Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1914, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR November 22, Sunday .-Twenty-fifth Sunday . after- -'■ ' .’7. ; Pentecost. . ~ 23, Monday.— St. - Clement,' ; Pope and 1 ' - Martyr. ; V • • ~ » .24, Tuesday. —St. John of the Cross, Confessor. ~ 25, Wednesday. —St. Catherine, Virgin and ‘ Martyr. „ 26, Thursday.St. Siricius, Pope and Confessor. }f 27, Friday.—St. Virgil, Bishop and Con- - .... lessor. ~ 28, Saturday.—St. Gregory 111., Pope and Confessor. St. ’ John -of the Cross, Confessor. 1 St. John was a Spaniard. He received his surname from his special devotion to the Passion of Christ. He was associated with St. Teresa in reforming the Carmelite Order, of which he was a member. At the time of his death, in 1591, St. John was in his fiftieth year. St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. St. Catherine, a native of Alexandria, and illustrious for her brilliant talents and profound learning, was, after suffering many cruel torments, beheaded by order of the Emperor Maximin 11., in the beginning of the fourth century. ‘ ... St. Siricius, Pope and Confessor. St. Siricius was Pope from 384 to 398. He was born at Rome, and was the successor of St. Damasus. He combated the different sects which desolated the Church during his Pontificate, the Manichians, Priscijlianists, Novatians, etc. He was the first Bishop of Rome who assumed the title of Pope. GRAINS OF GOLD. OUR SAVIOUR. Is there grief like to His, - Ye that pass by the way? Who descended from blissLoving ransom to pay i For He came in the cold. In the midnight unseen, With the wind on the wold, When the' winter was keen. His whole life to the poor— * None was poorerHe gave, - For He toiled but to cure ' And He prayed but to save. But we thwarted His aim And His love we withstood ; We cast scorn on His Name, We cried out for His Blood. And we wrecked all our will, For we doom Him to die; , On the criminals’ hill He was gibbeted high ;- Where He died, wan and white, - In the night of eclipse, All alone in the night - 4 With a moan on His lips, Who had come down from bliss Loving ransom to pay. V.: ; .Is, there grief like to His, , . 3 • r Ye that’ pass by the way ? r ! \ • English Messenger. ,