Friends At Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 43, 15 October 1924, Page 3

Friends At Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. October 19, Sunday. Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. '• „•'- 20, Monday. John Cantius, Confessor. ,_.-..; ■ --vr'' 21, Tuesday. Hilarion, Abbot. ,1'" 22, Wednesday.—Of the Feria. . „ .; 23, Thursday—Of the Feria. '' S', „ \ 24, Friday.St. Raphael, Archangel. „ 25, Saturday.—Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. •* SB ''■;■ -'•:;•'- ■■'''■'-■'. 'f-.-' : St. John Cantius, Confessor. St. John was born at Kenti, in Poland. Ordained priest, he exhibited the most ardent zeal for souls,, and a boundless charityin a word, all the virtues of a good pastor. Severe to himself, he was ever indulgent to others, who were sure to find in him a generous friend in all their necessities. He died . in.. 1473, being then 70 years of age. St. Hilarion, Abbot. St. Hilarion, founder of the monastic life in Palestine, was born at Tabathe, near Gaza. He became a Christian' at Alexandria, and visited St. Anthony in the Thebaic!. Returning into his own country in 307, he divided all his goods among the poor and retired into the frightful solitude of Majuma, where numerous disciples placed themselves under his direction. He founded numerous monasteries in Palestine and in Syria, and left his solitude and retired to the island of Cyprus, in order to escape celebrity. ■ St. Raphael, 'Archangel. It is narrated in the Old Testament that the Archangel Raphael was sent by God to guide the young Tobias on a journey. - The description of this journey, given in the Book of Tobias, enables us to better • understand the exceeding charity of our guardian angels, who, though invisible to our eyes, preserve us from evil, and guide us on our way to heaven.