{"ok":true,"date":"2026-02-19","dateKey":"02-19","liturgicalDay":"Feria of Lent","rank":"Feria","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.","author":"St. Jude","source":"Jude 1:3, Douay-Rheims","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Lent","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria of Lent - 2026-02-19","previewText":"Feria of Lent. Doctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine. Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nTHE DAILY PILGRIMAGE\n\"Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.\" - Proverbs 8:32\n\"Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\" - Luke 12:32-34\nFeria of Lent\n2026-02-19 - Lent - Feria - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nCompunction: sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.\nProper Mass or prayers: the texts assigned specifically to a particular feast or day, rather than texts shared with many celebrations.\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nHumiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair. Choose the Marian devotion that most completely empties the soul of self and fills it with God, judging by sanctifying fruit rather than ease. Renew the full devotion that empties you of self and fills you with God across all prayers, duties, possessions, sufferings, and relationships.\n\n\"We must choose, therefore, among all the devotions to the Blessed Virgin, the one which draws us most towards this death to ourselves, inasmuch as it will be the best and the most sanctifying.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 82\n\nNot everything attractive, sweet, easy, or popular is sanctifying. St. Louis de Montfort's criterion is death to self and fullness of God. This rejects spiritual consumerism that collects pleasant practices while leaving pride, impurity, resentment, doctrinal compromise, neglect of duty, and attachment to comfort undisturbed.\n\nThe best devotion is not minimal. It must govern the whole person and persevere throughout life. Consecration through Mary places prayer, works, goods, merits, suffering, body, soul, present, and future at God's disposal. Receive its sweetness gratefully, but judge it by conversion, virtue, obedience, charity, and union with Christ.\n\nPRACTICE\nOffer today's inconveniences in reparation for irreverence, false worship, and indifference.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.\"\nSt. Jude, Jude 1:3, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - February 19\nI T Rome, the birthday of St. Gabinus, priest and martyr, brother of the blessed pope.Caius. Being loaded with chains and kept a long time in prison by Diocletian, he obtained the joys of heaven by a precious death. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Publius, Julian, Marcellus, and others. — In Palestine, the commemoration of the holy monks and other martyrs, who were barbarously massacred for the faith of Christ by the Saracens, under their leader Almondhar. — At Jerusalem, St. Zambdas, bishop. — At Soli, St. Auxibius, bishop. — At Benevento, St. Barbatus, a bishop illustrious for sanctity, who converted the Lombards and their chief to the faith of Christ. — At Milan, St. Mansuetus, bishop and confessor.\n\nTODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST\nThe Lenten Feria\nThe Church's daily school of penance.\nThe Lenten feria is not empty time between Sundays. In the Roman rite, Lent gives proper Masses to the ferias, forming the faithful by daily penance, prayer, almsgiving, and conversion.\nThese weekdays teach that penance is not a mood but a discipline. The Church trains the whole man: appetite, speech, memory, habits, and the will turned back to God.\nDo not despise the ordinary Lenten weekday. Small faithful penance is one of the roads by which exile becomes pilgrimage.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe daily discipline of the forty days.\nMatins - Feria of Lent\n- The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired.\n- Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.\nUse the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Feria of Lent is part of the Church's daily teaching. It should not be read as a list of isolated facts. In the Divine Office, Scripture, the lives of the saints, doctrine, and the Church's prayer are placed together so that the mind learns what the Church remembers and the heart learns how a Catholic ought to judge and live.\nToday's witness is gathered under The daily discipline of the forty days.. Its first point is this: The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.\nThe practical instruction is: Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.\n- What truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?\n- What virtue does the Church place before me through it?\n- What judgment or action should change because I have received this lesson?\n\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nDoctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine\nThe Church places this truth before you today: True growth in Catholic doctrine preserves the same meaning and the same judgment; it unfolds what was received, without changing the faith into a novelty. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. Unity of faith is protected when later expression remains identical in substance with what the Church has always taught.\nThe grace to be practiced is Daily penance and conversion, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Practice spiritual seriousness by choosing what sanctifies the whole life rather than what merely feels pleasant, easy, admired, or sufficient.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing daily penance and conversion when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.\nDo the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Remain faithful when true devotion demands sustained self-denial and offers no sweetness, novelty, praise, or immediate visible result. Carry total consecration into every part of the day and measure its truth by complete conversion and fruit in all required virtues.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Vincent of Lerins.\nYour resolution before God: Offer today's inconveniences in reparation for irreverence, false worship, and indifference.\nCarry this word: Reparation answers public offense with hidden love.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"The most noble and the most perfect victory is for a man to have the victory of himself.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, chapter 53, p. 159\nVictory over others can feed pride; victory over self-will makes room for Christ. Ask for the grace to conquer the fault that most often conquers you.\n\nChoose the fault by its frequency, not by how dramatic it appears. The repeated impatient tone, indulgent thought, delayed prayer, or unnecessary complaint may govern more of life than a rare great trial. Meet it today at its first small demand, while grace makes refusal possible.\nToday's Practice: Choose the harder faithful act once, quietly and at once.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nJudge devotion by death to self and fullness of God, repent of token observance, and renew the entire offering without reserve.\n- For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?\n- What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?\n- What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?\nPRAYER\nO Lord, where Thou art forgotten, mocked, or coldly received, let me answer with prayer, penance, reverence, and love for Thy Sacred Heart.\nDAILY RULE FOR THE PILGRIM\nA brief rule to keep every day:\nBegin with morning prayer\nAdore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.\nKeep the Angelus\nPause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.\nSeek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament\nAttend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.\nReturn to Jesus and Mary\nUse frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.\nPray the Rosary\nKeep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.\nEnd with night prayer and examen\nGive thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.\nCONTINUE STUDY\nSt. Vincent of Lerins and Catholic Continuity: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-vincent-of-lerins-and-the-rule-of-catholic-continuity?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-02-19&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-02-19&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: Feria of Lent - 2026-02-19\n \n \n
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City of God in Exile

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“Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.”

