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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\nDay within the Octave of St. John the Baptist\n2026-06-27 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe octave of St. John the Baptist prolongs the lesson of the forerunner: penance prepares the road, humility refuses self-importance, and public testimony directs souls toward Christ. A Catholic witness is strongest when he is content to be a voice through which the Word is heard. Enter the discernment of true devotion with a willingness to surrender every vague, sentimental, or unsound idea to Catholic truth. Ask God for light to understand true devotion and humility to correct every belief, expression, motive, or practice that lacks solidity.\n\n\"I must now show in what this devotion consists. This I will do, by God's help, after I shall have first presupposed some fundamental truths, which shall throw light on that grand and solid devotion which I desire to disclose.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 60\n\nTrue devotion requires discernment. Intensity of feeling, abundance of words, attachment to an image, or multiplication of practices cannot establish its truth. St. Louis de Montfort begins with fundamental truths because devotion must rest upon revealed doctrine and lead the entire soul into God's order.\n\nLet the course examine you rather than merely informing you. Be ready to reject presumption, scrupulosity, superstition, spiritual vanity, curiosity, inconsistency, and every Marian expression that obscures Christ. Grand devotion is also solid: doctrinally exact, sacramental, virtuous, persevering, and fruitful in duty and charity.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nDecrease throughout your conversations: state needed truths clearly, omit self-display, and direct attention toward Christ.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.\"\nHoly Scripture, Proverbs 8:7–8, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Most Precious Blood - Day 6 of 9\n\nPreparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2026-07-01.\n\nPETITION\nAsk for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nOffer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 27\nIn Galatia, St. Crescens, disciple of the blessed apostle Paul. In passing through Gaul, he converted many to the Christian faith by his preaching. Returning to the people for whom especially he had been made bishop, he maintained, to the end of his life, the Galatians in the service of the Lord, and finally consummated his martyrdom under Trajan. — At Cordova, St. Zoilus, and nineteen other martyrs. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Urbanus, St. Anectus, martyr. For having exhorted others to suffer martyrdom, and overthrown idols by his prayers, he was scourged by ten soldiers, had his hands and feet cut off, and by decapitation merited the crown of martyrdom. — At Constantinople, St. Sampson, a priest who harbored the poor. — At Warasdin, in Hungary, the holy king Ladislas, greatly renowned to this day for miracles.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nHe was not the light.\nDay within the Octave of St. John the Baptist - John 1:19-28\n\"I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.\"\nLet St. John teach you to be a voice. The voice is not diminished when the Word is heard.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nSt. John teaches the faithful to bear witness without taking the place of the Light.\nThe octave prolongs his lesson of humility, penance, and public testimony to Christ.\nThe Baptist is strong because he is not self-important. He can speak plainly because he has accepted his place before God.\nError corrected: The religious self-importance that wants to be seen more than it wants Christ to be known.\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\nDay within the Octave of St. John the Baptist\nThe forerunner still pointing away from himself to Christ.\nThe octave of St. John the Baptist prolongs the Church's remembrance of the prophet born to prepare the way of the Lord.\nHis witness remains humility, penance, and public testimony: he is not the Light, but is sent to give testimony of the Light.\nStay with St. John through the octave. The faithful witness is content to be a voice, so long as Christ is heard.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe voice still preparing the way.\nMatins - Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist\n- The octave keeps St. John the Baptist before the Church after his Nativity, prolonging the memory of the prophet who prepared the way of the Lord.\n- His witness teaches penance, humility, and testimony ordered wholly to Christ.\nBecome smaller in the right way. The voice is faithful when the Word is heard.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist 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 voice still preparing the way.. Its first point is this: The octave keeps St. John the Baptist before the Church after his Nativity, prolonging the memory of the prophet who prepared the way of the Lord. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches penance, humility, and testimony ordered wholly to Christ.\nThe practical instruction is: Become smaller in the right way. The voice is faithful when the Word is heard. 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 voice remains only so that Christ may be heard.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist\nSt. John the Apostle and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo\n\"He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.\"\n- The octave prolongs the Nativity of St. John Baptist so that the Precursor's mission may be received as a rule for every Catholic witness.\n- St. John was sent from God, yet he denied every title that would obscure Christ. He accepted being a voice because the Word alone is the saving Light.\n- St. Augustine's Breviary lesson joins John's sanctified beginning to his whole vocation: heralding Christ, preparing souls by penance, and rejoicing when the Bridegroom increases.\nDecrease wherever self-importance has entered religious work. Speak, teach, pray, and perform penance so that Christ is known and obeyed—not so that the witness becomes the center.\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 Humble witness to Christ, 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 teachability by receiving fundamental Catholic truths before trusting preference, emotion, habit, private interpretation, or appearance.\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 humble witness to Christ 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 loss of cherished religious ideas or practices if careful examination shows them to be false, exaggerated, or disordered. Make every devotion doctrinally sound, centered upon Christ, joined to Catholic worship, and fruitful throughout all commandments and duties.\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: Decrease throughout your conversations: state needed truths clearly, omit self-display, and direct attention toward Christ.\nCarry this word: Religious witness fails when it seeks attention for the messenger instead of Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55\nHuman approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.\n\nThe desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.\nToday's Practice: Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine the foundations beneath your devotional life and ask for grace to rebuild every unstable part upon revealed truth.\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, through St. John the Baptist, make my witness humble and plain. Remove the desire to be admired, and let every true word prepare a straighter way to Thee.\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=2026-06-27&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-06-27&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: Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist - 2026-06-27\n \n \n
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“Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.”

