{"ok":true,"date":"2027-11-12","dateKey":"11-12","liturgicalDay":"St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr","rank":"Semi-Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee […] then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. Because our Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth prudence and knowledge.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Proverbs 2:1, 5–6, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#treasure-the-words-of-god","category":"Wisdom and Holy Fear"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr - 2027-11-12","previewText":"St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr. Grace Heals and Elevates Nature. Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Martin I, Pope and Martyr\n2027-11-12 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nEcclesiastical or ecclesial: belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\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\nPope St. Martin I suffered exile and death rather than accept formulas that obscured the truth about Jesus Christ. His obedience to God made him refuse pressure even when it came clothed in imperial and ecclesiastical force. False obedience asks the soul to betray truth; Catholic obedience suffers rather than do so. Invite Our Lady to establish within you the dispositions of the predestinate and to drive out the habits of Esau. Ask Our Lady to dwell in your soul and to order your memory, understanding, will, imagination, passions, senses, and works toward Jesus.\n\n\"God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world; and He has said to her these words, In Jacob inhabita—‘Dwell in Jacob,’—that is to say, Make your dwelling and residence in My predestinated children, figured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 29\n\nThe language of Jacob and Esau is a summons to conversion, not permission to presume that a devotional label guarantees salvation. A soul in which Mary dwells must welcome what she loves: Jesus Christ, the Catholic Faith, purity, humility, obedience, prayer, sacrifice, and perseverance.\n\nPrepare an interior dwelling for her by expelling mortal sin, rejecting heresy, repairing scandal, and cleansing daily conduct of deliberate compromise. If you fall, return through contrition and the means appointed by Christ. Let the whole household of the soul come under her maternal order.\n\nPRACTICE\nExamine the pressures to remain silent or ambiguous and answer them with the precise Catholic truths involved.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee […] then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. Because our Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth prudence and knowledge.\"\nHoly Scripture, Proverbs 2:1, 5–6, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - November 12\nThe birthday of St. Martin, pope and martyr. Because he had convoked a council at Rome, and condemned the heretics Sergius, Paul and Pyrrhus, he was taken prisoner treacherously by order of the heretical emperor Constans, carried to Constantinople and banished to Chersonesus, where he ended his life, consumed with afflictions endured for the Catholic faith, and with a reputation for many miracles. His body was subsequently transferred to Rome, and deposited in the church of the Saints Silvester and Martin. — In Asia, the martyrdom of the Saints Aurelius and Publius, bishops. — In the diocese of Sens, St. Paternus, martyr. — At Ghent, St. Livinus, bishop and martyr. — In Poland, the holy martyrs Benedict, John, Matthew, Isaac and Christinus, hermits. — At Witebsk, in Poland, the martyrdom of St. Josaphat, of the Order of St. Basil, archbishop of Polotzk, who was cruelly murdered by the schismatics, through hatred of Catholic unity and truth. He was cononized by Pius IX. in 1867. — At Avignon, St. Rufus, first bishop of that city. — At Cologne, the decease of St. Cunibert, bishop. — At Tarazona, in Spain, blessed Emilian, a priest who wrought numberless miracles, and whose wonderful life was written by St. Braulio, bishop of Saragossa. — At Constantinople, St. Nilus, abbot who resigned the office of governor of the city to become a monk, and was distinguished for learning and sanctity, in the time of Theodosius the Younger. — Also, at Constantinople, St. Theodore Studita, who became celebrated throughout the whole Catholic Church by his vigorous defence of the faith against the Iconoclasts. — At Alcala, in Spain, St. Didacus, confessor, of the Order of Minorites, who was renowned for his humility. Inscribed on the catalogue of the saints by Sixtus V., his feast is kept on the thirteenth of this month.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Martin I\nPope and martyr who suffered for Catholic doctrine.\nThe Martyrology records that Pope St. Martin convoked a council at Rome and condemned the heretics Sergius, Paul, and Pyrrhus.\nFor the Catholic faith he was treacherously taken by order of the heretical emperor Constans, carried to Constantinople, banished to Chersonesus, and consumed by afflictions.\nAsk St. Martin for courage when truth becomes costly. Catholic doctrine is not protected by silence before powerful error.\nFROM MATINS\nThe pope who condemned heresy and endured exile for the Catholic Faith.