Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 20 October 1904, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINQS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 213, Sunday.— Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost. Feast of Our Most Hoiy Redeemer. 24, Monday.— St. Raphael, Archangel. „ 25, Tuesday.— St. Bomlace 1., Pope and Confessor. „ 26, Wednesday.— St. Evoristus, Pope and Martyr 27, Thursday.— St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. 28, Friday.— SS. Simon and Jutte, Apostles. 29, Saturday.— Venerable Bede, Confessor and Doctor. Feast of Our Most Holy Redeemer. ' ia^ day is set apart by the Church to praise and glorify God for the great mystery of our Redemption an,d to honor the person of. His Son, Who, by becoming man and dying on the Oross for us, has freed us from the slavery of satah, and restored to us aur heavenly inhe titance. St. Raphael, Archangel. St. Raphael is one of the seven archangels who according to the Bible, are- before the throne of God, Raphael was tue, protector and guide of Tobias and advised him to marry Sara. „ , -< - ■ , - St. Botiiface 1., Rape "and .Ctoafessgr. St. Boniface I. was Pope from 418 to V 22. Though a lover ol peace, he strenuously, maintained the rights of the Holy See against tihe ambiifcious encroachments of the Patriarch ot Constantinople. St. Evanstius, Pope atnd Martyr, The death of St. Evarist'us took place in 112. He is' honored in the calendar with the title of martyr, but little is known of the events of his life or of his sufferings for the taith. St. Uhaidus, Bishop and Confessor. St Übal'dus was born near Ancona, in the Papal States. Consecrated Bisih-op of G'ubio, he adorned that high dignity with all the virtues of a true successor of the Aio«.tles. He died in 11C0, after an episcopate of JU yeaxs. SS. Siman and Jude, Apostles. After the dispersion of the Apostles St. Simon preaGhed in Egypt and- then in Persia, where heTeceived the crown of martyrdom. According to Mie common tradition, he was crucified like our Blessed Savioiur. St Jude, also called Thaddous, was a brother of St. James the Less. He was related Po Christ by his mother, who was a cousim 0/ the Ble,ss,<3d Virgin. St. Jude preached in Mesopotamia and Armenia, antf'Svas finally shot to death ;wilta arrows m Persia. The New Testameat ccnt'aitis a short Epistle "written by St. Jiude, for the benefit, principally, of the Jewish converts. , Venerable Bede, Confessor and Doctor. Venerable Bode was 'born not far from Newcas tie-on-Tvne in 673. Piety ar,d learning were in him equally conspicuous. Mabilhon writes of him ;- ' Who applied himselt to the study of every branch of literature, and also to the teaching of others, more than 43ede? - i-et Who was more closely united to heaven by the exercises of piety and rehgicn '' ' 'To -see him pray, 1 -says- 'an ancient writer, ' one would tb.in.Jc he left>imself,ijo time to study, and when we look at .his bo6Hss we, ''-fonder bow ho could have found time to do anything else but write.' The works of Venerable,. -;Bede;'£rtti}udetl -$fc?sr&] oommcjibarifep on the ?S? S acted Scriptures? &jd% hUpbff ot the Catholic Cltorctt in England, 'which' foaWeaVftetf for ihim, the title of Doctor of the Churfch. Venerable Bede died in 735. • ' ,