{"ok":true,"date":"2027-03-06","dateKey":"03-06","liturgicalDay":"Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs","rank":"Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.","author":"St. Paul","source":"Philippians 2:8, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Lent","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs - 2027-03-06","previewText":"Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs. Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies. Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSs. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs\n2027-03-06 - Lent - Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nPenance: repentance expressed through prayer, self-denial, reparation, and a real turning away from sin.\nIdolatry: giving to a creature, power, pleasure, or false god the worship and absolute allegiance owed to God alone.\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. 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\nPerform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.\"\nSt. Paul, Philippians 2:8, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - March 6\nThe feast of the holy martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, who received the glorious crown of martyrdom on the 7th of this month. — At Nicomedia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Victor and Victorinus, who were, with Claudian and his wife Bassa, subjected to many torments during three years and were then thrust into prison, where they ended the pilgrimage of life. — At Tortona, St. Marcian, bishop and martyr, who received the crown of immortality by being killed under Trajan for the glory of Christ. — At Constantinople, St. Evagrius, who was elected bishop by the Catholics in the reign of Valens, and being exiled by that emperor, departed for heaven. — In Cyprus, in the time of the emperor Decius, St. Conon, martyr, who, being compelled to run before a chariot with his feet pierced with nails, fell on his knees, and breathing a prayer expired. — Also, the passion of forty-two holy martyrs, who were arrested in Amorium, and taken to Syria, where they received the palm of martyrdom after a valiant combat. — At Bologna, St. Basil, bishop, who was consecrated by pope St. Sylvester, and by word and example governed with great holiness the church entrusted to his care. — At Barcelona, in Spain, blessed Ollegarius, who was first a canon, and afterwards bishop of Barcelona and archbishop of Tarragona. — At Ghent, in Flanders, St. Colette, virgin, who at first professed the rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, and afterwards, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, restored the primitive discipline in a great number of monasteries of Nuns of the Second Order. As she was adorned with heavenly virtues, and performed innumerable miracles, she was inscribed on the list of the Saints by the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are ye when men shall hate you.\nSs. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs - Luke 6:17-23\n\"Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven.\"\nAsk these martyrs for rightly ordered love. Christ does not ask you to love less, but to love in Him and beneath Him.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe martyrs are blessed not because suffering is pleasant, but because Christ is worth more than every earthly loss.\nPerpetua and Felicitas teach that family pressure, fear, and bodily weakness cannot excuse denial of Christ.\nError corrected: The claim that natural affection justifies disobedience to God.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSs. Perpetua and Felicitas\nMothers, martyrs, and witnesses stronger than fear.\nSs. Perpetua and Felicitas suffered martyrdom at Carthage, confessing Christ despite prison, family pressure, motherhood, and the threat of death.\nTheir witness is especially piercing because natural loves were not denied but rightly ordered beneath Christ, who must be loved above every earthly bond.\nAsk these holy martyrs for love that does not become idolatry. Christ does not destroy natural love; He orders it toward Heaven.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nMothers strengthened unto martyrdom.\nMatins - Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs\n- The Breviary honors Perpetua and Felicitas as martyrs of Carthage, steadfast through prison, family pressure, and the threat of death.\n- Their witness teaches that natural love must be ordered beneath Christ, and that grace can make mothers heroic before persecutors.\nLove family in Christ, not above Christ. The martyrs teach love purified by the first commandment.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs 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 Mothers strengthened unto martyrdom.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors Perpetua and Felicitas as martyrs of Carthage, steadfast through prison, family pressure, and the threat of death. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches that natural love must be ordered beneath Christ, and that grace can make mothers heroic before persecutors.\nThe practical instruction is: Love family in Christ, not above Christ. The martyrs teach love purified by the first commandment. 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\nMothers, catechumens, and martyrs strengthened by Christ.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs\nRoman Breviary\n\"Now I suffer; there another will be in me who will suffer for me, because I too am going to suffer for Him.\"\n- The Breviary remembers Perpetua, Felicitas, and their companions as catechumens baptized in prison before being condemned to the beasts for their glorious confession.\n- Neither an aged father's tears, maternal love for an infant at the breast, nor the horror of punishment moved St. Perpetua from faith in Christ.\n- St. Felicitas gave birth in prison after the martyrs prayed for her; she distinguished present bodily labor from the coming combat in which Christ would sustain her suffering for Him.\n- Scourging, the savage cow, wounds, and the sword completed a witness in which natural love was not despised, but subordinated to God and carried into martyr fidelity.\nAsk Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas for love ordered by the first commandment. Receive the sacraments, pray with fellow Catholics, cherish family rightly, and trust Christ to act within weakness when confession becomes costly.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nModernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.\nThe grace to be practiced is Martyr courage with rightly ordered love, 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 the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 martyr courage with rightly ordered love 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 Pope St. Pius X.\nYour resolution before God: Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.\nCarry this word: Charity is clearest when it remains joined to truth.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21\nThe presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.\n\nDo not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.\nToday's Practice: Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.\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, make my charity patient without weakness, firm without harshness, and always ordered toward the salvation of souls.\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\nSt. Pius X and the War Against Modernism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-pius-x-and-the-war-against-modernism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-03-06&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-03-06&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: Ss. 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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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repentance expressed through prayer, self-denial, reparation, and a real turning away from sin.
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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.

