{"ok":true,"date":"2028-02-28","dateKey":"02-28","liturgicalDay":"Feria of Septuagesima","rank":"Feria","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?","author":"St. Paul","source":"Acts 9:6, Douay-Rheims","category":"Confidence and Daily Self-Denial"},"season":"Septuagesima","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Holy Face","feast":"Holy Face of Jesus","day":9,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2028-02-20","feastIsoDate":"2028-02-29","intention":"Ask for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.","prayer":null,"practice":"Offer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria of Septuagesima - 2028-02-28","previewText":"Feria of Septuagesima. Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity. Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nFeria of Septuagesima\n2028-02-28 - Septuagesima - Feria - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nSeptuagesima: the first Sunday of the traditional pre-Lenten season; it begins the Church's gradual preparation for the fasting and penance of Lent.\nCloister: the enclosed part of a monastery or convent, and by extension the protected religious life of prayer lived there.\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe Church does not leave the faithful to pass through time as though days were neutral. This observance teaches the soul to receive the day under grace, to remember what God has done, and to let sacred time order study, prayer, and perseverance. Ask Our Lady to make Jesus Christ known in you as He ought to be known: believed, adored, obeyed, and loved. Profess faith in Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and ask His Mother to lead you into complete obedience to Him.\n\n\"Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 13\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort's grief is not that Our Lady receives too little attention as though she sought a kingdom apart from Christ. He grieves because ignorance of Mary's place accompanies an impoverished knowledge of Jesus. The Son is treated as an idea, a moral teacher, or a source of comfort rather than as the Incarnate King who came through her and demands the whole man.\n\nAsk whether you know Christ only in the truths you prefer. To know Him as He ought to be known is to receive His divinity, His Cross, His Church, His commandments, His sacraments, His judgment, and His mercy without division. Let Mary uncover every partial or comfortable image of Jesus that must give way to the Catholic whole.\n\nPRACTICE\nEnd the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?\"\nSt. Paul, Acts 9:6, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Holy Face - Day 9 of 9\nPreparing for Holy Face of Jesus on 2028-02-29.\nAsk for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.\n\nOffer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - February 28\nAt Rome, the birthday of the holy martyrs Maca rius, Rufinus, Justus, and Theophilus. — At Alex andria, the passion of the Saints Cserealis, Pupulus, Caius, and Serapion. — In the same city, in the reign of the emperor Valerian, the commemoration of the holy priests, deacons, and other Christians in great number, who encountered death most willingly by nursing the victims of a most deadly pestilence then raging. They have been generally revered as martyrs by the pious faithful. — In the territory of Lyons, on Mount Jura, the demise of St. Romanus, abbot, who was the first to lead the eremitical life there. His reputation for virtues and miracles brought under his guidance numerous monks. — At Pavia, the translation, from the island of Sardinia, of the bod of St. Augustine, bishop, by Luitprand, king of the Lombards.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Romanus\nAbbot remembered in the Roman Martyrology.\nThe Roman Martyrology remembers St. Romanus as an abbot whose monastic life was formed by solitude, prayer, discipline, and perseverance.\nHis witness teaches that a soul is not made free by following every impulse. Holy rule, silence, labor, and obedience make room for God.\nAsk St. Romanus for steadiness. Even outside the cloister, the soul needs rule enough to belong to God with peace.\nFROM MATINS\nThe solitary whose virtue gathered a disciplined household for God.\nMartyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Romanus, Abbot\nRoman Martyrology\n\"His reputation for virtues and miracles brought under his guidance numerous monks.\"\n- The Martyrology remembers St. Romanus as the first to lead the eremitical life on Mount Jura and as an abbot whose virtues drew numerous monks beneath his guidance.\n- Solitude did not become self-rule. Prayer, discipline, and perseverance prepared Romanus to govern a stable religious household ordered toward God.\n- The monastic witness reaches ordinary Catholic life: freedom from impulse requires a rule of prayer, custody of speech and appetite, faithful labor, and obedience to duty.\nAsk St. Romanus for stability under God. Renew the whole rule of prayer and duty entrusted to you, especially where hidden obedience has been weakened by restlessness.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nUnity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. 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 unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.\nThe grace to be practiced is Stable discipline under God, 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 integrity of faith: receive Christ whole rather than selecting only what consoles or agrees with the age.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. 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 stable discipline under God 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 cost of belonging to the real Christ when the world offers a gentler counterfeit. Obey Christ's commandments today, beginning where feeling or human respect has encouraged delay.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.\nCarry this word: The day must end beneath truth.\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 you sought Christ's comfort while resisting His kingship, and ask pardon through the Sorrowful Mother.\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, bring this day to judgment before Thy mercy. Show me where I obeyed, where I resisted, where I loved, and where I must begin again.\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\nUnity Without Obedience and Indifferentism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/unity-without-obedience-the-condemned-religion-of-indifferentism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-02-28&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-02-28&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 of Septuagesima - 2028-02-28\n \n \n
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Feria of Septuagesima

