{"ok":true,"date":"2026-05-15","dateKey":"05-15","liturgicalDay":"St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor","rank":"Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.","author":"St. Paul","source":"1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Holy Ghost","feast":"Pentecost","day":1,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2026-05-15","feastIsoDate":"2026-05-24","dayTitle":null,"meditation":null,"intention":"Ask the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.","preparatoryPrayer":null,"prayerOfTheChurch":null,"prayer":null,"practice":"Pray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.","conclusion":null,"prayerLink":null,"sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of the Ascension","rank":"Privileged Octave of the Third Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor - 2026-05-15","previewText":"St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor. Christ Is King Over Public Life. Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ.","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\nSt. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor\n2026-05-15 - Eastertide - Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMortification: the deliberate restraint of a desire or comfort so that disordered habits weaken and love of God becomes freer.\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nChrist is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. Ask the Father to make you a living member of Christ beneath the maternal care of Mary. Renew your baptismal renunciation of Satan and your belonging to Jesus Christ, asking His Mother to guard that supernatural life.\n\n\"God the Father has communicated to Mary His fruitfulness, as far as a mere creature was capable of it, in order that He might give her the power to produce His Son, and all the members of His mystical Body.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 17\n\nOur Lady's divine maternity is unique: she is Mother of the Incarnate Head according to His human nature. Her maternal office toward His members belongs to the order of grace. She does not replace baptism, faith, or the sacraments; she serves the supernatural life by which Christ forms His members.\n\nTo live as her child is therefore to live as a member of Christ. Refuse every devotion that leaves conduct unchanged. Ask Mary to protect the life of grace, obtain repentance after sin, and form in you the likeness of the Head to whom the whole Mystical Body belongs.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Ascension - Privileged Octave of the Third Order\n\nPRACTICE\nTeach Catholic truth patiently to the children or beginners entrusted to you, explaining every unfamiliar word.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.\"\nSt. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Holy Ghost - Day 1 of 9\n\nPreparing for Pentecost on 2026-05-24.\n\nPETITION\nAsk the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nPray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 15\nAt Rouen, St. John Baptist de la Salle, confessor, -\" who deserved well both of religion and society by his labors for the education of youth, especially of the poor, and by the founding of the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. — In Spain, the Saints Torquatus, Ctesiphon, Secundus, Indaletius, Caecilius, Hesychius, and Euphrasius, who were consecrated bishops at Rome by the holy apostles, and sent to Spain to preach the word of God. When they had evangelized various cities, and brought innumerable multitudes under the yoke of Christ, they rested in peace in various parts of that country: Torquatus at Cadiz, Ctesiphon at Vierco, Secundus at Avila, Indaletius at Portilla, Caecilius at Elvira, Hesychius at Gibraltar, and Euphrasius at Anduxar. — At Evora, in Portugal, St. Mancius, martyr. — In the island of Chio, the birthday of blessed Isidore, martyr, in whose church is a well into which he is said to have been thrown. By drinking of the water from this well, the sick are frequently cured. — At Lampsacum, in Hellespont, the martyrdom of the Saints Peter, Andrew, Paul, 'and Dionysja. — At Fausina, in Sardinia, in the time of Diocletian and the governor Barbarus, St. Simplicius, a bishop, who consummated his martyrdom by being tanspierced with a lance. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, the holy martyrs Cassius, Victorinus, Maximus, and their companions. — In Brabant, St. Dympna, virgin and martyr, daughter of an Irish king. By order of her father, she was beheaded for the faith of Christ and the preservation of her virginity.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are those servants whom the Lord shall find watching.\nSt. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor - Luke 12:35-40\n\"Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.\"\nAsk St. John Baptist de la Salle for patient vigilance. A child taught for God is being prepared for eternity.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe faithful teacher keeps watch over the young by forming them for God.\nSt. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that Catholic education must prepare souls for judgment, not merely usefulness in the world.\nParents and teachers should remember that a child's mind is not neutral ground. It will be formed either for Christ or away from Him.\nError corrected: The worldly education that trains skill while leaving the soul unguarded.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nTODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST\nSt. John Baptist de la Salle\nConfessor and educator of poor youth.