Happy Feast Day

 I feel like I wrote the post yesterday too soon! But maybe I needed to have an introduction to today's post!

Yesterday was "May's a great time for Saints" day, but it has been several and this has been all neatly wrapped around Pentacost, which was Sunday. That's important because I have another story to tell.

Last night I lit my candle and said my rosary for Saints Padre Pio and Bede, and afterward I settled in for a nice cup of tea while watching YouTube's conspicuous offering of Biblical drinks to try. I have decided I ought to have some good quality, food grade Frankenscence and Olive leaf tea in my health artillery bag.

When it was finished, on rolled a Saint program. So I watched all about Phillip Neri, and was in such high spirits afterward, I was hardly "moved" by outward disturbances, or inward ones for that matter. It was like a lovely rest on the high hill I had been dreaming of for a long time. 

Afterward, I was still inspired by Neri's story, because it had put me in such a light and hopeful mood.  This morning I went to watch him again.

When I looked him up, today was his feast day! And that was perfect because his story was of him receiving the spirit into his heart on the eve of Pentacost. 

If that wasn't enough, his birthday seemed to sound familiar to me. Where had I seen 1515 before? And wouldn't you know it! 1515 was the same year Teresa of Avila was born. Her feast is on October 15th. 

Here, then, are a couple fifteens. But wait! There's more! Looking at the familiar dates, birthdays and what not, I realized that all the 15's had to mean something. So all that they shared equaled a very important message. We will look at that in a second. 

Teresa of Avila had recieved Jesus spirit similarly to Philip, and she was born in 1515  herself. She was said to have had her heart pierced by an angel in prayer. This happened in 1559. 15 years before that, on the eve of Pentacost, Phillip Neri is said to have had a ball of fire enter into his mouth. This happened to Loyola too, I think) Phillip's experience was 15 years before Teresa's, in 1544. His and Teresa's hearts showed signs of these events after death. Phillip had lived with an enlarged heart with two broken ribs over it.

They were canonized together in 1622.

I looked up the dates as if they were Bible verses, because I had just read Matthew 7:21. Phillip was born on July, 21 1515. Call it a hunch.

Both Phillp and Teresa shared not only a strike of the heart but also light hearted humor and JOY! Neat story 😀 

This week I was made to remember in one of my casual battles with unbelieving people the promise attached to the Commandments, "Honor your mother and your father" according to the 15:15 verse here posted, this also stands as a promise: