{"ok":true,"date":"2027-03-04","dateKey":"03-04","liturgicalDay":"St. Casimir, Confessor","rank":"Semi-Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds.","author":"St. Clement of Rome","source":"First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 38","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#wisdom-through-good-deeds","category":"Wisdom and Holy Fear"},"season":"Lent","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Casimir, Confessor - 2027-03-04","previewText":"St. Casimir, Confessor. Christ Is King Over Public Life. Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Casimir, Confessor\n2027-03-04 - Lent - Semi-Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nPassion of Christ: the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.\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\nHumiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair. Under Our Lady's mantle, guard purity of faith, heart, intention, and conduct. Consecrate the senses and imagination to Jesus through Mary. Ask her to guard what you permit the eyes, ears, and memory to receive.\n\n\"We must put ourselves and leave ourselves in her virginal hands, like a tool in the grasp of a workman, like a lute in the hands of a skillful player.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259\n\nThe instrument does not select the song, and the tool does not direct the craftsman. This image reaches the place where self-will hides beneath religious activity: we are often willing to serve God provided that we may choose the task, the hour, the consolation, and the result.\n\nTo remain in Mary's hands is to become teachable. Ask her to quiet the inward argument by which you resist the form of today's duty. Then give yourself peacefully to what God actually asks, without imagining a more flattering obedience elsewhere.\n\nPRACTICE\nFulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds.\"\nSt. Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 38\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - March 4\nAt Wilna, in Lithuania, blessed Casimir, son of king Casimir, whom the Roman Pontiff, Leo X., placed in the number of the Saints. — At Rome, on the Appian way, during the persecution of Valerian, the birthday of St. Lucius, pope and martyr, who was first exiled for the faith of Christ; but being permitted by divine Providence to return to his church, he suffered martyrdom by decapitation, after having combated the Novatians. His praises have been published by St. Cyprian. — Also, at Rome, on the Appian road, nine hundred holy martyrs, who were buried in the same cemetery as St. Cecilia. — The same day, St. Caius, a member of the imperial household, who was drowned in the sea with twentyseven others. — At Nicomedia, in the reign of the emperor Diocletian, the holy martyr Adrian and twenty-three others, who endured martyrdom by having their limbs crushed. St. Adrian is especially commemorated on the 8th of September, when his body was conveyed to Rome. — Also, the matryrdom of the Saints Archelaus, Cyril, and Photius. — In Chersonesus, the passion of the saintly bishops Basil, Eugenius, Agathodorus, Elpidius, JEtherius, Capito, Ephrem, Nestor, and Arcadius.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nLet your loins be girt.\nSt. Casimir, Confessor - Luke 12:35-40\n\"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching.\"\nAsk St. Casimir for watchful nobility. A Catholic life is ready for the Master, not relaxed into privilege.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe young prince becomes a faithful servant by keeping watch in purity, prayer, and mercy.\nSt. Casimir teaches that privilege must be disciplined by readiness for the Lord.\nError corrected: The self-indulgence that excuses vice because rank, youth, or comfort makes it easy.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Casimir\nPrince and confessor of purity, prayer, and mercy.\nSt. Casimir, prince of Poland and Lithuania, is honored for purity, devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, prayer, and charity toward the poor.\nHis witness teaches that nobility is not license for self-indulgence: royal birth becomes Christian only when chastity, humility, and mercy govern the soul.\nAsk St. Casimir for noble restraint. A soul becomes royal by serving Christ, not by being served.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe prince who served purity and the poor.\nMatins - St. Casimir, Confessor\n- The Breviary honors St. Casimir as a royal confessor marked by chastity, prayer, devotion to Our Lady, and mercy toward the poor.\n- His witness teaches that privilege is made Christian only when governed by purity, humility, and charity.\nLet nobility become service. St. Casimir teaches that a soul is royal when it belongs first to Christ.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Casimir, Confessor 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 prince who served purity and the poor.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Casimir as a royal confessor marked by chastity, prayer, devotion to Our Lady, and mercy toward the poor. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that privilege is made Christian only when governed by purity, humility, and charity.\nThe practical instruction is: Let nobility become service. St. Casimir teaches that a soul is royal when it belongs first to Christ. 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\nPurity and mercy guarded in the courts of princes.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Casimir, Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"He came to be called the father and guardian of the poor.\"\n- The Breviary remembers St. Casimir practicing prayer, penance, and recollection amid the softness and temptations of a royal court.\n- He contemplated the Passion, promoted the Catholic faith, resisted schism, and spent himself with tenderness for the needy and afflicted.\n- His chastity was not negotiable even under severe illness: rather than consent to sin as a supposed remedy, he chose fidelity unto death.\nAsk St. Casimir for purity that cannot be purchased and charity that cannot remain ornamental. Rank, comfort, illness, and human advice never outrank allegiance to Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nChrist Is King Over Public Life\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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 Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.\nThe grace to be practiced is Princely purity and merciful humility, 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 purity: not merely freedom from grave stain, but an undivided heart that refuses whatever competes with God.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 princely purity and merciful humility 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. In temptation, do not debate with the tempter. Call upon Jesus and Mary, turn from the occasion, and perform the next duty. Keep this act pure in intention: for God's glory and the good of souls, not for praise, control, or appearance.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.\nCarry this word: Truth becomes fruitful when it is obeyed.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20\nÀ Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.\n\nChoose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.\nToday's Practice: Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk where curiosity, vanity, or impurity entered today. Place the fault beneath Christ's mercy and make a definite guard for 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, do not permit me to admire truth without submitting to it. Give me the courage to obey what Thou hast already made known.\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\nAuthority and the Kingship of Christ: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-03-04&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-03-04&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. Casimir, Confessor - 2027-03-04\n \n \n
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“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Passion of Christ
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the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.
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Commemoration
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a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Humiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair.

