Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 21, 1 June 1922, Page 3

Friends at Court

' GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. June 4, Sunday.—Feast of Pentecost. ~ 5, Monday.—Whit Monday. „ 6, Tuesday.—Whit Tuesday. „ 7, Wednesday.— the Octave. Ember Day. Fast. „ 8, Thursday—Of the Octave. „ 9, Friday—Of the Octave. Ember Day. Fast. „ 10, Saturday—Of the Octave. Ember Day. Fast, no Abstinence. W THE FEAST OF PENTECOST. On this day, in accordance with the promise of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Adorable Trinity, descended on the Apostles. "This day," Butler remarks, "is the birthday of the Church. Christ had indeed begun to form His Church during His ministry on earth, when He assembled His Disciples, selected His Apostles, and placed St. Peter at their head. But by the descent of the Holy Ghost He completed His Revelation, and gave to His Apostles a special and extraordinary assistance, by which they were directed and preserved from all error in teaching. He thus, as it were, infused a soul into His mystical body—the Church—and endowed it with a vigorr ous principle of life and action. From this time its rulers, ministers, and officers, being completely commissioned and qualified by the miraculous effusion of the Holy Ghost, set themselves to exercise their respective functions in governing and propagating the spiritual kingdom of Christ, which was then perfectly settled and established."

Grains of Gold

TO THE HOLY GHOST. Love, for love Thou madest me — Why, then, am I so cold? My heart for love-Thou gavest me; Deign, Thou, that heart to mould. The love of Father and of Son God's very Love Thou art 0 Love ! 0 Fire ! 0 Light! 0 Life ! Come fill my empty heart. As o'er the waste of waters once, Sweet Spirit, Thou didst rest, Now o'er the chaos of my heart Breathe peace, 0 mighty Guest ], The love of creatures dazzles me While here on earth I stray; 0 Light! do Thou but shine on me, My path grows clear as day. 0 Fire! if Thou enkindlest me, My heart with love shall glow; Let that bright flame to ashes burn False loves of things below. If Thou, True Life, wilt strengthen me, I do the deeds of Love; Seal Thou Thyself upon mine arm, And on my heart, sweet Dove. Come Thou Thyself, and do the work, Fulfil the great behest, ...And I shall love the Lord my God By Thee, beloved Guest. 0 Love! for love Thou madest me; Love, teach me then to love; Nay, love Thyself, 0 Love, in me,* My Lord, my God, my Love! -S. M. E.

REFLECTIONS.

There is nothing, 0 my God, that I am not ready with a free heart to give up for Thee. —St. Francis of Assisi. :. ■ ■. Let us not regard the things behind, whither the devil recalls, but the things before, whither Christ calls.St. Cyprian.