y rewards in store for those who know its value and accept it as a mercy. , .>4 ; ’ - If- there is to be real love between any two people they must each.' be slow to; take { offence, and not only willing, but glad to pardon "at'the first sign of penitence. ■.Vv.r ,