Under Our Lady's mantle, guard purity of faith, heart, intention, and conduct.

Consecrate the senses and imagination to Jesus through Mary. Ask her to guard what you permit the eyes, ears, and memory to receive.

“We must put ourselves and leave ourselves in her virginal hands, like a tool in the grasp of a workman, like a lute in the hands of a skillful player.”

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

The instrument does not select the song, and the tool does not direct the craftsman. This image reaches the place where self-will hides beneath religious activity: we are often willing to serve God provided that we may choose the task, the hour, the consolation, and the result.

To remain in Mary's hands is to become teachable. Ask her to quiet the inward argument by which you resist the form of today's duty. Then give yourself peacefully to what God actually asks, without imagining a more flattering obedience elsewhere.

Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.

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Quote of the Day

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“Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds.”
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St. Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 38

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Roman Martyrology - March 4

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At Wilna, in Lithuania, blessed Casimir, son of king Casimir, whom the Roman Pontiff, Leo X., placed in the number of the Saints. — At Rome, on the Appian way, during the persecution of Valerian, the birthday of St. Lucius, pope and martyr, who was first exiled for the faith of Christ; but being permitted by divine Providence to return to his church, he suffered martyrdom by decapitation, after having combated the Novatians. His praises have been published by St. Cyprian. — Also, at Rome, on the Appian road, nine hundred holy martyrs, who were buried in the same cemetery as St. Cecilia. — The same day, St. Caius, a member of the imperial household, who was drowned in the sea with twentyseven others. — At Nicomedia, in the reign of the emperor Diocletian, the holy martyr Adrian and twenty-three others, who endured martyrdom by having their limbs crushed. St. Adrian is especially commemorated on the 8th of September, when his body was conveyed to Rome. — Also, the matryrdom of the Saints Archelaus, Cyril, and Photius. — In Chersonesus, the passion of the saintly bishops Basil, Eugenius, Agathodorus, Elpidius, JEtherius, Capito, Ephrem, Nestor, and Arcadius.

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Let your loins be girt.

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St. Casimir, Confessor - Luke 12:35-40

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“Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching.”
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Ask St. Casimir for watchful nobility. A Catholic life is ready for the Master, not relaxed into privilege.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The young prince becomes a faithful servant by keeping watch in purity, prayer, and mercy.

St. Casimir teaches that privilege must be disciplined by readiness for the Lord.

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Error corrected: The self-indulgence that excuses vice because rank, youth, or comfort makes it easy.

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St. Casimir

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Prince and confessor of purity, prayer, and mercy.

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St. Casimir, prince of Poland and Lithuania, is honored for purity, devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, prayer, and charity toward the poor.

His witness teaches that nobility is not license for self-indulgence: royal birth becomes Christian only when chastity, humility, and mercy govern the soul.

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Ask St. Casimir for noble restraint. A soul becomes royal by serving Christ, not by being served.

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The prince who served purity and the poor.

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Matins - St. Casimir, Confessor

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  • The Breviary honors St. Casimir as a royal confessor marked by chastity, prayer, devotion to Our Lady, and mercy toward the poor.
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Let nobility become service. St. Casimir teaches that a soul is royal when it belongs first to Christ.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Casimir, Confessor 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 prince who served purity and the poor.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Casimir as a royal confessor marked by chastity, prayer, devotion to Our Lady, and mercy toward the poor. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that privilege is made Christian only when governed by purity, humility, and charity.

The practical instruction is: Let nobility become service. St. Casimir teaches that a soul is royal when it belongs first to Christ. 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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Purity and mercy guarded in the courts of princes.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Casimir, Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Casimir

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“He came to be called the father and guardian of the poor.”
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  • The Breviary remembers St. Casimir practicing prayer, penance, and recollection amid the softness and temptations of a royal court.
  • He contemplated the Passion, promoted the Catholic faith, resisted schism, and spent himself with tenderness for the needy and afflicted.
  • His chastity was not negotiable even under severe illness: rather than consent to sin as a supposed remedy, he chose fidelity unto death.
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Ask St. Casimir for purity that cannot be purchased and charity that cannot remain ornamental. Rank, comfort, illness, and human advice never outrank allegiance to Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Christ Is King Over Public Life

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The Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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 Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.

The grace to be practiced is Princely purity and merciful humility, 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 purity: not merely freedom from grave stain, but an undivided heart that refuses whatever competes with God.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 princely purity and merciful humility 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. In temptation, do not debate with the tempter. Call upon Jesus and Mary, turn from the occasion, and perform the next duty. Keep this act pure in intention: for God's glory and the good of souls, not for praise, control, or appearance.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.

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Truth becomes fruitful when it is obeyed.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20

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À Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.

Choose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.

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Today's Practice

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Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Ask where curiosity, vanity, or impurity entered today. Place the fault beneath Christ's mercy and make a definite guard for tomorrow.

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  • What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?
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Prayer

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O Lord, do not permit me to admire truth without submitting to it. Give me the courage to obey what Thou hast already made known.

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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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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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