Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR " V ——f 9 •June 22, Sunday. Within the Octave of Corpus • . Christi. ,j 23, Monday.— Of the Octave. ~ 24, Tuesday.—Nativity of St. John the Baptist. ~ 25, Wednesday.—Of the Octave of Corpus Christi. ~, 26, Thursday. Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 27, Friday. Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. ~, 28, Saturday.— St. Leo 11., Pope and Confessor.

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 two 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 His Immaculate Mother, is adored with divine worship in heaven and on earthat the right hand of His Father and in His 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 He 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 His disappointment at the return we make to Him for His love.'-'—Cardinal Manning.

GRAINS OF GOLD. HEAR THE HEART OF JESUS PLEADING Hear the Heart of Jesus pleading, “Come and sweetly rest in Me, With a peace and joy exceeding, Meek and humble ever be ; In My Heart, serene and holy, All your selfish cares resign, Dearest Jesus, meek and lowly, Make, oh , make our hearts like Thine ! Purer than the lily’s whiteness, Fairer than the fairest snows, In the beauty and the brightness Of your sold I seek repose Calmly keep your heart's before Mo From the stain of passion free. Heart of Jesus! we implore Thee, Make, oh, make us pure like Thee. Heart of love ; in Thee confiding, We shall learn to do Thy will ; In Thy sacred wounds abiding, Burning love our breasts shall fill. We shall bless Thee and obey Thee, Ever serve Thee faithfully Sweetest Heart! we humbly pray Thee, Let us live and die in Thee! —Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Work tends to make a man healthy, virtuous, and cheerful. If a man does not apply himself to doing something good, he will turn to evil. Vice and idleness always go hand in hand. Let us accept our trials in a spirit of humility, of penance for our own sins and for those which are committed around us. To suffer for God is a happiness.— Mother M. of the Sacred Heart. .