Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 37, 14 September 1905, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 17, Sun-day.— Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Seven Dolors ol the Blessed Virgin Mary. 18, Monday.— St. Joseph of Cupertino, Canfessor. 19, Tuesday.— Sain us Jamuarius and Companions, Martyrs. 20, Wednesday.— Ember Day. St. Agapitus 1., Pope and Confessor. „ 21, Thursday.— St. Matthew, Apostle. 22, Friday.— Ember Day. St. Thomas of VillaTiova, Bishop and Confessor. 23, Saturday.— Ember Day. St. Linus, Pope and Martyr. The Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To* drwik of that chalice of suffering which the Redeemer of mam/kind drained to the dregs, has fallen to the lot of all the samts, but most of 'all to the Mother of Cod. Owing to the sacred tic which bound her to her Divano Koti, sihe felt most keenly e\ery danger which threatened Him, and every pang that wrung- His Sacred Heart. Her seven principal sorrows, commemorated today, wero the propftwscy of St. Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Child Jesus in the temple, t<he carrying (of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the taking down from the Cioss, and the burial of cur Lord. St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor. St. Joseph, the son of poor parents near Brindisi in his early years folio-wed the trade of a shoemaier. Havinpj entered, as a lay brother, the Order of Conventual .Friars,, his superiors, through admiration of his humility and penitential spirit, promoted him to the priesthood. God deigned to ' reward the virtues of His servant by' miraculous favors, which were the occasion of numerous coiwersiions. St. Joseph died in 1663 at the age of 60. St. Jahuarius and Companions, Mairtyrs. St. Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, in the South of Italy, was, with six companions, teh-jaded during the persecution of ESodlotta'n. The remains of St. 'Jianuarkis were conveyed to Naples, where e^ry year on his feast ami 'dujrim/ai -the octave, the celebrated miracle of the liquefaction of 'his blood takes place. St. Aganitus, Pope and Confessor. St. Apiapitus, a Rommm, succeeded > Pope John 11. in 535. Ho -died after a short pontificate of eleven months. St. Matthew, Apostle. St Matthew is the same as Levi mentioned in the Gospel of St., Luke (v 27'). He was the son of AlTiwus, and was torn near Caphiarnaum. He was a collector of taxes which the Jews had to pay to the Romans. Tradition relat/os that he labored for sometime in Palesitime, after the Ascension of Christ, and then pieacim-1 the Gospel in Syria, Persia, Partlvia, and Ethiopia. In. the last.na-TO.ed country he is said tp have enkktl his course by i martyrdom. Matthew was the first of the P^angelists who wrote ia Gospel, which appeared between the years 61 and 67, or, according to others, in the year 42, ahomt the time of the dispersion of the Apostlos He wrote in Hebrew or Syro-Ohaldaic, the lanßi-aa?o socken in Palestine at that time. The. originil is wo longer extant, but the Oreak. version, even, in the time of t<he Apostles, was of equal authority. St. Thomas of Villanova. St. Thomas was born at Fu on lan a (Leon), Spain, in 1188 amd died at Valencia, nf which ho was Archbishop, in 1555. Ho was distinguished for his humility ami charity, awl merited ikw glorious surname of the ' Father of the Poor.' St. Linus, Pope and Martyr. St. Linn's, tfho immediate successor of St. Peiter, received the martyr's crown after a Pontificate of twelve years.