GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 13 September 1906, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

Septemfeter 16, Sunday.— Fifteenth. Sunday after Pen«te- - cost. The Seven Dolors of the Bles- « sed Virgin; TVl.ary. „ . 17, Monday.— The Stigmata of St. Francis. „ 18, Tuesday:— St. Joseph of Cupertino, Con- . - fessor. , . „ .19, Wednesday.— St. Januarius and Companions, Martyrs. Ember Day ' „ 20, Thursday.— Thursday.— St. Agapitus 1., Pope arid Confessor. „ 21, Friday.— St. Matthew, Apostle. Emiber Day. „ 22, Saturday,— St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor, Ember Day. The Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary. .- To drink -of that chalice of "suffering which the "Redeemer of mankind drained to the "dregs, has fallen to *'' the lot of all the saints, 'but most of all to the .Mother of God. Owing to the sacred tie which bound her to her Divine Son, she felt most keenly every danger which threatened Him, and every pang that wrung His Sacred Heart. Her seven principal sorrows, commemorated to-day, were the prophecy of . St. Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Child Jesus in "the temple, the carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the taking down from the' Cross, and " the burial of our Lord. ■.-...- - - St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor. St. Joseph, the son of pqor- parents near Brindisi, in hife ejarly years followed the trade of a; shoemaker. Having entered, as a fay 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 His servant by miraculous favors, which were the occasion of numerous conversions. St. Joseph died in 1663. at the ago of 60. ' St. Januarius and Companions, Martyrs. , St. Januarius, Bishop oLßenevento, in the South of ~ Italy, was, with six companions, beheaded during the persecution of Diocletian. The- remains of , St. Januarius were conveyed to Naples, where every year on his feast and during "the octave, the celebrated miracle of the liquefaction of his blood takes place. St. Thomas of Villanova.St. Thomas, was born at Fuenlana .(Leon), Spain, in 1488, and died at Valencia, of which he .was Archbishop, in 1555. He was distinglshed for his humility ami charity, and merited the glorious ' surname ' of the r Fatherof the Poor.' —> - - . .