Gaudete Semper – Rejoice Always
Posted in Oratorians on Feb 17th, 2012
REDNAL BENEFIT
Saturday, February 25, 6:30pm, Oratory
Join in our annual evening of celebration that supports our Ligonier retreat house. The evening will include dinner, a raffle of nationality gift baskets, and the raffle of three grand prizes: a $1,000 gift certificate to Nordstrom’s department store, a $500 gift certificate to Henne Jewelers, and a $200 gift [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 25th, 2011
–May 25–Philip’s Miraculous Gifts
PHILIP’S great and solid virtues were crowned and adorned by the divine Majesty with various and extraordinary favours, which he in vain used every artifice, if possible, to [...]
Posted in Congregation, Oratorians, Prayer on May 24th, 2011
–May 24–Philip’s Care for the Salvation of Souls
WHEN he was a young priest, and had gathered about him a number of spiritual persons, his first wish was to go with them all to preach the gospel to the heathen [...]
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 [...]