\nSt. John Baptist de la Salle labored for the education of youth, especially the poor, and founded the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.\nHis witness teaches that Catholic education is not social improvement alone, but the formation of souls in truth, discipline, prayer, and Christian duty.\nAsk St. John Baptist de la Salle for patient zeal. A child formed in truth receives more than instruction; he receives a road toward God.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe teacher of poor youth.\nMatins - St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor\n- The Breviary honors St. John Baptist de la Salle as confessor and founder, devoted to the Christian education of youth, especially the poor.\n- His witness teaches that education must form souls in truth, discipline, prayer, and duty before God.\nDo not treat education as neutral. St. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that the young need Catholic formation, not mere training for the world.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor 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 teacher of poor youth.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. John Baptist de la Salle as confessor and founder, devoted to the Christian education of youth, especially the poor. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that education must form souls in truth, discipline, prayer, and duty before God.\nThe practical instruction is: Do not treat education as neutral. St. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that the young need Catholic formation, not mere training for the world. 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\nFROM MATINS\nThe salvation of children treated as a permanent work of the Church.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor\nRoman Breviary and St. John Chrysostom\n\"What is greater than to govern souls and form the character of the young?\"\n- The Breviary presents St. John Baptist de la Salle as a priest providentially raised up to establish enduring Catholic schools, especially for poor boys, and to found the Brothers of the Christian Schools.\n- He fulfilled this work through contradiction and severe trials, formed his brothers by wise rules confirmed by Pope Benedict XIII, renounced his canonry, distributed his goods to the poor, and eventually laid down governance through humility.\n- His fidelity joined obedience, mortification, prayer, devotion to the Apostolic See, and zeal for souls; education was not worldly advancement but formation in religion, good morals, and the way of truth.\n- St. John Chrysostom's homily makes care for children a grave work of charity: the Christian must not be content with his own virtue while neglecting the salvation and moral formation of the young.\nTreat Catholic formation as a duty that cannot be postponed. Teach doctrine and morals to the young, give special care to those without privilege, support faithful teachers, and build habits and institutions capable of outlasting personal enthusiasm.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nChrist Is King Over Public Life\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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. The Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.\nThe grace to be practiced is Patient Catholic formation of the young, 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 fidelity to grace by resisting every mortal sin and promptly correcting deliberate venial sin.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 patient Catholic formation of the young 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. Accept the discipline by which Christ conforms His members to the crucified Head. Fulfill all the duties of your state as a member of Christ whose conduct must honor the whole Mystical Body.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: Teach Catholic truth patiently to the children or beginners entrusted to you, explaining every unfamiliar word.\nCarry this word: Catholic education forms the child's soul for truth, prayer, virtue, duty, and eternal life.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Who hath a stronger battle than he that laboureth to overcome himself?\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12\nThe decisive field of combat is within. Heresy must be hated, and so must the pride, curiosity, compromise, and self-will by which falsehood finds lodging in the soul.\n\nMany souls desire victory in the Church while making peace with the tyrant within. Begin the restoration where grace has placed authority in your hands: over your next thought, word, appetite, and decision. A hidden victory over self-will is no small service to the City of God.\nToday's Practice: Refuse the demands of self-will promptly and without complaint.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine whether your conduct preserved the likeness of Christ or wounded His members, and seek contrition and amendment through Mary.\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 God, through St. John Baptist de la Salle, bless parents and teachers. Give them patience to instruct the young clearly and courage to protect them from error.\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\nAuthority and the Kingship of Christ: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-05-15&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-05-15&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: St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor - 2026-05-15\n \n \n
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St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor

