The Daily Philip: Saturday July 26
The Daily Philip: Saturday July 26
The Daily Philip is a devotion of prayer to the Patron Saint of Joy, St.Philip Neri, led by Fr. Malone, parochial vicar of Christ the Redeemer Parish
in Swift Current.
This devotion has four parts: (1) a dailyprayer for a particular virtue, based on the day of the week, to which Pope Pius IX has attached an indulgence (dated May 17, 1852,); (2) a reading from The Life of St. Philip Neri,Apostle of Rome; (3) a quote from The Maxims and Counsels of St.Philip Neri; and (4) the daily prayer for a good death.
For Saturday
Prayer to obtain perseverance in good works.
St. Philip, my holy Patron, who, ever constant ingood works and full of merit, didst receive from Most High God the crown of
glory in reward of all thy labours; obtain for me grace never to weary in His
service. St. Philip, who didst recompense those who loved thee by
acquiring for them the gift of perseverance in good, ask of God this gift for
me; stand by me, dear father, at the last moment of my life, and pray for me
that I may depart this life strengthened with the grace of theHoly Sacraments. Meanwhile intercede for me, that I may do penance for my
sins, and deplore them bitterly all my days. St. Philip, who from on high
beholdest all my miseries, and the chains which yet bind me to my sins and to
this earth; pray for me that I may be liberated from them, and be constantly
devoted to my God. Obtain for me an ardent desire to co-operate in my own
salvation, and unshaken firmness in the good which I have begun; that so by thy
intercession I may deserve to be for ever in thy company in an eternity of bliss.
Pater, Ave, Gloria.
Prayer to be said daily, for a good death.
O glorious Saint Philip, faithful helper of thydying children, be thou my father and protector in the hour of my death. Let
not the devil overcome me; let not temptation oppress me, nor fear overwhelm me
in that hour; but grant through thy intercession that, fortified by faith,
hope, and charity, I may bear all things with patience and perseverance, and
may happily die the death of the just. Amen.