{"ok":true,"date":"2026-10-01","dateKey":"10-01","liturgicalDay":"St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor","rank":"Simple","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#all-things-work-together","category":"Divine Providence"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus","feast":"St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus","day":8,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2026-09-24","feastIsoDate":"2026-10-03","dayTitle":"Doing Good to Souls","meditation":"St. Thérèse desired to spend heaven doing good upon earth. 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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. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor\n2026-10-01 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\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.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\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. Remigius did not offer Clovis a vague improvement of character. He taught him the mysteries of the Faith and brought him to baptism, because conversion places the whole man beneath Jesus Christ. Pray today that rulers, families, and nations may receive Catholic truth as a command to believe, worship, and live differently. With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world. Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.\n\n\"He that is mighty hath done great things to me.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49\n\nOur Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.\n\nRecall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.\n\nPRACTICE\nPause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.\"\nHoly Scripture, Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus - Day 8 of 9\n\nPreparing for St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus on 2026-10-03.\n\nTODAY'S MYSTERY\nDoing Good to Souls\n\nPREPARATORY PRAYER\nO glorious Teresa of the Infant Jesus, through whose unshaken confidence God was so glorified, obtain for me the same filial trust and love which animated thy innocent heart and soul. Grant that I may practice self-abnegation, patience and confidence, and that my confidence may be a fountain of blessings which God pours out upon me. As confidence was for thee the key to the greatest treasures of God, so it may induce me to throw myself into my Saviour’s arms and say with David: ‘In Thee, O my God, I put my trust, let me not be confounded.’ Amen.\n\nMEDITATION\nSt. Thérèse desired to spend heaven doing good upon earth. Her charity teaches that even a hidden soul can labor for the salvation and encouragement of others through prayer, sacrifice, good example, and patient service.\n\nPETITION\nO my God and my love, give me on this earth the same mission Thou gavest to Thy Little Flower in heaven, of passing life in doing good to my neighbor. O Jesus, help me to console little souls and encourage them to love Thee; let them love Thee as much as Thy Immaculate Mother, Thy foster-father St. Joseph, Thy holy angels and Thy cherished Little Teresa loved Thee. Allow me to pray with her: ‘Let Thy divine glance rest upon a vast number of little souls, worthy victims of Thy love.’ Amen.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nConsole, instruct, or assist one soul quietly today. Add a hidden prayer and sacrifice for someone whose faith or salvation is endangered.\n\nCONCLUSION\nPray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be. Then pray the Act of Oblation of Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus: My Lord and my God! O Most Blessed Trinity! I desire to love Thee and to make Thee loved by mankind. Since Thou hast loved me so much as to give me the only begotten Son for my Saviour and my Spouse, the infinite treasures of His merits are mine. These merits I offer to Thee with joy, beseeching Thee to behold me only as in the Face of Jesus, and in His Sacred Heart burning with love. Moreover, I offer Thee all the merits of the saints—in heaven and on earth—together with their acts of love, and those of the holy Angels. Lastly, I offer Thee, O Blessed Trinity, the love and merits of the Blessed Virgin, my dearest Mother. To her I entrust this oblation, begging her to present it to Thee. Amen. Holy Child Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Victories, pray for us. Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus, pray for us. Little Flower of Jesus, pray for us. Amen.\nNovena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 4 of 9\n\nPreparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2026-10-07.\n\nPETITION\nAsk for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nPray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 1\nAt Rheinis, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of. faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated. — At Rome, blessed Aretas and five hundred and four other martyrs. — At Tomis, in Pontus, the holy martyrs Priscus, Crescens, and Evagrius. — At Lisbon, in Portugal, the holy martyrs Verissimus, and his sisters, Maxima and Julia, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian. — At Tournay, St. Piaton, priest and martyr, who, with blessed Quinctinus and his companions, went from Rome to Gaul to preach the faith, and afterwards, in the persecution of Maximian, having consummated his martyrdom, passed from earth to heaven. — At Thessalonica, St. Domninus, martyr, under the same Maximian. — At Ghent, St. Bavo, confessor. — At Orvieto, St. Severus, priest and confessor.\n\nTODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST\nSt. Remigius\nBishop who baptized Clovis and instructed the Franks.\nThe Martyrology honors St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated King Clovis in the sacred font, and instructed him in the mysteries of faith.\nHis feast teaches that nations are not converted by vague religious feeling, but by baptism, doctrine, pastoral authority, and the patient instruction of rulers and people.\nAsk St. Remigius for Catholic largeness of mind. The faith is not private decoration; Christ claims souls, households, rulers, and nations.\nFROM MATINS\nThe bishop who brought a king and people to the font.\nMatins - One Nocturn - St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"By doctrine and miracles he led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.\"\n- The Breviary honors St. Remigius as the Bishop of Rheims who baptized King Clovis and, by doctrine and miracles, led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.\n- His mission joins preaching and sacramental regeneration. Neither a ruler nor a people is converted by vague admiration for Christianity, but by receiving the revealed Faith and entering the baptismal order of Christ.\n- His interpretation of Sacred Scripture and more than seventy years governing the Church of Rheims show national conversion sustained by learned teaching, episcopal authority, pastoral perseverance, and holiness of life.\nPray for the conversion not only of individual souls but also of households, rulers, and peoples. Live the promises of your Baptism, learn the Catholic Faith well enough to hand it on, and reject the claim that public life may rightly remain indifferent to Christ the King.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nThird Lesson - King and People Led to the Faith of Christ\nRemigius, Bishop of Rheims, flourished when Clovis was King of the Franks. He baptized Clovis and was the first, by doctrine and miracles, to lead the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord. At his prayer a dead girl returned to life. He interpreted many books of Sacred Scripture. For more than seventy years he governed the Church of Rheims with the highest praise. Many miracles which followed bore witness to the holiness of his life and death.\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 Apostolic instruction of peoples, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.\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 apostolic instruction of peoples 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. When a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.\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: Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.\nCarry this word: Prayer keeps the day from becoming self-ruled.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Virtue appeareth best in time of adversity. Occasions make not a man frail, but they shew openly what he is.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 16, p. 27\nThe trial does not excuse the fault; it reveals where grace must be received and nature mortified. Do not waste the revelation God permits.\n\nWhen adversity uncovers impatience or fear, do not conclude that every previous effort was false. Thank God for showing you where the wall remains weak. Humble yourself, ask pardon if another was wounded, and return to the battle with a more honest knowledge of your need for grace.\nToday's Practice: At the next contradiction, name the virtue being tested and practice it once.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.\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, recollect my scattered thoughts, govern my words, and teach me to return to Thee before the noise of the day rules my soul.\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=2026-10-01&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-10-01&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. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor - 2026-10-01\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. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor

