Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 9 July 1914, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR ) July 12, Sunday.—Sixth Sunday after Pentecost. ,, 13, Monday. St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 14, Tuesday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. ~ 15, Wednesday.— St. Henry, Emperor, Confessor ~ 16, Thursday.— Our Lady of Mount Carmel. ~ 17, Friday.—St. Leo IV., Pope and Confessor. ~ 18, Saturday. — St, Camillus of Lellis, Confessor.

St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Bonaventure was born in the neighborhood of Florence. Having entered the Franciscan Order, and completed his studies, he became professor in the great University of Paris. He was afterwards elected General of his Order, and received from Pope St. Gregory X. the appointment of Cardinal Bishop of Albano. On account of his great learning, St. Bonaventure is numbered amongst the Doctors of the Church, He died in 1274, at the age of 52. In his panegyric, preached by the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, afterwards Pope Innocent V., it is stated of him that ‘ no man ever beheld him who did not conceive a great esteem and affection for him; and even strangers, by hearing him speak, were inspired with a desire to follow his counsel and advice, for he was gentle, affable, humble, prudent, chaste, and adorned with all virtues.’ St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. St. Camillus was a native of the kingdom of Naples. Having embraced the military profession, he soon found himself reduced by his gambling propensities to. the direst distress. Poverty became for him, through the Providence of God, the occasion of his conversion. Thenceforward he devoted himself to the care of the sick and the dying, and for this purpose established a religious Order, the members of which are known as Ministers of the Sick.’ St. Camillus died in Rome in 1614, at the age of 65.

GRAINS OP GOLD. MY LONELINESS. ‘ I am alone until I pass away,’— I am alone, yet never less alone If, in ray loneliness, I share Thine own, And Thine abiding Presence with mo stay ; If but my footsteps wander not, nor stray From that straight path, whereon the prints are shown Of Thy foregoing footsteps, only known To those who follow Thee from day to day. • lam alone: yet if Thy love but fill V The emptiness of life, sustain and bless ; If but Thy hand uphold me, and Thy will Give strength to mine; com© trial, storm, or stress; When I have reached at last Thy Holy Hill, Lord, I shall praise Thee for my loneliness. O. s. B. A truly Catholic home is like a glimpse of heaven on earth. It has peace, love, and kindness. The Lord is its ruler. High hearts are never long without hearing some jay iw call, some distant clarion of God, even in their ..reams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease and start on some fresh march of faithful service.Martineau.