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Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs\n2027-07-30 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nDeacon: an ordained minister who assists bishops and priests and is specially entrusted with service, proclamation, and charity.\nDivine Providence: God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSs. Abdon and Sennen buried Christians whose bodies had been abandoned and then refused sacrifice to false gods. Their witness joins reverence for Christ's members to public hatred of idolatry: love serves the forsaken and refuses the worship that would betray God. With Mary, receive the silence in which God prepares His deepest works. Consecrate speech to Jesus through Mary and ask that no word be spent merely to serve vanity or irritation.\n\n\"God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 4\n\nOur Lady's silence is not emptiness, timidity, or ignorance. Wisdom dwells within her, and therefore speech is not used to prove that she possesses it. She speaks when charity and God's will require speech; otherwise she keeps the mystery entrusted to her and allows the Word Himself to be heard.\n\nA soul beginning the interior life must learn this custody. Much grace is dissipated through unnecessary explanation, argument, and self-defense. Before speaking today, ask whether the words protect truth, fulfill duty, or help a soul. If they merely relieve the pressure of self-love, remain with Mary in silence.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for the faithful departed and refuse every act of human respect that would soften Catholic truth.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.\"\nOur Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:13, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 30\nAt Rome, in the reign of Decius, the holy Persian martyrs Abdon and Sennen, who were bound with chains, brought to Rome, scourged with leaded whips for the faith of Christ, and then put to the sword. — At Tuberbum Lucernarium, in Africa, the holy virgins and martyrs Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda. The first two, in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus, were forced to drink vinegar and gall, then scourged most severely, and stretched on the rack, burned on the gridiron, rubbed over with lime, afterwards exposed to the beasts with the virgin Secunda, twelve years old, but being untouched by them, they were finally beheaded. — At Assisi, in Umbria, St. Rufinus, martyr. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Julitta, martyr. As she sought to recover through the courts the restitution of goods seized by an influential personage, the latter objected that, being a Christian, her cause could not be pleaded. The judge commanded her to offer sacrifice to the idols, that she might be heard. With great firmness, she refused, and being thrown into the fire, yielded her spirit to God, though her body remained uninjured by the flames. St. Basil the Great has proclaimed her praise in an excellent eulogy. — At Auxerre, St. Ursus, bishop and confessor.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSs. Abdon and Sennen\nPersian martyrs honored in Roman memory.\nSs. Abdon and Sennen are remembered by the Roman Martyrology as Persian martyrs brought to Rome and crowned there for Christ.\nTheir feast keeps before the faithful the breadth of Catholic witness: men from distant lands, honored in Rome, joined by martyrdom to the one Church and one Lord.\nLet Ss. Abdon and Sennen widen the heart. The City of God gathers witnesses from every land, and martyrdom makes distant souls near in Christ.\nFROM MATINS\nPersian martyrs who buried the abandoned dead.\nMatins - Proper Ninth Lesson - Ss. Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs\nRoman Breviary\n\"They abhorred and spat upon them.\"\n- The Breviary remembers Abdon and Sennen as Persian martyrs accused under Decius because they buried the bodies of Christians that had been thrown out unburied.\n- They refused sacrifice to the false gods and persistently preached that Jesus Christ is God.\n- When dragged before the idols, they rejected them openly; beasts would not touch them, and they were finally slain with the sword before being buried by the deacon Quirinus.\nHonor the abandoned faithful and refuse idols without compromise. Ss. Abdon and Sennen teach reverence for Christian burial, courage before false worship, and confession of Christ even when power demands public apostasy.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nNinth Lesson - Complete Proper Lesson\nAbdon and Sennen were Persians. In the reign of the Emperor Decius they were accused of interring, on their own farm, the bodies of Christians, which had been thrown out unburied. The Emperor commanded them to be arrested and ordered to sacrifice to the gods. This they refused to do, and persistently preached that JESUS Christ is God, whereupon they were put into strict confinement. When Decius afterwards returned to Rome, he had them led in chains in his triumph. Being thus dragged into the city and up to the idols, they abhorred and spat upon them, for which they were cast to bears and lions; the beasts were afraid to touch them. They were butchered with the sword, and the corpses, with their feet bound together, were dragged before the image of the sun. Thence they were stolen away, and the Deacon Quirinus buried them in his own house.\nBreviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Seventh Lesson\nThe Lesson is taken from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (xxi. 9). At that time: JESUS said unto His disciples: When ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. And so on.\nHomily by Pope St Gregory the Great (35th on the Gospels). Our Lord and Redeemer willeth us to know what shall be the signs that the end of the world is at hand, to the end that ye may be the less terrified, when that cometh whereof ye have already had warning. Darts strike less which are seen coming: and the plagues of the earth will be to us more bearable, if we are harnessed against them with the shield of foreknowledge. Behold, how He saith: \"When ye shall hear of wars and commotions be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.\" It behoveth us to ponder these words of our Redeemer, wherein He warneth us of suffering, from without, and from within. Wars are the work of a foreign enemy, commotions of the citizens. Therefore, that He may let us know that we shall be troubled from within and from without, He showeth that our wrestling shall be in part against strangers, and in part against our brethren.\nBreviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Eighth Lesson\nBut, when these woes come, the end is not by and by. And He saith further: \"Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.\" Before the last tribulation cometh, shall come many other tribulations: and, by the many woes which shall come first, shall be foreshadowed the everlasting woe which shall come in the end. And therefore, after wars and commotions, the end is not yet by and by: many woes must come first, to give warning of the woe that hath no end.\nBreviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Ninth Lesson\nBut, forasmuch as the signs and troubles whereof the Lord speaketh are so manifold, we must needs shortly consider each: for, of necessity, we must suffer some things from heaven, some from the earth, some from the powers of nature, and some from men. For where He saith: \"Nation shall rise against nation\" - He speaketh concerning the troubling of men: where: \"great earthquakes shall be in divers places\" - concerning wrath from above: where: \"and pestilences\" - concerning the frailty of the body: where: \"and famines\" - concerning the barrenness of the earth: where: \"fearful signs from heaven,\" and tempests - concerning commotions of the air. As, then, all things shall have an end, so, before the end, shall all things be troubled: and we who have sinned and come short in all things, shall in all things be afflicted, that it may be fulfilled that is written: \"and the world shall fight with Him against the unwise.\" (Wisd. v. 21.)\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Cross Is Daily\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.\nThe grace to be practiced is Universal fellowship in martyrdom, 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 recollected silence: not refusal of necessary truth, but restraint governed by charity and duty.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 universal fellowship in martyrdom 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 tempted to defend yourself unnecessarily, remain peaceful beneath God's knowledge. Give full attention to the person or duty before you instead of preparing the next thing you wish to say.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for the faithful departed and refuse every act of human respect that would soften Catholic truth.\nCarry this word: Charity toward Christ's members and refusal of false worship spring from the same fidelity.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Words feed not the soul; but a good life refresheth the mind, and a clean conscience bringeth a man to a firm and stable trust in God.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 10\nPious speech cannot replace obedience. Peace grows where known duty is fulfilled and forgiven sin is honestly confessed.\n\nThe soul sometimes speaks about prayer, holiness, or the crisis in the Church because speaking is easier than amendment. Do not despise true words, but require them first of yourself. Let the repair of neglected duties become proof that truth has entered the will.\nToday's Practice: Begin completing the neglected duties you have discussed more than performed, ordering them justly and without further excuse.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nReview your conversations. Ask whether your words made Christ better known or merely made self more visible.\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, through Ss. Abdon and Sennen, make me reverent toward the faithful, courageous before idols, and steadfast in confessing Christ.\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\nTake Up Thy Cross Daily: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/luke-9-23-deny-thyself-take-up-thy-cross-daily-and-the-standard-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-07-30&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-07-30&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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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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an ordained minister who assists bishops and priests and is specially entrusted with service, proclamation, and charity.
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God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.