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2026-10-01 - 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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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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belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
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a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.

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. Remigius did not offer Clovis a vague improvement of character. He taught him the mysteries of the Faith and brought him to baptism, because conversion places the whole man beneath Jesus Christ. Pray today that rulers, families, and nations may receive Catholic truth as a command to believe, worship, and live differently.

With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world.

Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.

“He that is mighty hath done great things to me.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49

Our Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.

Recall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.

Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.

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“And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.”
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Holy Scripture, Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Day 8 of 9

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Novena to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus

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Preparing for St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus on 2026-10-03.

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Today's Mystery

Doing Good to Souls

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Preparatory Prayer

O glorious Teresa of the Infant Jesus, through whose unshaken confidence God was so glorified, obtain for me the same filial trust and love which animated thy innocent heart and soul. Grant that I may practice self-abnegation, patience and confidence, and that my confidence may be a fountain of blessings which God pours out upon me. As confidence was for thee the key to the greatest treasures of God, so it may induce me to throw myself into my Saviour’s arms and say with David: ‘In Thee, O my God, I put my trust, let me not be confounded.’ Amen.

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Meditation

St. Thérèse desired to spend heaven doing good upon earth. Her charity teaches that even a hidden soul can labor for the salvation and encouragement of others through prayer, sacrifice, good example, and patient service.

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Petition

O my God and my love, give me on this earth the same mission Thou gavest to Thy Little Flower in heaven, of passing life in doing good to my neighbor. O Jesus, help me to console little souls and encourage them to love Thee; let them love Thee as much as Thy Immaculate Mother, Thy foster-father St. Joseph, Thy holy angels and Thy cherished Little Teresa loved Thee. Allow me to pray with her: ‘Let Thy divine glance rest upon a vast number of little souls, worthy victims of Thy love.’ Amen.

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A Faithful Act

Console, instruct, or assist one soul quietly today. Add a hidden prayer and sacrifice for someone whose faith or salvation is endangered.

