{"ok":true,"date":"2027-10-01","dateKey":"10-01","liturgicalDay":"St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor","rank":"Simple","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#all-things-work-together","category":"Divine Providence"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary","feast":"Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary","day":4,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2027-09-28","feastIsoDate":"2027-10-07","intention":"Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.","prayer":null,"practice":"Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor - 2027-10-01","previewText":"St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor. Outside the Church There Is No Salvation. Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor\n2027-10-01 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - 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.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\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\nSt. Remigius did not offer Clovis a vague improvement of character. He taught him the mysteries of the Faith and brought him to baptism, because conversion places the whole man beneath Jesus Christ. Pray today that rulers, families, and nations may receive Catholic truth as a command to believe, worship, and live differently. With the saints, approach the depth of Mary's humility and ask to enter her school. Acknowledge your complete dependence upon grace and ask through Mary for the help needed in today's actual duties.\n\n\"…and finally, that the depth of her humility, and of all her virtues and graces, is an abyss which never can be sounded.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 7\n\nThe saints do not grow weary of contemplating Our Lady because every virtue in her leads them more deeply into the work of God. Yet St. Louis de Montfort places humility at the depth. Mary is not full of grace because she made herself great; she is wholly receptive to God, empty of resistance, and therefore capable of being filled beyond every other creature.\n\nDo not attempt to imitate an abyss by multiplying resolutions. Begin at the edge: consent to be a creature, dependent upon grace, unable to sanctify yourself, and yet truly called by God. Ask Mary to make this dependence peaceful rather than anxious, and let it move you to prayer before effort and thanksgiving after it.\n\nPRACTICE\nPause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.\"\nHoly Scripture, Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 4 of 9\nPreparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2027-10-07.\nAsk for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.\n\nPray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 1\nAt Rheinis, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of. faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated. — At Rome, blessed Aretas and five hundred and four other martyrs. — At Tomis, in Pontus, the holy martyrs Priscus, Crescens, and Evagrius. — At Lisbon, in Portugal, the holy martyrs Verissimus, and his sisters, Maxima and Julia, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian. — At Tournay, St. Piaton, priest and martyr, who, with blessed Quinctinus and his companions, went from Rome to Gaul to preach the faith, and afterwards, in the persecution of Maximian, having consummated his martyrdom, passed from earth to heaven. — At Thessalonica, St. Domninus, martyr, under the same Maximian. — At Ghent, St. Bavo, confessor. — At Orvieto, St. Severus, priest and confessor.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Remigius\nBishop who baptized Clovis and instructed the Franks.\nThe Martyrology honors St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated King Clovis in the sacred font, and instructed him in the mysteries of faith.\nHis feast teaches that nations are not converted by vague religious feeling, but by baptism, doctrine, pastoral authority, and the patient instruction of rulers and people.\nAsk St. Remigius for Catholic largeness of mind. The faith is not private decoration; Christ claims souls, households, rulers, and nations.\nFROM MATINS\nThe bishop who brought a king and people to the font.\nMatins - One Nocturn - St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"By doctrine and miracles he led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.\"\n- The Breviary honors St. Remigius as the Bishop of Rheims who baptized King Clovis and, by doctrine and miracles, led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.\n- His mission joins preaching and sacramental regeneration. Neither a ruler nor a people is converted by vague admiration for Christianity, but by receiving the revealed Faith and entering the baptismal order of Christ.\n- His interpretation of Sacred Scripture and more than seventy years governing the Church of Rheims show national conversion sustained by learned teaching, episcopal authority, pastoral perseverance, and holiness of life.\nPray for the conversion not only of individual souls but also of households, rulers, and peoples. Live the promises of your Baptism, learn the Catholic Faith well enough to hand it on, and reject the claim that public life may rightly remain indifferent to Christ the King.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nThird Lesson - King and People Led to the Faith of Christ\nRemigius, Bishop of Rheims, flourished when Clovis was King of the Franks. He baptized Clovis and was the first, by doctrine and miracles, to lead the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord. At his prayer a dead girl returned to life. He interpreted many books of Sacred Scripture. For more than seventy years he governed the Church of Rheims with the highest praise. Many miracles which followed bore witness to the holiness of his life and death.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nOutside the Church There Is No Salvation\nThe Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.\nThe grace to be practiced is Apostolic instruction of peoples, 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. Humility tells the truth about weakness without discouragement because it also tells the truth about God's help.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 apostolic instruction of peoples when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.\nDo the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Let a limitation remind you to pray rather than tempt you either to despair or pretense. Before the most difficult duty, pause long enough to ask for grace; after it, give thanks instead of taking possession of success.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius IX.\nYour resolution before God: Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.\nCarry this word: Prayer keeps the day from becoming self-ruled.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Virtue appeareth best in time of adversity. Occasions make not a man frail, but they shew openly what he is.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 16, p. 27\nThe trial does not excuse the fault; it reveals where grace must be received and nature mortified. Do not waste the revelation God permits.\n\nWhen adversity uncovers impatience or fear, do not conclude that every previous effort was false. Thank God for showing you where the wall remains weak. Humble yourself, ask pardon if another was wounded, and return to the battle with a more honest knowledge of your need for grace.\nToday's Practice: At the next contradiction, name the virtue being tested and practice it once.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nReturn every success and failure to God through Mary, keeping neither as material for pride or discouragement.\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, recollect my scattered thoughts, govern my words, and teach me to return to Thee before the noise of the day rules my soul.\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\nWhy Sincerity Cannot Replace the One True Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/why-sincerity-cannot-replace-the-one-true-church?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-10-01&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-10-01&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. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor - 2027-10-01\n \n \n
\n St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor. Outside the Church There Is No Salvation. Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God.\n
\n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
\n \"City\n
\n

