{"ok":true,"date":"2026-07-06","dateKey":"07-06","liturgicalDay":"Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles","rank":"Greater Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own prudence. In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Proverbs 3:5–6, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#confidence-in-god","category":"Confidence and Daily Self-Denial"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Common Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul","rank":"Common Octave","color":"red","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, pp. xxii–xxiii."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - 2026-07-06","previewText":"Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles. The Cross Is Daily. Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles\n2026-07-06 - Time after Pentecost - Greater Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nCommemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe octave day of Ss. Peter and Paul returns to the visible foundation, public doctrine, and missionary sacrifice of the Church. The commemoration of St. Maria Goretti shows that this inherited faith must also guard purity and teach the young to prefer Christ to mortal sin. Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope. Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.\n\n\"The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259\n\nUnion with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.\n\nWhen a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own prudence. In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.\"\nHoly Scripture, Proverbs 3:5–6, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 6\nThe Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. — In Judea, the holy prophet Isaias. In the reign of king Manasses he was put to death by being sawed in two and was buried beneath the oak Rogel, near a running stream. — At Rome, the birthday of St. Tranquillinus, martyr, father of the Saints Mark and Marcellian, who were converted to Christ by the preaching of the martyr St. Sebastian. Baptized by the blessed priest Polycarp, he was ordained priest by pope St. Caius. He was arrested while praying at the tomb of blessed Paul on the Octave of the Apostles, and stoned to death by the Pagans, and thus consummated his martyrdom. — At Fiesoli, in Tuscany, St. Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, he returned to Fiesoli, and was crowned with martyrdom with other Christians in the reign of Domitian. — In Campania, St. Dominica, virgin and martyr, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, she was beheaded and departed for heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria. — The same day, St. Lucia, martyr, a native of Campania. Being arrested and severely tortured by the lieutenant-governor Kictiovarus, she converted him to Christ. To them were added Antoninus, Severinus, Diodorus, Dion, and seventeen others, who shared their sufferings and their crowns. — In the vicinity of Treves, St. Goar, priest and confessor.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nUpon this rock I will build my Church.\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - Matthew 16:13-19\n\"Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church.\"\nStay with the apostolic pillars a little longer. The Church teaches by returning, repeating, and letting holy truths sink deeper.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe octave keeps the apostolic foundation before the Church beyond a single feast day.\nPeter's confession and Paul's labor remain one witness to Christ, truth received and truth preached.\nError corrected: The impatience that lets major feasts pass without letting them form memory.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul\nThe apostolic foundation remembered again.\nThe Martyrology keeps July 6 as the Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.\nThe octave day returns the faithful to the Roman apostolic foundation: Peter's keys, Paul's mission, and the Church's public witness sealed by blood.\nDo not hurry away from the apostles. The octave day teaches the soul to return to foundations until obedience becomes steadier than reaction.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe apostles remembered on the octave day.\nMatins - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul\n- The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly.\n- The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.\nReturn to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul 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 apostles remembered on the octave day.. Its first point is this: The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly. Its next point develops the lesson: The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.\nThe practical instruction is: Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation. 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\nRome made bright by the twin pillars of the Church.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles\nSt. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople\n\"Your tongues were blessed instruments; it was for the Church's sake that your limbs were bloody.\"\n- The Octave Day keeps the Church before the toil, preaching, sufferings, and martyrdoms of the two great Apostles.\n- St. John Chrysostom honors Peter and Paul as soldiers of Christ whose prisons, fetters, wounds, and blood made the Churches glad.\n- Rome is praised not chiefly for earthly grandeur, but because the bodies of Peter and Paul adorn her as two bright eyes and two pillars of the Church.\nMeasure Catholic greatness by apostolic sacrifice, not worldly splendor. The Church is made illustrious by faith preached, suffering borne, and blood spent for Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Cross Is Daily\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.\nThe grace to be practiced is Persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles, 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. Imitate Mary's fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles 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. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.\nCarry this word: Apostolic fidelity protects both doctrine and the purity of souls.\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\nPlace every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.\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 Thy apostles and St. Maria Goretti, preserve the Faith in its integrity and keep the young courageous before sin.\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\nTake Up Thy Cross Daily: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/luke-9-23-deny-thyself-take-up-thy-cross-daily-and-the-standard-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-07-06&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-07-06&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: Octave of Ss. 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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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The octave day of Ss. Peter and Paul returns to the visible foundation, public doctrine, and missionary sacrifice of the Church. The commemoration of St. Maria Goretti shows that this inherited faith must also guard purity and teach the young to prefer Christ to mortal sin.

Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope.

Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.

“The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259

Union with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.

When a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.

Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.

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“Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own prudence. In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.”
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Holy Scripture, Proverbs 3:5–6, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - July 6

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The Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. — In Judea, the holy prophet Isaias. In the reign of king Manasses he was put to death by being sawed in two and was buried beneath the oak Rogel, near a running stream. — At Rome, the birthday of St. Tranquillinus, martyr, father of the Saints Mark and Marcellian, who were converted to Christ by the preaching of the martyr St. Sebastian. Baptized by the blessed priest Polycarp, he was ordained priest by pope St. Caius. He was arrested while praying at the tomb of blessed Paul on the Octave of the Apostles, and stoned to death by the Pagans, and thus consummated his martyrdom. — At Fiesoli, in Tuscany, St. Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, he returned to Fiesoli, and was crowned with martyrdom with other Christians in the reign of Domitian. — In Campania, St. Dominica, virgin and martyr, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, she was beheaded and departed for heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria. — The same day, St. Lucia, martyr, a native of Campania. Being arrested and severely tortured by the lieutenant-governor Kictiovarus, she converted him to Christ. To them were added Antoninus, Severinus, Diodorus, Dion, and seventeen others, who shared their sufferings and their crowns. — In the vicinity of Treves, St. Goar, priest and confessor.

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Upon this rock I will build my Church.

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Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - Matthew 16:13-19

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“Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church.”
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Stay with the apostolic pillars a little longer. The Church teaches by returning, repeating, and letting holy truths sink deeper.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The octave keeps the apostolic foundation before the Church beyond a single feast day.

Peter's confession and Paul's labor remain one witness to Christ, truth received and truth preached.

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Error corrected: The impatience that lets major feasts pass without letting them form memory.

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The apostolic foundation remembered again.

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The Martyrology keeps July 6 as the Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.

The octave day returns the faithful to the Roman apostolic foundation: Peter's keys, Paul's mission, and the Church's public witness sealed by blood.

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Do not hurry away from the apostles. The octave day teaches the soul to return to foundations until obedience becomes steadier than reaction.

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Matins - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul

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Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul 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 apostles remembered on the octave day.. Its first point is this: The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly. Its next point develops the lesson: The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.

The practical instruction is: Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation. 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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Rome made bright by the twin pillars of the Church.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles

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St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, Sermon on Ss. Peter and Paul

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“Your tongues were blessed instruments; it was for the Church's sake that your limbs were bloody.”
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  • St. John Chrysostom honors Peter and Paul as soldiers of Christ whose prisons, fetters, wounds, and blood made the Churches glad.
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Measure Catholic greatness by apostolic sacrifice, not worldly splendor. The Church is made illustrious by faith preached, suffering borne, and blood spent for Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Cross Is Daily

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The Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.

The grace to be practiced is Persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles, 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. Imitate Mary's fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles 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. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.

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Apostolic fidelity protects both doctrine and the purity of souls.
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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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Place every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.

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O Lord, through Thy apostles and St. Maria Goretti, preserve the Faith in its integrity and keep the young courageous before sin.

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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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