GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 11 June 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

June 14, Sunday.— Trinity Sunday. „ 15, Monday..— St. John of San- Fagondez, Confessor. ' „ IG, Tuesday"— St. Antoninus, Bishop and -Confessor. „ 17,t Wednesday —St. Paschal 1., Pope and Confessor. „ , 18, Thursday.— Feast of Corpus Christi. „ 19,. Friday .—St. Juliana Falconieri, Virgin „ 20, Saturday.— St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr. Trinity Sunday. To-day we are not asked to imitate the virtues of some saint, or to contemplate the merciful dealings of trod with man. We are taken up, as it were, into the Holy of Holies, and invited to gaze on the radiant perfection of God as the Blessed see Him— one God in Three Divine Persons. Until the fourteenth century tnis feast was not generally celebrated in the Church for the reason that all festivals in the Christian religion are truly festivals of the Holy Trinity, since they are only moans to honor the Blessed Trinity and steps to raise us to It as the true and only term of our worship. As Pope Alexander writes, in the eleventh century : The Roman Church has no particular festival or the Trinity, because she honors It every day, and every hour of the day ; all her offices containing Its praises, and concluding with' a tribute of glory to It.' • St. Juliana Falconieri, Virgin. St. Juliana was a native of Florence. Having while still a child, lost her father, she found a second lather in her uncle, St. Alexis Falconieri, one of the founders of the Servile Order. She is celebrated for her devotion to the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar and to the Mother of God. Like so many other saints, she was singularly successful in reconciling enemies and reclaiming sinners. She died at an advanced age in 1310.