Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 27, 12 July 1923, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR. July 15, Sunday.—Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. „ 16, Monday.—Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. „ 17, Tuesday.St. Alexius, Confessor. ~ 18, Wednesday, Camillus do Lellis, Confessor. „ 19, Thursday.—St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. „ 20, Friday.St. Jerome Amillian, Confessor. ~ 21, Saturday.St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent. < S 3 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. St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent. Of the few who stood by the Cross of Our Saviour, one was Mary Magdalen, a woman who, previous to her conversion, had lived a worldly, if not a sinful, life. An old tradition states that after the Ascension she went to France, where she spent many years of solitude and austerity. She is put before us by the Church as the model of a perfect penitent. ❖WWW Grains of Gold THE NUPTIAL DAY. To-day I met the.bridegroom, In His Nuptial robe of red, With wounds on His hands and feet, And thorns on His sacred head. His heart was full of mercy, This I could plainly see, And I heard His voice calling, "My child, come follow Me The cross My greatest treasure, This day I give to thee If thou wilt deny thyself, And come and follow Me. The path will lead to Calv'ry, Where the Holy Cross once stood, Where Mary's heart was broken, Where did flow the Precious Blood. Remain at the foot of the cross, If My love you wish to gain, For should you seek Me elsewhere, You will seek for Me in vain. What could I tell my Saviour, Or what could I ask for more, Than to kneel beneath the cross, , - And His Precious Blood adore.

REFLECTIONS. > Paradise was not made for cowards.—St. Philip Neri. i All sins displease God, but especially those of the flesh and covetousness. —St. Philip Neri. He then follows Christ, who treads in His Commandments, who follow His footsteps and pathways, who imitates \hat which Christ both did and taught.St. Cyprian.