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr\nRoman Breviary\n\"He labored to recall him to the truth of the Catholic Faith.\"\n- The Breviary remembers Pope St. Martin I using letters, legates, and a Roman council of 105 bishops to recall Paul of Constantinople from heresy and then to condemn the error when correction was refused.\n- Imperial power answered doctrine with exile, attempted assassination, fraud, imprisonment, humiliation, and banishment; neither violence nor political pressure could make the pope treat Christological truth as negotiable.\n- His martyrdom teaches that papal office serves the received Faith. The shepherd's courage is measured not by proximity to rulers but by fidelity to Catholic truth when rulers demand betrayal.\nAsk Pope St. Martin I for hatred of heresy governed by love of God and souls. Use every rightful means to correct error, but when correction is refused and power demands silence, suffer rather than surrender Catholic doctrine.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nFourth Lesson - The Heresy Condemned at Rome\nMartin was born at Todi in Umbria. At the beginning of his pontificate he labored by letters and legations to recall Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, from a wicked heresy to the truth of the Catholic Faith. Paul, supported by the heretical Emperor Constans, had advanced so far in madness that he banished the legates of the Apostolic See to various islands. Moved by this crime, the pope assembled at Rome a council of 105 bishops and condemned Paul.\nFifth Lesson - The Attempt against the Pope at Mass\nFor this reason Constans sent the exarch Olympius into Italy, directing him either to kill Pope Martin or to bring him to the emperor. Olympius came to Rome and ordered an attendant to murder the pope while he was celebrating the solemn rites of Mass in the Basilica of St. Mary at the Crib. When the attendant approached to commit the crime, however, he was suddenly struck blind.\nSixth Lesson - Imprisonment, Exile, and Death\nMany calamities then befell the Emperor Constans. He sent Theodore Calliopas to Rome, who deceitfully seized Martin, carried him to Constantinople, and afterwards banished him to Chersonesus. There, worn out by sufferings endured for the Catholic Faith, he departed this life on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of October. His body was later carried to Rome and buried in the church dedicated to Saints Sylvester and Martin. He governed the Church for six years, one month, and twenty-six days. In two ordinations held in December he created eleven priests, five deacons, and thirty-three bishops for various places.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nGrace Heals and Elevates Nature\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion. 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 is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.\nThe grace to be practiced is Doctrinal fidelity under imperial pressure, 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 interior order by rejecting every deliberate occasion of sin and governing the whole day according to faith and duty.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life. 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 doctrinal fidelity under imperial pressure 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. Permit the painful removal of attachments, habits, entertainments, and compromises that cannot remain in Mary's household. Make your home, speech, labor, recreation, prayer, and relationships fitting for the presence of the Mother of Jesus.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.\nYour resolution before God: Examine the pressures to remain silent or ambiguous and answer them with the precise Catholic truths involved.\nCarry this word: No command can make betrayal of revealed truth an act of obedience.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"We be all frail: but thou shalt judge no man more frail than thyself.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 11\nCatholic judgment rejects error without forgetting one's own need of mercy. Let vigilance begin with the disorder nearest at hand: your own.\n\nYou need not call falsehood harmless in order to be humble. Humility simply refuses to use another person's fault as shelter from repentance. Condemn what God condemns, pray for the soul in danger, and then ask whether the same root - pride, fear, sensuality, or human respect - has found a quieter form in you.\nToday's Practice: When another's fault irritates you, pray for that soul and examine the same root in yourself.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine what welcomed Our Lady's dispositions and what made the soul resemble Esau rather than Jacob.\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 Pope St. Martin, give shepherds and faithful the courage to obey Thee above every threat, favor, and deceptive command.\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\nWhat Is Grace?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-is-grace?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-11-12&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-11-12&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. Martin I, Pope and Martyr - 2027-11-12\n \n \n
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belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.