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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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the deliberate restraint of a desire or comfort so that disordered habits weaken and love of God becomes freer.
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in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today.

Ask the Father to make you a living member of Christ beneath the maternal care of Mary.

Renew your baptismal renunciation of Satan and your belonging to Jesus Christ, asking His Mother to guard that supernatural life.

“God the Father has communicated to Mary His fruitfulness, as far as a mere creature was capable of it, in order that He might give her the power to produce His Son, and all the members of His mystical Body.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 17

Our Lady's divine maternity is unique: she is Mother of the Incarnate Head according to His human nature. Her maternal office toward His members belongs to the order of grace. She does not replace baptism, faith, or the sacraments; she serves the supernatural life by which Christ forms His members.

To live as her child is therefore to live as a member of Christ. Refuse every devotion that leaves conduct unchanged. Ask Mary to protect the life of grace, obtain repentance after sin, and form in you the likeness of the Head to whom the whole Mystical Body belongs.

Teach Catholic truth patiently to the children or beginners entrusted to you, explaining every unfamiliar word.

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“The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.”
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Novena to the Holy Ghost

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Preparing for Pentecost on 2026-05-24.

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Ask the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.

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Pray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.

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At Rouen, St. John Baptist de la Salle, confessor, -" who deserved well both of religion and society by his labors for the education of youth, especially of the poor, and by the founding of the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. — In Spain, the Saints Torquatus, Ctesiphon, Secundus, Indaletius, Caecilius, Hesychius, and Euphrasius, who were consecrated bishops at Rome by the holy apostles, and sent to Spain to preach the word of God. When they had evangelized various cities, and brought innumerable multitudes under the yoke of Christ, they rested in peace in various parts of that country: Torquatus at Cadiz, Ctesiphon at Vierco, Secundus at Avila, Indaletius at Portilla, Caecilius at Elvira, Hesychius at Gibraltar, and Euphrasius at Anduxar. — At Evora, in Portugal, St. Mancius, martyr. — In the island of Chio, the birthday of blessed Isidore, martyr, in whose church is a well into which he is said to have been thrown. By drinking of the water from this well, the sick are frequently cured. — At Lampsacum, in Hellespont, the martyrdom of the Saints Peter, Andrew, Paul, 'and Dionysja. — At Fausina, in Sardinia, in the time of Diocletian and the governor Barbarus, St. Simplicius, a bishop, who consummated his martyrdom by being tanspierced with a lance. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, the holy martyrs Cassius, Victorinus, Maximus, and their companions. — In Brabant, St. Dympna, virgin and martyr, daughter of an Irish king. By order of her father, she was beheaded for the faith of Christ and the preservation of her virginity.

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Blessed are those servants whom the Lord shall find watching.

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St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor - Luke 12:35-40

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“Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.”
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Ask St. John Baptist de la Salle for patient vigilance. A child taught for God is being prepared for eternity.

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The faithful teacher keeps watch over the young by forming them for God.

St. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that Catholic education must prepare souls for judgment, not merely usefulness in the world.

Parents and teachers should remember that a child's mind is not neutral ground. It will be formed either for Christ or away from Him.

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Error corrected: The worldly education that trains skill while leaving the soul unguarded.

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St. John Baptist de la Salle

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Confessor and educator of poor youth.

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St. John Baptist de la Salle labored for the education of youth, especially the poor, and founded the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

His witness teaches that Catholic education is not social improvement alone, but the formation of souls in truth, discipline, prayer, and Christian duty.

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Ask St. John Baptist de la Salle for patient zeal. A child formed in truth receives more than instruction; he receives a road toward God.

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The teacher of poor youth.

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Matins - St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor

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Do not treat education as neutral. St. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that the young need Catholic formation, not mere training for the world.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor 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 teacher of poor youth.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. John Baptist de la Salle as confessor and founder, devoted to the Christian education of youth, especially the poor. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that education must form souls in truth, discipline, prayer, and duty before God.

The practical instruction is: Do not treat education as neutral. St. John Baptist de la Salle teaches that the young need Catholic formation, not mere training for the world. 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 virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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The salvation of children treated as a permanent work of the Church.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor

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Roman Breviary and St. John Chrysostom, Proper lessons and homily on the care of little ones

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“What is greater than to govern souls and form the character of the young?”
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  • The Breviary presents St. John Baptist de la Salle as a priest providentially raised up to establish enduring Catholic schools, especially for poor boys, and to found the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
  • He fulfilled this work through contradiction and severe trials, formed his brothers by wise rules confirmed by Pope Benedict XIII, renounced his canonry, distributed his goods to the poor, and eventually laid down governance through humility.
  • His fidelity joined obedience, mortification, prayer, devotion to the Apostolic See, and zeal for souls; education was not worldly advancement but formation in religion, good morals, and the way of truth.
  • St. John Chrysostom's homily makes care for children a grave work of charity: the Christian must not be content with his own virtue while neglecting the salvation and moral formation of the young.
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Treat Catholic formation as a duty that cannot be postponed. Teach doctrine and morals to the young, give special care to those without privilege, support faithful teachers, and build habits and institutions capable of outlasting personal enthusiasm.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Christ Is King Over Public Life

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The Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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. The Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.

The grace to be practiced is Patient Catholic formation of the young, 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 fidelity to grace by resisting every mortal sin and promptly correcting deliberate venial sin.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 patient Catholic formation of the young 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. Accept the discipline by which Christ conforms His members to the crucified Head. Fulfill all the duties of your state as a member of Christ whose conduct must honor the whole Mystical Body.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Teach Catholic truth patiently to the children or beginners entrusted to you, explaining every unfamiliar word.

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Catholic education forms the child's soul for truth, prayer, virtue, duty, and eternal life.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Who hath a stronger battle than he that laboureth to overcome himself?”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12

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The decisive field of combat is within. Heresy must be hated, and so must the pride, curiosity, compromise, and self-will by which falsehood finds lodging in the soul.

Many souls desire victory in the Church while making peace with the tyrant within. Begin the restoration where grace has placed authority in your hands: over your next thought, word, appetite, and decision. A hidden victory over self-will is no small service to the City of God.

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Today's Practice

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Refuse the demands of self-will promptly and without complaint.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine whether your conduct preserved the likeness of Christ or wounded His members, and seek contrition and amendment through Mary.

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O God, through St. John Baptist de la Salle, bless parents and teachers. Give them patience to instruct the young clearly and courage to protect them from error.

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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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