Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1914, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR December 13, Sunday.—Third Sunday in Advent. a 14, Monday.— St; Leonard of Port Maurice, Confessor. ~ 15, Tuesday.— Octave of the Immaculate Conception. ■" » 16, Wednesday. —St. Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr. ~ 17, Thursday.—St. Didacus, Confessor. „ 18, Friday.—St. Columbanus, Abbot. ■,, 19, Saturday.—Blessed Urban V., Pope and Confessor.

Third Sunday in Advent.

St. John’s object in writing his Gospel, portion of which is read at the Mass to-day, was not to give a complete biography of Christ, or an exhaustive, account of His doctrines, but to prove that Christ was the Only-begotten Son of God. Thus he dwells on the miracles of Christ as showing the possession of Divine Power; he gives at length the discourses which so clearly show His Divine Wisdom; and he has preserved for us the acknowledgments of Christ’s Divinity made by the representatives of various classes of men. Today we hear the testimony of St. John the Baptist, whose office was to prepare the way for our Lord.

St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Confessor.

This saint was born near Genoa in 1676. Having entered the Order of Friars Minor, he soon showed a. special aptitude for missionary work. During 46 years he visited nearly every part of Italy, everywhere, by the force of his eloquence and the example of his virtues, animating the good to increased fervor, and touching the hearts of the most hardened sinners. He practised assiduously and earnestly recommended to others the devotion of ‘ The Way of the Cross.’ St. Leonard died in Rome in 1751. I QUEEN OF THE ROSARY. Queen of the Holy Rosary ! ■ Thee as our Queen we greet, And lay our lowly, loving prayers Like roses at thy feet. Would that these blossoms of our souls Were far more fair and sweet. Queen of the Joyful Mysteries! ■ s - Glad news God’s envoy bore, ' . The Baptist’s mother thou didst tend ; Angels thy Babe adore, » Whom with two doves thou ransomest V Lost, He is found once more. Queen of the Dolorous Mysteries! Christ ’mid the olives bled, Scourged at the pillar, crowned with thorns, Beneath His Cross He sped ' Up the steep hill; and there once-more Thine arm& embraced —dead ! Queen of the Glorious Mysteries! Christ from the tomb has flown, Has mounted to the highest heaven And sent His Spirit down ; And soon He raises thee on high To wear a heavenly crown. .o Queen of the Holy Rosary We, too, have joys and woes, May they, like thine, to triumph lead, May labor earn repose, And may life’s sorrows and life’s joys •u -: 1 In heavenly glory close. V. . Rev. Matthew Russell, S.J..