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Outside the Church There Is No Salvation. Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God.","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. Clotilde, Queen and Widow\n2026-06-03 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nDivine Providence: God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Clotilde used the influence given to her as wife, queen, and mother through prayer, counsel, endurance, and quiet firmness. Her life teaches souls who cannot command another person's conversion to keep loving, praying, speaking truthfully, and waiting upon grace without manipulation or discouragement. Invite the Holy Ghost to find in your soul a sincere union with His faithful Spouse and a generous readiness for His grace. Invoke the Holy Ghost and renew your consecration to Jesus through Mary with a firm purpose to cooperate with grace all day.\n\n\"When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fulness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which she makes room for her Spouse.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 36\n\nThe Holy Ghost is God, the uncreated source of sanctifying grace; Our Lady is His immaculate creature and faithful Spouse. St. Louis de Montfort's language magnifies the divine choice by which the Holy Ghost formed Christ in Mary and continues to form the likeness of Christ in souls united to her.\n\nMaking room is not a technique that obliges God. It is the removal of resistance: mortal sin, attachment to venial sin, neglect of prayer, contempt for doctrine, refusal of duty, and distrust of grace. Ask Mary to teach you her fiat, then cooperate with every actual grace throughout the entire day.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray by name for the conversion of spouses, relatives, friends, and rulers, and offer quiet sacrifices for their souls.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.\"\nSt. Paul, Philippians 2:8, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Sacred Heart - Day 1 of 9\n\nPreparing for Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on 2026-06-12.\n\nPETITION\nAsk for reparation, meekness, humility, perseverance, and love that answers coldness toward Our Lord.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nOffer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for sacrilege, indifference, false worship, and coldness toward the Sacred Heart.\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 3\nAt Arezzo, in Tuscany, during the persecution of Decius, under the governor Tiburtius, the holy martyrs Pergentinus and Laurentinus, brothers, who, while yet children, were put to the sword, after they had endured cruel torments and performed many miracles. — At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Lucillian and four boys, Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Denis. Lucillian, formerly a pagan priest, but now a Christian, was cast into a furnace with them, after undergoing many torments; but the flames being extinguished by the rain, all escaped uninjured. Finally, under the governor Silvanus, they terminated their career; Lucillian, by crucifixion, the children, by decapitation. — In the same city, St. Paula, virgin and martyr, who was arrested whilst gathering the blood of the martyrs just mentioned, beaten with rods, and thrown into the fire, from which she was delivered. Finally, when St. Lucillian had been crucified, she was decapitated. — At Cordova, in Spain, blessed Isaac, a monk, who died by the sword for the faith of Christ. — At Carthage, St. Caecilius, the priest who converted St. Cyprian to the faith of Christ. — In the diocese of Orleans, St. Lifard, priest and confessor. — At Lucca, in Tuscany, St. Davinus, confessor. — At Paris, St. Clo tilde, queen, by whose prayers her husband, king Clovis, was converted to the faith of Christ. — At Anagni, St. Oliva, virgin.\n\nTODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST\nSt. Clotilde\nQueen and widow whose prayer helped a nation toward Christ.\nSt. Clotilde is honored as queen and widow, remembered for faith, patience, prayer, and influence in the conversion of Clovis.\nHer feast teaches that a Catholic wife, mother, or ruler may serve souls through prayer, counsel, endurance, and quiet firmness.\nAsk St. Clotilde for patient courage. The soul that cannot command may still pray, witness, advise, and suffer fruitfully under God.\nFROM MATINS\nThe queen whose prayers labored for the conversion of her husband.\nMartyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Clotilde, Queen and Widow\nRoman Martyrology\n\"By whose prayers her husband, King Clovis, was converted.\"\n- The Roman Martyrology remembers St. Clotilde through the conversion of King Clovis, joining royal marriage and intercessory prayer to the public triumph of the Faith.\n- Her witness teaches that love for an unbelieving spouse cannot be content with religious coexistence. Catholic charity desires conversion to Christ and entrusts that desire perseveringly to God.\n- Prayer for conversion is neither coercion nor indifference: it seeks the freedom of the soul from error and its entrance into the true Faith.\nPray perseveringly for the conversion of those closest to you, especially within the household. Love them tenderly as persons while refusing to treat unbelief or religious error as harmless to their eternal salvation.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nRoman Martyrology Notice - June 3\nAt Paris, St. Clotilde, queen, by whose prayers her husband, King Clovis, was converted to the Faith of Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nOutside the Church There Is No Salvation\nThe Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.\nThe grace to be practiced is Patient influence under grace, 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 docility by promptly following every known duty and every holy inspiration consistent with the Faith and your state of life.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 influence under grace 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. Let contradiction reveal and enlarge the places where self-will has left too little room for the action of grace. Remove the deliberate distractions, sinful occasions, resentments, and delays that hinder recollection and faithful obedience.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius IX.\nYour resolution before God: Pray by name for the conversion of spouses, relatives, friends, and rulers, and offer quiet sacrifices for their souls.\nCarry this word: Patient charity neither forces conversion nor ceases to pray for it.\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\nThank the Holy Ghost for His inspirations, repent of every resistance, and ask Our Lady to prepare a more generous welcome tomorrow.\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. Clotilde, give me patience for souls who change slowly. Make my influence truthful, gentle, persevering, and wholly dependent upon Thy grace.\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\nWhy Sincerity Cannot Replace the One True Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/why-sincerity-cannot-replace-the-one-true-church?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-06-03&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-06-03&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. Clotilde, Queen and Widow - 2026-06-03\n \n \n
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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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St. Clotilde, Queen and Widow

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2026-06-03 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white

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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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Divine Providence
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God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.

