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The Maxims of St. Philip Neri

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A translation of the "Ricordi e Detti di San Filippo Neri", published at Turin. Translated into Engli PREFACE. Farewell.”

F.W. FABER. St. Wilfrid’s,
Feast of St.

The following pages are a translation of the Ricordi e Detti di San Filippo Neri, published at Turin. Their purpose cannot be better de scribed than in the words of the Italian editor: “It was the aim and study of the holy father, Philip Neri, to introduce among Christians a daily spiritual repast. His children, who have drunk of the spirit of their holy father, have always sought to cultivate thi

s custom of a spiritual repast among devout persons; and among the plans which they have tried, and the practices they have introduced, one, gentle reader, is a collection of the sayings and doings of the Saint, distributed into the number of the days of the year, to the end that every one might have each day, either a maxim to meditate upon, or a virtue to copy. The method of using these sayings and doings, is to read only one of them each day, and that the one set apart for the current day, (for to read more would not be food but curiosity,) and then to regulate the actions of the day by that maxim or example. I am sure that by doing this you will reap an abundant harvest, especially if to the maxim or example you add some particular devotion to the Saint who was the author of it. I think it useless to make any long commendation of this practice; but it is well you should know that by the daily suggestion of such truths, the fruit which the saint obtained in Rome was immense; and so also will it be in your soul if you practise it in a true spirit of devotion. Bridget, 1847.

04/03/2019

4th March: St. Casimir

The sweetness which some experience in prayer, is milk which our Lord gives as a relish to those who are just beginning to serve Him.

03/03/2019

3rd March: Quinquagesima

A man ought never to think he has done any good, or rest contented with any degree of perfection he may have attained, because Christ has given us the type of our perfection, in putting before us the perfection of the Eternal Father. Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.

02/03/2019

2nd March: Our Lady on Saturday

When a spiritual person feels a great calmness of mind in asking anything of God, it is a good sign that God either has granted it, or will do so shortly.

01/03/2019

1st March: feria

We must never pray for a favour for anyone, except conditionally, saying, “If it please God,” or the like.

28/02/2019

28th February: feria

We must exercise the spirit which God gives us in prayer, and follow that; so that, when, for example, it inclines us to meditate on the Passion, we must not wish to meditate on some other mystery.

27/02/2019

27th February: St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin

We can never arrive at the contemplative life, if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life.

26/02/2019

26th February: feria

The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification, is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged.

25/02/2019

25th February: St Matthew, Apostle (transferred)

A most excellent means of learning how to pray, is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord.

24/02/2019

24th February: Sexagesima

The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all.

23/02/2019

23rd February: St. Peter Damian, Confessor Bishop & Doctor of the Church

A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason.

22/02/2019

22nd February: The Chair of St. Peter at Antioch

An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults, is to say every evening, “To-morrow I may be dead.”

21/02/2019

21st February

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

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