Gaudete Semper – Rejoice Always
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 [...]
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 [...]
