Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1920, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. June 6, Sunday.—Second Sunday after Pentecost. Within the Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 7, Monday.—Of the Octavo. ■ ~ 8, Tuesday.Of the Octave. . . ~ 9, Wednesday.— the Octave. . „ 11, Friday.— of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. ~ 12, Saturday.—St. John Fagondez. 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 earth —at 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 THE DIVINE SENTINEL. O Sacred Heart! Thine outstretched arms are waiting ■' To fold each world-worn wanderer to Thy Breast; When failing footsteps on life’s rough road falter, Thy wounded Heart wouldst be our shelter blest. Thy Hand it was that fashioned every flower, That gave each rose its fragrant perfume sweet, That painted every glowing golden sunset, And gave each bird its song and pinions fleet. Oh, deathless love! that never knew a dawning, Unwearied through the long eternal years, Awaiting Time’s brief day to win requital, And give Thy life for us, ’midst pain and tears. Oh, Sentinel Divine! love’s chains fast bind Thee In snowy Host! Within each holy shrine, Believing and adoring, Lord! we pray Thee To make the hearts Thou lov’st entirely Thine. Florence Miller, in the Advocate. RESIGNATION. There are wrongs that cannot be righted; There are crosses that must be borne; There are duties that cannot be slighted; There are thorn-crowns that must be worn. There are griefs that cannot find comfort, And wounds that cannot be healed; There are sorrows so deep in the human heart They cannot be half revealed. But, oh! let us carry our crosses ; We carry them not alone; Let us tread over earth’s rough places Even as Christ has done. Let us bury our bitter sorrows Deep in His Sacred Heart, And 'think what a blessed thing it is , To have in his sorrows a part. » Let us think of the wrongs He suffered, Let us think of the cross He bore; Let us think of His weary journeyings, ~ >: Let us think of the crown He wore. Surely the pain and the sorrow . ■■ -■■■-.■ Christ chose for Himself must be Best; Let us follow Him then in the way of the cross ’Twill lead unto heaven’s sweet rest. ’