St. Philip Neri said.....

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"He who wishes to attain to perfection must have no attachment to anything."

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"It is a good thing to leave the world and our possessions to serve God, but it is not enough."

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"The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love."

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"Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds."

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Happy Feast Day, St. Philip Neri! May 26th

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"The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise."

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"If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must practice humility and obedience."

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"The fruit we ought to get from prayer, is to do what is pleasing to the Lord."

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"A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues."

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"Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: Obedience! Humility! Detachment!"

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"The love which our Blessed Lady had for God was so great, that she suffered keenly through her desire of union with Him; hence the Eternal Father, to console her, sent her His only and beloved Son."

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"If you wish to come where I am going, that is, to glory, you must come this road, that is, through thorns."

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"Before communion, we ought to exercise ourselves in many acts of virtue."

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"Prayer and communion are not to be made or desired for the sake of the devotion we feel in them, for that is seeking self, and not God; but we must be frequent in both the one and the other in order to become humble, obedient, gentle, and patient."

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"When we see these virtues--humility, obedience, gentleness, and patience--in a man, then we know that he has really gathered the fruit of prayer and of communion."