One of St Philip Neri’s great texts is the Maxims and Sayings for Every Day of the Year. In this book, St Philip provides a short saying about the Christian life for every day of the calendar year. This week’s maxims can be found below.
| 13th October |
It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbour, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good which the Lord is working by the hand of another.
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| 14th October |
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
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| 15th October |
To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him.
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| 16th October |
We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbours.
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| 17th October |
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.
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| 18th October |
The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ.
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| 19th October |
He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring. |