{"ok":true,"date":"2027-10-30","dateKey":"10-30","liturgicalDay":"Feria in Time after Pentecost","rank":"Feria","color":"green","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.","author":"Our Lord Jesus Christ","source":"John 6:52, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria in Time after Pentecost - 2027-10-30","previewText":"Feria in Time after Pentecost. Christ Is King Over Public Life. Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nFeria in Time after Pentecost\n2027-10-30 - Time after Pentecost - Feria - green\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nFeria in Time after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The Gospel panel comes from the traditional Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept alongside this simple feast; it adds a Marian lesson without replacing the day's principal observance.\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\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\nThe soul often asks God for further signs while delaying what His law and Providence have already made plain. Growth begins when known duty is obeyed without bargaining. Place today's work into the hands of Our Lady and ask her promptness in answering God. Under Our Lady's mantle, guard purity of faith, heart, intention, and conduct. Consecrate the senses and imagination to Jesus through Mary. Ask her to guard what you permit the eyes, ears, and memory to receive.\n\n\"We must put ourselves and leave ourselves in her virginal hands, like a tool in the grasp of a workman, like a lute in the hands of a skillful player.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259\n\nThe instrument does not select the song, and the tool does not direct the craftsman. This image reaches the place where self-will hides beneath religious activity: we are often willing to serve God provided that we may choose the task, the hour, the consolation, and the result.\n\nTo remain in Mary's hands is to become teachable. Ask her to quiet the inward argument by which you resist the form of today's duty. Then give yourself peacefully to what God actually asks, without imagining a more flattering obedience elsewhere.\n\nPRACTICE\nFulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.\"\nOur Lord Jesus Christ, John 6:52, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 30\nIn Africa, the birthday of two hundred and twenty holy martyrs. — At Tangier, in Morocco, St. Marcellus, a centurion, who endured martyrdom by being beheaded under the vice-prefect Agricolaus. — At Alexandria, in the reign of Decius, thirteen holy martyrs, who suffered with Saints Julian, Eunus and Macarius. — In the same place, St. Eutropia, martyr, who visited the martyrs, and was so cruelly tortured with them that she breathed her last. — At Cagliari, in Sardinia, St. Saturninus, martyr, who was beheaded under the governor Barbarus, during the persecution of Diocletian. — At Apamea, in Phrygia, St. Maximus, martyr, under the same Diocletian. — At Leon, in Spain, the holy martyrs Claudius, Lupercus, and Victorius, sons of the centurion St. Marcellus, who were condemned to decapitation, in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian, under the governor Diogenian. — At 2Egea, in Cilicia, the martyrdom of the Saints Zenobius, bishop, and Zenobia, his sister, under the emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias. — At Altino, St. Theonestus, bishop and martyr, who was killed by the Arians. — At Paris, St. Lucanus, martyr. — At Antioch, St. Serapion, a bishop very celebrated for his learning. — At Capua, St. Germanus, bishop and confessor, a man of great sanctity, whose soul, at the hour of death, was seen by St. Benedict taken to heaven by angels. — At Potenza, in Basilicata, St. Gerard, bishop. — At Palma, in the island of Majorca, St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a lay brother of the Society of Jesus, whom Leo XII. beatified and Leo XIII. canonized on account of his remarkable humility and constant love of mortification.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.\nSaturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 11:27-28\n\"Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.\"\nGive Saturday to Our Lady in some concrete way. Let her teach you to hear, keep, and remain faithful in the ordinary hours.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nOur Lord praises the deepest Marian blessedness: hearing the word of God and keeping it.\nTrue devotion to Our Lady is obedient, doctrinal, and practical; it forms souls who receive Christ faithfully.\nError corrected: The sentimental devotion that honors Our Lady with words while neglecting obedience to the word of God.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Blessed Virgin Mary\nThe faithful Virgin kept before the Church on Saturday.\nThe Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary keeps Our Lady before the faithful during ordinary weeks, teaching that Christian perseverance remains Marian: humble, obedient, recollected, and near Christ.\nThis observance does not turn attention away from Our Lord. It shows the soul how to receive Him: hearing the word of God, keeping it, and remaining faithful when the week has been ordinary.\nLet Saturday become a small Marian gate in the week. In exile, ordinary days need a motherly refuge as much as feast days do.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nBlessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.\nMatins - Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary\n- The Saturday remembrance of the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches the Church to pass through her ferial weeks with Marian fidelity.\n- Our Lady's blessedness is not sentimental admiration alone; it is hearing, keeping, pondering, and obeying the word of God.\nKeep the ordinary day under Mary's mantle. Fidelity is often preserved by quiet obedience before it becomes visible courage.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary 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 Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.. Its first point is this: The Saturday remembrance of the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches the Church to pass through her ferial weeks with Marian fidelity. Its next point develops the lesson: Our Lady's blessedness is not sentimental admiration alone; it is hearing, keeping, pondering, and obeying the word of God.\nThe practical instruction is: Keep the ordinary day under Mary's mantle. Fidelity is often preserved by quiet obedience before it becomes visible courage. 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\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nChrist Is King Over Public Life\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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 Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.\nThe grace to be practiced is Marian recollection and obedient hearing, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Imitate Mary's purity: not merely freedom from grave stain, but an undivided heart that refuses whatever competes with God.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 marian recollection and obedient hearing 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. In temptation, do not debate with the tempter. Call upon Jesus and Mary, turn from the occasion, and perform the next duty. Keep this act pure in intention: for God's glory and the good of souls, not for praise, control, or appearance.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.\nCarry this word: Truth becomes fruitful when it is obeyed.\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\nAsk where curiosity, vanity, or impurity entered today. Place the fault beneath Christ's mercy and make a definite guard for tomorrow.\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, do not permit me to admire truth without submitting to it. Give me the courage to obey what Thou hast already made known.\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\nAuthority and the Kingship of Christ: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-10-30&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-10-30&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: Feria in Time after Pentecost - 2027-10-30\n \n \n
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Feria in Time after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The Gospel panel comes from the traditional Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept alongside this simple feast; it adds a Marian lesson without replacing the day's principal observance.

