In No Strange Land: The Embodied Mysticism of Saint Philip Neri by Jonathan Robinson

Author:Jonathan Robinson [Robinson, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621381341
Amazon: 162138134X
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2015-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

He was chaste. Moreover, the love of money and ambition had played no part in his youth. But he felt an attraction to religion which, at the moment when circumstances were urging him towards worldly affairs, tore his soul in both directions. Between the career held out to him by his uncle Romolo, and which he looked upon as a brilliant one, and the gift of himself to Our Lord, he could not decide immediately, as the Apostles had done at the call of Jesus.18

But if there was a conversion, of whatever sort, and if Philip was slow to put into practice what this change of heart demanded, then an extended period of time would have been required. Philip, unlike the Apostles, did not answer immediately Christ’s call to follow him.19 The tradition, which goes back to Bacci, that Philip spent a substantial time at San Germano fits much better with his case. Bacci says that Philip’s decision to renounce his inheritance and leave his rich relation was something that grew on him as a result of “retiring for prayer and meditation on the Passion of his Lord”:

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