{"ok":true,"date":"2028-05-06","dateKey":"05-06","liturgicalDay":"St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle","rank":"Greater Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"They shall put you out of the synagogues.","author":"Our Lord Jesus Christ","source":"John 16:2, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Common Octave of the Solemnity of St. Joseph","rank":"Common Octave","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, p. xv."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle - 2028-05-06","previewText":"St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle. The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ. Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle\n2028-05-06 - Eastertide - Greater Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nToday the Church recalls that Christ entrusted His doctrine, sacraments, and authority to the apostles and commanded them to hand these gifts on. Catholics therefore receive the Faith from the Church rather than inventing it privately. They must also remember that sacred office is meant to serve revealed truth: holding an office and remaining faithful to its duties are related, but they are not identical. Through Mary, receive the day from Jesus Christ and return it to Him. Place every prayer, work, joy, suffering, and temptation into the hands of Our Lady, asking her to present the whole day to her Divine Son.\n\n\"It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 1\n\nGod did not choose Our Lady because He needed assistance from a creature. He chose her freely, and by that choice He teaches us something about His own order: the Word came to us in humility, hidden beneath a Mother's heart, and He wills that pride should not prescribe the road by which grace reaches a soul.\n\nYou may desire the reign of Christ while still guarding some chamber of life for self-will. Bring that guarded place into the light today. Ask Mary to receive it, not as its final end, but as the Mother appointed to form in you a more obedient welcome for her Divine Son.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of the Solemnity of St. Joseph - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nAccept unavoidable inconveniences without complaint and offer them to Christ as acts of fidelity.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"They shall put you out of the synagogues.\"\nOur Lord Jesus Christ, John 16:2, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 6\nAt Rome, the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. Being bound and brought to Rome from Ephesus by the order of Domitian, he was condemned by the Senate to be cast, near the said gate, into a vessel of boiling oil, from which he came out more healthy and vigorous than before. — At Antioch, St. Evodius, who, as the blessed Ignatius wrote to the people of Antioch, was consecrated first bishop of that city by the apostle St. Peter, and ended his life by a glorious martyrdom. — At Cyrene, St. Lucius, bishop, who is mentioned by St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus, with seventy-five others. — In Cyprus, St. Theodotus, bishop of Cyrinia, who having undergone grievous afflictions under the emperor Licinius, at length yielded his soul to God, when peace was restored to the Church. — At Damascus, the birthday of the blessed John Damescene, renowned for sanctity and learning, who, by both the written and the spoken word, courageously resisted Leo the Isaurian, in defending the worship paid to sacred images. By order of this emperor his right hand was cut off, but commending himself to an image of the blessed Virgin Mary, which he had de: fended, his hand was immediately restored to him entire and sound. — At Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, St. Protogenes, bishop. — In England, St. Eadbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, eminent for doctrine and piety. — At Rome, St. Benedicta, virgin. — At Salerno, the Translation of St. Matthew, apostle. His sacred body previously transferred from Ethiopia to various countries, was finally taken to Salerno, and there with great pomp placed in a church dedicated under his invocation.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nCan you drink the chalice?\nSt. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle - Matthew 20:20-23\n\"My chalice indeed you shall drink.\"\nAsk St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. To share Christ's chalice is to accept the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nChrist's chalice signifies the suffering and sacrifice His disciples must be willing to share with Him; St. John's apostolic love was tested by that suffering.\nChrist purifies the desire for nearness by joining His friends to sacrifice.\nThe beloved disciple is not loved less because he suffers. Christ's friends are brought near enough to share the chalice.\nError corrected: The devotion that wants closeness to Christ while refusing every sacrifice that fidelity to Him may require.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. John before the Latin Gate\nApostolic love proved by accepting suffering with Christ.\nThis feast honors St. John the Apostle in connection with his suffering for Christ before the Latin Gate.