Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 19 April 1917, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR April 22, Sunday. Second Sunday after Easter. A,, 23, Monday.—St. George, Martyr. ~ 24, Tuesday.-St. Fidelis, Martyr. ~ 25, Wednesday. —Solemnity of St. Joseph. ~ 26, Thursday. —St. Mark, Evangelist. ~ 27, Friday.—Of the Octave. ~ 28, Saturday.—Blessed Peter Chanel, Martyr.

St. George. St. George, Patron of England, was born in the year 280 at Diospolis or Lyada of Palestine. Tribune in the Guard of Diocletian, he suffered martyrdom at Nicomedia. His veneration is much spread in the Orient and in Russia. The saint is generally represented clad in armor, and riding a white horse, charging the dragon (the devil) and transfixing him with his spear as he turns to tlee.

St. Luke. St. Luke, one of the four Evangelists, and a disciple of iSt. Paul, whom he joined at Troas in the year 53. He was a native of Antioch in Syria, a physician by profession, and a painter of no mean skill. St. Luke shared the travels and trials of St. Paul, and attended him also in his second imprisonment. He afterwards returned to Macedonia and Achaja, and died a martyr at Patrae, at the age of 74. Luke is the author of the third Gospel, and of the Acts ot the Apostles. He wrote both works in Greek : his Gospel was written some time after the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark.

GRAINS OF GOLD. LET US BE KIND. Let us be kind— The way is long and lonely, And human hearts are asking for (his blessing only; That we be kind. We cannot know the grief that men may borrow. We cannot see the soul storm-swept by sorrow : But love can shine upon the way to-day, to-morrow Let ns bo kind. Let us be kind— This is a wealth that has no measure, And is of earth’s store the highest treasure• A tender word, a smile of love in meeting, A glimpse of God and brotherhood, while life is fleeting— Let us be kind. —‘ CV in the Tablet. God has prohibited despair,—Mine. Swetchine. Humility is the A.B.C. of a spiritual life. —St. Vincent de Paul. The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. —Cervantes. The civilisation which we boast is the creation of the Nazarene. —Bishop J. J. Keane. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid ?Psalm 26. ‘NO BOOM FOR HIM.’ No room for Him when first He came, And now is it not still the same? Are not our hearts as strangely cold r As Jewish hearts in days of old? •U He seeks within our hearts to rest. And we make vain His loving quest; Our hearts so filled with self and sin Can scarce find room for Him within. Sentinel nf_ the Blessed Sacrament.