The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.

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Today in the Roman Year

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St. Clotilde used the influence given to her as wife, queen, and mother through prayer, counsel, endurance, and quiet firmness. Her life teaches souls who cannot command another person's conversion to keep loving, praying, speaking truthfully, and waiting upon grace without manipulation or discouragement.

Invite the Holy Ghost to find in your soul a sincere union with His faithful Spouse and a generous readiness for His grace.

Invoke the Holy Ghost and renew your consecration to Jesus through Mary with a firm purpose to cooperate with grace all day.

“When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fulness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which she makes room for her Spouse.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 36

The Holy Ghost is God, the uncreated source of sanctifying grace; Our Lady is His immaculate creature and faithful Spouse. St. Louis de Montfort's language magnifies the divine choice by which the Holy Ghost formed Christ in Mary and continues to form the likeness of Christ in souls united to her.

Making room is not a technique that obliges God. It is the removal of resistance: mortal sin, attachment to venial sin, neglect of prayer, contempt for doctrine, refusal of duty, and distrust of grace. Ask Mary to teach you her fiat, then cooperate with every actual grace throughout the entire day.

Pray by name for the conversion of spouses, relatives, friends, and rulers, and offer quiet sacrifices for their souls.

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“He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.”
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St. Paul, Philippians 2:8, Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Day 1 of 9

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Novena to the Sacred Heart

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Preparing for Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on 2026-06-12.

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Petition

Ask for reparation, meekness, humility, perseverance, and love that answers coldness toward Our Lord.

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A Faithful Act

Offer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for sacrilege, indifference, false worship, and coldness toward the Sacred Heart.

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Roman Martyrology - June 3

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At Arezzo, in Tuscany, during the persecution of Decius, under the governor Tiburtius, the holy martyrs Pergentinus and Laurentinus, brothers, who, while yet children, were put to the sword, after they had endured cruel torments and performed many miracles. — At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Lucillian and four boys, Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Denis. Lucillian, formerly a pagan priest, but now a Christian, was cast into a furnace with them, after undergoing many torments; but the flames being extinguished by the rain, all escaped uninjured. Finally, under the governor Silvanus, they terminated their career; Lucillian, by crucifixion, the children, by decapitation. — In the same city, St. Paula, virgin and martyr, who was arrested whilst gathering the blood of the martyrs just mentioned, beaten with rods, and thrown into the fire, from which she was delivered. Finally, when St. Lucillian had been crucified, she was decapitated. — At Cordova, in Spain, blessed Isaac, a monk, who died by the sword for the faith of Christ. — At Carthage, St. Caecilius, the priest who converted St. Cyprian to the faith of Christ. — In the diocese of Orleans, St. Lifard, priest and confessor. — At Lucca, in Tuscany, St. Davinus, confessor. — At Paris, St. Clo tilde, queen, by whose prayers her husband, king Clovis, was converted to the faith of Christ. — At Anagni, St. Oliva, virgin.

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St. Clotilde

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Queen and widow whose prayer helped a nation toward Christ.

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St. Clotilde is honored as queen and widow, remembered for faith, patience, prayer, and influence in the conversion of Clovis.

Her feast teaches that a Catholic wife, mother, or ruler may serve souls through prayer, counsel, endurance, and quiet firmness.

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Ask St. Clotilde for patient courage. The soul that cannot command may still pray, witness, advise, and suffer fruitfully under God.

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From Matins

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The queen whose prayers labored for the conversion of her husband.

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Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Clotilde, Queen and Widow

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Roman Martyrology, June 3 notice for St. Clotilde

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  • The Roman Martyrology remembers St. Clotilde through the conversion of King Clovis, joining royal marriage and intercessory prayer to the public triumph of the Faith.
  • Her witness teaches that love for an unbelieving spouse cannot be content with religious coexistence. Catholic charity desires conversion to Christ and entrusts that desire perseveringly to God.
  • Prayer for conversion is neither coercion nor indifference: it seeks the freedom of the soul from error and its entrance into the true Faith.
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Pray perseveringly for the conversion of those closest to you, especially within the household. Love them tenderly as persons while refusing to treat unbelief or religious error as harmless to their eternal salvation.

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Roman Martyrology Notice - June 3

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At Paris, St. Clotilde, queen, by whose prayers her husband, King Clovis, was converted to the Faith of Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Outside the Church There Is No Salvation

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The Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.

The grace to be practiced is Patient influence under grace, 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 docility by promptly following every known duty and every holy inspiration consistent with the Faith and your state of life.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 influence under grace 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. Let contradiction reveal and enlarge the places where self-will has left too little room for the action of grace. Remove the deliberate distractions, sinful occasions, resentments, and delays that hinder recollection and faithful obedience.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray by name for the conversion of spouses, relatives, friends, and rulers, and offer quiet sacrifices for their souls.

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Patient charity neither forces conversion nor ceases to pray for it.
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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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Thank the Holy Ghost for His inspirations, repent of every resistance, and ask Our Lady to prepare a more generous welcome tomorrow.

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O God, through St. Clotilde, give me patience for souls who change slowly. Make my influence truthful, gentle, persevering, and wholly dependent upon Thy grace.

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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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