Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. September 26, —Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. „ 27, Monday.—SS. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs. ~ 28, Tuesday.—St, Wenceslaus, Martyr. ~ 29, Wednesday.—St. Michael, Archangel. ~ 30, Thursday.—St. Jerome, Confessor and Doctor. October 1, Friday.—St. Remy, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 2, Saturday.— of the Guardian Angels. SS. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs. These two saints were brothers, born in Arabia, and renowned for their skill in .medicine. They were remarkable for their charity, and for the zeal with which they endeavored to propagate the Christian religion. They were both beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian, about the year 303. St. Wenceslaus, Martyr. St. Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, was remarkable for his devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. His zeal for the propagation of the true faith led to his death at the hands of his brother, A.D. 982. Feast of the Guardian Angels. One of the most consoling doctrines of the Catholic Church is the spiritual union which exists between mankind and the angels who surround the throne of the Almighty. These glorious spirits, with whom we hope to share hereafter the joys of Paradise, are appointed by God to be during our mortal life. Though not an article of faith, it has always been the constant belief of the Church in all ages that Divine Providence has assigned to each individual a special angel to be his guide and guardian during his pilgrimage on earth. To this doctrine, which is confirmed by many passages of Holy Scripture, Our Divine Lord alluded when He said: "See that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the Face of My father, Who is in heaven."

GRAINS OF GOLD THE FAVORED ONE. (For the N.Z. Tablet.) Thabor. He came to me, the resplendant God, And His face did outshone the sun; I saw Him in glory, in youth, and joy Was I not the favored one?' Calvary. He came to me, the rejected One, And His face bore no beauty then. I drank the blood that fell from Him, So freely shed for men. He spent His sorrowing soul on me, I saw the great deed done, I held the precious ransom tree— Was I not the favored one? Olivet. Thabor's glory and Calvary's wounds He brought them to me at last; He came to me, the triumphant Lord, When the night of His life had passed. He bore my dust to His Father's House; Oh, say while the ages run, May I not write on my crest sun-crowned "Behold the Favored One"? . " . % —V. E. Kiel?. Auburn, N.S.W.