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Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor\n2027-06-22 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\nDivine Providence: God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Paulinus surrendered wealth and rank for Christ and carried mercy so far that he gave himself to ransom a widow's captive son. His life explains supernatural charity concretely: it does not merely admire suffering, but gives possessions, time, comfort, and even liberty when love of God requires it. With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world. Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.\n\n\"He that is mighty hath done great things to me.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49\n\nOur Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.\n\nRecall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.\n\nPRACTICE\nGive money, time, labor, or attention to a burdened person in a way that costs you something you would otherwise keep.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"They shall put you out of the synagogues.\"\nOur Lord Jesus Christ, John 16:2, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Most Precious Blood - Day 1 of 9\nPreparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2027-07-01.\nAsk for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.\n\nOffer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 22\nAt Nola, in Campania, the birthday of blessed Paulinus, bishop and confessor, who, although a most noble and wealthy man, made himself poor and humble for Christ; and what is still more admirable, became a slave to liberate a widow's son, who had been carried to Africa by the Vandals, when they devastated Campania. He was celebrated, not only for his learning and exceptional holiness of life, but also for his power over the demons. His great merit has been extolled by Saints Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory, in their writings. His body, at first transferred to Benevento, and thence to Rome, was restored to Nola by order of Pius X. — At Rome, blessed Innocent V., pope, who labored with mildness and prudence to maintain liberty for the Church and harmony among Christians. The veneration paid to him, pope Leo XIII. approved and confirmed. — On Mount Ararat, the martyrdom of ten thousand holy martyrs, who were crucified. — At Verulam, in England, in the time of Diocletian, St. Alban, martyr, who gave himself up to save a cleric whom he had harbored. After being scourged and subjected to bitter torments, he was sentenced to capital punishment. With him suffered also one of the soldiers that led him to execution, who was converted to Christ on the way, and merited to be baptized, in his own blood. — At Samaria, fourteen hundred and eighty holy martyrs, under Chosroes, king of Persia. — At Rome, the translation of St. Flavius Clemens, ex-consul and martyr, who was put to death for the faith of Christ by the emperor Domitian. His body was found in the basilica of pope St. Clement, and buried there with great pomp. — The same day, St. Mcseas, bishop of the town of Bomatia, celebrated for his learning and holy life. — At Naples, in Campania, St. John, bishop, who was called to the kingdom of heaven by blessed Paulinus, bishop of Nola. In the monastery of Cluny, St. Consortia, virgin.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are those servants whom the Lord shall find watching.\nSt. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor - Luke 12:35-40\n\"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching.\"\nAsk St. Paulinus for charity that is willing to descend. Mercy becomes luminous when it costs something real.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe holy bishop watches for the Lord by humility, poverty, learning, and costly mercy.\nSt. Paulinus teaches that Christian nobility becomes true when it descends to ransom and serve the afflicted.\nMercy is more than kind feeling. It gives what it can, loses what it must, and sees Christ in the suffering.\nError corrected: The respectable mercy that gives admiration but not sacrifice.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Paulinus of Nola\nNoble bishop who became poor and humble for Christ.\nSt. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor, was noble and wealthy but made himself poor and humble for Christ.\nThe Martyrology praises his learning, holiness, power over demons, and charity so great that he became a slave to ransom a widow's son carried away by the Vandals.\nAsk St. Paulinus for charity with weight. Mercy becomes real when it costs rank, comfort, money, or time.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe noble man who became poor for Christ.\nMatins - St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor\n- The Breviary honors St. Paulinus of Nola as bishop and confessor, noble by birth yet poor and humble for Christ.\n- His witness teaches learning joined to mercy, and charity willing to lose status to ransom the afflicted.\nMake charity costly in some concrete way. St. Paulinus teaches mercy that descends to help the captive.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and 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 noble man who became poor for Christ.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Paulinus of Nola as bishop and confessor, noble by birth yet poor and humble for Christ. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches learning joined to mercy, and charity willing to lose status to ransom the afflicted.\nThe practical instruction is: Make charity costly in some concrete way. St. Paulinus teaches mercy that descends to help the captive. 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 nobleman who became poor enough to ransom another.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"He gave himself up to slavery in her son's stead.\"\n- The Breviary remembers St. Paulinus as noble, learned, wealthy, and yet made poor and lowly for Christ.\n- After spending his goods in mercy, he gave himself into slavery to ransom a widow's son taken by the Vandals.\n- Freed by providence, he returned to Nola as bishop, where by word and example he stirred souls to Christian godliness.\nMercy must cost something. St. Paulinus teaches that Christian nobility is not possession, but the willingness to spend oneself for the captive, the poor, and the afflicted.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nJustification Requires True Conversion\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. 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. Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional.\nThe grace to be practiced is Humble charity and ransom of souls, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. 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 humble charity and ransom of souls 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 a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent.\nYour resolution before God: Give money, time, labor, or attention to a burdened person in a way that costs you something you would otherwise keep.\nCarry this word: Mercy becomes visible when it costs something real.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Fight strongly therefore against all sins, and dread not overmuch, although thou be encumbered by an evil custom, for that evil custom may be overcome with a good custom.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 21, p. 35\nHabit is formed by repeated consent. Under grace, a small faithful act repeated daily becomes a defense against the sin that once seemed immovable.\n\nDo not wait for a dramatic conversion of temperament. Grace commonly asks for the next contrary act: silence instead of complaint, custody instead of curiosity, prayer instead of brooding, prompt duty instead of delay. Repeated fidelity clears a path by which the will learns to move more readily toward God.\nToday's Practice: Oppose your recurring bad habit with its contrary good acts throughout the day.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.\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 God, through St. Paulinus, free me from respectable charity that avoids sacrifice. Make me willing to descend in rank, comfort, time, or possessions to serve the afflicted.\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\nGrace, Conversion, and Final Perseverance: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mercy-and-salvation/grace-conversion-and-final-perseverance?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-06-22&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-06-22&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. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor - 2027-06-22\n \n \n
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St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor

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in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
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a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.
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Today in the Roman Year

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St. Paulinus surrendered wealth and rank for Christ and carried mercy so far that he gave himself to ransom a widow's captive son. His life explains supernatural charity concretely: it does not merely admire suffering, but gives possessions, time, comfort, and even liberty when love of God requires it.

