Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR July 11, Sunday.—Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. - ~ 12, Monday.—St. John Gualbert, Abbot, ~ 13, Tuesday.—St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 14, Wednesday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. ~ 15, Thursday.—St. Henry, Emperor and Confessor. ~ 16, Friday.—Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. ~ 17, Saturday.—St. Alexius, Confessor. St. John Gualbert, Abbot. St. John was born at Florence of noble parents in. 999. • Like many of the class to which he belonged, he grew up imbued with a pride which would neither brook opposition nor allow any injury to pass unavenged. Having, however, on one occasion, in obedience to the promptings of Divine Grace, forgiven a defenceless enemy, this exercise of Christian charity proved the beginning of his complete conversion. He entered a Benedictine monastery, and afterwards founded the famous abbey and Order of Vallombrosa. He died in 1073. St. Anacletus, Pope and Confessor. St. Anacletus, the second successor of St. Peter, was martyred under Trajan about the beginning of the second century. St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Bonaventure was born in the neighborhood of Florence. Having entered the Franciscan Order, and completed his studies, he became professor in the great University of Paris. He was afterwards elected General of his Order, and received from Pope St. Gregory X. the appointment of Cardinal Bishop of Albano. On account of his great learning, St. Bonaventure is numbered amongst the Doctors of the Church. He died in 1274, at the age of 52. In his panegyric, preached by the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, afterwards Pope Innocent A"., it is stated of him that. ‘ no man ever beheld him who did not conceive a great esteem and affection for him : arid even strangers, by hearing him speak, were inspired with a desire to follow his counsel and advice, for he was gentle, affable, humble, prudent, chaste, and adorned with all virtues.’ GRAINS OP GOLD. GOD IS LOVE. * God is love !’ Let church bells ring it Over wood and field and sea. ‘ God is love !’ Let all men sing it In ecstatic jubilee. But in one place o’er all others Sounds it clearestthere where He Gave on Calvary His Mother, All men’s Mother now to be. Be a follower of the Golden Buie. It is not only the highest morality, but it is a fruitful source of true politeness, and is withal but simple justice. To most people a humble man is a tame, colorless being, without energy or spirit or character, yielding and plastic. Be assured that humility is not cowardice or weakness.

True science as well as true virtue is modest, humble-minded, and always more depressed by what it sees that it cannot do than elated by what it may have done. —Brownson.

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it.