\nIn the Gospel, Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice that His disciples must be willing to share with Him. St. John's trial teaches that closeness to Christ does not remove suffering; it gives the disciple grace to remain faithful through it.\nAsk St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. Sharing Christ's chalice means accepting the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe beloved disciple who accepted Christ's cup of suffering.\nMatins - St. John before the Latin Gate\n- The Breviary remembrance of St. John before the Latin Gate honors apostolic love tested by suffering.\n- The beloved disciple teaches that Christian tenderness does not refuse the suffering required by fidelity to Christ.\nAsk for love strong enough to suffer without bitterness. Christ's chalice means the sacrifice His friends accept when fidelity to Him brings trial.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. John before the Latin Gate 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 beloved disciple who accepted Christ's cup of suffering.. Its first point is this: The Breviary remembrance of St. John before the Latin Gate honors apostolic love tested by suffering. Its next point develops the lesson: The beloved disciple teaches that Christian tenderness does not refuse the suffering required by fidelity to Christ.\nThe practical instruction is: Ask for love strong enough to suffer without bitterness. Christ's chalice means the sacrifice His friends accept when fidelity to Him brings trial. 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 beloved disciple drinks the martyr's cup and remains to bear witness.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle\nSt. Jerome, Priest, Tertullian, and St. John Chrysostom\n\"He was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.\"\n- The office remembers St. John as Apostle, Evangelist, prophet, virgin disciple, and witness whose intimacy with Christ bore fruit in doctrine.\n- Tertullian records that boiling oil did not destroy him; exile on Patmos followed, and the Apocalypse became part of his continued testimony.\n- St. John Chrysostom teaches that John truly drank the martyr's cup because he possessed the soul and willingness of a martyr even though divine protection prolonged his pilgrimage.\nAsk St. John for a martyr's interior freedom. Survival is not compromise when God preserves a witness for further work; keep purity, testimony, and love joined to the truth of the Word.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. 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. Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear.\nThe grace to be practiced is Tender love made strong by suffering, 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. Ask Our Lady to form this virtue in you by teaching you her humility: she received every gift from God and returned all glory to Him.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. 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 tender love made strong by suffering 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. Do not carry the cross alone or waste it in complaint. Stand beneath it with Our Lady and remain faithful to Jesus. Offer this duty through Mary, without seeking notice, so that it may belong more perfectly to Jesus Christ.\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: Accept unavoidable inconveniences without complaint and offer them to Christ as acts of fidelity.\nCarry this word: Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice His disciple accepts in remaining faithful to Him.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72\nThe cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.\n\nYou are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.\nToday's Practice: Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nReturn the completed day into Our Lady's hands. Ask her to obtain pardon for its faults and to preserve whatever grace bore fruit.\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 St. John, give me love strong enough to endure trial without bitterness and tenderness strong enough to remain charitable while I suffer.\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 Are the Sacraments?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-are-the-sacraments?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-05-06&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-05-06&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. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle - 2028-05-06\n \n \n
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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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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Today the Church recalls that Christ entrusted His doctrine, sacraments, and authority to the apostles and commanded them to hand these gifts on. Catholics therefore receive the Faith from the Church rather than inventing it privately. They must also remember that sacred office is meant to serve revealed truth: holding an office and remaining faithful to its duties are related, but they are not identical.

