{"ok":true,"date":"2027-05-06","dateKey":"05-06","liturgicalDay":"Ascension of Our Lord","rank":"Double of the First Class","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"He was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.","author":"St. Luke","source":"Acts 1:9, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Ascension of Our Lord - 2027-05-06","previewText":"Ascension of Our Lord. The Sacrifice of the Mass Is the Heart of Catholic Worship. Resist every reduction of the Mass to a memorial meal, community symbol, or religious performance.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nAscension of Our Lord\n2027-05-06 - Eastertide - Double of the First Class - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nAscension of Our Lord is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nAscension: Christ's return to the Father in His glorified humanity forty days after the Resurrection.\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\nChrist is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope. Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.\n\n\"The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259\n\nUnion with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.\n\nWhen a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.\n\nPRACTICE\nRead Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"He was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.\"\nSt. Luke, Acts 1:9, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 6\nAt Rome, the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. Being bound and brought to Rome from Ephesus by the order of Domitian, he was condemned by the Senate to be cast, near the said gate, into a vessel of boiling oil, from which he came out more healthy and vigorous than before. — At Antioch, St. Evodius, who, as the blessed Ignatius wrote to the people of Antioch, was consecrated first bishop of that city by the apostle St. Peter, and ended his life by a glorious martyrdom. — At Cyrene, St. Lucius, bishop, who is mentioned by St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus, with seventy-five others. — In Cyprus, St. Theodotus, bishop of Cyrinia, who having undergone grievous afflictions under the emperor Licinius, at length yielded his soul to God, when peace was restored to the Church. — At Damascus, the birthday of the blessed John Damescene, renowned for sanctity and learning, who, by both the written and the spoken word, courageously resisted Leo the Isaurian, in defending the worship paid to sacred images. By order of this emperor his right hand was cut off, but commending himself to an image of the blessed Virgin Mary, which he had de: fended, his hand was immediately restored to him entire and sound. — At Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, St. Protogenes, bishop. — In England, St. Eadbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, eminent for doctrine and piety. — At Rome, St. Benedicta, virgin. — At Salerno, the Translation of St. Matthew, apostle. His sacred body previously transferred from Ethiopia to various countries, was finally taken to Salerno, and there with great pomp placed in a church dedicated under his invocation.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nPreach the gospel to every creature.\nAscension of Our Lord - Mark 16:14-20\n\"Going into the whole world, preach the gospel to every creature.\"\nDo not think Our Lord has gone far away. He reigns, He sends, and He strengthens the little works done for Him with a faithful heart.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nChrist ascends as King and sends the apostles with a universal mission.\nFaith is not private consolation only; it must be confessed, taught, and guarded.\nError corrected: The retreat that calls itself prudence while hiding the faith.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nAscension of Our Lord\nThe King ascends and sends His Church.\nOn Ascension Day, Our Lord is taken up into Heaven after commanding the apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature.\nThe feast teaches both triumph and mission: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and His Church must confess His doctrine, administer His sacraments, and live in hope of His return.\nLook upward without abandoning duty. The ascended Christ rules, intercedes, and sends His Church into the world with divine authority.\nSECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE\nSt. John before the Latin Gate\nApostolic love proved by accepting suffering with Christ.\nThis feast honors St. John the Apostle in connection with his suffering for Christ before the Latin Gate.\nIn the Gospel, Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice that His disciples must be willing to share with Him. St. John's trial teaches that closeness to Christ does not remove suffering; it gives the disciple grace to remain faithful through it.\nAsk St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. Sharing Christ's chalice means accepting the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nHe was taken up into Heaven.\nMatins - Ascension of Our Lord\n- The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church.\n- Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave.\nLook to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Ascension of Our Lord 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 He was taken up into Heaven.. Its first point is this: The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave.\nThe practical instruction is: Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. 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 Head has entered; the Body is called to follow.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Ascension of Our Lord\nPope St. Leo the Great\n\"The Ascension of Christ is exaltation for us.\"\n- The Breviary keeps the fortieth day after Easter as the crown of the forty days in which Christ confirmed the reality of His Resurrection.\n- St. Leo teaches that the Ascension is not Christ's departure from concern for His members, but the exaltation of the Manhood He took from us.\n- Where the Head has gone in glory, the hope of the Body is summoned to follow; Paradise is made sure because Christ has entered as our Head.\nLift the mind where Christ has gone. The Ascension teaches the soul to live on earth without making earth its home, because our Head reigns above.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Sacrifice of the Mass Is the Heart of Catholic Worship\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic worship is centered on the true Sacrifice of the altar, offered by the priest in union with Christ the eternal High Priest. 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 same sacrificial worship belongs to the Church throughout the world; it is not a local invention or a merely human assembly rite.\nThe grace to be practiced is Heavenly hope and apostolic obedience, 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 fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist every reduction of the Mass to a memorial meal, community symbol, or religious performance. 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 heavenly hope and apostolic obedience 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. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent.\nYour resolution before God: Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven.\nCarry this word: Christ's Ascension directs hope toward Heaven without releasing us from duty on earth.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55\nHuman approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.\n\nThe desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.\nToday's Practice: Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nPlace every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.\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 ascended Lord, lift my mind toward Heaven and keep my hands faithful to the work Thou hast given me. Make me obey Thy commands while I await eternal life with Thee.\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\nWhat Is the Mass?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-is-the-mass?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-05-06&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-05-06&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: Ascension of Our Lord - 2027-05-06\n \n \n
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Ascension of Our Lord is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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Christ's return to the Father in His glorified humanity forty days after the Resurrection.
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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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belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
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Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today.

Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope.

Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.

“The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.”

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

Union with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.

When a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.

Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven.

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“He was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.”
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St. Luke, Acts 1:9, Douay-Rheims

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At Rome, the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. Being bound and brought to Rome from Ephesus by the order of Domitian, he was condemned by the Senate to be cast, near the said gate, into a vessel of boiling oil, from which he came out more healthy and vigorous than before. — At Antioch, St. Evodius, who, as the blessed Ignatius wrote to the people of Antioch, was consecrated first bishop of that city by the apostle St. Peter, and ended his life by a glorious martyrdom. — At Cyrene, St. Lucius, bishop, who is mentioned by St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus, with seventy-five others. — In Cyprus, St. Theodotus, bishop of Cyrinia, who having undergone grievous afflictions under the emperor Licinius, at length yielded his soul to God, when peace was restored to the Church. — At Damascus, the birthday of the blessed John Damescene, renowned for sanctity and learning, who, by both the written and the spoken word, courageously resisted Leo the Isaurian, in defending the worship paid to sacred images. By order of this emperor his right hand was cut off, but commending himself to an image of the blessed Virgin Mary, which he had de: fended, his hand was immediately restored to him entire and sound. — At Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, St. Protogenes, bishop. — In England, St. Eadbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, eminent for doctrine and piety. — At Rome, St. Benedicta, virgin. — At Salerno, the Translation of St. Matthew, apostle. His sacred body previously transferred from Ethiopia to various countries, was finally taken to Salerno, and there with great pomp placed in a church dedicated under his invocation.

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Preach the gospel to every creature.

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“Going into the whole world, preach the gospel to every creature.”
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Do not think Our Lord has gone far away. He reigns, He sends, and He strengthens the little works done for Him with a faithful heart.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Christ ascends as King and sends the apostles with a universal mission.

Faith is not private consolation only; it must be confessed, taught, and guarded.

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Error corrected: The retreat that calls itself prudence while hiding the faith.

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The King ascends and sends His Church.

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On Ascension Day, Our Lord is taken up into Heaven after commanding the apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature.

The feast teaches both triumph and mission: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and His Church must confess His doctrine, administer His sacraments, and live in hope of His return.

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Look upward without abandoning duty. The ascended Christ rules, intercedes, and sends His Church into the world with divine authority.

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St. John before the Latin Gate

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Apostolic love proved by accepting suffering with Christ.

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This feast honors St. John the Apostle in connection with his suffering for Christ before the Latin Gate.

In the Gospel, Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice that His disciples must be willing to share with Him. St. John's trial teaches that closeness to Christ does not remove suffering; it gives the disciple grace to remain faithful through it.

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Ask St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. Sharing Christ's chalice means accepting the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.

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He was taken up into Heaven.

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Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Ascension of Our Lord 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 He was taken up into Heaven.. Its first point is this: The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave.

The practical instruction is: Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. 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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The Head has entered; the Body is called to follow.

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Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 1 on the Lord's Ascension

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“The Ascension of Christ is exaltation for us.”
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  • St. Leo teaches that the Ascension is not Christ's departure from concern for His members, but the exaltation of the Manhood He took from us.
  • Where the Head has gone in glory, the hope of the Body is summoned to follow; Paradise is made sure because Christ has entered as our Head.
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Lift the mind where Christ has gone. The Ascension teaches the soul to live on earth without making earth its home, because our Head reigns above.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Sacrifice of the Mass Is the Heart of Catholic Worship

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic worship is centered on the true Sacrifice of the altar, offered by the priest in union with Christ the eternal High Priest. 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 same sacrificial worship belongs to the Church throughout the world; it is not a local invention or a merely human assembly rite.

The grace to be practiced is Heavenly hope and apostolic obedience, 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 fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist every reduction of the Mass to a memorial meal, community symbol, or religious performance. 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 heavenly hope and apostolic obedience 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. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.”
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Human approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.

The desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.

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Today's Practice

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Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Place every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.

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O ascended Lord, lift my mind toward Heaven and keep my hands faithful to the work Thou hast given me. Make me obey Thy commands while I await eternal life with Thee.

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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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