Lectio et Oratio

Lectio et Oratio

By Fr Michael Eades of the Toronto OratoryReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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Lectio et Oratio episodes

  • Episode 166 -- Life of St Philip XIV.166 -- Combining Humility and Magnaminity
    Did St Philip ask to resign from being Provost?Yes. We read about St Philip's decision to resign as the head of the Oratory. We read about his motivations. We read about the efforts to make him change his mind.Last episode we read about St Philip and prayer. We read about the way the devil tries to get us to stop praying. But there are also temptations from within ourselves and from outside ourselves that seek to keep us from God. We have to pray to want to pray!
    10 min
  • Episode 166 -- Life of St Philip XIV.166 -- Combining Humility and Magnaminity

    Did St Philip ask to resign from being Provost?

    Yes. We read about St Philip's decision to resign as the head of the Oratory. We read about his motivations. We read about the efforts to make him change his mind.

    Last episode we read about St Philip and prayer. We read about the way the devil tries to get us to stop praying. But there are also temptations from within ourselves and from outside ourselves that seek to keep us from God. We have to pray to want to pray!

    10 min
  • Episode 165 -- Life of St Philip XIV.165 -- Joy and Peace and Prayer

    Did the devil ever try to stop St Philip from praying?

    Yes. We read about a little tactic the devil used to keep St Philip from praying. You might call it a dirty trick! We also read about a young wife who was very sick just after giving birth. Her husband persisted in getting St Philip to visit her. This story helps us see that while the devil tries to hinder prayer, other people can help us get closer to God.

    11 min
  • Episode 165 -- Life of St Philip XIV.165 -- Joy and Peace and Prayer
    Did the devil ever try to stop St Philip from praying? Yes. We read about a little tactic the devil used to keep St Philip from praying. You might call it a dirty trick! We also read about a young wife who was very sick just after giving birth. Her husband persisted in getting St Philip to visit her. This story helps us see that while the devil tries to hinder prayer, other people can help us get closer to God.
    11 min
  • Episode 164 -- Life of St Philip XIV.164. -- Dealing With Scruples

    We read about a friend of St Philip with scruples. Scruples are not just doubts or difficulties. Scruples are a spiritual condition that even saints in their early days went through, for example, St Francis de Sales and Bl. Anthony Grassi. Scruples involves seeing evil where there is no evil. A scrupulous person is always afraid that he or she has done something sinful. Scruples will cause a kind of spiritual paralysis. They leave a person without peace. Scruples are a terrible affliction that require, usually, a spiritual father to guide a person through. St Philip was given great graces to help those with scruples. He knew that one of the best remedies is to manifest to others what kinds of thoughts we are having.

    8 min
  • Episode 164 -- Life of St Philip XIV.164. -- Dealing With Scruples
    We read about a friend of St Philip with scruples. Scruples are not just doubts or difficulties. Scruples are a spiritual condition that even saints in their early days went through, for example, St Francis de Sales and Bl. Anthony Grassi. Scruples involves seeing evil where there is no evil. A scrupulous person is always afraid that he or she has done something sinful. Scruples will cause a kind of spiritual paralysis. They leave a person without peace. Scruples are a terrible affliction that require, usually, a spiritual father to guide a person through. St Philip was given great graces to help those with scruples. He knew that one of the best remedies is to manifest to others what kinds of thoughts we are having.
    8 min
  • Episode 163 -- Life of St Philip XIV.163 -- Instantaneous Healings of Body and Soul

    When St Philip was sick, did he ever ask some of his penitents to wait until he got better to go to confession?

    Yes. We read about a forty day fever that St Philip had. During that time, some of his normal penitents went to other confessors. But there was a group of young men that St Philip asked to wait. He asked them not to confess to another priest, but to be patient. Why would St Philip do this? What lesson can we learn from this on the first day of the year?

    11 min
  • Episode 163 -- Life of St Philip XIV.163 -- Instantaneous Healings of Body and Soul
    When St Philip was sick, did he ever ask some of his penitents to wait until he got better to go to confession? Yes. We read about a forty day fever that St Philip had. During that time, some of his normal penitents went to other confessors. But there was a group of young men that St Philip asked to wait. He asked them not to confess to another priest, but to be patient. Why would St Philip do this? What lesson can we learn from this on the first day of the year?
    11 min
  • Episode 162 -- Life of St Philip XIV.162 -- Preparing for the End
    We read about St Philip's awareness that death was imminent for certain people. St Philip wanted people to ponder the mystery of death. We know that Christ took upon himself this consequence of original sin and transformed it into the path to his Father in heaven. Let us thank God for any way in which he has helped me appreciate how close our own deaths are.
    10 min

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St Philip Neri in the 16th century would gather those each day who were desirous of seeking Christian perfection. He would read from a spiritual book and then discourse on the meaning of what was…