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Proverbs 8:32

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Feria of Lent

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2026-02-19 - Lent - Feria - violet

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“Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. […] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Luke 12:32–34
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Compunction
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sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.
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Proper Mass or prayers
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the texts assigned specifically to a particular feast or day, rather than texts shared with many celebrations.
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a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Humiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair.

Choose the Marian devotion that most completely empties the soul of self and fills it with God, judging by sanctifying fruit rather than ease.

Renew the full devotion that empties you of self and fills you with God across all prayers, duties, possessions, sufferings, and relationships.

“We must choose, therefore, among all the devotions to the Blessed Virgin, the one which draws us most towards this death to ourselves, inasmuch as it will be the best and the most sanctifying.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 82

Not everything attractive, sweet, easy, or popular is sanctifying. St. Louis de Montfort's criterion is death to self and fullness of God. This rejects spiritual consumerism that collects pleasant practices while leaving pride, impurity, resentment, doctrinal compromise, neglect of duty, and attachment to comfort undisturbed.

The best devotion is not minimal. It must govern the whole person and persevere throughout life. Consecration through Mary places prayer, works, goods, merits, suffering, body, soul, present, and future at God's disposal. Receive its sweetness gratefully, but judge it by conversion, virtue, obedience, charity, and union with Christ.

Offer today's inconveniences in reparation for irreverence, false worship, and indifference.

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Quote of the Day

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“Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
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St. Jude, Jude 1:3, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - February 19

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I T Rome, the birthday of St. Gabinus, priest and martyr, brother of the blessed pope.Caius. Being loaded with chains and kept a long time in prison by Diocletian, he obtained the joys of heaven by a precious death. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Publius, Julian, Marcellus, and others. — In Palestine, the commemoration of the holy monks and other martyrs, who were barbarously massacred for the faith of Christ by the Saracens, under their leader Almondhar. — At Jerusalem, St. Zambdas, bishop. — At Soli, St. Auxibius, bishop. — At Benevento, St. Barbatus, a bishop illustrious for sanctity, who converted the Lombards and their chief to the faith of Christ. — At Milan, St. Mansuetus, bishop and confessor.

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Today's Saint or Feast

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The Lenten Feria

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The Church's daily school of penance.

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The Lenten feria is not empty time between Sundays. In the Roman rite, Lent gives proper Masses to the ferias, forming the faithful by daily penance, prayer, almsgiving, and conversion.

These weekdays teach that penance is not a mood but a discipline. The Church trains the whole man: appetite, speech, memory, habits, and the will turned back to God.

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Do not despise the ordinary Lenten weekday. Small faithful penance is one of the roads by which exile becomes pilgrimage.

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Breviary Witness

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The daily discipline of the forty days.

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Matins - Feria of Lent

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  • The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired.
  • Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.
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Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Feria of Lent is part of the Church's daily teaching. It should not be read as a list of isolated facts. In the Divine Office, Scripture, the lives of the saints, doctrine, and the Church's prayer are placed together so that the mind learns what the Church remembers and the heart learns how a Catholic ought to judge and live.

Today's witness is gathered under The daily discipline of the forty days.. Its first point is this: The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.

The practical instruction is: Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.

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  • What truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Doctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine

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The Church places this truth before you today: True growth in Catholic doctrine preserves the same meaning and the same judgment; it unfolds what was received, without changing the faith into a novelty. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. Unity of faith is protected when later expression remains identical in substance with what the Church has always taught.

The grace to be practiced is Daily penance and conversion, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Practice spiritual seriousness by choosing what sanctifies the whole life rather than what merely feels pleasant, easy, admired, or sufficient.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing daily penance and conversion when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.

Do the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Remain faithful when true devotion demands sustained self-denial and offers no sweetness, novelty, praise, or immediate visible result. Carry total consecration into every part of the day and measure its truth by complete conversion and fruit in all required virtues.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Vincent of Lerins.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Offer today's inconveniences in reparation for irreverence, false worship, and indifference.

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Reparation answers public offense with hidden love.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“The most noble and the most perfect victory is for a man to have the victory of himself.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, chapter 53, p. 159

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Victory over others can feed pride; victory over self-will makes room for Christ. Ask for the grace to conquer the fault that most often conquers you.

Choose the fault by its frequency, not by how dramatic it appears. The repeated impatient tone, indulgent thought, delayed prayer, or unnecessary complaint may govern more of life than a rare great trial. Meet it today at its first small demand, while grace makes refusal possible.

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Today's Practice

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Choose the harder faithful act once, quietly and at once.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Judge devotion by death to self and fullness of God, repent of token observance, and renew the entire offering without reserve.

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  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
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O Lord, where Thou art forgotten, mocked, or coldly received, let me answer with prayer, penance, reverence, and love for Thy Sacred Heart.

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Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

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A brief rule to keep every day:

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Begin with morning prayer

Adore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.

Keep the Angelus

Pause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.

Seek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

Attend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Return to Jesus and Mary

Use frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.

Pray the Rosary

Keep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.

End with night prayer and examen

Give thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.

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Continue Study

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Carry today's lesson into a focused chapter from the library.

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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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