{"ok":true,"date":"2027-09-13","dateKey":"09-13","liturgicalDay":"Feria in Time after Pentecost","rank":"Feria","color":"green","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.","author":"St. Anselm of Canterbury","source":"Proslogium, Chapter 1","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#believe-in-order-to-understand","category":"Wisdom and Holy Fear"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows","feast":"Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary","day":8,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2027-09-06","feastIsoDate":"2027-09-15","dayTitle":"Jesus Is Placed in the Tomb","meditation":"Our Lady endured the separation of the tomb without losing faith. 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Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nTHE DAILY PILGRIMAGE\n\"Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.\" - Proverbs 8:32\n\"Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\" - Luke 12:32-34\nFeria in Time after Pentecost\n2027-09-13 - Time after Pentecost - Feria - green\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nAt Pentecost the Holy Ghost strengthened the apostles to preach Christ publicly and carry the Gospel to the nations. His work is not private excitement separated from doctrine, worship, and the authority Christ established. The faithful should ask Him for zeal that makes them more obedient to revealed truth, more constant in charity, and more courageous in Catholic witness. Contemplate the Incarnate Wisdom dwelling in Mary's womb and living subject to her so you may belong more perfectly to Jesus. Enter Mary's school with Jesus at Nazareth and ask for humble, loving obedience throughout every ordinary and hidden duty.\n\n\"This good Master has not disdained to shut Himself up in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, as a captive and as a loving slave, and to be subject and obedient to her for thirty years. It is here, I repeat it, that the human mind loses itself when it seriously reflects on the conduct of the Incarnate Wisdom, who has not willed, though He might have done so, to give Himself to men directly, but through the Blessed Virgin.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 139\n\nThe eternal Son freely chose real human dependence: Mary's womb, nourishment, care, household, and maternal authority. His divine Person never ceased to be omnipotent God; yet in the humility of the Incarnation He sanctified dependence and obedience instead of displaying worldly independence and power.\n\nJesus is the supreme exemplar of going through Mary to glorify the Father and save souls. Submission to her must imitate His filial holiness: it is intelligent, loving, Christward, and governed by God. Reject the pride that calls dependence weakness and the sentimentality that admires Nazareth without obeying its hidden discipline.\n\nPRACTICE\nExercise and receive rightful authority today with humility, clarity, and obedience to God.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.\"\nSt. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, Chapter 1\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to Our Lady of Sorrows - Day 8 of 9\n\nPreparing for Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2027-09-15.\n\nTODAY'S MYSTERY\nJesus Is Placed in the Tomb\n\nPREPARATORY PRAYER\nBid me bear, O Mother blessed, on my heart the wounds impressed suffered by the Crucified!\n\nMEDITATION\nOur Lady endured the separation of the tomb without losing faith. She teaches us to accept bereavement and every permitted cross while continuing to trust God and serve her Divine Son fervently.\n\nPETITION\nSorrowful Mother, by thy desolation at the tomb, obtain for me diligence, wisdom, and perfect submission to God's holy will.\n\nPRAYER OF THE CHURCH\nGrant, we beseech Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the most blessed Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, may intercede for us before the throne of Thy mercy, now and at the hour of our death, through whose most holy soul, in the hour of Thine own Passion, the sword of sorrow passed. Through Thee, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nA FAITHFUL ACT\nPray and sacrifice for deceased relatives, neglected souls, and the holy souls in Purgatory. Request or assist at Mass for the dead.\n\nCONCLUSION\nPray the Hail Mary. Then pray the Litany of Loreto. Conclude: Mother of Sorrows, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!\n\nOpen the complete Litany of Loreto: https://cityofgodinexile.com/basic-catholic-prayers?entered=1#litany-of-loreto\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - September 13\nAt Alexandria, the birthday of blessed Philip, father of the virgin St. Eugenia. Resigning the dignity of prefect of Egypt, he obtained the grace of baptism. His successor, the prefect Terentius, caused him to be pierced through the throat with a sword, whilst he was praying. — Also, the holy martyrs Macrobius and Julian, who suffered under Licinius. — The same day, St. Ligorius, martyr, who living in the desert, was murdered by the Gentiles for the faith of Christ. — At Alexandria, St. Eulogius, a bishop, celebrated for learning and sanctity. — At Angers, in France, St. Mauritius, a bishop, renowned for numberless miracles. — At Sens, St. Amatus, bishop and confessor. — The same day, St. Venerius, confessor, a man of admirable sanctity, who led an eremitical life in the island of Palmaria. — In the monastery of Remiremont in France, St. Amatus, priest and abbot, illustrious for the virtue of abstinence and the gift of miracles.\n\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nObedience Serves Truth\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.\nThe grace to be practiced is Faithful obedience to the grace of the present day, drawn from the daily rule of fidelity. 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 filial dependence by receiving Our Lady's formation into Christ's humility, obedience, purity, prayer, labor, and charity.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray 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 faithful obedience to the grace of the present day 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. Accept hiddenness, limitation, routine, rightful dependence, and patient submission when pride demands independence or recognition. Consecrate domestic, vocational, bodily, and spiritual duties to Jesus through Mary, performing them with the fidelity of Nazareth.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.\nYour resolution before God: Exercise and receive rightful authority today with humility, clarity, and obedience to God.\nCarry this word: Authority is healed only when it submits to God.\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\nExamine whether pride resisted dependence or duty, then place every failure beneath the obedience of Jesus and Mary at Nazareth.\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, teach fathers, mothers, pastors, rulers, and children to receive authority as service beneath Thee, not as power against 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\nObedience, the Virtue Modernism Must Redefine: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/obedience-the-virtue-modernism-must-redefine?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-09-13&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-09-13&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 in Time after Pentecost - 2027-09-13\n \n \n
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“Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. […] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
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At Pentecost the Holy Ghost strengthened the apostles to preach Christ publicly and carry the Gospel to the nations. His work is not private excitement separated from doctrine, worship, and the authority Christ established. The faithful should ask Him for zeal that makes them more obedient to revealed truth, more constant in charity, and more courageous in Catholic witness.

