Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 30 September 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR \ . "■ _ - ‘ ' October 3, Sunday. Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. /; . ~ 4, Monday. —St. Francis, Confessor', p ~ 5, Tuesday.— SS. Placidus and Companions, Martyrs. ~ 6, Wednesday. —St. Bruno, Confessor. ~ 7, Thursday. —Feast of the Holy Rosary. ~ 8, Friday.— St. Bridget, Widow. ~ 9, Saturday.— SS. Denis and Companions, Martyrs. St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor. The great founder of the Franciscan Order was born at Assisi, in the Papal States, towards the close of the twelfth century. While yet in his father’s house, he showed a more than ordinary compassion for the poor, often depriving himself of food and clothing in order to come to their assistance. To charity he joined the most profound humility of heart. Base and contemptible in his own eyes, he desired to be reputed such by all, and sincerely shunned honor and praise, saying: ‘What a man is in the eyes of God, that he is, and no more.’ St. Francis died at Assisi in 1226, in his forty-fifth year. St. Bruno, Confessor. St. Bruno, founder of the austere Carthusian Order, was born at Cologne about 1030. He was one of the most learned men of his age, and wrote several valuable commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures. He died in 1101, in a monastery which he had established in the mountains of Calabria, in Southern Italy. Feast of the Holy Rosary. In 1571 was fought the great battle of Lepanto, which saved Europe from the Turks, and gave the death-blow to the Ottoman power. In memory of this victory, gained at the very moment when the faithful were reciting the Rosary for the success of the Christian arms, Gregory XIII. ordered the present feast to be celebrated. GRAINS OF GOLD. THINE ARMS. So wide Thine arms they circle in The bird’s intrepid flight, The clefts that none but eagles win, The clouds that veil them white ; Yea, and the very stars that spin Beyond our point of sight. So strait Thine arms they shutter out The hilltops and the seas, The streams, the grasses’ bladed rout Worthless a world of these, When Thou wouldst clasp Thine arms about A. sinner at Thy knees ! -— A v e. Maria. Spread the light, scatter good books and papers, let our neighbors see the Catholic side. The truth is strong. All it needs is a fair field. k What are the poor to whom we give but our Jr carriers by whom we convey our goods from earth to heaven? Give then thou art but giving to thy carrier; he carrieth what thou givest to heaven. There are souls in the world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them wherever they go. Their influence is an inevitable gladdening of the heart. These bright hearts have a great work to do for God.