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Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist

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2026-06-27 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - 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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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.
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Today in the Roman Year

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The octave of St. John the Baptist prolongs the lesson of the forerunner: penance prepares the road, humility refuses self-importance, and public testimony directs souls toward Christ. A Catholic witness is strongest when he is content to be a voice through which the Word is heard.

Enter the discernment of true devotion with a willingness to surrender every vague, sentimental, or unsound idea to Catholic truth.

Ask God for light to understand true devotion and humility to correct every belief, expression, motive, or practice that lacks solidity.

“I must now show in what this devotion consists. This I will do, by God's help, after I shall have first presupposed some fundamental truths, which shall throw light on that grand and solid devotion which I desire to disclose.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 60

True devotion requires discernment. Intensity of feeling, abundance of words, attachment to an image, or multiplication of practices cannot establish its truth. St. Louis de Montfort begins with fundamental truths because devotion must rest upon revealed doctrine and lead the entire soul into God's order.

Let the course examine you rather than merely informing you. Be ready to reject presumption, scrupulosity, superstition, spiritual vanity, curiosity, inconsistency, and every Marian expression that obscures Christ. Grand devotion is also solid: doctrinally exact, sacramental, virtuous, persevering, and fruitful in duty and charity.

Decrease throughout your conversations: state needed truths clearly, omit self-display, and direct attention toward Christ.

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Quote of the Day

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“My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.”
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Holy Scripture, Proverbs 8:7–8, Original Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Day 6 of 9

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Novena to the Most Precious Blood

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Preparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2026-07-01.

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Petition

Ask for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.

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A Faithful Act

Offer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.

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Roman Martyrology - June 27

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In Galatia, St. Crescens, disciple of the blessed apostle Paul. In passing through Gaul, he converted many to the Christian faith by his preaching. Returning to the people for whom especially he had been made bishop, he maintained, to the end of his life, the Galatians in the service of the Lord, and finally consummated his martyrdom under Trajan. — At Cordova, St. Zoilus, and nineteen other martyrs. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Urbanus, St. Anectus, martyr. For having exhorted others to suffer martyrdom, and overthrown idols by his prayers, he was scourged by ten soldiers, had his hands and feet cut off, and by decapitation merited the crown of martyrdom. — At Constantinople, St. Sampson, a priest who harbored the poor. — At Warasdin, in Hungary, the holy king Ladislas, greatly renowned to this day for miracles.

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He was not the light.

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Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist - John 1:19-28

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“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.”
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Let St. John teach you to be a voice. The voice is not diminished when the Word is heard.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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St. John teaches the faithful to bear witness without taking the place of the Light.

The octave prolongs his lesson of humility, penance, and public testimony to Christ.

The Baptist is strong because he is not self-important. He can speak plainly because he has accepted his place before God.

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Error corrected: The religious self-importance that wants to be seen more than it wants Christ to be known.

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Today's Saint or Feast

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Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist

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The forerunner still pointing away from himself to Christ.

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The octave of St. John the Baptist prolongs the Church's remembrance of the prophet born to prepare the way of the Lord.

His witness remains humility, penance, and public testimony: he is not the Light, but is sent to give testimony of the Light.

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Stay with St. John through the octave. The faithful witness is content to be a voice, so long as Christ is heard.

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Breviary Witness

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The voice still preparing the way.

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Matins - Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist

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Become smaller in the right way. The voice is faithful when the Word is heard.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist 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 voice still preparing the way.. Its first point is this: The octave keeps St. John the Baptist before the Church after his Nativity, prolonging the memory of the prophet who prepared the way of the Lord. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches penance, humility, and testimony ordered wholly to Christ.

The practical instruction is: Become smaller in the right way. The voice is faithful when the Word is heard. 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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From Matins

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The voice remains only so that Christ may be heard.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - Day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist

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St. John the Apostle and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, John 1 and the Breviary sermon on St. John the Baptist

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“He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.”
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  • The octave prolongs the Nativity of St. John Baptist so that the Precursor's mission may be received as a rule for every Catholic witness.
  • St. John was sent from God, yet he denied every title that would obscure Christ. He accepted being a voice because the Word alone is the saving Light.
  • St. Augustine's Breviary lesson joins John's sanctified beginning to his whole vocation: heralding Christ, preparing souls by penance, and rejoicing when the Bridegroom increases.
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Decrease wherever self-importance has entered religious work. Speak, teach, pray, and perform penance so that Christ is known and obeyed—not so that the witness becomes the center.

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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 Humble witness to Christ, 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 teachability by receiving fundamental Catholic truths before trusting preference, emotion, habit, private interpretation, or appearance.

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 humble witness to Christ 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 loss of cherished religious ideas or practices if careful examination shows them to be false, exaggerated, or disordered. Make every devotion doctrinally sound, centered upon Christ, joined to Catholic worship, and fruitful throughout all commandments and duties.

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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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Decrease throughout your conversations: state needed truths clearly, omit self-display, and direct attention toward Christ.

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Religious witness fails when it seeks attention for the messenger instead of Christ.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55

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Human approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.

The desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.

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Today's Practice

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Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine the foundations beneath your devotional life and ask for grace to rebuild every unstable part upon revealed truth.

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Prayer

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O Lord, through St. John the Baptist, make my witness humble and plain. Remove the desire to be admired, and let every true word prepare a straighter way to Thee.

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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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