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a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.
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in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.
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God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.
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Today in the Roman Year

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The soul often asks God for further signs while delaying what His law and Providence have already made plain. Growth begins when known duty is obeyed without bargaining. Place today's work into the hands of Our Lady and ask her promptness in answering God.

Under Our Lady's mantle, guard purity of faith, heart, intention, and conduct.

Consecrate the senses and imagination to Jesus through Mary. Ask her to guard what you permit the eyes, ears, and memory to receive.

“We must put ourselves and leave ourselves in her virginal hands, like a tool in the grasp of a workman, like a lute in the hands of a skillful player.”

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

The instrument does not select the song, and the tool does not direct the craftsman. This image reaches the place where self-will hides beneath religious activity: we are often willing to serve God provided that we may choose the task, the hour, the consolation, and the result.

To remain in Mary's hands is to become teachable. Ask her to quiet the inward argument by which you resist the form of today's duty. Then give yourself peacefully to what God actually asks, without imagining a more flattering obedience elsewhere.

Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.

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“The bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.”
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 6:52, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - October 30

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In Africa, the birthday of two hundred and twenty holy martyrs. — At Tangier, in Morocco, St. Marcellus, a centurion, who endured martyrdom by being beheaded under the vice-prefect Agricolaus. — At Alexandria, in the reign of Decius, thirteen holy martyrs, who suffered with Saints Julian, Eunus and Macarius. — In the same place, St. Eutropia, martyr, who visited the martyrs, and was so cruelly tortured with them that she breathed her last. — At Cagliari, in Sardinia, St. Saturninus, martyr, who was beheaded under the governor Barbarus, during the persecution of Diocletian. — At Apamea, in Phrygia, St. Maximus, martyr, under the same Diocletian. — At Leon, in Spain, the holy martyrs Claudius, Lupercus, and Victorius, sons of the centurion St. Marcellus, who were condemned to decapitation, in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian, under the governor Diogenian. — At 2Egea, in Cilicia, the martyrdom of the Saints Zenobius, bishop, and Zenobia, his sister, under the emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias. — At Altino, St. Theonestus, bishop and martyr, who was killed by the Arians. — At Paris, St. Lucanus, martyr. — At Antioch, St. Serapion, a bishop very celebrated for his learning. — At Capua, St. Germanus, bishop and confessor, a man of great sanctity, whose soul, at the hour of death, was seen by St. Benedict taken to heaven by angels. — At Potenza, in Basilicata, St. Gerard, bishop. — At Palma, in the island of Majorca, St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a lay brother of the Society of Jesus, whom Leo XII. beatified and Leo XIII. canonized on account of his remarkable humility and constant love of mortification.

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Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

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Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 11:27-28

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“Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
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Give Saturday to Our Lady in some concrete way. Let her teach you to hear, keep, and remain faithful in the ordinary hours.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Our Lord praises the deepest Marian blessedness: hearing the word of God and keeping it.

True devotion to Our Lady is obedient, doctrinal, and practical; it forms souls who receive Christ faithfully.

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Error corrected: The sentimental devotion that honors Our Lady with words while neglecting obedience to the word of God.

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The Blessed Virgin Mary

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The faithful Virgin kept before the Church on Saturday.

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The Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary keeps Our Lady before the faithful during ordinary weeks, teaching that Christian perseverance remains Marian: humble, obedient, recollected, and near Christ.

This observance does not turn attention away from Our Lord. It shows the soul how to receive Him: hearing the word of God, keeping it, and remaining faithful when the week has been ordinary.

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Let Saturday become a small Marian gate in the week. In exile, ordinary days need a motherly refuge as much as feast days do.

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Breviary Witness

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Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

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Matins - Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Keep the ordinary day under Mary's mantle. Fidelity is often preserved by quiet obedience before it becomes visible courage.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary 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 Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.. Its first point is this: The Saturday remembrance of the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches the Church to pass through her ferial weeks with Marian fidelity. Its next point develops the lesson: Our Lady's blessedness is not sentimental admiration alone; it is hearing, keeping, pondering, and obeying the word of God.

The practical instruction is: Keep the ordinary day under Mary's mantle. Fidelity is often preserved by quiet obedience before it becomes visible courage. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.

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  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Christ Is King Over Public Life

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The Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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 Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.

The grace to be practiced is Marian recollection and obedient hearing, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Imitate Mary's purity: not merely freedom from grave stain, but an undivided heart that refuses whatever competes with God.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 marian recollection and obedient hearing 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. In temptation, do not debate with the tempter. Call upon Jesus and Mary, turn from the occasion, and perform the next duty. Keep this act pure in intention: for God's glory and the good of souls, not for praise, control, or appearance.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Fulfill all known duties in their proper order, without deliberate delay or complaint.

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Truth becomes fruitful when it is obeyed.
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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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Ask where curiosity, vanity, or impurity entered today. Place the fault beneath Christ's mercy and make a definite guard for tomorrow.

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O Lord, do not permit me to admire truth without submitting to it. Give me the courage to obey what Thou hast already made known.

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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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