Through Mary, receive the day from Jesus Christ and return it to Him.

Place every prayer, work, joy, suffering, and temptation into the hands of Our Lady, asking her to present the whole day to her Divine Son.

“It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 1

God did not choose Our Lady because He needed assistance from a creature. He chose her freely, and by that choice He teaches us something about His own order: the Word came to us in humility, hidden beneath a Mother's heart, and He wills that pride should not prescribe the road by which grace reaches a soul.

You may desire the reign of Christ while still guarding some chamber of life for self-will. Bring that guarded place into the light today. Ask Mary to receive it, not as its final end, but as the Mother appointed to form in you a more obedient welcome for her Divine Son.

Accept unavoidable inconveniences without complaint and offer them to Christ as acts of fidelity.

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Roman Martyrology - May 6

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At Rome, the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. Being bound and brought to Rome from Ephesus by the order of Domitian, he was condemned by the Senate to be cast, near the said gate, into a vessel of boiling oil, from which he came out more healthy and vigorous than before. — At Antioch, St. Evodius, who, as the blessed Ignatius wrote to the people of Antioch, was consecrated first bishop of that city by the apostle St. Peter, and ended his life by a glorious martyrdom. — At Cyrene, St. Lucius, bishop, who is mentioned by St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus, with seventy-five others. — In Cyprus, St. Theodotus, bishop of Cyrinia, who having undergone grievous afflictions under the emperor Licinius, at length yielded his soul to God, when peace was restored to the Church. — At Damascus, the birthday of the blessed John Damescene, renowned for sanctity and learning, who, by both the written and the spoken word, courageously resisted Leo the Isaurian, in defending the worship paid to sacred images. By order of this emperor his right hand was cut off, but commending himself to an image of the blessed Virgin Mary, which he had de: fended, his hand was immediately restored to him entire and sound. — At Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, St. Protogenes, bishop. — In England, St. Eadbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, eminent for doctrine and piety. — At Rome, St. Benedicta, virgin. — At Salerno, the Translation of St. Matthew, apostle. His sacred body previously transferred from Ethiopia to various countries, was finally taken to Salerno, and there with great pomp placed in a church dedicated under his invocation.

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Can you drink the chalice?

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St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle - Matthew 20:20-23

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“My chalice indeed you shall drink.”
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Ask St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. To share Christ's chalice is to accept the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Christ's chalice signifies the suffering and sacrifice His disciples must be willing to share with Him; St. John's apostolic love was tested by that suffering.

Christ purifies the desire for nearness by joining His friends to sacrifice.

The beloved disciple is not loved less because he suffers. Christ's friends are brought near enough to share the chalice.

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Error corrected: The devotion that wants closeness to Christ while refusing every sacrifice that fidelity to Him may require.

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Apostolic love proved by accepting suffering with Christ.

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This feast honors St. John the Apostle in connection with his suffering for Christ before the Latin Gate.

In the Gospel, Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice that His disciples must be willing to share with Him. St. John's trial teaches that closeness to Christ does not remove suffering; it gives the disciple grace to remain faithful through it.

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Ask St. John for love strong enough to suffer without becoming cold or bitter. Sharing Christ's chalice means accepting the sacrifices required by fidelity while continuing to love God and neighbor.

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The beloved disciple who accepted Christ's cup of suffering.

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Ask for love strong enough to suffer without bitterness. Christ's chalice means the sacrifice His friends accept when fidelity to Him brings trial.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. John before the Latin Gate 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 beloved disciple who accepted Christ's cup of suffering.. Its first point is this: The Breviary remembrance of St. John before the Latin Gate honors apostolic love tested by suffering. Its next point develops the lesson: The beloved disciple teaches that Christian tenderness does not refuse the suffering required by fidelity to Christ.

The practical instruction is: Ask for love strong enough to suffer without bitterness. Christ's chalice means the sacrifice His friends accept when fidelity to Him brings trial. 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 beloved disciple drinks the martyr's cup and remains to bear witness.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. John before the Latin Gate, Apostle

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St. Jerome, Priest, Tertullian, and St. John Chrysostom, Against Jovinian and homily on the sons of Zebedee

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“He was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.”
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  • The office remembers St. John as Apostle, Evangelist, prophet, virgin disciple, and witness whose intimacy with Christ bore fruit in doctrine.
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Ask St. John for a martyr's interior freedom. Survival is not compromise when God preserves a witness for further work; keep purity, testimony, and love joined to the truth of the Word.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ

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The Church places this truth before you today: The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. 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. Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear.

The grace to be practiced is Tender love made strong by suffering, 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. Ask Our Lady to form this virtue in you by teaching you her humility: she received every gift from God and returned all glory to Him.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. 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 tender love made strong by suffering 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. Do not carry the cross alone or waste it in complaint. Stand beneath it with Our Lady and remain faithful to Jesus. Offer this duty through Mary, without seeking notice, so that it may belong more perfectly to Jesus Christ.

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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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Accept unavoidable inconveniences without complaint and offer them to Christ as acts of fidelity.

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Christ's chalice means the suffering and sacrifice His disciple accepts in remaining faithful to Him.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72

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The cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.

You are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.

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Today's Practice

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Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Return the completed day into Our Lady's hands. Ask her to obtain pardon for its faults and to preserve whatever grace bore fruit.

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O Lord, through St. John, give me love strong enough to endure trial without bitterness and tenderness strong enough to remain charitable while I suffer.

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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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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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