Friends at Corut

New Zealand Tablet, 16 November 1916, Page 3

Friends at Corut

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR November 19, Sunday.—Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost. 20, Monday.—St, Felix of Valois, Confessor. „ 21, Tuesday.—Presentation of Blessed Virgin Mary. ~ 22, Wednesday.—St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr. „ 23, Thursday.—St. Clement 1., Pope and Martyr. 24, Friday.St. John of the Cross, Confessor. ~ 25, Saturday.—St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr. St, Cecilia was a member of a noble Roman family. Betrothed by her parents, against her own wishes, to Valerian, a pagan, she succeeded in converting him and his brother to the Christian religion. On this coming to the ears of the Prefect of the city, the two brothers were beheaded. The same sentence" was passed on St. Cecilia, but, owing to the clumsy manner in which the executioner performed his task, the holy virgin lingered for three days in great agony, A.D. 230. St. John of the Cross, Confessor. St. John was a Spaniard. lie received his surname from his special devotion to the Passion of Christ. He was associated with St. Teresa in reforming the Carmelite Order, of which he was a member. At the time of his death, in 1591, St. John was in his fiftieth year. St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. St. Catherine, .a native of Alexandria, and illustrious for her brilliant talents and profound learning, was, after suffering many cruel torments, beheaded by order of the Emperor Maximin 11., in the beginning of the fourth century. GRAINS OF OOLD. MY MOTHER. God is sweet, My mother told mo so When I knelt at her feet. Longso long ago. She clasped my hand in hers. Ah ! me, that memory stirs My soul's profoundest deep— No wonder that I weep. She clasped my hand and smiled, Ah ! then I was a child, I knew not harm, My mother's arm Was flung around me and I felt That when I knelt To listen to my mother's prayer God was with mother there. Yea ! God is sweet, She told me so ; She never told me wrong : And through my years of woe Her whispers soft and sad and slow I And sweet as angel's song ) Have floated like a dream. —Rev. Father Ryan. Honor, reverence, and respect with a special love the holy and glorious Virgin "Mary. Let us have recourse to her, and, like little children, throw ourselves on her protection, with perfect confidence, at all times and on all occasions. Let us invoke this sweet Mother with filial love, and try to imitate her virtues.— St. Francis of Sales.