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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 3, 21 January 1925, Page 3

. FRIENDS AT COURT . S GLEANINGS ; FOR NEXT WEEK’S OALENDAE \ i "vJan. 25,, Sunday.—Third Sunday after Epiphany . . '• %>}~ 26, Monday.—St. Polycarp, Bishop and f""' 'jj f • Martyr. i ~ 27, Tuesday.St. John Chrysostom, Bi- - -j f . , shop, Confessor, and Doctor. '■,%)) 28,' Wednesday. St. Agnes, Virgin and. ■ .y-' ' Martyr.- (Second Feast.) 3 , 29, Thursday.—St. Francis de Sales, , Bishop, Confessor, and Doc- / tor. ~ 30, Friday.—St. Martina, Virgin and A A , Martyr. • | ~ 31, Saturday.St. Peter Nolasco, ConN- - fessor. 9 | St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr, I : St. Polycarp, a disciple of St. John the Evangelist, governed the important See of Smyrna. for 70 years. He is believed to have been the .angel or Bishop of Smyrna commended by Our Blessed Lord in the Apocalypse (chap. ii.). He .was martyred in 169, being; then about 100 years of age. St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. • St. John, surnamed Chrysostom, or the golden-mouthed, 7 on account of his eloquence, was. born in Syria, A.D. -344. At first a lawyer, he afterwards became a priest, and was subsequently elected Archbishop of Constantinople.; Undeterred by human respect, 'p, be boldly denounced the vices of the Im- ■( perial court, thus making for himself many , powerful enemies, at whose instance he was - banished to , a remote district situated to theeast of the' Black Sea. The saint never - reached; his destination. Worn out by theexhausting journey, he died in Armenia v A.D. 407. r | St. Martina, Virgin and Martyr. St. Martina is one of the principal patrons' of Rome, where she suffered martyrdom in the third century. It is to be regretted that but little is known of her life and sufferings. j GRAINS OF GOLD j ; ' A WISH. How I could lie for long, long dreamy hours, My roof-tree but the cloud-flecked sunlit sky, My couch a bed of brown' leaves dead and P 'I dry, t ~V, ' • My treasure but a handful of fall flowers I How I could lie and think, - and think, of ",A Thee, : i . ■■ /, irr - ;' : uForgetting all the worry . and the , grief, : Refreshing all my soul in that belief That Thou art God and that Thou lovest me. \ , . . There seems so little pause in this wild race,. v: There, seems, so little pause,in this wild - race, . Tnls rush of labor with attendant pain, ! Ypt surely.' work and suffering are vain ■ If we forget our goal, the ; Holy Face. t