Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR ’June 8, Sunday.-Feast of Pentecost. ~ 9, Monday. Monday. ~10, Tuesday.—Whit Tuesday. ~ 11, Wednesday.—Of the Octave. Ember Day. Fast. ~ 12, Thursday.—Of the Octave. ~ 13, Friday.—Of the Octave. Ember Day. Fast. ~ 14, Saturday.—Of the Octave. Ember Day. Fast, no abstinence. The Feast of Pentecost. "* On this day, in accordance with the promise of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Adorable Trinity, descended on the Apostles. “This day,” Butler remarks, “is the birthday of the Church. Christ had indeed begun to form His Church during His ministry on earth, when He assembled His disciples, selected His Apostles, and placed St. Peter at their head. But by the descent' of the Holy Ghost He completed His Revelation, and gave to His Apostles a special and extraordinary assistance, by which they were directed and preserved from all error in teaching. He thus, as it were, infused a soul into His mystical body—the Church—and endowed it with a vigorous principle of life and action. From this time its rulers, ministers, and officers, being completely commissioned and qualified, by the miraculous effusion of the Holy Ghost, set themselves to exercise their respective functions in governing and propagating the spiritual kingdom of Christ, which was then perfectly settled and established.” GRAINS OP GOLD. LITANY OF THE SACRED HEART. O, Heart by men so little known ; Heart left forgotten and alone. To us Thy pity sweet be shown, .1/ her ere, nobis / O, Heart so humble and so meek ; Heart waiting long, that we may seek; 0, silent Heart, to us now speak: Miserere, nobis! O, Heart which we would fain console, Shield us beneath Thy vast control ; Be Thou for us our only Goal ; Miserere, nobis! We would with Thee ourselves unite, And worthy be within Thy sight; All humble we before Thy might, Miserere, nobis! Grant us to live that we may be As haying life, alone, in Thee, That heav'nly joys one day we see: Miserere, nobis! Amadeus, O.S.F. REFLECTIONS. h Do not stop to examine the evils which others do, but think only of the good that you should do yourself. A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants a kindness gathers love. Minds are sometimes more impressed by the example of a faithful soul than by work of doctrine. —St. Gregory. Since the King of Heaven allowed His Holy Mother to suffer anguish of heart, then suffering must be a blessing. To suffer with love is the purest happiness.