GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 17 October 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 20, Sunday .— i wenty-second Sunday after Pentecost. Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 21, Monday.— St. Victor 111., Pope and Confessor. „ -22, Tuesday.— SS. Cyril and Methodius, Bishops and Confessors. „ 23, Wednesday.— Our ~ Most Holy Redeemer. . „ 24, Thursday.— St. Raphael, Archangel. „ " 25, Frfday.— St. Boniface 1., Pope and Confessor. „ 26, Saturday.— St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Bishops and Confessors. The conversion of Moravian and other Slavic tribes was the work especially of Saints Cyril and Methodius, deservedly (Called the ' Apostles of the Slavonians.' They were brotliers, born at Thessalpnica of ' an illustrious senatorial family. TEe mission of- Cyril and Methodius in Moravia was crowned witfi wonderful results. They baptised Radislay, the King, and securely established Christianity in his country. - Cyril invented a Slavic alphabet, called after him the ' Cyrillic,' and, with the' aid of nis brother, translated the Holy Scripture into Slavonian. Cyril died at Rome in 8*69, and Methodius in 885. Feast of Our Most Holy Redeemer. This day is set apart by the Church to praise and glorify God for the great mystery of our Redemption, and to honor the person of His * Son, Who, by becoming man and dying on the Cross for us, has freed us from the slavery of satan, and restored to us our heavenly inheritance.