Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR November 7, Sunday.—Twenty-fourth Sunday after ' Pentecost. " - .-' " 7 -[it : 8, Monday. —Octave of All Saints; . „ ] : 9,. Tuesday. Dedication of the Lateran

Basilica.

„ 10, Wednesday.—St. ‘Andrew Avellino, . ,J- ' Confessor*

~ 11, Thursday.—St. Martin, Bishop and Confessor.

~ 12, Friday.—St. Martin 1., Pope and Martyr. ~ 13, Saturday.—St. Didacus, Confessor.

Dedication of the Lateran Basilica.

, This church is commonly known as the Basilica of St. John Lateran. It is the Cathedral of Home, and was the first of the great basilicas consecrated to Divine worship after the accession of Constantine had given peace to the Church.

St. Martin, Bishop and Confessor.

St. Martin of Tours, as he is called from his Episcopal See, was born of pagan parents about; the year 317. By some he is held to have been the grand-uncle of St. Patrick. At the age of' eighteen he was baptised, and from that time his life, which had always been marked by moral goodness, became resplendent with all the virtues, but particularly with the premier Christian virtue—charity. Compelled to serve, for a time in the army, he kept himself perfectly free from the vices to which soldiers are, more than others, exposed. Appointed Bishop of Tours, in France, he showed himself a wise and capable administrator, and was singularly successful in causing the last traces of paganism to disappear from his diocese. He died, in all probability, about the year 397.

GRAINS OF GOLD. HEART OF JESUS, ALL LOVE ! Dear Lord, when I am weary,

How good it is to know That deep within Thy Sacred Heart A love for me doth glow !

I draw Thy love about me, I hide me in its folds

From all the pain and weariness That life without it holds.

Ah ! Lord, dear Lord, ’tis heaven Already, here below. To know that Thou art ever near,

Dear Lord, I love Thee so !

—Boston Pilot.

God, while blessing the earth with its beautiful and precious things, wants for Himself only the spirits of angels and the hearts of men. —Faber. 0 sweet confidence! O perfect security ! The Mother of God is my Mother !. What an assured hope we ought to have ■ of our salvation since it is in the hands of Jesus, our Brother, and Mary, our tender Mother. St. Anselm.. Recall for a moment the benefits of God. The benefits of creation—the soul with its. powers, the body with its .'senses, life with all the good things which accompany; it. The . benefits of . redemption-all . the supernatural : graces, the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ, the Sacraments, and especially the Mass and the Eucharist. - • The particular benefits and these include the graces, of every minute and hour and day ahd|moihth|hhd j year of ; our Jives . front the providence of a merciful-Father. « -