{"ok":true,"date":"2027-03-11","dateKey":"03-11","liturgicalDay":"Feria of Lent","rank":"Feria","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one.","author":"St. Ignatius of Antioch","source":"Epistle to the Ephesians, Chapter 15","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#silence-and-reality","category":"Wisdom and Holy Fear"},"season":"Lent","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to St. Joseph","feast":"Solemn Commemoration of St. Joseph","day":2,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2027-03-10","feastIsoDate":"2027-03-19","intention":"Ask St. Joseph for purity, household order, fatherly courage, quiet obedience, and protection of the Church in exile.","prayer":null,"practice":"Pray for fathers, households, workers, and souls who need courage to obey God in hidden duties.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria of Lent - 2027-03-11","previewText":"Feria of Lent. The Holy Ghost Does Not Author Contradiction. Resist invoking the Holy Ghost to justify rupture from received doctrine.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nFeria of Lent\n2027-03-11 - Lent - Feria - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nCompunction: sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.\nProper Mass or prayers: the texts assigned specifically to a particular feast or day, rather than texts shared with many celebrations.\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\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. Approach with holy poverty the treasury God has placed in His Mother for the members of Christ. Confess your poverty before God and ask through Our Lady for every grace needed to keep His commandments and fulfill all your duties.\n\n\"God the Father made an assemblage of all the waters, and He named it the sea (mare). He has made an assemblage of all His graces, and He has called it Mary (Maria).\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 23\n\nThe image magnifies the abundance of God, not an independent abundance in a creature. Every grace belongs to Him and is purchased for us by Jesus Christ. Mary is called the treasury because God freely filled her and wills to employ her maternal intercession for Christ's members.\n\nCome as one who is poor and needs grace for everything: faith, repentance, purity, prayer, patience, courage, and perseverance. Spiritual poverty is not minimalism. Because the need is great, the petition should be persevering and the cooperation generous.\n\nPRACTICE\nHonor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one.\"\nSt. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians, Chapter 15\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to St. Joseph - Day 2 of 9\nPreparing for Solemn Commemoration of St. Joseph on 2027-03-19.\nAsk St. Joseph for purity, household order, fatherly courage, quiet obedience, and protection of the Church in exile.\n\nPray for fathers, households, workers, and souls who need courage to obey God in hidden duties.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - March 11\nAt Carthage, the holy martyrs Hera mus. — At Alexandria, the passion of the Candidas Piperion. and twenty others — At Laothe holy martyrs tained crowns of glory, after onnents. — At Antioeh, the holy martyrs, some of whom by MVrimiaii were laid on net to be burned to death, but to suffer a time; others were subjected to different horrible torments, and won the palm of martyrdom. — Also, the Saints Gorgonras and Firmos. — At Cordova, St. Eulogius, a priest, who deserved to be associated with the martyrs of that city, far the persecution of the Saracens, because in writing of their combats for the faith, he had envied their happiness. — At Sardis, the bishop St. Euthjmins, who was banished by the Iconoclast emperor Michael for the worship of holy images. He consummated his martyrdom dnring the reign of Theophilns. — At Jerusalem, the bishop St. Sophronius. — At Milan, St. Benedict bishop. — In the diocese of Amiens, the abbot St Finnin. — At Carthage, St. Constantine. confessor. — At Babncnm, in Campania, St. Peter, confessor, renowned for miracles.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Lenten Feria\nThe Church's daily school of penance.\nThe Lenten feria is not empty time between Sundays. In the Roman rite, Lent gives proper Masses to the ferias, forming the faithful by daily penance, prayer, almsgiving, and conversion.\nThese weekdays teach that penance is not a mood but a discipline. The Church trains the whole man: appetite, speech, memory, habits, and the will turned back to God.\nDo not despise the ordinary Lenten weekday. Small faithful penance is one of the roads by which exile becomes pilgrimage.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe daily discipline of the forty days.\nMatins - Feria of Lent\n- The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired.\n- Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.\nUse the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Feria of Lent 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 daily discipline of the forty days.. Its first point is this: The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.\nThe practical instruction is: Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities. 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\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Holy Ghost Does Not Author Contradiction\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The Holy Ghost guides the Church into truth; He does not lead her to contradict the faith once delivered. 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. Appeals to the Spirit must be judged by apostolic doctrine, not by enthusiasm, novelty, or institutional pressure.\nThe grace to be practiced is Daily penance and conversion, 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 supernatural poverty by relying upon grace while using every lawful means God places within reach.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist invoking the Holy Ghost to justify rupture from received doctrine. 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 daily penance and conversion 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. Let awareness of weakness drive you toward prayer and vigilance, never toward discouragement or lowered standards. Ask grace before all demanding duties and temptations, cooperate throughout them, and give thanks when they are completed.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Irenaeus.\nYour resolution before God: Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.\nCarry this word: What is said of Our Lady teaches the soul how to see the Church.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 23, p. 41\nChristian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest.\n\nThe world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it.\nToday's Practice: Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nName the graces received today and return them through Mary to the Father from whom every good gift descends.\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 Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.\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 Spirit of Truth and the Impossibility of a False Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/john-16-13-the-spirit-of-truth-guidance-and-the-impossibility-of-a-false-church?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-03-11&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-03-11&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: Feria of Lent - 2027-03-11\n \n \n
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Feria of Lent

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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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Compunction
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sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.
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Proper Mass or prayers
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the texts assigned specifically to a particular feast or day, rather than texts shared with many celebrations.
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a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.
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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.

