Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 27 May 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR May 30, Sunday. Trinity Sunday. ~,31, Monday.St. Angela Mericia, Virgin. June 1, Tuesday.—Of the Feria. „ 2, Wednesday.—SS. Marcellinus and Companions, Martyrs. ~ 3, Thursday. of Corpus Christi. ~ 4, Friday.—Of the Octave. ~ 5, Saturday.—Of the Octave. ' Trinity Sunday. To-day we are not asked to imitate the virtues of some saint, or to contemplate the merciful dealings of God with man. We are taken- up, as it were, into the Holy of Holies, and invited to gaze on the radiant perfection of God as the Blessed see Him—one God in Three Divine Persons. Until the fourteenth century this feast was not generally celebrated in the Church, for the reason that all festivals in the Christian religion are -truly festivals of the Holy Trinity, since they are only means to honor the Blessed Trinity, and steps to raise us to It as the time and only term of our worship. As Pope Alexander writes in the eleventh century: ' The Roman Church has no particular festival of the Trinity, because she honors It every day, and every hour of the day, all her offices containing Its praises, and concluding with a tribute of glory to It.' St. Angela Mericia, Virgin. St. Angela was born near Brescia, in the north of Italy. Living a very austere life, she devoted herself to the work of instructing the ignorant, relieving the needy, and visiting the sick and imprisoned. She is recognised as the foundress of the well-known OrdeT of Ursuline nuns, though the Order did not receive Papal approval until four years after her death, which occurred in 1540. GRAINS OP GOLD. i i LITANY OF PEACE. God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, Three in One; That' Thy will on earth be done We beseech Thee, hear us! God of mercy, Thee we pray Turn not from our plea away; That Thou list to us to-day, We beseech Thee, hear us ! Heart of Jesus, Heart of Peace, From all discord send release; That War's havoc soon may cease, We beseech Thee, hear us ! Heart of Jesus, pity those Suffering from hatred's woes; Breathe Thy love o'er friends and foes, We beseech Thee, hear lis ! Jesus, Whom we all adore, End the nations' battle sore; Grant them peace for evermore, We beseech Thee, hear us ! Through the Father and the Son, Through the Spirit, Three in One; That Thy Will on earth be done We beseech Thee, hear us ! Amadeus, O.S.F. What the world calls heroism and sacrifice in the lives of Catholic Sisterhoods is with them simply corresponding to the grace of, vocation. -It is God's will manifested" in their lives. It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.—St. Benedict.