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Today in the Roman Year

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Pope St. Martin I suffered exile and death rather than accept formulas that obscured the truth about Jesus Christ. His obedience to God made him refuse pressure even when it came clothed in imperial and ecclesiastical force. False obedience asks the soul to betray truth; Catholic obedience suffers rather than do so.

Invite Our Lady to establish within you the dispositions of the predestinate and to drive out the habits of Esau.

Ask Our Lady to dwell in your soul and to order your memory, understanding, will, imagination, passions, senses, and works toward Jesus.

“God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world; and He has said to her these words, In Jacob inhabita—‘Dwell in Jacob,’—that is to say, Make your dwelling and residence in My predestinated children, figured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 29

The language of Jacob and Esau is a summons to conversion, not permission to presume that a devotional label guarantees salvation. A soul in which Mary dwells must welcome what she loves: Jesus Christ, the Catholic Faith, purity, humility, obedience, prayer, sacrifice, and perseverance.

Prepare an interior dwelling for her by expelling mortal sin, rejecting heresy, repairing scandal, and cleansing daily conduct of deliberate compromise. If you fall, return through contrition and the means appointed by Christ. Let the whole household of the soul come under her maternal order.

Examine the pressures to remain silent or ambiguous and answer them with the precise Catholic truths involved.

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“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee […] then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. Because our Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth prudence and knowledge.”
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Holy Scripture, Proverbs 2:1, 5–6, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - November 12

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The birthday of St. Martin, pope and martyr. Because he had convoked a council at Rome, and condemned the heretics Sergius, Paul and Pyrrhus, he was taken prisoner treacherously by order of the heretical emperor Constans, carried to Constantinople and banished to Chersonesus, where he ended his life, consumed with afflictions endured for the Catholic faith, and with a reputation for many miracles. His body was subsequently transferred to Rome, and deposited in the church of the Saints Silvester and Martin. — In Asia, the martyrdom of the Saints Aurelius and Publius, bishops. — In the diocese of Sens, St. Paternus, martyr. — At Ghent, St. Livinus, bishop and martyr. — In Poland, the holy martyrs Benedict, John, Matthew, Isaac and Christinus, hermits. — At Witebsk, in Poland, the martyrdom of St. Josaphat, of the Order of St. Basil, archbishop of Polotzk, who was cruelly murdered by the schismatics, through hatred of Catholic unity and truth. He was cononized by Pius IX. in 1867. — At Avignon, St. Rufus, first bishop of that city. — At Cologne, the decease of St. Cunibert, bishop. — At Tarazona, in Spain, blessed Emilian, a priest who wrought numberless miracles, and whose wonderful life was written by St. Braulio, bishop of Saragossa. — At Constantinople, St. Nilus, abbot who resigned the office of governor of the city to become a monk, and was distinguished for learning and sanctity, in the time of Theodosius the Younger. — Also, at Constantinople, St. Theodore Studita, who became celebrated throughout the whole Catholic Church by his vigorous defence of the faith against the Iconoclasts. — At Alcala, in Spain, St. Didacus, confessor, of the Order of Minorites, who was renowned for his humility. Inscribed on the catalogue of the saints by Sixtus V., his feast is kept on the thirteenth of this month.

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Pope and martyr who suffered for Catholic doctrine.

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The Martyrology records that Pope St. Martin convoked a council at Rome and condemned the heretics Sergius, Paul, and Pyrrhus.

For the Catholic faith he was treacherously taken by order of the heretical emperor Constans, carried to Constantinople, banished to Chersonesus, and consumed by afflictions.

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Ask St. Martin for courage when truth becomes costly. Catholic doctrine is not protected by silence before powerful error.

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The pope who condemned heresy and endured exile for the Catholic Faith.

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Martin I

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Ask Pope St. Martin I for hatred of heresy governed by love of God and souls. Use every rightful means to correct error, but when correction is refused and power demands silence, suffer rather than surrender Catholic doctrine.

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Fourth Lesson - The Heresy Condemned at Rome

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Martin was born at Todi in Umbria. At the beginning of his pontificate he labored by letters and legations to recall Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, from a wicked heresy to the truth of the Catholic Faith. Paul, supported by the heretical Emperor Constans, had advanced so far in madness that he banished the legates of the Apostolic See to various islands. Moved by this crime, the pope assembled at Rome a council of 105 bishops and condemned Paul.

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Fifth Lesson - The Attempt against the Pope at Mass

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For this reason Constans sent the exarch Olympius into Italy, directing him either to kill Pope Martin or to bring him to the emperor. Olympius came to Rome and ordered an attendant to murder the pope while he was celebrating the solemn rites of Mass in the Basilica of St. Mary at the Crib. When the attendant approached to commit the crime, however, he was suddenly struck blind.

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Sixth Lesson - Imprisonment, Exile, and Death

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Many calamities then befell the Emperor Constans. He sent Theodore Calliopas to Rome, who deceitfully seized Martin, carried him to Constantinople, and afterwards banished him to Chersonesus. There, worn out by sufferings endured for the Catholic Faith, he departed this life on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of October. His body was later carried to Rome and buried in the church dedicated to Saints Sylvester and Martin. He governed the Church for six years, one month, and twenty-six days. In two ordinations held in December he created eleven priests, five deacons, and thirty-three bishops for various places.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Grace Heals and Elevates Nature

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The Church places this truth before you today: Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion. 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 is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.

The grace to be practiced is Doctrinal fidelity under imperial pressure, 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 interior order by rejecting every deliberate occasion of sin and governing the whole day according to faith and duty.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life. 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 doctrinal fidelity under imperial pressure 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. Permit the painful removal of attachments, habits, entertainments, and compromises that cannot remain in Mary's household. Make your home, speech, labor, recreation, prayer, and relationships fitting for the presence of the Mother of Jesus.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Examine the pressures to remain silent or ambiguous and answer them with the precise Catholic truths involved.

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No command can make betrayal of revealed truth an act of obedience.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“We be all frail: but thou shalt judge no man more frail than thyself.”
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Catholic judgment rejects error without forgetting one's own need of mercy. Let vigilance begin with the disorder nearest at hand: your own.

You need not call falsehood harmless in order to be humble. Humility simply refuses to use another person's fault as shelter from repentance. Condemn what God condemns, pray for the soul in danger, and then ask whether the same root - pride, fear, sensuality, or human respect - has found a quieter form in you.

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When another's fault irritates you, pray for that soul and examine the same root in yourself.

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Examine what welcomed Our Lady's dispositions and what made the soul resemble Esau rather than Jacob.

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O Lord, through Pope St. Martin, give shepherds and faithful the courage to obey Thee above every threat, favor, and deceptive command.

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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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