Maxims and Sayings of St. Philip Neri

St. Philip Neri, pray for us. Source of maxims.

Monday, May 12 Scruples are an infirmity that will make a truce with a man, but very rarely peace; humility alone achieves victory over them. Liturgy     Sts. Nereus and Achilleus — St. Pancras

Virgin Mary, Mother of God

Maxims from September 7 and 8

To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.”

When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady, we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of MARY, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name JESUS, the fruit of her most pure womb.