Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 8 September 1921, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. September 11, Sunday.—Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. 0 12, Monday.—Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. ~ 13, Tuesday.—Of the Feria. „ 14, Wednesday.—Exaltation of the Holy Cross. „ 15, Thursday.—Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ~ 16, Friday.—SS. Cornelius and Cyprian, Martyrs.- ~ 17, Saturday.—Stigmata of St. Francis, Confessor. cfe tk jfe Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On this day we commemorate the recovery of the True Cross, which was left at Jerusalem by St. Helena, and which, having been carried off by the invading Persians, was regained by the Emperor Heraclius in 628, , it sb Stigmata of St. Francis. God, not content with enriching His saints interiorly with every grace, has also vouchsafed to bestow on certain of them external signs of their conformity to their Crucified Lord, by miraculously, imprinting on their bodies the marks of His five Sacred Wounds. One of those who were favored with this extraordinary grace was the seraphic St. Francis of Assisi. * A A

SS. Cornelius and Cyprian, Martyrs. These two saints were contemporaries and friends. . St. Cornelius was elected to succeed Pope Fabian in 251. During his Pontificate, the Church had to contend not only with the persecution of the Emperor Decius, but also with the internal disturbances excited by the heretic Novatian. In 252, St. Cornelius was banished to Civita Vecchia, Brought back to Rome in the same year, ho I there gained the crown of martyrdom. St. Cyprian was ■ verging on old age when converted from paganism. He was consecrated Bishop of Carthage in 248. During 10 years he labored unceasingly to promote the spiritual interests of his flock. He was the author of several treatises on doctrinal and devotional subjects. He was martyred during the persecution of Valerian in 258.

<A<X><><>AA<XK> GRAINS OF GOLD mater purissima. When I think long of Him What He may be, My dreams in twilight dim * Wander to thee,— How thou, so calm and mild. Hast sung or wept, And kist thy Holy Child While soft He slept; How then those gentle Soho's Kisses and tears * ’ M a keel pity for the wrongs And grief of the years. For a song in an infant's heart ; Ur dream uncurled, V In the man’s soul hath its part Jo save the world. !■.' - Wherefore we deem it meet 0 Star of the Sea,* ” Madonna pure and sweet V • t To reverence thee! r —W. H. Hamilton of Gauldrv, in Arc Marin.

J: REFLECTIONS. A true orator does not rely upon the beauty and an- : propnateness of his word, his words derive their value from him.—St. Augustine. #•' If »-f ««> Christ’s heirs, let us abide in the peace of Ghnst; i"„ m . Sons of God we ought to bo peacermakers. —St. Cyprian.