The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.

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Today in the Roman Year

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Ss. Abdon and Sennen buried Christians whose bodies had been abandoned and then refused sacrifice to false gods. Their witness joins reverence for Christ's members to public hatred of idolatry: love serves the forsaken and refuses the worship that would betray God.

With Mary, receive the silence in which God prepares His deepest works.

Consecrate speech to Jesus through Mary and ask that no word be spent merely to serve vanity or irritation.

“God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 4

Our Lady's silence is not emptiness, timidity, or ignorance. Wisdom dwells within her, and therefore speech is not used to prove that she possesses it. She speaks when charity and God's will require speech; otherwise she keeps the mystery entrusted to her and allows the Word Himself to be heard.

A soul beginning the interior life must learn this custody. Much grace is dissipated through unnecessary explanation, argument, and self-defense. Before speaking today, ask whether the words protect truth, fulfill duty, or help a soul. If they merely relieve the pressure of self-love, remain with Mary in silence.

Pray for the faithful departed and refuse every act of human respect that would soften Catholic truth.

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“Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:13, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - July 30

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At Rome, in the reign of Decius, the holy Persian martyrs Abdon and Sennen, who were bound with chains, brought to Rome, scourged with leaded whips for the faith of Christ, and then put to the sword. — At Tuberbum Lucernarium, in Africa, the holy virgins and martyrs Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda. The first two, in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus, were forced to drink vinegar and gall, then scourged most severely, and stretched on the rack, burned on the gridiron, rubbed over with lime, afterwards exposed to the beasts with the virgin Secunda, twelve years old, but being untouched by them, they were finally beheaded. — At Assisi, in Umbria, St. Rufinus, martyr. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Julitta, martyr. As she sought to recover through the courts the restitution of goods seized by an influential personage, the latter objected that, being a Christian, her cause could not be pleaded. The judge commanded her to offer sacrifice to the idols, that she might be heard. With great firmness, she refused, and being thrown into the fire, yielded her spirit to God, though her body remained uninjured by the flames. St. Basil the Great has proclaimed her praise in an excellent eulogy. — At Auxerre, St. Ursus, bishop and confessor.

