Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 30 May 1918, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR June 2, Sunday.—Second Sunday after Pentecost. >, 3, Monday.—-Of the Octave. ~ 4, Tuesday.Of the Octave. ~ 5, Wednesday.—Of the Octave. ~ 6, Thursday.—Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 7, Friday.—Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. ~ 8, Saturday. Blessed Virgin Mary (Votive Office). Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since the Person of Christ, including His human nature, is the object of divine adoration, the worship which is due to His Person is due to all that is united to His Person. For this reason the Fifth General Council condemned the Nestorians, who introduced wo adorations as to two separate natures and to two separate persons. The Council affirms that one adoration is to be offered to the Word united to His humanity. The material object of this divine adoration is Christ, God, and man ; the formal object or the reason for which this divine adoration is given to Him in both natures is the divinity of the Incarnate Son. Thus the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the human heart which the Son of God took from the substance of 11 is Immaculate Mother, is adored with divine worship in heaven and on earth at the right hand of His Father and in 11 is real presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. “Devotion to the Sacred Heart reveals to us the personal love of our Divine Redeemer towards each and every one for whom lie died. It is a manifestation of His pity, tenderness, compassion, and mercy to sinners and to penitents. Nevertheless, its chief characteristic and its dominant note is Ills disappointment at the return we make to Him for 11 is love.”—Cardinal Manning. GRAINS OF GOLD. A MOTHER’S PRAYER. To Thee, O Jesus, Saviour dear, to Thy kind heart I flee, My sorrow and my anguish sore with trust I bring to Thee. O Gentle Lord, my bitter tears take Thou as wordless prayer, Soothe in Thy mercy all my fears—to me my darling spare. Do Thou Thy tenderest pity show to him, dear Sacred Heart! My boy, in trenches far away, shelter from ill apart. In danger’s ever-present hour, Oh! be Thine arm stretched out To save and shield and keep him close and circle him about. O Heart, so pitiful and kind, which on the cross did’st bleed, Here at Thine altar’s foot behold my sorrow—for me plead ! Bring back to me my son, my child, I pray, O Jesus sweet! And in Thy love let ns rejoice once more here, at Thy feet! - —Holy Family Church Calendar.