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Saints
Feb 16, 2024 17:35:19 GMT
Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Feb 16, 2024 17:35:19 GMT
At present the Secular Oratory at St Kevin's meets every first Sunday afternoon of the month in the church hall - Vespers and Benediction in the church are followed by prayers and a talk (in a series) on the life of St Philip Neri. A few months back the talk included some anecdotes about the tricks St Philip played on his disciples to teach them humility. One of these involved sending a disciple with a very large vessel to buy a very small amount of wine with inconvenient change, and leaving him to face the increasingly indignant wineseller. Now it seems to me that whatever its benefits to the soul of the disciple, this was very unfair to the wineseller, who was given a great deal of trouble and distraction. I'm not saying that St Philip was not a saint, or that he acted wrongly in this instance (he may have been acting on knowledge not included in the account). What I am saying is that the fact that something was done by a saint does not automatically make it appropriate for imitation. At one stage, I worked in retail. I know exactly how the wineseller felt and it does St Philip no credit.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Feb 20, 2024 17:51:53 GMT
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