Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 17 July 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. July 20, Sunday.—Sixth Sunday After Pentecost. ~ 21, Monday.St. Prassede, Virgin. . ~ 22, Tuesday.—St. Mary Magdalene, Penitent. ■ ~ 23, Wednesday.—St. Appolinaris, Bishop and V Martyr. . - ~ 24, Thursday.—Vigil of St. James, Apostle. ~ 25, Friday.—St. James, Apostle. ~ 26, Saturday. —St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. James, Apostle. St. James was a brother of St. John the. Evangelist, and a near relative of the Blessed Virgin. After Pentecost he preached to the Jews, who, having left Judea, had found homes in the neighboring countries. According to a very ancient tradition, he voyaged to Spain, which honors him as its patron. Going to Jerusalem in 43, he was apprehended and beheaded by order of King Agrippa for teaching the doctrines of Christ. St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Anne is proposed to the faithful as a perfectmodel of a wife and mother, and as the special patron of those who have entered the married state, or are entrusted with the care of children.

GRAINS OF GOLD MARY THE MAGDALENE. When all had gone and left Him to rest, The woman crept bask softly through the gloom That veiled the night-hushed hill, and, weeping, pressed Her cheek against the stone that sealed the tomb. Of all who loved Him, she loved most of all, And she a daughter of Jerusalem, With ruddy locks that rippled in their fall Of veiling beauty to her garment’s hem.

And in her arms, still faintly sweet with myrrh, She carried three tall lilies, fragrant white, And these she left beside the sepulchre, Pale tapers in the. purple dusk of night.

Then forth again went Mary Magdalene, And woeful was the heart her bosom bore. And morning lay upon the mountains when ~ She sought that lonely garden place once more.

The dew empearled the grasses. Faint and far The sounds of day came upward from the main, Against the dawn was but a single star When Mary, wan with watching, came again.

Her feet were shod with sorrow, and in woe Upon her breast was bent her heavy head, And thus she reached the sepulchre, and so She knelt a moment weeping for her dead.

, REFLECTIONS. The longer I live the more convinced I become that the only two things that really count in national existence are a succession of writers of genius and the proud memories of great, noble, and honorable deeds.— Right Hon. A. Birrell. X•* J ; j vjl }■ ti l X Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and. every setting sun be to w ou as its close; then . let every , one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others, some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves. Ruskin. . ' M v d},.. -. , Work without, ceasing to establish deeply in your Heart the reign of the T theological virtues, which are the source, support, and , perfection of, all. other virtues. —Mother M . of the Sacred Heart. - V