Contemplate the Incarnate Wisdom dwelling in Mary's womb and living subject to her so you may belong more perfectly to Jesus.

Enter Mary's school with Jesus at Nazareth and ask for humble, loving obedience throughout every ordinary and hidden duty.

“This good Master has not disdained to shut Himself up in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, as a captive and as a loving slave, and to be subject and obedient to her for thirty years. It is here, I repeat it, that the human mind loses itself when it seriously reflects on the conduct of the Incarnate Wisdom, who has not willed, though He might have done so, to give Himself to men directly, but through the Blessed Virgin.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 139

The eternal Son freely chose real human dependence: Mary's womb, nourishment, care, household, and maternal authority. His divine Person never ceased to be omnipotent God; yet in the humility of the Incarnation He sanctified dependence and obedience instead of displaying worldly independence and power.

Jesus is the supreme exemplar of going through Mary to glorify the Father and save souls. Submission to her must imitate His filial holiness: it is intelligent, loving, Christward, and governed by God. Reject the pride that calls dependence weakness and the sentimentality that admires Nazareth without obeying its hidden discipline.

Exercise and receive rightful authority today with humility, clarity, and obedience to God.

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“For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.”
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St. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, Chapter 1

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Day 8 of 9

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Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows

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Preparing for Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2027-09-15.

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Today's Mystery

Jesus Is Placed in the Tomb

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Preparatory Prayer

Bid me bear, O Mother blessed, on my heart the wounds impressed suffered by the Crucified!

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Meditation

Our Lady endured the separation of the tomb without losing faith. She teaches us to accept bereavement and every permitted cross while continuing to trust God and serve her Divine Son fervently.

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Petition

Sorrowful Mother, by thy desolation at the tomb, obtain for me diligence, wisdom, and perfect submission to God's holy will.

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Prayer of the Church

Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the most blessed Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, may intercede for us before the throne of Thy mercy, now and at the hour of our death, through whose most holy soul, in the hour of Thine own Passion, the sword of sorrow passed. Through Thee, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen.

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A Faithful Act

Pray and sacrifice for deceased relatives, neglected souls, and the holy souls in Purgatory. Request or assist at Mass for the dead.

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Conclusion

Pray the Hail Mary. Then pray the Litany of Loreto. Conclude: Mother of Sorrows, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!

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At Alexandria, the birthday of blessed Philip, father of the virgin St. Eugenia. Resigning the dignity of prefect of Egypt, he obtained the grace of baptism. His successor, the prefect Terentius, caused him to be pierced through the throat with a sword, whilst he was praying. — Also, the holy martyrs Macrobius and Julian, who suffered under Licinius. — The same day, St. Ligorius, martyr, who living in the desert, was murdered by the Gentiles for the faith of Christ. — At Alexandria, St. Eulogius, a bishop, celebrated for learning and sanctity. — At Angers, in France, St. Mauritius, a bishop, renowned for numberless miracles. — At Sens, St. Amatus, bishop and confessor. — The same day, St. Venerius, confessor, a man of admirable sanctity, who led an eremitical life in the island of Palmaria. — In the monastery of Remiremont in France, St. Amatus, priest and abbot, illustrious for the virtue of abstinence and the gift of miracles.

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Obedience Serves Truth

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.

The grace to be practiced is Faithful obedience to the grace of the present day, drawn from the daily rule of fidelity. 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 filial dependence by receiving Our Lady's formation into Christ's humility, obedience, purity, prayer, labor, and charity.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray 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 faithful obedience to the grace of the present day 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. Accept hiddenness, limitation, routine, rightful dependence, and patient submission when pride demands independence or recognition. Consecrate domestic, vocational, bodily, and spiritual duties to Jesus through Mary, performing them with the fidelity of Nazareth.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Exercise and receive rightful authority today with humility, clarity, and obedience to God.

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Authority is healed only when it submits to God.
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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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Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine whether pride resisted dependence or duty, then place every failure beneath the obedience of Jesus and Mary at Nazareth.

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O Lord, teach fathers, mothers, pastors, rulers, and children to receive authority as service beneath Thee, not as power against 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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