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Conclusion

Pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be. Then pray the Act of Oblation of Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus: My Lord and my God! O Most Blessed Trinity! I desire to love Thee and to make Thee loved by mankind. Since Thou hast loved me so much as to give me the only begotten Son for my Saviour and my Spouse, the infinite treasures of His merits are mine. These merits I offer to Thee with joy, beseeching Thee to behold me only as in the Face of Jesus, and in His Sacred Heart burning with love. Moreover, I offer Thee all the merits of the saints—in heaven and on earth—together with their acts of love, and those of the holy Angels. Lastly, I offer Thee, O Blessed Trinity, the love and merits of the Blessed Virgin, my dearest Mother. To her I entrust this oblation, begging her to present it to Thee. Amen. Holy Child Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Victories, pray for us. Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus, pray for us. Little Flower of Jesus, pray for us. Amen.

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Day 4 of 9

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Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary

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Preparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2026-10-07.

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Petition

Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.

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A Faithful Act

Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.

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Roman Martyrology - October 1

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At Rheinis, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of. faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated. — At Rome, blessed Aretas and five hundred and four other martyrs. — At Tomis, in Pontus, the holy martyrs Priscus, Crescens, and Evagrius. — At Lisbon, in Portugal, the holy martyrs Verissimus, and his sisters, Maxima and Julia, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian. — At Tournay, St. Piaton, priest and martyr, who, with blessed Quinctinus and his companions, went from Rome to Gaul to preach the faith, and afterwards, in the persecution of Maximian, having consummated his martyrdom, passed from earth to heaven. — At Thessalonica, St. Domninus, martyr, under the same Maximian. — At Ghent, St. Bavo, confessor. — At Orvieto, St. Severus, priest and confessor.

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St. Remigius

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Bishop who baptized Clovis and instructed the Franks.

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The Martyrology honors St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated King Clovis in the sacred font, and instructed him in the mysteries of faith.

His feast teaches that nations are not converted by vague religious feeling, but by baptism, doctrine, pastoral authority, and the patient instruction of rulers and people.

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Ask St. Remigius for Catholic largeness of mind. The faith is not private decoration; Christ claims souls, households, rulers, and nations.

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From Matins

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The bishop who brought a king and people to the font.

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Matins - One Nocturn - St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lesson for St. Remigius

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“By doctrine and miracles he led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.”
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  • The Breviary honors St. Remigius as the Bishop of Rheims who baptized King Clovis and, by doctrine and miracles, led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.
  • His mission joins preaching and sacramental regeneration. Neither a ruler nor a people is converted by vague admiration for Christianity, but by receiving the revealed Faith and entering the baptismal order of Christ.
  • His interpretation of Sacred Scripture and more than seventy years governing the Church of Rheims show national conversion sustained by learned teaching, episcopal authority, pastoral perseverance, and holiness of life.
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Pray for the conversion not only of individual souls but also of households, rulers, and peoples. Live the promises of your Baptism, learn the Catholic Faith well enough to hand it on, and reject the claim that public life may rightly remain indifferent to Christ the King.

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Full Breviary Lessons

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Third Lesson - King and People Led to the Faith of Christ

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Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, flourished when Clovis was King of the Franks. He baptized Clovis and was the first, by doctrine and miracles, to lead the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord. At his prayer a dead girl returned to life. He interpreted many books of Sacred Scripture. For more than seventy years he governed the Church of Rheims with the highest praise. Many miracles which followed bore witness to the holiness of his life and death.

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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 Apostolic instruction of peoples, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.

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 apostolic instruction of peoples 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. When a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.

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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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Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Virtue appeareth best in time of adversity. Occasions make not a man frail, but they shew openly what he is.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 16, p. 27

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The trial does not excuse the fault; it reveals where grace must be received and nature mortified. Do not waste the revelation God permits.

When adversity uncovers impatience or fear, do not conclude that every previous effort was false. Thank God for showing you where the wall remains weak. Humble yourself, ask pardon if another was wounded, and return to the battle with a more honest knowledge of your need for grace.

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Today's Practice

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At the next contradiction, name the virtue being tested and practice it once.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.

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  • What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?
  • What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?
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Prayer

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O Lord, recollect my scattered thoughts, govern my words, and teach me to return to Thee before the noise of the day rules my soul.

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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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