Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

I GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR I June 6, Sunday.—Sunday within the Octave. ~ 7, Monday.—Of the Octave. ~ 8, Tuesday.—Of the Octave. ~ 9, Wednesday.—Of the Octave. ~ 10, Thursday.—Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 11, Friday.—Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. ~ 12, Saturday.—St. John Fagondez, Confessor. Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since the Person of Christ, including His human nature,, is the object of divine adoration, the worship which is due to His Person, is due to all that is united to His Person. For this reason the Fifth General Council „ condemned the Nestorians who introduced two adorations as to two separate natures, arid to two separate persons. The Council affirms that one adoration is to be offered to the Word united to His humanity. The material object of this divine adoration is Christ, God and man ; the formal object or the reason for which this divine adoration is given to Him in both natures, is the divinity of the Incarnate Son. Thus the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the human heart which the Son of God took from the substance of His Immaculate is adored with divine worship in heaven and on earth —at the right hand of His Father and in His real presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. ' Devotion to the Sacred Heart reveals to us the personal love of our Divine Redeemer towards each and every one for whom He died. It is a manifestation of His pity, tenderness, compassion, and mercy to sinners and to penitents. Nevertheless, its chief characteristic and its dominant note is His disappointment at the return we make to Him for His love.'—Cardinal Manning. GRAINS OF GOLD. tii '■■-J TO THE SACKED HEART. To Thy loved Heart, O Jesus mine ! I bring the hearts most dear to me. O take them, Lord, and let them be Right leal and chosen friends of thine. And should some day fall dark and drear When fate hath set our ways apart, Stretch forth Thy hand and hold them near To Thy loved Heart ! Within Thy Heart, 0 Jesus mine ! Be all my pains and sorrows stilled : Teach me to bear what Thou hast willed Because it is Thy Will divine. And when the last sad debt is paid I'll hold for joy grey grief's keen smart . And every pang that erst I laid Within Thy Heart. r i Turn to Jesus in the Eucharist when your hour of crucifixion begins, and rest assured that He is still lifted up for you and drawing you to Himself, comforting and consoling, blessing every pang, rewarding every weariness, making your sufferings as fruitful in their measures as His crucifixion was upon Golgotha. Be not afraid to show Him the emptiness and coldness of your heart; do so that the void may be filled. Ruinous may be the tenement of your soul: ask Him to repair it. Great may be your poverty ; ask Him to enrich it. Open your heart to Him, desiring that the love which you need may be poured into it, and verily you shall be filled.