{"ok":true,"date":"2028-02-02","dateKey":"02-02","liturgicalDay":"Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary","rank":"Double of the Second Class","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.","author":"Simeon","source":"Luke 2:32, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Time after Epiphany","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2028-02-02","previewText":"Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Hold the Traditions. Resist innovation that claims continuity while contradicting what was handed down.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nPurification of the Blessed Virgin Mary\n2028-02-02 - Time after Epiphany - Double of the Second Class - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nCandlemas: the traditional name for the February 2 feast of Christ's Presentation and Mary's Purification, marked by the blessing and carrying of candles in honor of Christ the Light.\nGentiles: in this biblical setting, the peoples and nations outside Israel; their call shows that Christ came as Savior for every nation.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe Church learns her own shape in Our Lady: faith that receives, sorrow that remains, purity that refuses compromise, and hope that waits beneath the Cross. Marian days teach the pilgrim not sentimentality, but Catholic formation under the Mother of God. Contemplate the glorified Jesus as true God and true Man, eternally the Son of the Father and forever the Son of Mary according to His sacred humanity. Honor Jesus Christ as Mary's divine Son and ask her to make your will obedient to His in all things.\n\n\"Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that, consequently, He has preserved the most perfect obedience and submission of all children towards the best of all mothers.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 27\n\nThe Incarnation was not temporary. Jesus Christ reigns in heaven with the same sacred humanity He received from Our Lady. Yet St. Louis de Montfort immediately guards the truth: Mary is infinitely below her divine Son, and her will is perfectly conformed to the eternal and immutable will of God.\n\nOur Lady's intercession can therefore never oppose, correct, or replace Christ's sovereign will. Go to her with confidence because she belongs wholly to Him. Ask her to purify your petitions, obtain what serves salvation, and teach you the filial obedience by which Jesus was subject to her at Nazareth.\n\nPRACTICE\nRead Luke 2:22-35. Offer your ordinary duties to God with Mary and Joseph, and ask Christ to reveal where your heart resists His light.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.\"\nSimeon, Luke 2:32, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - February 2\nThe Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, called by the Greeks Hypapante (meeting) of the Lord. — At Rome, on the Salarian road, the passion of St. Apronian, a notary. Whilst he was yet a Gentile, and was leading St. Sisinius out of prison, to present him before the governor Laodicius, he heard a voice from heaven saying, \"Come ye, the blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.\" At once he believed, was baptized, and after confessing our Lord, received sentence of death. — Also, at Rome, the holy martyrs Fortunatus, Felician, Firmus and Candidus. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, St. Cornelius, a centurion, whom the blessed apostle Peter baptized, and raised to the episcopal dignity in that city. — At Orleans, the holy bishop Flosculus. — At Canterbury, in England, the birthday of St. Lawrence, bishop, who succeeded St. Augustine in the government of that church, and converted the king himself to the faith.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nThe Light carried into the temple.\nPurification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 2:22-32\n\"A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.\"\nCarry your candle quietly. God often asks the faithful to do plain duties with great love, and the soul that does them well becomes bright without knowing it.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nOur Lady submits to the law with perfect humility, though no stain required purification in her.\nSimeon receives Christ as light, glory, and the sign before whom every heart will be disclosed.\nThis mystery teaches that obedience is not only for the guilty. The holiest souls are the most careful to fulfill what God has appointed.\nError corrected: The spirit that wants religious privilege without hidden obedience.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary\nObedience, humility, and the offering of Christ.\nForty days after Christ's birth, Mary and Joseph brought Him to the temple in Jerusalem. The law of Moses directed a mother to complete a rite of purification after childbirth and directed parents to present a firstborn son to God.\nMary had no personal sin from which to be cleansed, and Jesus was already the Son of God. They nevertheless fulfilled the law humbly. Their obedience reveals Christ as the promised Light and offers Him publicly to the Father.\nCarry your candle quietly. God often asks plain duties with great love, and the soul that does them well becomes bright without knowing it.