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Saint of the Month | May 2013: St Philip Neri

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St. Philip Neri

The Joyful Saint


St. Philip Neri is known as the Joyful Saint. He lived in Rome in the 1500s, and started a group called the Oratory to help lay people and priests become closer to Jesus. He helped people overcome their faults by making them laugh!

Fr. Philip knew how important careful speech is. One day a man came to him and told him he was having trouble because he could not stop saying bad things about other people. Fr. Philip told him to take a big bag of feathers and go up on the roof. He told him to open the bag and shake the feathers out. When the man did this, the feathers were caught by the wind and blew far and wide throughout town. Fr. Philip then told the man to go and collect every feather. The man looked at him in dismay. Fr. Philip said, “Bad words are like feathers. Once they are out of the bag, they spread to all corners of town, and can never be taken back again!”


Mary, help me to think and speak carefully!

 

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