Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 5 July 1917, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR

July 8, Sunday.—Sixth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 9, Monday.—Of the Feria. ~ 10, Tuesday.—The Seven Brothers, Martyrs. ~ 11, Wednesday.—St. Pius 1., Pope and Martyr. ~ 12, Thursday.—St. John Gualbert, Abbot. ~ 13, Friday.—St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 14, Saturday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor,

The Seven Brothers, Martyrs.

The seven saints whose glorious death is commemorated to-day were sons of St. Felicitas, and suffered at Rome about the middle of the second century. ~ They were exhorted to • constancy in suffering by their heroic mother, who herself soon after received the crown of martyrdom.

St. John Gualbert, Abbot.

St. John was born at Florence of noble parents in 999. Like many of the class to which he belonged, he grew up imbued with a pride which would neither brook opposition nor allow any injury to pass unavenged. Having, however, on one occasion, in obedience to the promptings of Divine Grace, forgiven a defenceless enemy, this exercise of Christian charity proved the beginning of his complete conversion. He entered a Benedictine monastery, and afterwards founded the famous abbey and Order of Vallonibrosa. He died in 1073.

St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr

St. Anacletus, the second successor of St. Peter, was martyred under Trajan about the beginning of the second century.

QRAINS OF GOLD.

ON OUR LADY'S VISITATION. She can not bear her joy alone. Rut over plain and hill She seeks Elizabeth, so that ( Another's heart may thrill. Rut see her bending 'neath the Cross Of Calvary to-morrow, — She bears alone the bitterness Of agony and sorrow. O Mother, teach us how to bear Our sufferings alone ! But may our hearts in joyous hours Run over like thine own ! Thomas E. Burke, in .1 re Maria

MAXIMS. Character education is more important than mind education, or physical education, or vocational education, because character is the foundation of life. There are many good persons among our Protestant neighbors. They are in good faith. They mean to do right. They want to hold the truth. Let us pray for them that God may grant them His light and His grace in full measure. Nothing of God's can die for ever; the knighthood and chivalry of feudal days may be dead, but the monasticism that was alive long before them lives on after their death.—John Ayscough. How oft my guardian angel gently cried, " Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How He persists to knock and wait for thee!" And, O ! how often to that voice of sorrow, " To-morrow we will open," I replied, And when the morrow came I answered still, " Tomorrow." .