Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR i- ■ -i May 11, Sunday.—Third Sunday after Easter. ' „ 12, Monday .—SS. Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs. - - - ~ 13, Tuesday.—Of the Octave. ~ 14, Wednesday.—Octave of the Solemnity of St. Joseph. „ 15, Thursday.—St. John B. de la Salle, Confessor. ~ 16, Friday.—St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 17, Saturday.—St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor. SS. Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs. These holy martyrs were attached to the service of St. Flavia Domitilla, and were banished with her to the. island of Pontia by the Emperor Domitian. They were beheaded at Terracina in the reign of Trajan. St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor. This saint was born in Prance in 1651. Even before his ordination he took a keen interest in the education of children, a work tor which he was naturally fitted, and to which he afterwards entirely devoted himself. He was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. St. Übaldus was born near Ancona, in the Papal States. Consecrated Bishop of Gubio, he adorned that high dignity with all the virtues of a true successor of the Apostles. He died in 1160, after an episcopate of thirty years. St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor. This saint was born in the north of Spain of parents who, if they could not endow him with worldly possessions, endeavored, what was of more consequence, to instil into his mind principles of solid piety. On entering a monastery of Franciscan Friars, he showed himself proficient in every. virtue, but was especially remarkable for an ardent devotion to the Blessed Sacrament-. Tie had attained the fifty-second year of his age when he died in 1592. . ,—_i GRAINS OF GOLD. ' ■ a MY MOTHER'S SON. I hold within my heart, O Mother Queen, Thy little Son, thy Child. The right is thine, And yet, by wondrous gift this grace is mine ! 'Twas thou who first within thy heart serene Thy God received. By mortal eyes unseen He dwelt secure, thy loving heart His shrine, In first Communion with the Word Divine Thou hadst a foretaste of our Gift supreme. O thou, sweet Mother, who didst first embrace Our God, teach me thy potent way of grace, That in these precious moments that are mine I may constrain my Guest, thy Son Divine, To bide with me, Oh, may He ne'er depart! Behold—His living chalice, my unworthy heart! Florenz, in Queen's Work. REFLECTIONS. Jj Consummate sanctity must be that which can mix freely and easily with the crowd and condescend thoroughly to its ways, and not only remain pure as the sunbeam that pierces the foulest dungeon,, but be also a source of life and moral health and renovation to all around it. Father Coleridge, S.J. Every man has, with God's help, the strength to do his duty if he chooses to put it forth, to be a man and not a dumb driven creature, the mere shape of a man driven like a cloud of dust across the field of life by the wind of destiny. . ' - .