Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1143

Friends at Court

©LEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR August 6, Sunday. Ninth Sunday After Pentecost. The Transfiguration of Our Lord. ~ 7, Monday, St. Cajetan, Confessor. ~ 8, Tuesday.—SS. Cyriacus and Companions, Martyrs. ~ 9, Wednesday.—St. Emygdius, Bishop and Martyr. ~ 10, Thursday.—St. Lawrence, Martyr. ~ 11, Friday.—-St. Sixtus 11., Pope and Martyr. ~ 12, Saturday.—St. Clare, Virgin. Et. Emygdius, Bishop and Martyr. St. Emygdius, a native of Rhenish Prussia, was consecrated Bishop of Ascalon by Pope Marcellus. After a saintly life, memorable for the miracles which God .wrought through his instrumentality, he was martyred during the persecution of Diocletian. St. Lawrence, Martyr. There are few martyrs whose names are so famous throughout. the Church as that of St. Lawrence. .St. Augustine and St. Ambrose join in praising him, and innumerable churches have been erected in his honor, more particularly in Rome, which was the scene of his martyrdom. This extraordinary veneration is the result of the heroic constancy with which he suffered for the Faith. He was slowly roasted to death in the persecution of Valerian, A.D. 258. Prudentius ascribes to his prayers the conversion of Rome, and states that his death was the death of idolatry in that city. St. Sixtus 11., Pope and Martyr. St. Sixtus, a Greek by birth, ruled the Church for about a year. He gained the martyr’s crown, three days before St. Lawrence, in 258. THE HEART LIKE HIS. Be still, my heart, beneath the rod, And murmur not; He too was Manthe Son of God• And shared thy lot. Shared all that we can suffer here. The wrong, the loss, he bloody sweat, the scourge, the sneer, The Crown, the Cross. The final terror of the tomb, - His guiltless head Self-consecrated to the doom We merited. Then languish not for Eden’s lost Or vanished bliss; The heart that suffers most, the most Resembles His! Sacred Heart Review. Home is the place of the highest joys; religion should sanctify it. Home is the sphere of the deepest sorrows ; the highest consolation of religion should sweeten it with the joy of confidence. Home discovers all faults; religion should bless it with abundance of Home is the place for impressions, for instruction and culture ; there should religion open her treasures of wisdom and pronounce her heavenly benediction. . Many of the sins of which we are guilty originate m the wrong use of right things. What is gluttony ut the wrong use of appetite? Envy is the degenerate spirit of emulation. When its object is an evil or wroim, anger is a noble feeling; it is a deadly sin when it vents itself as revenge or hatred. Covetousness is selflove, seeking advantage ,at the expense of the welfare or happiness of another. We shall find that nearly all the muddy streams in our lives begin in the spring, which God made to be pure and sweet and crystalline?’