Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 17 August 1911, Page 1555

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

August .20, Sunday.—Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. St. Joachim, Father of

the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 21, Monday.—St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow. ~ 22, Tuesday.—Octave of the Assumption. ~ 23, Wednesday.St. Philip Beniti, Confessor. ',, 24, Thursday.—St. Alphonsus, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor.

„ 25, Friday. —St. Bartholomew, Apostle. ~ 26, Saturday.—St. Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow.

This saint was born at Dijon in 1573. She was married at the age of twenty to the Baron de Chantal, but eight years later she had the misfortune to lose her husband through an accident. Having completed the education of her children, she founded, under the direction of St. Francis de Sales, and with the cooperation of some other ladies of rank, the religious Order of the Visitation. She died in 1641.

St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed-Virgin Mary.

The Fathers of the Church unite in extolling the sanctity of St. Joachim and St. Anne, whose privilege it was to be the parents of the Most Pure Mother of God.

St. Philip Beniti, Confessor.

St. Philip Beniti, a priest of the Servite Order, was born at Florence about the beginning of the thirteenth century. He was remarkable for his extreme humility, which caused him to refuse all offices of distinction, and for a burning zeal, which brought about the conversion of/ innumerable sinners in the different parts of Italy which he visited. He died in 1285.

GRAINS OF GOLD

BLESSED REST.

Upon our Mother's heart to sink, Upon our Mother's heart to rest, — Is there a sweeter thought to thiak, And can I do a thing more blest? So quiet is that holy place, As only I were there alone;

So blest that rest, and full of grace, As if that heart were all mine own

Oh heart that kept the things of Christ, And pondered on them night and day ! Thine, thine are treasures all unpriced, Through Him, the Life, the Truth, the way. And I am close to Christ, thy Son, When I abide in peace with thee.

Help me to say, as thou hast done: ' Ecce ancilla Domini!'

As soon as a man begins to love his work, then he will begin to make progress.

The great rule of moral conduct, says a wise man, is, next to God, to respect Time.

A kind word is often as welcome as alms and as great an act of charity as is a gift of money.

The world is the book of women; whatever knowledge they possess is more commonly acquired by observation than reading.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Idleness is death, and a search for pleasure is sure to wreck life in shallows and in miseries. Safety and sanity lie in systematic useful effort.