FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 21, 10 June 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

?. I Cleanings for next week's ' CALENDAR. ..: June 14, Sun:—Second Sunday after Pentex - {' -' ' cos ~ 15, Mon.Of the Octave -of Corpus ■■-•=-.:■ Christi. ~ 16, Tue.— the Octave of Corpus . Christi. . ~ 17, Wed.Of the Octave 'of ' Corpus Christi. ~ 18, Thur. —Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 19, Friday.—Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. '-; „ 20, Sat.—Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ' 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 Incarnate 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 earth —at the right hand of His Father and in rVHis 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 manifesta- • tion 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 we make to Him for His love." — Cardinal Manning.

GRAINS OF GOLD TO' THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. 0 wounded Heart of wounded love! To Thee Ave lift our song; ; To Thee in tale of sorrow tell : What ills to life belong. p'.i'.:•"{'■ .-'.-'. i Oh, guide lis o'er life's dangerous path, And frighten sin away; And lead where virtue's blossoms bloom \[ In the eternal day. Oh, whisper in temptation's hour joys beyond the sky; •~>.4§rad tench our hearts to prize alone What lives eternally. when the twilight shadows fall ''":■■ a Upon the silent sea, p , pThe brightest beams that light our dreams m -Shall be our thoughts of Thee.