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

Paolo Segneri

Benziger Bros., 1892 - Bible

Contents

• JANUARY: 1
• THE VALUE OF SELFIMMOLATION I beseech you therefore: 6
• THE MOMENT ON WHICH ALL DEPENDS If the tree fall: 7
• FEARLESS PROFESSION OF FAITH I say to you whosoever: 9
• THE TRIUMPH WROUGHT BY FAITH Whatsoever is born: 10
• PROFITABLE FEAR Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the: 13
• THE SPEEDY PUNISHMENT OF WORLDLY MEN They spend: 18
• THE NARROW GATE Strive to enter by the narrow gate: 19
• CONSTANT EXPECTATION OF ETERNAL LIFE For we are: 20
• SELFRESTRAINT If thou give to thy soul her desires she will: 23
• THE JOY OF THE WORLD TO COME Be glad in that day: 25
• PATIENT EXPECTATION OF GOOD THINGS TO COME All: 28
• THE GREATNESS OF GODS LOVE I live in the faith of: 29
• CONVERSION OF ST PAUL A faithful saying and worthy: 36
• OUR DWELLINGPLACE FOR EVER Man shall go into: 42
• IMPATIENCE VERY BAD FOR SOULS In your patience: 49
• is crucified to me and I to the world Galat vi 14: 55
• AR MING FOR THE FIGHT Laying aside every weight and: 61
• 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
• II: 99
• 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 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
• I: 205
• LOOKING TO THE END In all thy works remember thy last: 209
• 5: 213
• 8: 219
• CHASTISEMENT OF THOSE WHO MOCK GOD If thou be wise: 223
• 10: 228
• LYING TO THE LORD I redeemed them and they have: 233
• 17: 234
• GOOD AND BAD SOLICITUDE Be nothing solicitous but: 240
• 18: 243
• ACCEPTING AND REJECTING THE LIGHT And this is: 250
• THE HELL UPON EARTH OF A BAD CONSCIENCE E 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
• _ The chalice which: 292
• THE LAND OF PROMISE Expect the Lord and keep: 300
• THREE ENEMIES OF GOD Three sorts my soul hateth: 307
• FALSE GLORY OF THE WICKED I have seen the wicked: 315
• THE APOSTLES HIGHLY HONOURED 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 VIRTUE OF SINCERITY A perverse heart is abominable: 348
• 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
• WATERS OF GRACE You shall draw waters with joy out: 399
• DESIRE OF SUFFERING Let this be my comfort that afflicting: 417
• come Job xiv: 427
• A LITTLE LABOUR AND A GREAT REWARD I reckon that: 433
• JUNE: 439
• CAREFUL OBSERVANCE OF THE LAW We ought more dili: 446
• SELFCONQUEST THE BEST OF VICTORIES The patient: 454
• ANGER TEMPERED WITH MERCY When Thou art angry: 469
• 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
• for their wicked deeds are not consumed Call: 530
• EDIFICATION IN ALL OUR WORDS Let no evil proceed from: 545
• GROWTH IN HOLINESS Be not afraid to be justified even: 551
• 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 Bros., 1892
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 31, 2007