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Persian martyrs honored in Roman memory.

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Ss. Abdon and Sennen are remembered by the Roman Martyrology as Persian martyrs brought to Rome and crowned there for Christ.

Their feast keeps before the faithful the breadth of Catholic witness: men from distant lands, honored in Rome, joined by martyrdom to the one Church and one Lord.

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Let Ss. Abdon and Sennen widen the heart. The City of God gathers witnesses from every land, and martyrdom makes distant souls near in Christ.

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Persian martyrs who buried the abandoned dead.

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Matins - Proper Ninth Lesson - Ss. Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs

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Roman Breviary, Ninth lesson for Ss. Abdon and Sennen

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“They abhorred and spat upon them.”
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  • They refused sacrifice to the false gods and persistently preached that Jesus Christ is God.
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Honor the abandoned faithful and refuse idols without compromise. Ss. Abdon and Sennen teach reverence for Christian burial, courage before false worship, and confession of Christ even when power demands public apostasy.

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Ninth Lesson - Complete Proper Lesson

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Abdon and Sennen were Persians. In the reign of the Emperor Decius they were accused of interring, on their own farm, the bodies of Christians, which had been thrown out unburied. The Emperor commanded them to be arrested and ordered to sacrifice to the gods. This they refused to do, and persistently preached that JESUS Christ is God, whereupon they were put into strict confinement. When Decius afterwards returned to Rome, he had them led in chains in his triumph. Being thus dragged into the city and up to the idols, they abhorred and spat upon them, for which they were cast to bears and lions; the beasts were afraid to touch them. They were butchered with the sword, and the corpses, with their feet bound together, were dragged before the image of the sun. Thence they were stolen away, and the Deacon Quirinus buried them in his own house.

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Breviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Seventh Lesson

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The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (xxi. 9). At that time: JESUS said unto His disciples: When ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. And so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory the Great (35th on the Gospels). Our Lord and Redeemer willeth us to know what shall be the signs that the end of the world is at hand, to the end that ye may be the less terrified, when that cometh whereof ye have already had warning. Darts strike less which are seen coming: and the plagues of the earth will be to us more bearable, if we are harnessed against them with the shield of foreknowledge. Behold, how He saith: "When ye shall hear of wars and commotions be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by." It behoveth us to ponder these words of our Redeemer, wherein He warneth us of suffering, from without, and from within. Wars are the work of a foreign enemy, commotions of the citizens. Therefore, that He may let us know that we shall be troubled from within and from without, He showeth that our wrestling shall be in part against strangers, and in part against our brethren.

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Breviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Eighth Lesson

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But, when these woes come, the end is not by and by. And He saith further: "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." Before the last tribulation cometh, shall come many other tribulations: and, by the many woes which shall come first, shall be foreshadowed the everlasting woe which shall come in the end. And therefore, after wars and commotions, the end is not yet by and by: many woes must come first, to give warning of the woe that hath no end.

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Breviary Homily from the Common of Many Martyrs - Ninth Lesson

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But, forasmuch as the signs and troubles whereof the Lord speaketh are so manifold, we must needs shortly consider each: for, of necessity, we must suffer some things from heaven, some from the earth, some from the powers of nature, and some from men. For where He saith: "Nation shall rise against nation" - He speaketh concerning the troubling of men: where: "great earthquakes shall be in divers places" - concerning wrath from above: where: "and pestilences" - concerning the frailty of the body: where: "and famines" - concerning the barrenness of the earth: where: "fearful signs from heaven," and tempests - concerning commotions of the air. As, then, all things shall have an end, so, before the end, shall all things be troubled: and we who have sinned and come short in all things, shall in all things be afflicted, that it may be fulfilled that is written: "and the world shall fight with Him against the unwise." (Wisd. v. 21.)

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Cross Is Daily

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The Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.

The grace to be practiced is Universal fellowship in martyrdom, 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 recollected silence: not refusal of necessary truth, but restraint governed by charity and duty.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 universal fellowship in martyrdom 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 tempted to defend yourself unnecessarily, remain peaceful beneath God's knowledge. Give full attention to the person or duty before you instead of preparing the next thing you wish to say.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for the faithful departed and refuse every act of human respect that would soften Catholic truth.

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Charity toward Christ's members and refusal of false worship spring from the same fidelity.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Words feed not the soul; but a good life refresheth the mind, and a clean conscience bringeth a man to a firm and stable trust in God.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 10

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Pious speech cannot replace obedience. Peace grows where known duty is fulfilled and forgiven sin is honestly confessed.

The soul sometimes speaks about prayer, holiness, or the crisis in the Church because speaking is easier than amendment. Do not despise true words, but require them first of yourself. Let the repair of neglected duties become proof that truth has entered the will.

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Today's Practice

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Begin completing the neglected duties you have discussed more than performed, ordering them justly and without further excuse.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Review your conversations. Ask whether your words made Christ better known or merely made self more visible.

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O Lord, through Ss. Abdon and Sennen, make me reverent toward the faithful, courageous before idols, and steadfast in confessing Christ.

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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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