The Spirit And Genius Of St Philip Neri Lectures PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE SECOND. ST. PHILIP THE REPRESENTATIVE SAINT OF MODERN TIMES. I Tried to shew, in my Lecture last night, that the true idea of St. Philip was, that God had given him to the Church as a portrait of Jesus; not in the same sense in which all Saints are likenesses of their Lord and Master, but in a more intimate and significant way, which Catholic generations had already recognised and revered in St. Francis. I said also that he was given in a special way, and with a special mission, to Modern Times. Yesterday, we were simply engaged in drawing out St. Philip's supernaturalness, and his likeness to Jesus; to-day we must look at him as the Representative Saint of Modern Times. 1. In the first place, then, let us ask ourselves what we. mean by the expression "Modern Times," and whether we intend anything more than the fact, that the sixteenth and following centuries come chronologically after the twelfth and following centuries. Now, we are naturally speaking here of the Church, not of the world. It is of course true, that in her essentials the Church never changes; her constitution is divine, and is not therefore subject to the action of time and vicissitude, as merely human communities must be, and as religious sects and triumphant heresies so eminently are. Yet, no one will deny that her lineaments, and her outward physiognomy, change most strikingly; nay more, her interior life as well; and from the very fact that her mission is to interfere with the world, to mould it or to thwart it, it must necessarily be that she should present herself to us under very different appearances. Let a man try to construct in his mind a complete idea of the Church of the Catacombs, and the daily life of its members, and then ask himself whether the...