Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 22 July 1920, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. July 25, Sunday. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost. St. James, Apostle. " 26, Monday.—St. , Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. " 27, Tuesday.—St. Pantaleon, Martyr. " 28, Wednesday.—SS. Nazarius and Celsus, Martyrs. " 29, Thursday.—St. Martha, Virgin. " 30, Friday.SS. Abdon and Senen, Martyrs. 31, Saturday.St. Ignatius, Confessor.

St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Anne is proposed to the faithful as a perfect model 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.

SS. Abdon and Senen.

SS. Abdon and Senen were noble Persians, martyrs, at Rome, under the persecution of Decius. Their veneration is very ancient.

St. Martha, Virgin, St. Martha, sister of Lazarus, whom Our Lord raised from the dead (Luke x. 38, etc.,- John xi.). During the great persecution of the Church at Jerusalem, Martha, Lazarus, Mary Magdalen, and other Christians w-ere placed on a vessel without sails, rudders, pilot, or provisions in order to cause them to perish in the midst of the sea. Ihe vessel landed at Marseilles. St. Martha having converted tho inhabitants of the city of Tarascon, lived there until her death in A.D. 84. She was buried in the actual crypt of the church of St. Martha. She is the patron saint of Tarascon. 1

GRAINS OF GOLD "EVER WAITING." There's One who's ever waiting E'en through the hours of night; He's waiting in His lonely cell For one who seeks the light. Behind a little golden door, He hides Himself from view, And there He watches silently, For lonely hearts and true.

He longs to comfort someone sad, Or help souls in distress. Then why don’t wo go ask of Him To soothe the cares that press

He’d listen with a ready ear To what we had to say. V could not find a truer friend To guide us on our way.

Each dawn brings us a harder task Than that of yesterday ; B, ft H Y e ’ d s and tell the Lord -tie d bear the task away.

Ah why should we, His chosen friends, Be backward in our plight. When we have Him, the Heavenly King, lo help us win the fight

For that same King who reigns in Heaven Reigns also here below; He dwells within the Sacrament From which all graces flow.

Let us, each time we pass his home Remember He is there And walk in gently to His house To say e’en one short prayer. L. O. L. in the Catholic Bulletin.