{"id":35555,"date":"2020-05-26T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35555"},"modified":"2019-06-10T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:30:23","slug":"st-philip-neri-at-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/st-philip-neri-at-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"St Philip Neri at Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Neri-at-Pentecost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35556 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Neri-at-Pentecost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>On the vigil of Pentecost in 1544, St Philip was praying in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian, on the Via Appia, as he had done many times, and asked God to give him the Holy Spirit. St Philip was suddenly filled with great joy, and had a vision of the Holy Spirit as a ball of fire. This fire entered into St Philip\u2019s mouth, and descended to his heart, causing it to expand to twice its normal size, and breaking two of his ribs in the process (a fact later proven by his autopsy). He later said that it filled his whole body with such joy and consolation that he finally had to throw himself on the ground and cry out, \u201cNo more, Lord! No more!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(courtesy of Bp. Mario Aviles, CO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the vigil of Pentecost in 1544, St Philip was praying in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian, on the Via Appia, as he had done many times, and asked God to give him the Holy Spirit. St Philip was suddenly filled with great joy, and had a vision of the Holy Spirit as a ball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/st-philip-neri-at-pentecost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Philip Neri at Pentecost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[2107,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35557,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions\/35557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}