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“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Septuagesima
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the first Sunday of the traditional pre-Lenten season; it begins the Church's gradual preparation for the fasting and penance of Lent.
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Cloister
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the enclosed part of a monastery or convent, and by extension the protected religious life of prayer lived there.
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Feria
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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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Today in the Roman Year

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The Church does not leave the faithful to pass through time as though days were neutral. This observance teaches the soul to receive the day under grace, to remember what God has done, and to let sacred time order study, prayer, and perseverance.

Ask Our Lady to make Jesus Christ known in you as He ought to be known: believed, adored, obeyed, and loved.

Profess faith in Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and ask His Mother to lead you into complete obedience to Him.

“Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 13

St. Louis de Montfort's grief is not that Our Lady receives too little attention as though she sought a kingdom apart from Christ. He grieves because ignorance of Mary's place accompanies an impoverished knowledge of Jesus. The Son is treated as an idea, a moral teacher, or a source of comfort rather than as the Incarnate King who came through her and demands the whole man.

Ask whether you know Christ only in the truths you prefer. To know Him as He ought to be known is to receive His divinity, His Cross, His Church, His commandments, His sacraments, His judgment, and His mercy without division. Let Mary uncover every partial or comfortable image of Jesus that must give way to the Catholic whole.

End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.

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Quote of the Day

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“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
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St. Paul, Acts 9:6, Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Holy Face - Day 9 of 9

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Preparing for Holy Face of Jesus on 2028-02-29.

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Ask for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.

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Offer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.

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Roman Martyrology - February 28

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At Rome, the birthday of the holy martyrs Maca rius, Rufinus, Justus, and Theophilus. — At Alex andria, the passion of the Saints Cserealis, Pupulus, Caius, and Serapion. — In the same city, in the reign of the emperor Valerian, the commemoration of the holy priests, deacons, and other Christians in great number, who encountered death most willingly by nursing the victims of a most deadly pestilence then raging. They have been generally revered as martyrs by the pious faithful. — In the territory of Lyons, on Mount Jura, the demise of St. Romanus, abbot, who was the first to lead the eremitical life there. His reputation for virtues and miracles brought under his guidance numerous monks. — At Pavia, the translation, from the island of Sardinia, of the bod of St. Augustine, bishop, by Luitprand, king of the Lombards.

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St. Romanus

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Abbot remembered in the Roman Martyrology.

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The Roman Martyrology remembers St. Romanus as an abbot whose monastic life was formed by solitude, prayer, discipline, and perseverance.

His witness teaches that a soul is not made free by following every impulse. Holy rule, silence, labor, and obedience make room for God.

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Ask St. Romanus for steadiness. Even outside the cloister, the soul needs rule enough to belong to God with peace.

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The solitary whose virtue gathered a disciplined household for God.

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Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Romanus, Abbot

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Roman Martyrology, Notice for February 28

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“His reputation for virtues and miracles brought under his guidance numerous monks.”
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  • The Martyrology remembers St. Romanus as the first to lead the eremitical life on Mount Jura and as an abbot whose virtues drew numerous monks beneath his guidance.
  • Solitude did not become self-rule. Prayer, discipline, and perseverance prepared Romanus to govern a stable religious household ordered toward God.
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Ask St. Romanus for stability under God. Renew the whole rule of prayer and duty entrusted to you, especially where hidden obedience has been weakened by restlessness.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. 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 unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.

The grace to be practiced is Stable discipline under God, 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 integrity of faith: receive Christ whole rather than selecting only what consoles or agrees with the age.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. 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 stable discipline under God 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 cost of belonging to the real Christ when the world offers a gentler counterfeit. Obey Christ's commandments today, beginning where feeling or human respect has encouraged delay.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.

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The day must end beneath truth.
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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 you sought Christ's comfort while resisting His kingship, and ask pardon through the Sorrowful Mother.

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  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
  • What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?
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Prayer

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O Lord, bring this day to judgment before Thy mercy. Show me where I obeyed, where I resisted, where I loved, and where I must begin again.

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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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