FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 30, 12 August 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S y - I CALENDAR. y :.W- 'Aug. 16, Sun. Eleventh Sunday after Pen* UV?' / tecost, St. Joachim, Father VV’ of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 17, Mon. St. Hyacnth, Confessor. ~ 18, Tues.—Of the Octave of the As- / sumption. „ 19, Wed. Of the Octave of the Assumption. „ 20, Thurs. — St. Bernard, Abbot. • ~ 21, Frid. —St. Jane Frances dp Chan- ; ■ tal, Widow. ~ 22, Sat.—Octave of the Assumption. : '■ ■ ' ¥ v-h • St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Fathers of the Church unite in extol- ' ling the sanctity of St. Joachim and St. |||fe| Anne, whose privilege it was to be the parents of the Most Pure Mother of God. ,i ■ St. Bernard, Abbot. ite f;. St. Bernard (surnamed the “Last Father of the Church”) was born in the Castle Fontaines, near Dijon, France, in 1091, of an old patrician family he entered in his 22nd year, with some thirty of his kinsmen and friends, the Order of Citreaux, of which he is sometimes regarded as the second founder. He was subsequently consecrated abbot, and died in 1153. pp|i St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow. IV';/ This saint was born at Dijon in 1573. She was married - at the age of 20 to the Baron de Chantal, but eight years later she had the •sV misfortune to lose her husband through an y --accident. Having completed the education 1 of- her children, she founded, under the direction of St. Francis de Sales, and with I the co-operation of some other ladies of rank, : the religious Order of the Visitation. She i , died in 1641. r # tHMKVOOO pjKv. fv '’ ' : * GRAINS OF GOLD » THE SWEETEST LIVES. V . The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, , Whose deeds both great and small Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread V ; , Where love ennobles all. vv The world may sound no trumpet, ring no P. ‘ ‘ bells; ‘ A w The book of life the shining record tells. 1 Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes rVL After its own life working. A child’s kiss •••;. Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee [v v strong \ ’-v■ J ;.. •• v . ' ■‘ Thou shalt be served thyself in every sense Of service which to me thou renderest. mp ' < , ’ Robert Browning. ■ <x> —— | REFLECTIONS. Our sorrows sanctified become our holiest treasures, a life without sorrow would be • acrid as a garden without rain or dew. '2jr~ Strabbo asserts that a. species of honey was ’ produced at Pontus which, owing to ' the "if bees having fed on aconite and hemlock, |l\ was poisonous. May we not liken flattery U C . to this poison— but destructive. — |V Blessington.