City of God in Exile

\n

St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor

\n

2027-10-01 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white

\n
\n
\n
“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
John 12:35
\n \n
\n

Plain-Language Guide for Today

\n
\n
Confessor
\n
in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
\n
Apostolic
\n
belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
\n
Bishop
\n
a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.

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.

\n
\n \n
\n

Today in the Roman Year

\n

St. Remigius did not offer Clovis a vague improvement of character. He taught him the mysteries of the Faith and brought him to baptism, because conversion places the whole man beneath Jesus Christ. Pray today that rulers, families, and nations may receive Catholic truth as a command to believe, worship, and live differently.

With the saints, approach the depth of Mary's humility and ask to enter her school.

Acknowledge your complete dependence upon grace and ask through Mary for the help needed in today's actual duties.

“…and finally, that the depth of her humility, and of all her virtues and graces, is an abyss which never can be sounded.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 7

The saints do not grow weary of contemplating Our Lady because every virtue in her leads them more deeply into the work of God. Yet St. Louis de Montfort places humility at the depth. Mary is not full of grace because she made herself great; she is wholly receptive to God, empty of resistance, and therefore capable of being filled beyond every other creature.

Do not attempt to imitate an abyss by multiplying resolutions. Begin at the edge: consent to be a creature, dependent upon grace, unable to sanctify yourself, and yet truly called by God. Ask Mary to make this dependence peaceful rather than anxious, and let it move you to prayer before effort and thanksgiving after it.

Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.

\n
\n \n \n
\n

Quote of the Day

\n
“And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.”
\n

Holy Scripture, Romans 8:28, Original Douay-Rheims

\n
\n \n
\n

Novena in Progress

\n

Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 4 of 9

\n

Preparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2027-10-07.

\n

Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.

\n \n

Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.

\n
\n \n
\n

Roman Martyrology - October 1

\n

At Rheinis, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of. faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated. — At Rome, blessed Aretas and five hundred and four other martyrs. — At Tomis, in Pontus, the holy martyrs Priscus, Crescens, and Evagrius. — At Lisbon, in Portugal, the holy martyrs Verissimus, and his sisters, Maxima and Julia, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian. — At Tournay, St. Piaton, priest and martyr, who, with blessed Quinctinus and his companions, went from Rome to Gaul to preach the faith, and afterwards, in the persecution of Maximian, having consummated his martyrdom, passed from earth to heaven. — At Thessalonica, St. Domninus, martyr, under the same Maximian. — At Ghent, St. Bavo, confessor. — At Orvieto, St. Severus, priest and confessor.

\n
\n \n \n \n
\n

Highlighted Saint

\n

St. Remigius

\n

Bishop who baptized Clovis and instructed the Franks.

\n

The Martyrology honors St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated King Clovis in the sacred font, and instructed him in the mysteries of faith.

His feast teaches that nations are not converted by vague religious feeling, but by baptism, doctrine, pastoral authority, and the patient instruction of rulers and people.

