FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

GLEANINGS . FOR NEXT WEEK'S I ' ',%.,-. ■ ■■: CALENDAR. -V. ( , -• r -,' /'March-8,.-Sun.—Second Sunday,: of Lent, - St. X yy . .-,.. .'..'■ , . ; ...John of God. Confessor. *'£~\ " '*' Moil. —St. Frances.of Home. Widow. W/.'i 10, Tue.-The Forty Martyrs of Sobasto '"' . „ 11," Wed.— the Feria. \ '", ~ 12, Thur. —St. 'Gregory the -Great. ' Pope, Confessor, and Doctor. ~ 13, Fri.—Of the Feria. -.. „ 11, Sat,—Of the Feria. ...... -■ The. Forty Martyrs of Sabaste. . These holy mortyrs were soldiers from different countries, but serving in the same •troop. By order of the Governor"of Armenia., they were exposed naked, in the depth of winter, on. a frozen-pond in the neighborhood " 'of Sebastc, A.I). 320. St. Gregory the Great, Pope, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Gregory was born in Rome about the L year 510. in SSX) he endeavored in vain to decline, the dignity of Supreme Pontiff, to which he was elected on the death of Pelagius 11. In the calamities which befell Italy in ; consequence of the invasion of the Lombards, in distress. He was most sucessful in maintaining the purity of Catholic doctrine in - some of the countries -where heresies had ; " arisen. In 597 he sent a number of monks, with St. Austin at their head, to preach the Gospel in England. He died in 604, ....having by his eminent holiness, great erudition, and illustrious achievements earned for ! himself the title of "The Great." Hf; * ■'■ •--••.. : [

i GRAINS OF GOLD ; : . " TO THE SACKED HEART/ "' ' (4, Heart! where human sorrows find . An echo and a bain} combined, . : Bo with us in this weary way That men call life, Oh, he my stay Teach me to bear misfortune's stings, • The agony of little things, The thorns in duty's pathway spread, : Thai wear the' heart, like tears unshed; Oh! lift nit', up, till 1 can see ' Naught, but. Thine, own Divinity, v Help 1110. O God ! when I must bear , Heart-aches that Thou alone canst .share. 1 Unworthy of Thy faintest sigh, , To Thee I cry! lo Thee 1 cry (Jive me Thy Love I Give me Thy Love! I Oh! let. niy life be spent above . Earth's sordid (-ares! Ob, lei me be Thine, most Sacred Heart, eternally. Amen. I REFLECTIONS. 1 \ « \k Do not fix your eyes 011 temptation—look ;• solely on Our Lord. .' . Divert .your mind with any right and healthy occupation-, for if that takes possession, and fills your thoughts, it will drive away temptations and evil imagination. —St. Francis do Sales. ?« It was not Christ's death, but His freely dying, which was pleasing to God. —St. '.Bernard. 1,. ■• -.--.. ..... ,-.