Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1915, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR * July 18, Sunday.—Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 19, Monday.— St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. >, 20, Tuesday.—St. Jerome Emilian, Confessor. ~ 21, Wednesday.—St. Praxedes, Virgin. ~ 22, Thursday.— St. Mary Magdalene, Penitent. ~ 23, Friday. —St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr. ~ 24, Saturday.—Vigil of the Feast of St. James. St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. SC Vincent was horn in the South of France. Having been ordained priest, his heart was touched by the state of spiritual destitution in which he found the remoter country districts of France. The remedy for this appeared to him to be a series of retreats or* missions, by which the people might be taught their duties to God and man, and at the same time earnestly exhorted to fulfil them. For this purpose St. Vincent instituted a congregation of priests, popularly known in English-speaking countries as Vincentians. ’ He was also led by a spirit of ardent charity to found numerous hospitals, asylums, and orphanages, and to establish confraternities for the education of youth, the service of the sick, and the relief of the destitute. St. Vincent died in 1660, at the age of 85. St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr. St. Apollinaris, first Bishop of Ravenna, and, according to tradition, a disciple of St. Peter, suffered martyrdom during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, in the first century. GRAINS OF GOLD. FORGET ME NOT. Forget Me not! lis thus My Heart is pleading With you tor whom I tain again would die; Forget Me not! for. oh! this Heart once broken Still loves you from its glorious throne on high. Forget Me not upon the silent altar! Men pass Me by and leave Ale all alone; They've love enough for all, for every other; For Me, their God, their hearts art cold as stone. Forget Me not! for, oh ! I’m ever waiting For friends who will My bitter wrongs atone : Forget Ale not ! tor I am ever craving Devoted hearts who make Aly woes their own. Forget not in thy trials of dark sorrow There is a home for thee — thy Saviour’s breast : Be comforted, the day is ever nearing When thou wilt there find thine eternal rest. ixft'to nan/. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. God gives us just so much of health, of wealth, of friends, as is best for us: He afflicts us only when it is for our good. —Cardinal Newman. A virtuous life may lie under more burdens than a free-and-easy one, but it is supported by all the strength of charity and religion, and these burdens are delightful. What the world calls heroism and sacrifice in the lives of Catholic Sisterhoods is with them simply corref spending to the grace of vocation. It is God’s will manifested in their lives. Man may work, but if he is to work with success he must work in God s way. When you wish to erect a mill, you study to erect it so that Nature herself shall work for you and drive your machinery. In morals you must follow the same method, only you are here to seek to avail yourself not of nature but of grace. You must work, but you must work to let God Himself work in and for you.-