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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45924	The institutions of the Congregation of the Oratory, at St. Maries in Vallicella, within the city of Rome. Founded by St. Philip Nerius	Congregation of the Oratory. Santa Maria in Vallicella (Church : Rome, Italy)	1687 (1687)	Wing I233A; ESTC R215995	48,632	109

the season and lastly some pious song set to the musick is sung After this one of our Priests as it happens to be his turn to preach with as much profit and plainness as may be dispenseth to the people present the word of God for half an hour after that the musick again then they pray to God in the usual form thrice salute the Virgin Mother and so the Assembly is dismissed The employments of the Strangers in the Oratory Out of the Strangers who are Brethren of the Oratory first the Prefect chooseth a Rector to oversee the offices of the rest two or four Sacristans or Keepers to sweep the Oratory light the Lamps and Candles take care of the disciplines Clock and dressing the Altar Likewise two or four tenders of the sick who are to visit the Brothers that are ill some are also chosen faithfully and carefully to dispose of the mony voluntarily offered either for the benefit of the sick Brothers or of the Hospitals or of the Oratory and they are by no means to receive any unless they know it be freely offered observing that of the Apostle Non vestra sed vos Not yours but You. One likewise is chosen Secretary to register all things to be debated-of A Reader also who on Holy days reads some pious lessons before the Prayers Besides every Holy day they carry to the sick in the Infirmaries things conducing to their recovery approved-of by the Physitian Every month or oftner if they please they are to report the summe of their disbursements according to the orders given them to the Rector and Prefect of the Oratory for these Strangers and Lay-Brethren have no authority or power in disposing the things belonging to the Oratory but only in the dispensing them by the direction of the Prefect The Order in electing these Lay-officers Every four months the Brethren that are Strangers are chosen to these Offices in this manner After rehearsing the Lord's Prayer and Angelical Salutation the Prefect is wont in this form to implore the Divine assistance Veni Creator Spiritus reple c. Answer is made Et tui amoris c. V. Emitte Spiri●um tuum creabuntur R. Et renovabis faciem terrae The Prayer Deus qui cordafidelium c. Actiones nostras c. As soon as they are declared and published Te Deum is said an Antiphon of our Blessed Lady the Prayer Gratiam tuam c. the Antiphon Da pacem c the Prayer Deus a quo sancta defideria c. And the Prayer of that particular Sunday or of the Saint whose Festival is is then kept Then some pious directions or instructions are briefly read to the persons elected An Advertisement concerning the Constitutions of the Congregation Seeing that the Congregation hath power to eject and expel out of the society and house all enormous offenders or disturbers of its orders and seeing that it is likewise very probable that whoever neglects his own salvation will hardly continue long there where is to be both a daily advancement in vertue and a pious emulation of the most perfect the Holy Founder hath declared his intent that these constitutions should not oblige any one under sin God the great Arbiter who will bestow on every one eternal rewards according to their piety in his great mercy be propitious unto us Amen Here end the Rules of the Congrgation of the blessed Philip or of the Roman Oratory of St. Maries in Vallicella composed revised and confirmed by the authority of the Holy See Apostolick Prayers used before a Congregation Come Holy Ghost replenish the hearts of thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of thy love V. Send forth thy Spirit and they shall be created R. And thou shalt renew the face of the earth V. Remember thy Congregation R. Which thou hast possessed from the beginning V. O Lord hear my Prayer R. And let my cry come unto thee V. The Lord be with you R. And with thy Spirit Let us pray God that hast taught the hearts of the faithful by the illumination of the Holy Ghost grant us in the same Spirit to understand the things that are right and always to joy in his consolation Prevent our actions O Lord we beseech thee by thy favour and further them by thy help that every Prayer and work of ours may begin always from thee and begun may end in thee Thro Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers after a Congregation V. But thou O Lord have mercy upon us R. Thanks be unto God. Let us pray O God whose property is alway to have mercy and to spare receive our petition that if in this Congregation we have committed any error the clemency of thy piety may pardon it Thro Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. V. And lead us not c. R. But deliver us c. V. From the gate of hell R. Deliver them O Lord. V. Let them rest in peace R. Amen V. O Lord hear my Prayer R. And let my cry come unto thee V. The Lord be with you R. And with thy Spirit Let us pray O God the bestower of mercy and lover of mans salvation we humbly beseech thy clemency grant that the brethren relatives and benefactors of our Congregation who are departed out of this world may by the intercession of the blessed and perpetual Virgin Mary and of all thy Saints attain to the fruition of eternal felicity Through Christ our Lord. Amen Let the souls of the faithful thro the mercy of God rest in peace Amen Glory be to God. Memorable Sayings and Advices of St. PHILIP NERI Translated out of an Italian Copy 1. THE Devil who is a most proud Spirit and a lover of darkness is no way better conquered than by humility of heart and by manifesting simply and clearly without any concealment all one's sins and temptations to their Confessor 2. According to the rules of the Fathers and ancient Monks he that will make advancement in Religion must dis-esteem the world must esteem all others in it not value himself not value that he is not valued 3. God evermore searcheth into the hearts of men for the spirit of humility and a mean esteem of ones self nor is there any thing more displeasing to him than a swoln conceit of ones own worth 4. When one commits a sin or falls into some oversight he ought presently to imagine God permitted this his fall because of his pride And surely to excuse such a defect is a thing very dangerous therefore who thus falls ought so often to say Had I been humble I had not fallen 5. When one is reprehended for some fault committed he ought with all chearfulness and humility to entertain such reproof and not to become sullen and discontent upon it because such a pettish discontent which out of a certain pride thinks much to be corrected is more mischiefous than the fault it self 6. We ought not to demand of God to visit us with