\n

Ask St. Remigius for Catholic largeness of mind. The faith is not private decoration; Christ claims souls, households, rulers, and nations.

\n
\n \n \n \n
\n

From Matins

\n

The bishop who brought a king and people to the font.

\n

Matins - One Nocturn - St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor

\n

Roman Breviary, Proper lesson for St. Remigius

\n
“By doctrine and miracles he led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.”
\n \n
    \n
  • The Breviary honors St. Remigius as the Bishop of Rheims who baptized King Clovis and, by doctrine and miracles, led the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord.
  • His mission joins preaching and sacramental regeneration. Neither a ruler nor a people is converted by vague admiration for Christianity, but by receiving the revealed Faith and entering the baptismal order of Christ.
  • His interpretation of Sacred Scripture and more than seventy years governing the Church of Rheims show national conversion sustained by learned teaching, episcopal authority, pastoral perseverance, and holiness of life.
    • \n
\n

Pray for the conversion not only of individual souls but also of households, rulers, and peoples. Live the promises of your Baptism, learn the Catholic Faith well enough to hand it on, and reject the claim that public life may rightly remain indifferent to Christ the King.

\n \n
\n

Full Breviary Lessons

\n \n

Third Lesson - King and People Led to the Faith of Christ

\n

Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, flourished when Clovis was King of the Franks. He baptized Clovis and was the first, by doctrine and miracles, to lead the Franks to the Faith of Christ the Lord. At his prayer a dead girl returned to life. He interpreted many books of Sacred Scripture. For more than seventy years he governed the Church of Rheims with the highest praise. Many miracles which followed bore witness to the holiness of his life and death.

\n \n
\n
\n \n
\n

The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

\n

Outside the Church There Is No Salvation

\n

The Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.

The grace to be practiced is Apostolic instruction of peoples, 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. Humility tells the truth about weakness without discouragement because it also tells the truth about God's help.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 apostolic instruction of peoples when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.

Do the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Let a limitation remind you to pray rather than tempt you either to despair or pretense. Before the most difficult duty, pause long enough to ask for grace; after it, give thanks instead of taking possession of success.

\n

The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius IX.

\n

Your Resolution Before God

\n

Pause at midday for a brief act of faith, hope, charity, and contrition.

\n
Prayer keeps the day from becoming self-ruled.
\n
\n \n
\n

The Pilgrim's Mirror

\n

How shall I imitate Christ today?

\n
“Virtue appeareth best in time of adversity. Occasions make not a man frail, but they shew openly what he is.”
\n

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 16, p. 27

\n \n

The trial does not excuse the fault; it reveals where grace must be received and nature mortified. Do not waste the revelation God permits.

When adversity uncovers impatience or fear, do not conclude that every previous effort was false. Thank God for showing you where the wall remains weak. Humble yourself, ask pardon if another was wounded, and return to the battle with a more honest knowledge of your need for grace.

\n

Today's Practice

\n

At the next contradiction, name the virtue being tested and practice it once.

\n
\n \n
\n

Daily Examen

\n

Three questions before night prayer

\n

Return every success and failure to God through Mary, keeping neither as material for pride or discouragement.

\n \n
    \n
  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
  • What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?
  • What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?
    • \n
\n
\n \n
\n

Prayer

\n

O Lord, recollect my scattered thoughts, govern my words, and teach me to return to Thee before the noise of the day rules my soul.

\n
\n \n
\n

Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

\n

A brief rule to keep every day:

\n

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.

\n
\n
\n
\n

Continue Study

\n

Carry today's lesson into a focused chapter from the library.

\n Why Sincerity Cannot Replace the One True Church\n
\n \n
\n
\n
\n \n
\n

Persevere, pilgrim.

\n

The gates remain open to the faithful.

\n
\n \"The\n
\n
\n \n","links":{"sacredCalendar":"/sacred-calendar?date=2027-10-01","webPreview":"/daily-dispatch?date=2027-10-01","emailPreview":"/daily-dispatch/email?date=2027-10-01","formationIndex":"/daily-dispatch/formation","subscribe":"/daily-dispatch/subscribe"},"included":{"martyrology":true,"gospelReflection":false,"saintlyWitness":true,"breviaryReading":true,"patristicBreviaryLesson":true,"faithPoint":"Outside the Church There Is No Salvation"}}