FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 49, 10 December 1924, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S v CALENDAR V Dec. 14, Sun. —Third Sunday of Advent. VDec. 15, Mon.—Octave of the Immaculate „ 15, Mon,—Octave of the Immaculate Conception, j, 16, Tuesday.—St. Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr. „ 17, Wed. —Of the Feria. Ember Day. Fast. ~ 18, Thurs. —Of the Feria. \ „ 19, Fri. — Of the Feria, Ember Da/. —Fast. T ~ 20, Sat. —Vigil of St. Thomas, Apostle. Ember Day. Fast, no abstinence. V St. Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr. St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, was born in Sardinia, in 283, and died at Vercelli, Piedmont, on August 1, 371. He was made lector at Rome, where he lived some time, probably as a member, or head, of a religious community. Later he came to Vercellae, the present Vercelli, and in 340 was unanimously elected Bishop of that city by the clergy and the people. He received episcopal consecration at the hands of Pope . Julius I, on December 15, of the same year. According to the testimony of St. Ambrose, he was the first Bishop of the West who united monastic with clerical life. He led with the clergy of his city a common life, modelled upon that of the Eastern cenobites. For this reason the Canons Regular of St. Augustine honor him along with St. Augustine as their founder. GRAINS OF GOLD \HE DOES NOT FORGET. All human friends are strangely apt to fail, In those blank hours when nothing seems aright; They do not always travel our own trail, And oft we miss them jn our darkest night, n But we may thank the Giver of all friends That He permits such happenings to be, That He withdraws sometimes, and sometimes lends, As He sees best for our Eternity. ’Tis when most valued friends seem somewhere gone, And we uncertain of our next step stand, That He oft deigns our weakness to condone, And let us feel His gentle guiding Hand. As if Ho had but waited for such hour, He smiles into our eyes with tears still wet,, And by some act of providential power Proves once again that He does not forget.. REFLECTIONS. Take my heart for I cannot give it Thee;; keep it for I cannot keep it for Thee. —St.. Augustine. I find nothing .in this world that gives me* pleasure, and this is the one thing that { Jktfves me supremo pleasure, that I find northing that pleases me. —St, Philip Neri. Let no one think of death, but immortality, nor temporary affliction but eternal glory.— Cyprian.