Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 21, 31 May 1923, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. June 3, Sunday. —Second Sunday after Pentecost. ~ 4, Monday. —St. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor. ~ o, Tuesday. —St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. ~ 6, Wednesday.—-St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor. ~ 7, Thursday. — Octave of Corpus Christi. ~ 8, Friday.— Feast of the Sacred Heart' of Jesus. ~ 9, Saturday. —St. Columba, Abbot. ? St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor. St. Norbert was born in Westphalia in 1080. After giving himself up for a time to a life of ease and worldly pleasure at the court of his cousin, the Emperor Henry IV., he received the -grace of a complete conversion. He was ordained priest, and thenceforward displayed extraordinary zeal in the work of preaching and in the discharge of the other duties of the sacred ministry. He established an Order of monks, called from their.first monastery Premonstratensians, whose special object was to promote among the faithful frequent Communion and regular attendance at Mass. St. Norbert died in 1134, after having governed for over seven years the archiepiscopal see of Magdeburg. Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since the Person of Christ, including His human nature, is the object of divine adoration, the worship which is due to His Person is due to all that is united to His Person. For this reason the Fifth General Council condemned the Nestorians, who introduced two adorations as to two separate natures and to two separate persons. The Council affirms that one adoration is to be offered to the Word united to His humanity. The material object of this divine adoration is Christ, God and man; the formal object or the reason for which this divine adoration is given to Him in both natures is the divinity of the Incarnate Sou. Thus the Sacred .Heart of Jesus, the human heart which the Son of God took from the substance of His Immaculate Mother, is adored with divine worship in heaven and on earth — at the right hand of His Father and in His real presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. “Devotion to the Sacred Heart reveals to us the personal love of Our Divine Redeemer towards each and every one for whom He died. It is a manifestation of His pity, tenderness, compassion, and mercy to sinners and to penitents. Nevertheless its chief characteristic and its dominant note is His disappointment at the return we make to Him for His love.” Cardinal Manning.