The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year

Paolo Segneri

Benziger Brothers, 1892 - Bible

Contents

• JANUARY: 1
• THE VALUE OF SELFIMMOLATION I beseech you therefore: 6
• HUMILITY PLEASING to God God resisteth the proud: 8
• GOD REJECTED BY THE Sinnek They said to God Depart: 17
• CONSTANT EXPECTATION OF ETERNAL LIFE _For we are: 20
• SUBMISSION TO Gods Will They that are faithful in love: 24
• THE JOY OF THE WORLD TO COME Be glad in that day: 25
• PATIENT EXPECTATION OF GOOD THINGS TO COME All: 28
• JUSTICE AND GENEROSITY Keep mercy and judgment: 34
• Dur DWELLINGPLACE FOR EVER Man shall go into: 42
• In this shall: 52
• is crucified to me and I to the world Galat vi 14: 55
• LOVE CAUSES CONFORMITY They became abominable as: 61
• days in which I am now in warfare I expect until my change: 64
• CAREFULNESS AND Activity A wise man will fear in every: 69
• TRUE AND FALSE GREATNESS That which is high to men: 79
• THE DUTY OF STANDING FAST IN THE LORD Unless thou: 85
• ABUSE OF TIME God hath given him place for penance: 95
• SALVATION OUR ONLY BUSINESS For what doth it profit: 102
• HAPPINESS IN RESIGNATION My brethren count it all: 109
• MARCH: 116
• THE JUDGMENTSEAT What shall I do when God shall rise: 122
• A SURE DEFENCE AGAINST THE ALLUREMENTS OF PLEASURE: 134
• HOLDING OUR OWN WITH STRONG DETERMINATION Behold: 141
• THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE TASK AND THE SURPASSING: 150
• The EGREGIOUS FOLLY OF NOT PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE: 157
• THREE THINGS DEMANDED I will show thee O man what: 169
• OUR Rich INHERITANCE For the Spirit Himself giveth: 175
• CORRESPONDENCE WITH GRACE For the earth that drinketh: 182
• PEACE IN LIFE AND CONFIDENCE ĪN Death And: 188
• THE DEEP DISORDER CAUSED BY LOVE OF MONEY For: 194
• THE SHORT AND SURE WAY TO Heaven I will lead thee: 200
• xii: 219
• much more do you think he deserveth worse punishments: 236
• ACCEPTING AND REJECTING THE Lighr _ And this is: 250
• CONSTANCY AND FICKLENESS A holy man continueth: 258
• A HOLY FEAR They shall be in the mountains like doves: 266
• how bitter is: 276
• GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE Every mans work shall: 285
• to rest let his hands be idle and he seeketh liberty Ecclus: 289
• UNCEASING SUPPLICATION We ought always to pray: 296
• A PERFECT PREACHER I am the Way and the Truth: 304
• CHRISTIAN FORGIVENESS: 311
• GREAT ZFAI FOR Souls Love is strong as death jealousy: 322
• THE BRAZEN SERPENT As Moses lifted up the serpent: 334
• 16: 342
• THE VIRTUE OF SINCERITY A perverse heart is abominable: 348
• FEARLESS PROFESSION OF FAITH I say to you whosoever: 355
• WISE USE OF HUMILIATION The wisdom of the humble: 367
• The Pride WHICH goes before a Fall Man when he: 374
• OUR LORD IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ENTERING ANOTHER: 382
• AFFLICTION SENT IN Mercy _i Thy arrows are fastened: 389
• The Life of FAITH But My just man liveth by faith: 395
• SPIRITUAL CONSOLATIONS The manna ceased after they: 404
• FREE PARDON GRANTED God Who is rich in mercy for: 412
• BLINDNESS OF UNBELIEF The god of this world hath: 430
• JUNE: 439
• CAREFUL OBSERVANCE of the Law _ We ought more dili: 446
• SelfCONQUEST THE BEST OF VICTORIES The patient: 454
• The danger of Delay Tarry: 464
• WISDOM SUBSERVIENT TO FEAR How great is he that findeth: 473
• cometh the world our faith 1 St John v: 477
• CONFIDENCE in God Have confidence in the Lord with: 486
• OUR FATHERS LOVE FOR HIS CHILDREN If you being: 493
• 17: 502
• SEPARATION OF THE GOOD AND BAD Whose fan is in: 510
• 18: 512
• GODS CARE OF His ELECT We know that to them that love: 518
• HUMILITY THE SIGN OF TRUE GREATNESS The greater: 533
• vi: 539
• EDIFICATION IN All our Words Let no evil proceed from: 545
• GROWTH IN HOLINESS Be not afraid to be justified even: 551
• snare: 556
• St Pauls BOLD CHALLENGE Who shall separate us from: 559

Popular passages

Page xi - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Page xvi - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Page xiii - He has made pain and grief more easy to endure; "for that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

Page xviii - God. (But and if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God...

Page xviii - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

Page 264 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts ; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying ; Know the Lord ; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Page xiv - For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Page 261 - When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

Page xvii - Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

Page xx - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year; Volume 1 of The manna of the soul, meditations for every day of the year, Paolo Segneri
• Author: Paolo Segneri
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Benziger Brothers, 1892
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 31, 2007