Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 19 October 1916, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEKS CALENDAR October 22, Sunday.—Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 23, Monday.—Of the Feria. ~ 24, Tuesday.—Of the Feria. ~ 25, Wednesday.>SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs. ~ 26, Thursday.—St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 27, Friday.—Vigil of SS. Simon and Jude. ~ 28, Saturday. —SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr. The death of St. Evaristus took place in 112. lie is honored in the calendar with the title of martyr, but little is known of the events of his life or of his sufferings for the faith. SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. -rt-fter the dispersion of the Apostles, St. Simon preached in Egypt, and then in Persia, where he received the crown of martyrdom. According to the common tradition, he was crucified like our Blessed Lord. St. Jude, called also Thaddeus, was a brother of St. James the Less. He was related to Christ by his mother. Nothing certain is known of the later history of this Apostle. Nicephorus tells us that after preaching in Judea, Galilee, Samaria, and Idumsea, he labored in Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. He is said to have suffered martyrdom in Phoenicia, either at Beyruth or Arad. GRAINS OF OOLD. MARY. Shall I whisper a name that was lovely of old, When the tale of the Infant Redeemer was told : The honored of God in her sorrows sublime, Still haunting the heart in the shadows of time? O'er the starlight of Judah the night mists were rolled : On the Galilee's bosom the shadows lay cold, When it woke on the midnight so solemn and dim, With the flame of and the sound of a hymn. And bright with the lustre and sweet with the tone Of the angels that sang and the glory that shone, Its beauty abides through the haze of the years, With the light of her smile and the dew of her tears. And still at the altar and still at the hearth, From the cradle of Christ to the ends of the earth, As gentle in glory as steadfast in gloom, It bows by the manger and kneels by the tomb. And many shall bless it as many have blest, From the morning of life to the morrow of rest And its fulness of meaning its music shall keep, While a Mary shall watch or a Mary shall weep. — Sacred Heart Review. We are not put here merely to enjoy ourselves; it was not God's purpose : and I am prepared to argue, it is not our sincere wish. As for our deserts, the less said of them the better, for somebody might hear, and nobody cares to be laughed at! —Robert Louis Stevenson. It is almost every man's privilege, and it becomes his duty, to live within his means— up to, but within them. Wealth does not make the man, and should never be taken into account in our judgment of men; but competence should always be secured when it can by the practice of economy and self-denial to only a tolerable extent. It- should be attained, not so much for others, as to secure to us the consciousness of independence and the constant satisfaction which is received from its acquirement. and possession.