FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 23, 24 June 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

GLEANINGS* FOR NEXT WEEKS "■ •^ CALENDAR. '*-'':: > v' , : _j

June 28, Fourth Sunday after Pente0i ■'•, -cost. ir . >/ ;,. > v-'' '■■'■•' • t ~ 29, Mon. —SS. 'Peter and Paul, Apostles > ~ 30, Tue. —Commemoration of St. Paul. July 1, Wed.— ■of the Most Precious HJ! ;: ' Blood. : ;V t ''''?;"' l: -'"-'■ -':' -> ~ 2, Thur.—Visitation"'of the ' Blessed Virgin Mary. \ ~ 3, Fri.—St.-Leo 11, Pope and Confessor. I „ :4j~ y Sat—Of the Octave of SS. Peter £;■ ■■■■ and Paul. ... . ,_^_,.l > „... St. Peter.

1 St. Peter,.Prince of the Apostles, first Pope and Martyr, i". was born about the year 10 B.C. at Bethsaida,-Galilee; son of Jonas or Joan, hence he is called in the Gospel Bar-Jon a (son of Jonas); brother of St. Andrew, Apostle. His first.name was Simon or Simeon. With his brother Andrew he was engaged in the occupation of fisherman on the Sea of Galilee when Our Lord called both to be His disciples?" The early labors of * St. Peter in Palestine are recorded in the first 15 chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, written by St.. Luke:* Later, on the historian of the life and sufferings of the Apostles became the companion of St. Paul. Soon after receiving the centurion and his household into the, Church, we find the Prince of the Apostles' presiding as Bishop over a large congregation at Antioch, where the followers of Christ were first called Christians. In the beginning of the reign of Claudius, about the year ,43,-he arrived at Rome, where he establisheda Church and presided over it as Bishop. '"*'" ' : '"- : - '"> "•■"""'

GRAINS OF GOLD THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD. "Forth let the long procession stream, And through the streets in order wend; Let the bright waving line of torches gleam, The solemn chant ascend. - While we,' with tears and sighs profound, That memorable Blood record, - Which, stretch on His Hard Cross, from ~■■. .many a wound The dying Jesus <pour'd: ' By the first Adam's fatal sin - %<} = [Came death upon the human race; In this new Adam doth hew life begin And everlasting grace.- * .. - ~^ For ! scarce the Father heard from Heaven The cry of His expiring Son, When in that cry our sins were all forgiven, - ; And jboundless pardon Avon. 0 : .•■..■•:• Henceforth, who so in that dear Blood Washeth, shall lose his every stain Wfih j And in immortal roseate beauty robed -*.■ . '• Angel's likeness ifif**** - """ *"** "?****""; Only run thou with courage on, Straight to the goal set in the skies; - He, who assists thy course, will give thee - : soon '"■'■' ' '"""''' 'V' v '* •■ ":"■>"' •;.'•■--- w-, The incomparahle prize. ">|cj£f]v'f i> fc'&i'ijH Fatherjsupreme 1 j vouchsale that we, ;;/ 1 ! -- ,!, ; : '_' i ' : ; ; For whom Thy only Son was slain, .■'"'" And whom Thy Holy Ghost doth sanctify, l - May "to Thy joys attain/ •".,-,• ..;<., >,*, . . :> ... ~. i . —Roman Breviary. .