mercy on me or the verse of the Psalm O God make speed to save me O Lord make hast to help me or this Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me and let him kiss the earth and say to the tempter I will accuse thee to my spiritual Father if thou temptest me any more 522. Obedience against our inclinations is to be practised in small matters and which seem of no consequence because thus we attain a facility to yeild it in greater 523. The mortification of the will and understanding in matter of obedience to Superiors is much more beneficial and attains sooner to perfection than great corporal Penances 524. It is not sufficient to consider if God will have such good done as is attempted but if he will have it done by our means in such a manner at such a time which appearing not to be God's will we ought contentedly to desist from any such enterprise 53. There is nothing better for man than Prayer and without it he cannot endure long in the way of the Spirit therefore every moment must he have recourse to this most powerful means of Salvation 54. The enemy of our salvation fears nothing more nothing makes him sadder nothing he seeks more to hinder than Prayer 5● When one is praying let not his bodily eyes be so fixed on an Image that he never removes them from it for this will hurt the Head but let him make use of an Image for the help of his memory as for example to reduce into his mind the benefit of the Incarnation of Christ or his Nativity or his death on the Cross or if it be the Image of a holy man or a holy woman let him make use of it to put him in mind of their virtues that he may imitate them and pray them to intercede to God for him 56. To know how to pray well it is a very great help to read the Lives of Saints and when the Spirit inclines him then to meditate on them and so when it inclines to think on the passion of Christ then to follow that attraction and not to pray or meditate differently from that to which the Spirit moves 57. Fancies which intervene are a great disturbance to prayer and many troubled with such by-thoughts give it over but they do not well for notwithstanding any such fancies one ought to persevere still as much as may be in prayer and God often gives in a moment that which could not be obtained in a long time 58. Amongst other things we are to ask of God a chief is perseverance in well-doing and well-serving of God because if any hath patience and perseverance in well doing in a good life after once begun he will acquire an exceeding great measure of Spirit 59. In the beginning of the conversion of a soul to God the Spirit useth to come sometimes strongly upon him but afterward it seems as it were to go away and the Lord shews thereby as if he had forsaken him but stand he firm and it will return again 60. God useth almost never to send death to one who much serves him but that he first notifies it to him by some sign or by giving him the Spirit extraordinarily 61. There are three degrees in a Spiritual life the first is called an animal life the second the life of a man the third the life of an Angel that is to say the Lord useth in the beginning for the drawing of souls to himself to entice them with sweetnes and with a certain spirit and gusts extraordinary and then afterward he makes a shew to go far from them witholding his most holy hand from these sweet treatments to see if they stand firm in the Spirit leaving them to fight it out for a little time and then when they have made resistance for a while and have overcome those tribulations and temptations he restores afterward their heavenly gusts and consolations doubled and this is a life Angelical void of all pain or offence 621. It is no pride to desire to exceed in sancity any Saint whatsoever because to desire to be Saint is to desire we may have the will to love and to honour God above all things and this desire if it were possible ought to be extended to infinity because God is worthy of infinite love and because his greatness is infinite 622. No man ever ought to trust his own prudence but in all things to ask counsel of God consult his Confessor and beg the prayers of others 63. To maintain our selves in a good life and the holy service of God frequent Confession and the holy Communion are most necessary for the right practising of these is a very great help 64. For Graces obtained by the way of prayer we must continue so long our prayer till the grace be perfected and if prayer be intermitted God doth sometimes suspend the grace Therefore if a sick man for whom prayer is made begin to mend upon the prayers made for him these then must not be ceased but as such recovery was begun by prayer even so by the strength of prayer must it be perfected 65. When he who prayeth feels in the continuation of his prayer great quietness of spirit it is a good sign that God either hath or will grant the grace he sues for 66. Many feeling within themselves carnal temptations or the like doubt sometimes whether they have consented or no but if the person tempted feel in himself still a love toward that vertue against which he was tempted and an hatred against that vice it is a sign he hath not consented Likewise if he would not swear that he hath consented it is a sign that he hath not consented because when there is a deliberate consent the soul easily perceives it 67. After the temptation past we must not reason if we have consented or not for such reasonings cause a return of carnal temptations 68. Carnal temptations ought to be feared and fled even in sickness and in old age it self so long as we are able to shut and open our eyes for the spirit of fornication spares neither time nor person 69. The servant of God if with more security he will walk amongst so many snares spread abroad in all places let him have for an intercessor for him to her Son the Bl. Virgin. 70. Church-goods must be employed sparingly and not be spent but upon necessity because they are goods which belong to God. 71. Chearfulness and mirth is good in him who serves God but he must file dissolutenes and be careful not to fall into a spirit of jesting for they who delight in jesting render themselves incapable of ever receiving the Spirit of God and if they have any thing that is good in them they lose it suddenly 72. When the Priest visits the sick let him not play the Prophet saying that the sick person will not recover because sometimes having prophesied death if