FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 49, 9 December 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

p j GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S > I ] i CALENDAR. Dec. 13, Sun. —Third Sunday in Advent. y-'jl: ~ 14, Mon.Of the Octave of the ImJ : ] maculate Conception. * !j ~ 15, Tue. —Octave of the Immaculate r! jj.... Conception. ; „ 16, Wed. —St. Eusebius, Bishop and !; Martyr. Ember, Day. Fast «: and . Abstinence. ~ 17, Thur. —Of.the Feria. ~ IS, Friday.—Of the Feria. Ember Day. Fast and Abstinence. ~ 19, Sat. —Vigil of St. Thomas Apostle. Ember Day. Fast. ¥ St. Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr. St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, was born in Sardinia, in 283, and died at Vercelli, Piedmont, on August 1, 371. He was made rector at Rome, where he lived some time, probably as a member, or head, of a religious community. Later he came to Vercellae, the present Vercelli, and in 340 was unanimously elected Bishop of that city by the clergy and the people. He received episcopal consecration at the hands of Pope Julius I, on December 15, of the same year. According to the testimony of St. Ambrose, he was the first Bishop of the West who united monastic with clerical life. He led with the clergy of his city a common life, modelled upon that of the Eastern cenobites. For this reason the Canons Regular of St. Augustine honor him along with St. Augnsi tine as their founder. '+■ ' \ GRAINS OF GOLD DIVINE PROTECTION. Encamped, the soldiers of the King, About the mountain lay, To seize the Prophet, and in chains To bear him swift away. The Saint’s young servant cried in fear: “Oh! now what shall we dor'* “Nay, nay, for us there are far more Than all this host in view.” , The Seer then prayed unto the Lord: “Dispel, 0 God, his dread.” The prayer was heard, and from the you I h Straightway his terror fled. He saw the mountain all ablaze With Cherubim who rode In fiery chariots, rank on rank; Sunlike, their armor glowed. Thus heavenly warriors gird us round From foes to guard us 1 well , And when Faith opes our eyes to see, We mock the host of hell . M. J . Watson, S.J., in Pearls from Holy || Scripture for our Little'Ones. !L’ If you find anyone determined to talk A failure and illness and misfortune ; and disV aster, away. You would not permit the dearest person on earth to administer slow poison- to you if you knew it. Then why think it your duty to take mental foods which ‘paralyse your courage and kill your , happiness t ."V.-