Gaudete Semper – Rejoice Always
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 23rd, 2011
–May 23–
Philip’s Patience
PHILIP was for years and years the butt and laughing-stock of all the hangers-on of the great palaces of the nobility at Rome, who said all the bad of him that came into their heads, because they did not like to see a virtuous and conscientious man.
This sarcastic talk against him lasted for years [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 22nd, 2011
–May 22–Philip’s Cheerfulness
PHILIP welcomed those who consulted him with singular benignity, and received them, though strangers, with as much affection as if he had been a long time expecting them. When he was called upon to be merry, he was merry; when he was called upon to feel sympathy with the distressed, he was equally ready.
Sometimes [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 21st, 2011
–May 21–Philip’s Tenderness of Heart
PHILIP could not endure the very sight of suffering; and though he abhorred riches, he always wished to have money to give in alms.
He could not bear to see children scantily clothed, and did all he could to get new clothes for them.
Oppressed and suffering innocence troubled him especially; when a Roman [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 19th, 2011
–May 20–Philip’s Purity
PHILIP well knowing the pleasure which God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 19th, 2011
–May 19–Philip’s Exercise of Prayer
FROM very boyhood the servant of God gave himself up to prayer, until he acquired such a habit of it, that, wherever he was, his mind was always lifted up to heavenly things.
Sometimes he forgot to eat; sometimes, when he was dressing, he left off, being carried away in his thought [...]