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe Light carried in obedience.\nMatins - Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary\n- The Breviary office of the Purification honors Our Lady's humble obedience and the presentation of Christ in the temple.\n- Simeon's canticle shows Christ as light, glory, and the sign before whom hearts are disclosed.\nObey in plain duties without demanding exemption. The soul that carries the Light quietly becomes bright by fidelity.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Purification 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 The Light carried in obedience.. Its first point is this: The Breviary office of the Purification honors Our Lady's humble obedience and the presentation of Christ in the temple. Its next point develops the lesson: Simeon's canticle shows Christ as light, glory, and the sign before whom hearts are disclosed.\nThe practical instruction is: Obey in plain duties without demanding exemption. The soul that carries the Light quietly becomes bright by fidelity. 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\nFROM MATINS\nThe Lord enters His temple in Mary's arms.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary\nSt. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, and St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan\n\"The old man Simeon bore the new-born Christ, and all the while, Christ was the old man's Lord.\"\n- The Breviary contemplates Candlemas as the meeting of the Lord, the Purification of Mary, and the presentation of the Child in the temple.\n- St. Augustine shows Simeon receiving the Ancient of Days as a little Child, so that the old man holds his own Lord in his arms.\n- St. Ambrose teaches that the just man waits for Christ, embraces the Word with the arms of faith, and sees in Him the light of the Gentiles and the glory of Israel.\nCome to the temple with Simeon's hunger and Mary's obedience. Candlemas teaches reverent offering, patient waiting, light against contradiction, and peace only after Christ has been received.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nHold the Traditions\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Apostolic tradition is not nostalgia. It is the handing down of what the Church received from Christ and the Apostles. 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. Tradition protects the faithful from the tyranny of the present moment and from teachers who mistake novelty for life.\nThe grace to be practiced is Humble obedience in hidden duty, 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 filial obedience by receiving every lawful command promptly, reverently, and without self-willed reservation.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist innovation that claims continuity while contradicting what was handed down. 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 humble obedience in hidden duty 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 the humiliation of dependence and correction after the example of the Incarnate Word, who freely chose a hidden and obedient life. Bring every intention to Our Lady while surrendering its outcome completely to the sovereign will of her Son.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Paul.\nYour resolution before God: Read Luke 2:22-35. Offer your ordinary duties to God with Mary and Joseph, and ask Christ to reveal where your heart resists His light.\nCarry this word: Truth becomes fruitful when it is obeyed.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Ask not who said this, but take heed what is said.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 5, p. 14\nTruth does not become true through fashion, applause, or a celebrated name. Test what you hear by revelation and the perennial teaching of the Church.\n\nYet à Kempis also rebukes the curiosity that collects authorities without receiving their doctrine. Listen for the truth God is giving through a trustworthy witness, and then permit that truth to correct you. The name of a saint should not become decoration around an unchanged life.\nToday's Practice: Reject claims based on novelty or popularity and ask what the Church has always taught.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine where self-will resisted God, rightful authority, or duty, and ask Our Lady to lead you back to Jesus in humble obedience.\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\nHold the Traditions and Refuse the Innovators: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/2-thessalonians-2-14-15-hold-the-traditions-and-refuse-the-innovators?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-02-02&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-02-02&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: Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2028-02-02\n \n \n
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in this biblical setting, the peoples and nations outside Israel; their call shows that Christ came as Savior for every nation.
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The Church learns her own shape in Our Lady: faith that receives, sorrow that remains, purity that refuses compromise, and hope that waits beneath the Cross. Marian days teach the pilgrim not sentimentality, but Catholic formation under the Mother of God.

