Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 28 March 1918, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR .' * March 31, Sunday. —Easter Sunday. April 1, Monday.— Monday. ~ 2, Tuesday. Easter Tuesday. ~ 3, Wednesday.—Of the Octave. ~ 4, Thursday.—Of the Octave. ~ 5, Friday.Of the Octave. „ 6, Saturday.—Of the Octave. / i H Easter Sunday. "The festival of Easter," writes St. Gregory, "is the solemnity of solemnities, because it raises us from the earth into eternity, which it enables us to enjoy beforehand by faith, hope, and charity. "You shall rise again This is what the Church says to us by the eloquent voice of her ceremonies. From the holy temple all signs of mourning have disappeared. The altars are decked out with extraordinary magnificence. Ornaments of gay color and rich embroidery appear. Every face is bright. The bells are all in motion. The song of joythe Alleluia—that word of the language of heaven, fallen on earth for our festive days, resounds on all sides, is repeated every moment; is varied again and again, is modulated into every key and when thereto are added the rays of a beautiful sun, you cannot fail to experience those feelings of hope and delight which it. is the mission of this great day to inspire. Easter Monday. "The contemplation of Christ's gdorious Resurrection and the eternal joys of heaven ought particularly to occupy our souls at this season."—Butler. GRAINS OF OOLD. .1 THE PASCHAL VICTIM. Praise to the Paschal Victim, Christians, bring,— The Lamb once slain, that so the sheep might live; And that the Father might our sins forgive, The sinless Christ bore death and suffering. Lo, Death and Life in wondrous conflict meet! The King of Life, once dead, alive doth reign ; Tell us, O Mary, thy strange tale again, And all the marvels of this day repeat ! "I saw the empty Tomb of Him Who died; I saw the glory of the Risen Lord ; The angel witnesses, and heard their word; The folded graveclothes of the Crucified. "Yea! Christ, my Hope, is risen again indeed, And goes before you into Galilee." We know, in truth, that this is true of Thee, O King Victorious! Pity all our need! REFLECTIONS. To-day nations and individuals are alive to the importance of education and the Church— —order and wisdom have their sources in a Divine author. Hence the Catholic Church blesses all colleges, all schools teaching the truth of heaven. Leave not the business of to-day to be done tomorrow ; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow ? The rose-garden which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one. Many things know we that we seldom think on. And in the things of the soul the knowledge without the remembrance little profiteth. What availeth it to know that there is a God, which thou not only believest by faith, but also knowest by reason ?—What availeth that thou knowest Him, if thou think little of Him Blessed Sir Thomas More.