{"ok":true,"date":"2027-01-25","dateKey":"01-25","liturgicalDay":"Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle","rank":"Greater Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?","author":"St. Paul","source":"Acts 9:6, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Septuagesima","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to Our Lady of Good Success","feast":"Our Lady of Good Success","day":2,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2027-01-24","feastIsoDate":"2027-02-02","intention":"Ask Our Lady for fidelity in crisis, protection against corruption of faith and morals, and hope beneath the trials of the Church.","prayer":null,"practice":"Pray for Catholic homes, mothers, children, vocations, and souls confused by the errors of the age.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle - 2027-01-25","previewText":"Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. The Four Marks Are Not Decorative. Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nConversion of St. Paul, Apostle\n2027-01-25 - Septuagesima - Greater Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nGentiles: in this biblical setting, the peoples and nations outside Israel; their call shows that Christ came as Savior for every nation.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nToday the Church recalls that Christ entrusted His doctrine, sacraments, and authority to the apostles and commanded them to hand these gifts on. Catholics therefore receive the Faith from the Church rather than inventing it privately. They must also remember that sacred office is meant to serve revealed truth: holding an office and remaining faithful to its duties are related, but they are not identical. With Mary, ponder the mysteries of Christ and let revealed truth govern the day. Keep the mysteries of the Rosary near the mind today. Ask Our Lady to teach what they demand of faith, worship, and conduct.\n\n\"We must do all our actions with Mary; that is to say, we must in all our actions regard Mary as an accomplished model of every virtue and perfection which the Holy Ghost has formed in a pure creature for us to imitate according to our little measure.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 260\n\nTo walk with Mary is first to look steadily at what God made her: humble under praise, recollected amid great mysteries, obedient without bargaining, pure in intention, and faithful when fidelity led beneath the Cross. Admiration that never becomes imitation remains unfinished devotion.\n\nAsk which of these dispositions is most absent from your conduct today. Strive for every virtue that duty requires, while giving particular attention to the one most opposed by your usual fault. Beg for it through Our Lady and practice it in the very circumstance where that fault ordinarily appears.\n\nPRACTICE\nShow reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?\"\nSt. Paul, Acts 9:6, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to Our Lady of Good Success - Day 2 of 9\nPreparing for Our Lady of Good Success on 2027-02-02.\nAsk Our Lady for fidelity in crisis, protection against corruption of faith and morals, and hope beneath the trials of the Church.\n\nPray for Catholic homes, mothers, children, vocations, and souls confused by the errors of the age.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - January 25\nThe conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, which happened the second year after the Ascension of our Lord. — At Damascus, the birthday of St. Ananias, who baptized that apostle. After he had preached the Gospel at Damascus, Eleutheropolis, and elsewhere, he was scourged under the judge Licinius, had his flesh torn, and lastly being overwhelmed with stones, ended his martyrdom. — At Antioch, in the time of Julian the Apostate, the holy martyrs Juventinus and Maximus, who were crowned with martyrdom. On their birthday, St. John Chrysostom preached a sermon to his people. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, the Saints Projectus, bishop, and Marinus, a man of God, who were murdered by the leading men of that city. — Also, the holy martyrs Donatus, Sabinus, and Agape. — At Tomis, in Scythia, St. Bretannion, bishop, who by his great sanctity, and his zeal for the Catholic faith, shone in the Church, under the Arian emperor Valens, whom he opposed with fortitude. — At Arras, in France, St. Poppo, abbot, renowned for miracles.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nWhat shall we have therefore?\nConversion of St. Paul, Apostle - Matthew 19:27-29\n\"Every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold.\"\nDo not despair of a hard heart, including your own. Grace can strike with light, but it still asks for the humble answer: Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe conversion of St. Paul shows that grace can conquer violent error and make a persecutor an apostle.\nChrist does not hide the cost of following Him, but promises a reward beyond earthly calculation.\nSt. Paul teaches that a soul must not defend its former blindness once Christ has shown the truth.\nError corrected: The pride that clings to a former path because conversion would be humiliating.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Conversion of St. Paul\nGrace conquering zeal without truth.\nThe Conversion of St. Paul shows Christ conquering a persecutor and making him an apostle.\nHis conversion teaches that zeal must be converted by truth. Once conquered by Christ, Paul spent himself in preaching, suffering, and guarding the Gospel.