Contemplate the glorified Jesus as true God and true Man, eternally the Son of the Father and forever the Son of Mary according to His sacred humanity.

Honor Jesus Christ as Mary's divine Son and ask her to make your will obedient to His in all things.

“Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that, consequently, He has preserved the most perfect obedience and submission of all children towards the best of all mothers.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 27

The Incarnation was not temporary. Jesus Christ reigns in heaven with the same sacred humanity He received from Our Lady. Yet St. Louis de Montfort immediately guards the truth: Mary is infinitely below her divine Son, and her will is perfectly conformed to the eternal and immutable will of God.

Our Lady's intercession can therefore never oppose, correct, or replace Christ's sovereign will. Go to her with confidence because she belongs wholly to Him. Ask her to purify your petitions, obtain what serves salvation, and teach you the filial obedience by which Jesus was subject to her at Nazareth.

Read Luke 2:22-35. Offer your ordinary duties to God with Mary and Joseph, and ask Christ to reveal where your heart resists His light.

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“A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.”
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The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, called by the Greeks Hypapante (meeting) of the Lord. — At Rome, on the Salarian road, the passion of St. Apronian, a notary. Whilst he was yet a Gentile, and was leading St. Sisinius out of prison, to present him before the governor Laodicius, he heard a voice from heaven saying, "Come ye, the blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world." At once he believed, was baptized, and after confessing our Lord, received sentence of death. — Also, at Rome, the holy martyrs Fortunatus, Felician, Firmus and Candidus. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, St. Cornelius, a centurion, whom the blessed apostle Peter baptized, and raised to the episcopal dignity in that city. — At Orleans, the holy bishop Flosculus. — At Canterbury, in England, the birthday of St. Lawrence, bishop, who succeeded St. Augustine in the government of that church, and converted the king himself to the faith.

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The Light carried into the temple.

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“A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.”
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Carry your candle quietly. God often asks the faithful to do plain duties with great love, and the soul that does them well becomes bright without knowing it.

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Our Lady submits to the law with perfect humility, though no stain required purification in her.

Simeon receives Christ as light, glory, and the sign before whom every heart will be disclosed.

This mystery teaches that obedience is not only for the guilty. The holiest souls are the most careful to fulfill what God has appointed.

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Error corrected: The spirit that wants religious privilege without hidden obedience.

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The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Obedience, humility, and the offering of Christ.

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Forty days after Christ's birth, Mary and Joseph brought Him to the temple in Jerusalem. The law of Moses directed a mother to complete a rite of purification after childbirth and directed parents to present a firstborn son to God.

Mary had no personal sin from which to be cleansed, and Jesus was already the Son of God. They nevertheless fulfilled the law humbly. Their obedience reveals Christ as the promised Light and offers Him publicly to the Father.

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Carry your candle quietly. God often asks plain duties with great love, and the soul that does them well becomes bright without knowing it.

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The Light carried in obedience.

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Obey in plain duties without demanding exemption. The soul that carries the Light quietly becomes bright by fidelity.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Purification 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 The Light carried in obedience.. Its first point is this: The Breviary office of the Purification honors Our Lady's humble obedience and the presentation of Christ in the temple. Its next point develops the lesson: Simeon's canticle shows Christ as light, glory, and the sign before whom hearts are disclosed.

The practical instruction is: Obey in plain duties without demanding exemption. The soul that carries the Light quietly becomes bright by fidelity. 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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The Lord enters His temple in Mary's arms.

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St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, and St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Sermon for the season and Commentary on St. Luke

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“The old man Simeon bore the new-born Christ, and all the while, Christ was the old man's Lord.”
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  • St. Ambrose teaches that the just man waits for Christ, embraces the Word with the arms of faith, and sees in Him the light of the Gentiles and the glory of Israel.
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Come to the temple with Simeon's hunger and Mary's obedience. Candlemas teaches reverent offering, patient waiting, light against contradiction, and peace only after Christ has been received.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Hold the Traditions

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The Church places this truth before you today: Apostolic tradition is not nostalgia. It is the handing down of what the Church received from Christ and the Apostles. 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. Tradition protects the faithful from the tyranny of the present moment and from teachers who mistake novelty for life.

The grace to be practiced is Humble obedience in hidden duty, 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 filial obedience by receiving every lawful command promptly, reverently, and without self-willed reservation.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist innovation that claims continuity while contradicting what was handed down. 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 humble obedience in hidden duty 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 the humiliation of dependence and correction after the example of the Incarnate Word, who freely chose a hidden and obedient life. Bring every intention to Our Lady while surrendering its outcome completely to the sovereign will of her Son.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Read Luke 2:22-35. Offer your ordinary duties to God with Mary and Joseph, and ask Christ to reveal where your heart resists His light.

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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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“Ask not who said this, but take heed what is said.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 5, p. 14

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Truth does not become true through fashion, applause, or a celebrated name. Test what you hear by revelation and the perennial teaching of the Church.

Yet à Kempis also rebukes the curiosity that collects authorities without receiving their doctrine. Listen for the truth God is giving through a trustworthy witness, and then permit that truth to correct you. The name of a saint should not become decoration around an unchanged life.

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Today's Practice

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Reject claims based on novelty or popularity and ask what the Church has always taught.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine where self-will resisted God, rightful authority, or duty, and ask Our Lady to lead you back to Jesus in humble obedience.

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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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Continue Study

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

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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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