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

Paolo Segneri

Benziger Brothers, 1892 - Bible

Contents

• JANUARY: 1
• PREPARING FOR DEATH Be you then also ready for: 5
• THE VALUE OF SELFIMMOLATION I beseech you therefore: 6
• THE TRIUMPH WROUGHT BY FAITH Whatsoever is born: 10
• PRETENCE OF Virtue Cursed is the deceitful man that hath: 14
• THE SPEEDY PUNISHMENT OF WORLDLY MEN They spend: 18
• CONSTANT EXPECTATION OF ETERNAL LIFE For we are: 20
• FoolisH CONFIDENCE He that thinketh himself to stand: 21
• THE JOY OF THE WORLD TO COME Be glad in that day: 25
• REMEMBRANCE OF Christ CRUCIFIED Think diligently: 27
• REWARD OF PATIENCE A patient man shall bear for a time: 33
• THE WISDOM OF THE FLESH Glory not and be not liars: 39
• CHARITY THE best Sacrifice To love ones neighbour: 45
• TEE SIGN BY WHICH CHRISTIANS ARE KNOWN In this shall: 52
• is crucified to me and I to the world Galat vi: 55
• 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
• The Bonds Of Love _Yea i have loved thee with an ever: 91
• THOSE WHO GAIN THE VICTORY _For he also that striveth: 97
• No TIME LIKE THE PRESENT FOR PRAISING GOD Give: 106
• 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 DEMANDEN 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 IN 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
• LOOKING TO THE END In all thy works remember thy last: 209
• Xll 40: 219
• GOOD AND BAI SOLICITUDE Be nothing solicitous but: 240
• ACCEPTING AND REJECTING THE LIGHT _ And this is: 250
• THE HELL UPON EARTH OF A BAD CONSCIENCE Unless: 258
• A HOLY FEAR They shall be in the mountains like doves: 266
• THE BITTERNESS OF DYING o death 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 But I say to you love your: 311
• GREAT ZFAI FOR Souls Love is strong as death jealousy: 319
• THE APOSTLES HIGHLY HONOUREV Behold Heaven is: 326
• THE BRAZEN SERPENT As Moses lifted up the serpent: 334
• THE DUTY OF CONTINUAL RENOVATION When a man hath: 342
• THE MATTER AND THE MANNER OF PRAYER The Spirit: 358
• 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 Thy arrows are fastened in: 389
• The Soldier of ChriST Labour as a good soldier of Christ: 395
• SPIRITUAL CONSOLATIONS The manna ceased after they: 404
• FREE PARDON GRANTED God Who is rich in mercy for: 412
• world is foolishness with God 1 Cor iii 18: 420
• PATIENT EXPECTATION OF GOOD THINGS TO COME All: 427
• A LITTLE LABOUR AND A GREAT REWARD I reckon that: 433
• JUNE: 439
• we should slip Hebrews ii 1 ni i meve 4 THE HUMBLE ADMITTED TO KNOWLEDGE OF TRUE DOCTRINE: 449
• CHRIST AND THE SYNAGOGUE Three things are hard to: 458
• THE DANGER OF DELAY Tarry not in the error of: 464
• WISDOM SUBSERVIENT TO FEAR How great is he that findeth: 473
• cometh the world our faith 1 St John v 4: 477
• Souls whICH SCATTER BLESSINGS ROUND THEM He that: 489
• THE EVIL OF TOO GREAT SoliciTUDE Having food: 497
• IGNORANCE WISE IN ITS OWN CONCEIT If any man teach: 505
• INGRATITUDE FOR FAVOURS RECEIVED He shall entertain: 515
• WALKING IN THE PROTECTION OF HEAVEN My eyes: 522
• THE WICKED HARDENING THEIR HEARTS The founder hath: 530
• THE PRAYER OF REPOSE IN GOD When I go into my house: 546
• THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH Now therefore you are no more: 554

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