\nDo not despair of a hard heart, including your own. Grace can strike with light, but it still asks for obedience.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nGrace conquers the persecutor.\nMatins - Conversion of St. Paul\n- The Breviary keeps St. Paul's conversion as the triumph of Christ over zeal without truth.\n- The persecutor is not merely corrected; he is conquered by grace and sent as apostle.\nDo not despair of hard hearts. Pray that false zeal may be struck by light and changed into service of truth.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Conversion of St. 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 Grace conquers the persecutor.. Its first point is this: The Breviary keeps St. Paul's conversion as the triumph of Christ over zeal without truth. Its next point develops the lesson: The persecutor is not merely corrected; he is conquered by grace and sent as apostle.\nThe practical instruction is: Do not despair of hard hearts. Pray that false zeal may be struck by light and changed into service of truth. 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 persecutor struck down and raised as Apostle.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle\nActs of the Apostles and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo\n\"Christ laid low the persecutor, that He might raise him up a teacher of His Church.\"\n- The Breviary begins with Saul breathing threats and slaughter, then shows him cast down by the voice of Christ: 'I am Jesus, Whom thou persecutest.'\n- St. Augustine teaches that Christ smote and healed Paul, slew him and made him alive again, turning a wolf into a lamb.\n- The conversion reveals grace as conquest: the persecutor becomes the chosen vessel, teacher of the Gentiles, sufferer for Christ, and preacher of the Cross.\nNever despair of grace, but never soften sin. St. Paul was not improved by flattery; he was converted by Christ's sovereign mercy and then spent himself for the Gospel.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Four Marks Are Not Decorative\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The Church must be one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic because she bears the identity Christ gave her, not because men assign those titles by preference. 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 marks are tests of recognition. They prevent the faithful from confusing religious intensity, social size, antiquarian taste, or institutional claims with the true Church.\nThe grace to be practiced is Zeal converted by truth, 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 faith. She did not make private feeling the measure of God's word; she believed, obeyed, and persevered in darkness.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity. 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 zeal converted by truth 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 understanding is limited, do not abandon what God has revealed. Trust Him, hold the Catholic Faith, and fulfill the known duty. Carry your acts into the mysteries of Christ's life and offer them with the corresponding decades of the Rosary.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Robert Bellarmine.\nYour resolution before God: Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.\nCarry this word: False worship wounds souls because worship forms belief.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"I had liefer be poor with Thee, than rich without Thee.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, chapter 59, p. 173\nOlder English: “liefer” means “rather.”\nNo created success compensates for separation from Christ. Prefer His friendship, His truth, and His Cross to every advantage gained by compromise.\n\nTemptation often presents the price first and hides the loss. It tells you what obedience may cost in comfort, reputation, companionship, or opportunity, while concealing the poverty of possessing these things without peace with God. Look beyond the immediate bargain and choose with eternity in view.\nToday's Practice: Refuse every compromise made for comfort, gain, or human respect.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nPonder the day with Mary: where was Christ present, where did you resist grace, and what truth must be kept more faithfully 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 Lord, give me holy fear before Thy altar. Preserve me from casualness, invention, and every worship that weakens faith in Thy sacrifice.\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\nThe Four Marks of the Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/chapter-9-the-four-marks-of-the-church-one-holy-catholic-and-apostolic?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-01-25&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-01-25&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: Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle - 2027-01-25\n \n \n
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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 the Church recalls that Christ entrusted His doctrine, sacraments, and authority to the apostles and commanded them to hand these gifts on. Catholics therefore receive the Faith from the Church rather than inventing it privately. They must also remember that sacred office is meant to serve revealed truth: holding an office and remaining faithful to its duties are related, but they are not identical.

