Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 14, 12 April 1923, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. April 15, Sunday.—Second Sunday after Easter. ~ 16, Monday. Office of the Day. .',.. j, 17, Tuesday.St. Anicletus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 18, Wednesday.—Solemnity of St. Joseph. „ 19, Thursday.—Within the Octave of St. Joseph. „ 20, Friday.—Within the Octave of St. Joseph. ~ 21, Saturday.—St. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. Solemnity of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church. This feast was instituted by Pius IX. shortly after his elevation to the pontificate. Later on, in 1870, the same Pontiff' placed the Universal Church under St. Joseph's patronage. Few, if any. of the saints, with the exception of the Mother of God, appeal more strongly to our love and veneration than St. Joseph—spouse of the Blessed Virgin, and foster-father of our Redeemer. As the Son of God was subject to him on earth, so we believe his intercession to be most efficacious in heaven. St. Thomas of Aquin says of him: "Some saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage in certain cases with peculiar efficacy; but to St. Joseph is given to assist us in all cases in every necessity, in every undertaking." St. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Aosta, Italy, in 1033. William 11., during a dangerous illness, resolved to restore the estates which he had taken from the different churches; and urged by his nobles he nominated the learned Anselm, Abbot of Bee in Normandy, to the See of Canterbury. Only on the King's promise to resign the temporalities belonging to the See of Canterbury, to follow his counsels in things spiritual, and to acknowledge Urban 11. as rightful Pope, did Anselm at last consent to receive consecration in 1093. But when restored to health, the King, by his renewed rapacity and despotism, soon gave much trouble to the new Primate. The refusal to acknowledge Urban 11., and permit Anselm to receive the pallium from the Pontiff, led to a complete rupture. In his struggle with the King, Anselm was forsaken by the bishops, whilst the nobles of the realm earnestly supported him. Shortly after William acknowledged Urban, and was reconciled with Anselm. But fresh aggression compelled Anselm to have recourse to the Holy See. He set out for Rome in 1097 and was received by Urban with signal marks of respect, but his resignation the Pope refused to accept. While in Italy Anselm took part in -the Councils of Lateran and Bari. Anselm remained in voluntary exile, living chiefly at Lyons, till the year 1100, when, upon the sudden death of William and the accession of Henry 1., he returned to England. Difficulties again were placed in the way of Anselm by the new King. Anselm went into exile a second time. Action was taken by Pope Paschal 11. against Henry and the venal prelates who had received investure from the King. At last the good services of Henry's sister, Adela, led to a compromise. Anselm returned to England in 1106, and henceforth lived in peace till his death in 1109. Anselm is regarded as the earliest of the scholastic theologians, and is sometimes called the "Father of Scholasticism."

Grains of Gold

CONFIDENCE.

My fate is in Thy hands

My God, I wish it there, My heart, my life, my health—

I leave—entirely to Thy care.

My fate is in Thy hands

Whatever it may be, Pleasant or painful, bright or dark, As best may seem to Thee.

My fate is in Thy hands, Why should - I doubt or fear? My Father's • heart will never cause His child a needless tear., '* ,; -»-; , —-The. Missionary.