FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 2, 14 January 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

; LEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR ?L'Jan. 18, Sunday—Second Sunday after the ' ' ' Epiphany. .. : v : , „ ID, Monday.—SS. Marias and -CumIW/'^2U; : Tuesday.—SS. Jfaldan - and Sabas- .; A\ ■ "-' "' ; '" ; ' J ' '' thin, Martyrs.' : * ~i 21/, Wednesday.—St. Agues, Virgin and ■ ;'>••: ..... ' ; f i.vr. _"-■■■ " - '' -"„' % 22/ Thursday.—SS. Vincent and Alias- > , • ,- ; , . tii si lis,- Martyrs. „ 23, Friday.—St. Raymuiid of Peniia- "'■■- ; ,.„_...,_. fort, Confessor.. , • -- ;/ 2-1, Saturday,—St.'Timothy, Bishop dud ; . Martyr. ' I ~-.'• «? ■ y viii SS. Fabian and Sebastian, Martyrs. -■■■ ■ St. Fabian was elected Tope in 236,. and : governed the .Church-for fourteen years. His > '.'life, dike "-.. that lof ) so.many 'of the early Popes, was closed by martyrdom. A..!). 250. y ," St. .Sebastian'was an officer of high rank in {■'. ',.the Imperial Guard, sOwing to his virtue! and .courage, he Was much esteemed by the Em- -!. peror -Diocletian,. and was enabled by I lie ; influence thus" acquired to protect numbers ■:-:• v of: his persecuted fellow-Christians. • lie was 'beaten ; to ; death with clubs about the year ..288: ■^'^■•: , '' , ■■St. Vincent'and Aiiastasius, Martyrs. ,-' These.two saints, though commemorated on •the same'day, suffered' fit different: limes ..and in v distant .countries. St. Vincent, a •: deacon, was a native of Spain. Alter en- . : : during torments that are well-nigh incredible, I lie.died of his wouiids at,.Valentia, A. i). 304. y : v St."Anastasius, a Persian monk, after Rav- , ing been- cruelly tortured, - was strangled in ,;_628. . M * - ' .g; ? v • - ■■■::'.-■

~ , ...... GRAINS OF GOLD ' /( -one, single. .SOU&. . ' One- siilgle .soul, Oil! what :is i ts'•- wor ? - , ;llis Heart's last drop Who redeemed the ■ ; ;:r : earth. - ';,[.' <;■■;' ■'?■■.'' "One single soul!'Ah ! 'Saints have died . : ' '^ v To. bring : one soul to the Crucified./ ■' i } ' ";'■•; And ,how many, souls - may be thine, may bo thine, . ;>i ; ... . . And a throne-like that where tlio Seraphs Vu) \> '-shine: ; ; ■ j . ; "While angels in wonder: and envy see ', '. Tire glorious mission God gives to thee. . And if there are times when the human . ■:■■ Is tempted to wish' for .an easier par), ;' v ; v God's life-giving grace forever will be' :■'■-] ■: . Sustaining, supporting, enlightening thee:' , And thy burning work the souls of men - AVill win them, will save them again yet again ; k '.Though'the. Lord of the -harvest would lake ' . for-thy toll ; s^^pd;e-Avork/tlmt, brought thee one single, « .life-work that brought thee one single ■••%•//' ■•"' \ • - —Tkr-Misfiouoty....-