Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. October 26, Sunday.—Twentieth 'Sunday after Pentecost. „ 27, Monday.—Vigil of • SS. Simon and Jude. ~ . 28, Tuesday.SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. „ 29, Wednesday.—Of the Feria. „ . 30, Thursday.—Of the Feria. „ 31, Friday.—Vigil of All Saints. Fast Day. Nov. 1, Saturday.—Feast of All Saints. Holiday of Obligation. SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. After the dispersion of the Apostles, St. Simon preached in Egypt, and then in Persia, where he received the crown of martyrdom.. According to the common tradition, he was crucified like Our Blessed Lord. St.. Jude, called 1 also Thaddeus, was a brother of St. James the Less. Ho was related to Christ by his mother. Nothing certain is known of the later history of this Apostle. Nicephorus tells us that after preaching in Judea, Galilee, Samaria, and Idumaea, he labored in Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Ho is said to have suffered martyrdom in Phoenicia, either at Beyruth or Arad.

GRAINS OF GOLD

EARLY COMMUNION. The night is past, the dawn is breaking, I rise, dear Lord, to go to Thee, My slothful ease with joy forsaking For what Thy love prepares for me. Swift through the starlit, sleeping city I hasten to the House of Prayer: Dear friends, regard me not with pity. The Bread of Life awaits me there. A hunger for that Bread impels me, A craving for celestial food, A whisper in my soul, that tells mo To seek and find the Son of God. •In jewelled light the Altar greets me, With lifted Host and reverent priest; There graciously my Saviour meets mo, And bids me to His sacred feast. O Source of strength, 0 Fount of healing, O Gift of love and grace divine, How sweet to feel, while humbly kneeling, The Blessed Sacrament is mine! The city stirs, the stars are paling; Refreshed, I homeward make my way, For Jesus at that altar railing Hath fed my spirit for the day. —John L. Stoddard, in the Missionary. i CONSECRATION AND PEACE. Give thanks! Thy heart contains a Royal Shrine, Where God is throned Redeemer, King Divine — The only Peace and Lover of thy Soul! Prayer unto Him, through His Sweet Mother, sways Ev'ry afflicted life, and makes it whole, Rich with the Grace of turning prayer to praise. E'en now the Sacred Heard of Jesus is Making His throne-room of thy humble heart. Therefore thy heavenly Guardian Angel's kiss Is printed, cross-like, on thy brow. Thou art Dear to God's Angels and His Saints. Thrice blest, Our Lady's smile upon thy cross, gives rest! —George Joseph Evatt. REFLECTIONS. A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason. —St. Philip Neri. - Humble rusticity is more pleasing to God than a proud civility and politeness. —St. Teresa. The sacrifice of our will is the best and most acceptable offering that we can make. to God. —St. Joseph of Cupertino. As treason is the supremo disloyalty against government, so apostasy is the supreme disloyalty against God. Rev. Dr. Cavanagh. ■;. ; God does not always refuse when He delays; but He loves perseverance, and grants it everything. ■ Begin your . lifework betimes; it is sad to be sowing your seed when you should be reaping your harvest.