GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 12, 12 November 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November ~i 5, Sunday.. — Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost." St. Gertrude, Virgin. „ 16, Monday. — St. Stanislaus Kostka, Confessor. • ,t, t 17, Tuesday. — St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bishop^and Confessor. „ 18, Wednesday. — Dedication of the Basilica, SS. Peter" and Paul, Rome. „ 19, Thursday. — St. Pontianus, Pope and Martyr. „ 20, Friday. — St. Felix of Valois, Confessor. . „ 21, Saturday. — Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "

St. Gertrude, Virgin. St. Gertrude was for many years superioress of a community of Benedictine nuns in Saxony. By fasting, perfect conformity to the rule of her Order, constant denial of her own will, and frequent meditation on the Passion of Our Blessed Redeemer, she endeavored to check the growth of any inordinate affection, and unite all the powers of the soul in a pure and intense love of God. She died in 1292, after having enriched the Church with writings which are of incalculable utility, to all who aim at spiritual perfection. «»., j^**** St. Stanislaus Kostka, Confessor. St. Stanislaus belonged to a distinguished family of Poland. In a short life of eighteen years he reached the height of sanctity, and left to all young persons a striking example of angelic innocence joined to the constant practice of extreme mortification. St. Stanislaus died in the Jesuit novitiate in Rome, A.D. 1568.