With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world.

Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.

“He that is mighty hath done great things to me.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49

Our Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.

Recall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.

Give money, time, labor, or attention to a burdened person in a way that costs you something you would otherwise keep.

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Quote of the Day

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“They shall put you out of the synagogues.”
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 16:2, Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Most Precious Blood - Day 1 of 9

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Preparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2027-07-01.

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Ask for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.

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Offer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.

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Roman Martyrology - June 22

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At Nola, in Campania, the birthday of blessed Paulinus, bishop and confessor, who, although a most noble and wealthy man, made himself poor and humble for Christ; and what is still more admirable, became a slave to liberate a widow's son, who had been carried to Africa by the Vandals, when they devastated Campania. He was celebrated, not only for his learning and exceptional holiness of life, but also for his power over the demons. His great merit has been extolled by Saints Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory, in their writings. His body, at first transferred to Benevento, and thence to Rome, was restored to Nola by order of Pius X. — At Rome, blessed Innocent V., pope, who labored with mildness and prudence to maintain liberty for the Church and harmony among Christians. The veneration paid to him, pope Leo XIII. approved and confirmed. — On Mount Ararat, the martyrdom of ten thousand holy martyrs, who were crucified. — At Verulam, in England, in the time of Diocletian, St. Alban, martyr, who gave himself up to save a cleric whom he had harbored. After being scourged and subjected to bitter torments, he was sentenced to capital punishment. With him suffered also one of the soldiers that led him to execution, who was converted to Christ on the way, and merited to be baptized, in his own blood. — At Samaria, fourteen hundred and eighty holy martyrs, under Chosroes, king of Persia. — At Rome, the translation of St. Flavius Clemens, ex-consul and martyr, who was put to death for the faith of Christ by the emperor Domitian. His body was found in the basilica of pope St. Clement, and buried there with great pomp. — The same day, St. Mcseas, bishop of the town of Bomatia, celebrated for his learning and holy life. — At Naples, in Campania, St. John, bishop, who was called to the kingdom of heaven by blessed Paulinus, bishop of Nola. In the monastery of Cluny, St. Consortia, virgin.

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Gospel of the Day

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Blessed are those servants whom the Lord shall find watching.

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St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and 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. Paulinus for charity that is willing to descend. Mercy becomes luminous when it costs something real.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The holy bishop watches for the Lord by humility, poverty, learning, and costly mercy.

St. Paulinus teaches that Christian nobility becomes true when it descends to ransom and serve the afflicted.

Mercy is more than kind feeling. It gives what it can, loses what it must, and sees Christ in the suffering.

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Error corrected: The respectable mercy that gives admiration but not sacrifice.

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Highlighted Saint

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St. Paulinus of Nola

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Noble bishop who became poor and humble for Christ.

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St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor, was noble and wealthy but made himself poor and humble for Christ.

The Martyrology praises his learning, holiness, power over demons, and charity so great that he became a slave to ransom a widow's son carried away by the Vandals.

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Ask St. Paulinus for charity with weight. Mercy becomes real when it costs rank, comfort, money, or time.

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Breviary Witness

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The noble man who became poor for Christ.

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Matins - St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor

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Make charity costly in some concrete way. St. Paulinus teaches mercy that descends to help the captive.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and 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 noble man who became poor for Christ.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Paulinus of Nola as bishop and confessor, noble by birth yet poor and humble for Christ. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches learning joined to mercy, and charity willing to lose status to ransom the afflicted.

The practical instruction is: Make charity costly in some concrete way. St. Paulinus teaches mercy that descends to help the captive. 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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From Matins

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The nobleman who became poor enough to ransom another.

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Matins - Third Nocturn - St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola and Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Historical lesson for St. Paulinus of Nola

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“He gave himself up to slavery in her son's stead.”
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Mercy must cost something. St. Paulinus teaches that Christian nobility is not possession, but the willingness to spend oneself for the captive, the poor, and the afflicted.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Justification Requires True Conversion

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The Church places this truth before you today: The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. 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. Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional.

The grace to be practiced is Humble charity and ransom of souls, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. 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 humble charity and ransom of souls 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 a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Give money, time, labor, or attention to a burdened person in a way that costs you something you would otherwise keep.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Fight strongly therefore against all sins, and dread not overmuch, although thou be encumbered by an evil custom, for that evil custom may be overcome with a good custom.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 21, p. 35

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Habit is formed by repeated consent. Under grace, a small faithful act repeated daily becomes a defense against the sin that once seemed immovable.

Do not wait for a dramatic conversion of temperament. Grace commonly asks for the next contrary act: silence instead of complaint, custody instead of curiosity, prayer instead of brooding, prompt duty instead of delay. Repeated fidelity clears a path by which the will learns to move more readily toward God.

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Today's Practice

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Oppose your recurring bad habit with its contrary good acts throughout the day.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.

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Prayer

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O God, through St. Paulinus, free me from respectable charity that avoids sacrifice. Make me willing to descend in rank, comfort, time, or possessions to serve the afflicted.

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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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