Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 24 June 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEAN FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR June 27, Sunday. Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 28, Monday.—St. Leo 11., Pope and Confessor. ~ 29, Tuesday.—SS. Peter and Paul, Apostles. V ~ 30, Wednesday.—Commemoration of St.. Paul, Apostle. July 1, Thursday. Feast of the Most Precious Blood. j> 2, Friday.—Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ~ 3, Saturday.—Of the Octave.

, Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles. St. Peter was known originally as Simon Barjona—that is, Simon, son of John. The name Peter, which means rock, was given to him by our Divine Lord to signify that he was to be the solid foundation of Christ’s future Church. ‘ I say to thee,’ said Christ, ‘ that thou are Peter (that is, Rock), and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,’ etc. This solemn promise of Christ was fulfilled after His Resurrection, when He said to St. Peter, ‘ Feed My lambs, feed My sheep,’ words which, in the figurative language of the East, signify the exercise of supreme power over the Church. " The principal events in the life of St. Peter—his imprisonment, his government of the Church from Antioch, and finally from Rome —are commemorated by special feasts. Today we consider more particularly the glorious death by which he atoned for his former denial of his Divine Master. St. Peter was crucified at Rome, under the Emperor Nero, about the year 67. St. Paul is associated with St. Peter in this day’s solemnity, because, after having labored with him for the conversion of Rome, he received the crown of martyrdom on the same day.

GRAINS OP GOLD. IN THE NIGHT WATCHES. When in the long, dark night 1 wake, And, sleep-forsaken, turn and toss, I think of One Who for my sake Hung tired and tortured on the cross. And when with pain my temples throb, My mind and body sick and sore, My heart remembers with a sob The bitter pangs that Jesus bore. My hear remembers—and I yearn With tears His wounded feet to wet; But, ah, when health and hope return, How soon my Saviour I forget! —Are Maria.

The Cross is the key of the centuries, the rallying point of history, the uplifting force of the world. It brings order into what would otherwise be chaos. Its arms stretch out to the ends of the earth, and its head points the way to heaven. Many of us seem not to be aware that we are bound to respect in others that freedom of thought and utterance which we claim for ourselves, or that freedom of opinion is as sacred to them as it is to us.—Brownson. Every age has its own specific wants and mode of thinking.. Principles are eternal and invariable, but the mode of expressing and applying them in a world where all is mutable must vary with the every-varying wants and circumstances of time and place.—Brownson. Only the pure minded, the souls who beat in perfect harmony with Christ’s heart, can have a really good time. What the worldling calls fun is often madness or intoxication or brutish sensuality ; but the child of God is ever ready to sing and play from the very exuberance of innocence.—Rev. W. F. McGinnis, D.D.