With Mary, ponder the mysteries of Christ and let revealed truth govern the day.

Keep the mysteries of the Rosary near the mind today. Ask Our Lady to teach what they demand of faith, worship, and conduct.

“We must do all our actions with Mary; that is to say, we must in all our actions regard Mary as an accomplished model of every virtue and perfection which the Holy Ghost has formed in a pure creature for us to imitate according to our little measure.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 260

To walk with Mary is first to look steadily at what God made her: humble under praise, recollected amid great mysteries, obedient without bargaining, pure in intention, and faithful when fidelity led beneath the Cross. Admiration that never becomes imitation remains unfinished devotion.

Ask which of these dispositions is most absent from your conduct today. Strive for every virtue that duty requires, while giving particular attention to the one most opposed by your usual fault. Beg for it through Our Lady and practice it in the very circumstance where that fault ordinarily appears.

Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.

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Preparing for Our Lady of Good Success on 2027-02-02.

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Ask Our Lady for fidelity in crisis, protection against corruption of faith and morals, and hope beneath the trials of the Church.

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Pray for Catholic homes, mothers, children, vocations, and souls confused by the errors of the age.

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The conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, which happened the second year after the Ascension of our Lord. — At Damascus, the birthday of St. Ananias, who baptized that apostle. After he had preached the Gospel at Damascus, Eleutheropolis, and elsewhere, he was scourged under the judge Licinius, had his flesh torn, and lastly being overwhelmed with stones, ended his martyrdom. — At Antioch, in the time of Julian the Apostate, the holy martyrs Juventinus and Maximus, who were crowned with martyrdom. On their birthday, St. John Chrysostom preached a sermon to his people. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, the Saints Projectus, bishop, and Marinus, a man of God, who were murdered by the leading men of that city. — Also, the holy martyrs Donatus, Sabinus, and Agape. — At Tomis, in Scythia, St. Bretannion, bishop, who by his great sanctity, and his zeal for the Catholic faith, shone in the Church, under the Arian emperor Valens, whom he opposed with fortitude. — At Arras, in France, St. Poppo, abbot, renowned for miracles.

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Do not despair of a hard heart, including your own. Grace can strike with light, but it still asks for the humble answer: Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The conversion of St. Paul shows that grace can conquer violent error and make a persecutor an apostle.

Christ does not hide the cost of following Him, but promises a reward beyond earthly calculation.

St. Paul teaches that a soul must not defend its former blindness once Christ has shown the truth.

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Error corrected: The pride that clings to a former path because conversion would be humiliating.

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The Conversion of St. Paul

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Grace conquering zeal without truth.

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The Conversion of St. Paul shows Christ conquering a persecutor and making him an apostle.

His conversion teaches that zeal must be converted by truth. Once conquered by Christ, Paul spent himself in preaching, suffering, and guarding the Gospel.

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Do not despair of a hard heart, including your own. Grace can strike with light, but it still asks for obedience.

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Grace conquers the persecutor.

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Do not despair of hard hearts. Pray that false zeal may be struck by light and changed into service of truth.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Conversion of St. 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 Grace conquers the persecutor.. Its first point is this: The Breviary keeps St. Paul's conversion as the triumph of Christ over zeal without truth. Its next point develops the lesson: The persecutor is not merely corrected; he is conquered by grace and sent as apostle.

The practical instruction is: Do not despair of hard hearts. Pray that false zeal may be struck by light and changed into service of truth. 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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The persecutor struck down and raised as Apostle.

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  • St. Augustine teaches that Christ smote and healed Paul, slew him and made him alive again, turning a wolf into a lamb.
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Never despair of grace, but never soften sin. St. Paul was not improved by flattery; he was converted by Christ's sovereign mercy and then spent himself for the Gospel.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Four Marks Are Not Decorative

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The Church places this truth before you today: The Church must be one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic because she bears the identity Christ gave her, not because men assign those titles by preference. 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 marks are tests of recognition. They prevent the faithful from confusing religious intensity, social size, antiquarian taste, or institutional claims with the true Church.

The grace to be practiced is Zeal converted by truth, 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 faith. She did not make private feeling the measure of God's word; she believed, obeyed, and persevered in darkness.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity. 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 zeal converted by truth 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 understanding is limited, do not abandon what God has revealed. Trust Him, hold the Catholic Faith, and fulfill the known duty. Carry your acts into the mysteries of Christ's life and offer them with the corresponding decades of the Rosary.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Robert Bellarmine.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“I had liefer be poor with Thee, than rich without Thee.”
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No created success compensates for separation from Christ. Prefer His friendship, His truth, and His Cross to every advantage gained by compromise.

Temptation often presents the price first and hides the loss. It tells you what obedience may cost in comfort, reputation, companionship, or opportunity, while concealing the poverty of possessing these things without peace with God. Look beyond the immediate bargain and choose with eternity in view.

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Refuse every compromise made for comfort, gain, or human respect.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Ponder the day with Mary: where was Christ present, where did you resist grace, and what truth must be kept more faithfully tomorrow?

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O Lord, give me holy fear before Thy altar. Preserve me from casualness, invention, and every worship that weakens faith in Thy sacrifice.

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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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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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