St. Philip Neri said.....

Post by **Denise** » Sat Oct 06, 2018 7:54 am

"Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise which we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:00 am

"He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:48 am

"Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God's children than their own; and to count life and health, and all they possess, as loans which they hold of God."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:20 am

"In saying the Pater Noster, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on making a sort of meditation of it word by word."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:48 am

"To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves, 'And then? And then?'"

Post by **Denise** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:53 am

"The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:23 am

"We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:43 am

"It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good which the Lord is working by the hand of another."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:06 am

"At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:42 am

"To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him."

Johnna · Post by **Johnna** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:36 am

Post by **Denise** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:30 am

"We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:17 am

"We must accept our own death and that of our relations when God shall send it to us, and not desire it at any other time; for it is sometimes necessary that it should happen at that particular moment for the good of our own and their souls."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:22 am

"The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Oct 19, 2018 7:56 am

"He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring."