Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1919, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. July 13, Sunday.—Fifth . Sunday after Pentecost. - ~ 14, Monday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. ~ 15, Tuesday.-—St. Henry, Emperor. ~ 16, Wednesday.—Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount ■■ ‘ Carmel. .; - ~ 17, Thursday.—St. Alexius, Confessor. ~ 18, Friday. St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. „ 19, Saturday.—St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. St. Camillus was a native of the kingdom of Naples. Having embraced the military profession, he "soon found himself reduced by his gambling propensities to the direst distress. Poverty became for him, through the Providence of God, the occasion of his conversion. Thenceforward he devoted himself to the care of the sick and dying, and for this purpose established a religious Order, • the members of which are known as “Ministers of the Sick.” St. Camillus died in Rome in 1614, at the age of 65.

St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor.

St. Vincent was born 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, in which the Eternal Truths might be taught in a clear and vivid manner. For this purpose he instituted a Congregation of Priests, popularly known in English-speaking countries as Vincentians. Spurred on by his ardent charity, he founded many asylums, hospitals, and orphanages, and established confraternities for the education of children, the care of the sick, and the relief of the destitute. St. Vincent died in 1660, at the age of 85.

GRAINS OF GOLD MATER AMABILIS. O Mary Queen, what fair similitude May best befit thy soul’s most high estate? We hail thee House of God and Heaven’s Gate, The Virgin Bride whom very God hath wooed ; Yet naming thee, all speech grows harsh and rude. What human words are handmaids meet to wait On that divine, unshared “Immaculate,” O Lady, with all loveliness endued

"Seek not," she saith, " 'mid angels' eloquence My fairest name : 'tis writ upon earth's page, The purest melody of human ken. It holds the vision of young innocence, And sunset-tinted memories of age; For I am Mother' unto God and men."

Sister Mary Benvenuta.

REFLECTIONS, God converses with : man in - prayer, and reveals many things between a Pater and an Ave.—Father Oliphant, S. J. No one is so blind to his own faults as a . man who has the habit of detecting the faults of others. Faber. The Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of Christ to men ior tne salvation of their souls because she recognises the dignity of man.;';: . .'■Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly -his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. r

It is only the little kindnesses that one can do that really abide : it .is only the people one associates with some little kindness that one is sure to recall in retrospect. . - v-^-51-^_^^