Approach with holy poverty the treasury God has placed in His Mother for the members of Christ.

Confess your poverty before God and ask through Our Lady for every grace needed to keep His commandments and fulfill all your duties.

“God the Father made an assemblage of all the waters, and He named it the sea (mare). He has made an assemblage of all His graces, and He has called it Mary (Maria).”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 23

The image magnifies the abundance of God, not an independent abundance in a creature. Every grace belongs to Him and is purchased for us by Jesus Christ. Mary is called the treasury because God freely filled her and wills to employ her maternal intercession for Christ's members.

Come as one who is poor and needs grace for everything: faith, repentance, purity, prayer, patience, courage, and perseverance. Spiritual poverty is not minimalism. Because the need is great, the petition should be persevering and the cooperation generous.

Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

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Quote of the Day

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“It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one.”
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians, Chapter 15

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to St. Joseph - Day 2 of 9

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Preparing for Solemn Commemoration of St. Joseph on 2027-03-19.

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Ask St. Joseph for purity, household order, fatherly courage, quiet obedience, and protection of the Church in exile.

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Pray for fathers, households, workers, and souls who need courage to obey God in hidden duties.

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Roman Martyrology - March 11

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At Carthage, the holy martyrs Hera mus. — At Alexandria, the passion of the Candidas Piperion. and twenty others — At Laothe holy martyrs tained crowns of glory, after onnents. — At Antioeh, the holy martyrs, some of whom by MVrimiaii were laid on net to be burned to death, but to suffer a time; others were subjected to different horrible torments, and won the palm of martyrdom. — Also, the Saints Gorgonras and Firmos. — At Cordova, St. Eulogius, a priest, who deserved to be associated with the martyrs of that city, far the persecution of the Saracens, because in writing of their combats for the faith, he had envied their happiness. — At Sardis, the bishop St. Euthjmins, who was banished by the Iconoclast emperor Michael for the worship of holy images. He consummated his martyrdom dnring the reign of Theophilns. — At Jerusalem, the bishop St. Sophronius. — At Milan, St. Benedict bishop. — In the diocese of Amiens, the abbot St Finnin. — At Carthage, St. Constantine. confessor. — At Babncnm, in Campania, St. Peter, confessor, renowned for miracles.

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The Lenten Feria

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The Church's daily school of penance.

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The Lenten feria is not empty time between Sundays. In the Roman rite, Lent gives proper Masses to the ferias, forming the faithful by daily penance, prayer, almsgiving, and conversion.

These weekdays teach that penance is not a mood but a discipline. The Church trains the whole man: appetite, speech, memory, habits, and the will turned back to God.

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Do not despise the ordinary Lenten weekday. Small faithful penance is one of the roads by which exile becomes pilgrimage.

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Breviary Witness

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The daily discipline of the forty days.

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  • The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired.
  • Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.
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Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Feria of Lent 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 daily discipline of the forty days.. Its first point is this: The Lenten ferias form the faithful through the Church's daily school of penance, in which conversion is practiced rather than merely admired. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is steady and practical: fasting, prayer, compunction, almsgiving, and obedience bring the soul back beneath the rule of Christ.

The practical instruction is: Use the ordinary weekday for conversion through repeated small acts of fasting, prayer, mercy, and obedience. A soul is often rebuilt by these quiet fidelities. 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 truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Holy Ghost Does Not Author Contradiction

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The Church places this truth before you today: The Holy Ghost guides the Church into truth; He does not lead her to contradict the faith once delivered. 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. Appeals to the Spirit must be judged by apostolic doctrine, not by enthusiasm, novelty, or institutional pressure.

The grace to be practiced is Daily penance and conversion, 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 supernatural poverty by relying upon grace while using every lawful means God places within reach.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist invoking the Holy Ghost to justify rupture from received doctrine. 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 daily penance and conversion 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. Let awareness of weakness drive you toward prayer and vigilance, never toward discouragement or lowered standards. Ask grace before all demanding duties and temptations, cooperate throughout them, and give thanks when they are completed.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Irenaeus.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

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What is said of Our Lady teaches the soul how to see the Church.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 23, p. 41

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Christian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest.

The world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it.

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Today's Practice

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Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Name the graces received today and return them through Mary to the Father from whom every good gift descends.

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  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
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O Lord Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.

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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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