Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 18 August 1921, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. August 21, Sunday. Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 22, Monday.—Octave of the Assumption. ~ 23, Tuesday.—St. Philip Beniti, Confessor. ~ 24, Wednesday.—St. Bartholomew, Apostle. ~ 25, Thursday.—St. Louis, King and Confessor. ~ 26, Friday.—St. Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr. ~ 27, Saturday.—St. Joseph Calasanctius, Confessor. St. Philip Beniti, Confessor. St. Philip Beniti, a priest of the Servite Order, was born at Florence about the beginning of the thirteenth century. He was remarkable for his extreme humility, which caused him to refuse all offices of distinction, and for a burning zeal, which brought about the conversion of innumerable sinners in the different parts of Italy which he visited. He died in 1285, 1 St. Bartholomew, Apostle. After the Ascension of Our Blessed Lord, St. Bartholomew carried the Gospel to the most remote and barbarous countries of the East. He afterwards preached in Asia Minor, and crowned his labors by a glorious martyrdom in Armenia. The manner of his death is not absolutely certain but the common tradition is that he was flayed alive. St. Joseph Calasanctius, Confessor. ' St. Joseph was born in the Kingdom of Aragon, in Spain. From his youth, and especially after becoming a priest, he felt a great attraction for the instruction of children. Having gone to Rome, he devoted himself almost entirely to his work. He died in 1648, in his 92nd year, after having founded a religious congregation, which had for its special object the education of the young, but particularly of the poorer classes. GRAINS OF GOLD MATER AM AT A. Most loving Mother, robed in white, For thee the swinging stars are bright; Yet down Life’s labyrinth of pain, What sinner calls to thee in vain ? Through thy calm eyes the blind have sight. The world plucks men with master-might, The River Vice runs swift by night; Keep thou my soul immune from stain, Most loving Mother! Within this House of God’s Delight, Before thee pass, inhappy flight, Angelic wings; but I would fain Rise up,and with 1 earth’s sinners rain Child-kisses on thee in my plight, Most loving Mother! —J. Corson Miller, in Are Maria. REFLECTIONS. He can no longer have God for a 'Father who has not the Church for a Mother. —St. Cyprian. Do not imagine that the Kingdom of Heaven is only for monks and hermits. —St. Hugh. As charity is afraid to meet evil, so she never : seeks after it; but whenever it falls in her way she turns her face aside, and does not notice it.—St. Francis de Sales. The first step necessary for a Christian is to be humble. —St. Augustine. Four-score-and-six V&rs have I served Christ, and He hath done me no wrong; how can I now blaspheme my King and my Saviour.”—St. Polycarp. ' A psalm is the soul’s fair weather. . . For children safety, for old men a consolation, for women a convenient adornment.—St. Basil. / . Let us have always ,in ourselves a tabernacle and a home for Him Who is the Lord God most mighty,. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Francis of Assisi.