Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 26 May 1921, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. / '—— • . # May 29, Sunday. Within the Octave of Corpus Christi. „ 30, Monday.Of the Octave. ~ 31, Tuesday. —Of the Octave. June 1, Wednesday. Of the Octave. ~ 2, Thursday.—Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 3, Friday.—Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. ~ 4, Saturday. —St. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor. 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 'lncarnate 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 earthat 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 Ave make to Him for His Cardinal Manning.

GRAINS OF GOLD THE SACRED HEART. * Oh ! Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee!” ' Whatever may befall me, Lord, Though dark the hour may be, In all my joys, in all my woes, Though naught but grief I see, ■v “Oh! Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee!” When those I love have passed away, And I am sore distrest, Oh! Sacred Heart of Jesus, I fly to Thee for rest! In all my trials, great or small, My confidence shall be Unshaken, as I cry, dear Lord, v “I place my trust in Thee!” This is my one sweet prayer, dear Lord! My faith, my trust, my love, But most of all in that last hour, When death points up above, Ah! then, sweet ; Savior, may Thy face Smile on my 1 soul set free, Oh, may I cry with rapturous love — “I’ve placed my .trust in Thee!” —Mercedes.

% ' . REFLECTIONS. The believer receives his reward when he acts as he believes. — St. Cyprian.The evil deeds which 1 commit are really evil, and really mine ; the good that I do is neither wholly good, nor wholly my own. — St. Hugh. * There can be no fellowship between faith and faith* lessness. — St. Cyprian. Have confidence; wait in peace for your Saviour, Who will transform„.this body .’of your ignominy, and make it like His Own glorious body. — St. Hugh. He made our offences His offences, that He might make His righteousness our righteousness.St. Augustine.