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.

Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.

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“He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.”
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Roman Martyrology - March 6

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The feast of the holy martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, who received the glorious crown of martyrdom on the 7th of this month. — At Nicomedia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Victor and Victorinus, who were, with Claudian and his wife Bassa, subjected to many torments during three years and were then thrust into prison, where they ended the pilgrimage of life. — At Tortona, St. Marcian, bishop and martyr, who received the crown of immortality by being killed under Trajan for the glory of Christ. — At Constantinople, St. Evagrius, who was elected bishop by the Catholics in the reign of Valens, and being exiled by that emperor, departed for heaven. — In Cyprus, in the time of the emperor Decius, St. Conon, martyr, who, being compelled to run before a chariot with his feet pierced with nails, fell on his knees, and breathing a prayer expired. — Also, the passion of forty-two holy martyrs, who were arrested in Amorium, and taken to Syria, where they received the palm of martyrdom after a valiant combat. — At Bologna, St. Basil, bishop, who was consecrated by pope St. Sylvester, and by word and example governed with great holiness the church entrusted to his care. — At Barcelona, in Spain, blessed Ollegarius, who was first a canon, and afterwards bishop of Barcelona and archbishop of Tarragona. — At Ghent, in Flanders, St. Colette, virgin, who at first professed the rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, and afterwards, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, restored the primitive discipline in a great number of monasteries of Nuns of the Second Order. As she was adorned with heavenly virtues, and performed innumerable miracles, she was inscribed on the list of the Saints by the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII.

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Gospel of the Day

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Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs - Luke 6:17-23

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“Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven.”
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Ask these martyrs for rightly ordered love. Christ does not ask you to love less, but to love in Him and beneath Him.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The martyrs are blessed not because suffering is pleasant, but because Christ is worth more than every earthly loss.

Perpetua and Felicitas teach that family pressure, fear, and bodily weakness cannot excuse denial of Christ.

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Error corrected: The claim that natural affection justifies disobedience to God.

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Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas

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Mothers, martyrs, and witnesses stronger than fear.

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Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas suffered martyrdom at Carthage, confessing Christ despite prison, family pressure, motherhood, and the threat of death.

Their witness is especially piercing because natural loves were not denied but rightly ordered beneath Christ, who must be loved above every earthly bond.

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Ask these holy martyrs for love that does not become idolatry. Christ does not destroy natural love; He orders it toward Heaven.

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Breviary Witness

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Mothers strengthened unto martyrdom.

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Matins - Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs

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  • The Breviary honors Perpetua and Felicitas as martyrs of Carthage, steadfast through prison, family pressure, and the threat of death.
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Love family in Christ, not above Christ. The martyrs teach love purified by the first commandment.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs 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 Mothers strengthened unto martyrdom.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors Perpetua and Felicitas as martyrs of Carthage, steadfast through prison, family pressure, and the threat of death. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches that natural love must be ordered beneath Christ, and that grace can make mothers heroic before persecutors.

The practical instruction is: Love family in Christ, not above Christ. The martyrs teach love purified by the first commandment. 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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Mothers, catechumens, and martyrs strengthened by Christ.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas

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“Now I suffer; there another will be in me who will suffer for me, because I too am going to suffer for Him.”
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  • The Breviary remembers Perpetua, Felicitas, and their companions as catechumens baptized in prison before being condemned to the beasts for their glorious confession.
  • Neither an aged father's tears, maternal love for an infant at the breast, nor the horror of punishment moved St. Perpetua from faith in Christ.
  • St. Felicitas gave birth in prison after the martyrs prayed for her; she distinguished present bodily labor from the coming combat in which Christ would sustain her suffering for Him.
  • Scourging, the savage cow, wounds, and the sword completed a witness in which natural love was not despised, but subordinated to God and carried into martyr fidelity.
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Ask Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas for love ordered by the first commandment. Receive the sacraments, pray with fellow Catholics, cherish family rightly, and trust Christ to act within weakness when confession becomes costly.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies

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The Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.

The grace to be practiced is Martyr courage with rightly ordered love, 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 the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 martyr courage with rightly ordered love 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 Pope St. Pius X.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21

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The presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.

Do not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.

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Today's Practice

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Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.

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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, make my charity patient without weakness, firm without harshness, and always ordered toward the salvation of souls.

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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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