St Philip's Day

Today is the feast day of St Philip Neri.

I shall celebrate it here at the Oratory in Oxford with my friends there. We have prepared for the feast with Novena in St Philip's honour, and last night we had First Vespers of the Solemnity. Please join me in keeping the Fathers, Brothers, External Brothers and their parishioners together with the other Oratories in England at Birmingham and London and the others across the world in our prayers.

The body of St Philip in the Chiesa Nuova, Santa Maria in Vallicella, in Rome

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The deathmask of St Philip

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The Virgin Mary appears to St Philip Neri
Carlo Maratta 1625-1713
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St Philip pray for us