Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 4 June 1914, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR June 7, Sunday.—Trinity Sunday. ~ 8, Monday.— St. Bede the Venerable, Confessor and Doctor. ~ 9, Tuesday.— St. Columba, Abbot. ~ 10, Wednesday. —St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland. ~ 11, .—Corpus Christi. ~ 12, Friday.Of the Octave. ~ 13, Saturday.—Of the Octave. St. Columba, Abbot. This great monk and missionary was born in the north of Ireland in 521. Having been trained in piety and knowledge by St. Finian, he -was advanced to the priesthood. After laboring for some years in his native country, St. Columba proceeded to Scotland, where he converted to the Faith the northern Piets. He built, in the island of lona, a great monastery, which was for many years the centre of learning in Scotland. St. Columba died in 597, after having founded and given a rule of life to upwards of a hundred monasteries in Ireland and Scotland. St. Margaret, Widow. St. Margaret was a grandniece of St. Edward the Confessor, King of England. Having fled into Scotland after the Norman conquest, she married Malcolm, king of that country, in 1070, being then twenty-four years of age. She used the great influence which her extraordinary sanctity gave her over the mind of her husband to render him one of the most virtuous kings that have adorned the Scottish throne. Her piety and prudence achieved an equally happy result iii the education of her children. St. Margaret died in 1093. Her remains were laid at first in the Church of Dunfermline, near Edinburgh, but at the time of the so-called reformation they were removed to Spain, where Philip 11. built a splendid chapel for their reception. Feast of Corpus Christi. As the Adorable Trinity is the essential and primary object of all religion and of all festivals, so the august Eucharist is the perpetual sacrifice and the holiest worship we can render to the Trinity. In other words, every day is a festival of the Trinity which we adore, and of the Eucharist by which we adore It. The special feast of the Blessed Eucharist, which we celebrate to-day, was instituted in the thirteenth century. ‘ Without doubt,’ says Urban IV., in the Bull of institution, Holy Thursday is the true festival of the Holy Sacrament, but on that day the Church is so much occupied in bewailing the death of her Spouse that it was good to take another day, when she might manifest all her joy and supply for what she could not do on Holy Thursday.’ GRAINS OF GOLD. SOME SIMPLE STRAIN. I only ask to sing a little song For those who love and live ; I do not ask acclaim : I only long, Not to receive, but give. I only ask to sing some simple strain, Not for the world to praise, But just to soothe some weary hearts in pain, 4 Some drooping ones to raise. I only ask to sing that Love is all, To sing that God is Love. That there is hope for those who sin and fall, That there is rest above. v —Ave Maria. 'A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge. 1