{"ok":true,"date":"2028-05-09","dateKey":"05-09","liturgicalDay":"St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor","rank":"Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.","author":"St. Cyprian of Carthage","source":"On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#the-church-for-his-mother","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"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. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor - 2028-05-09","previewText":"St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. Outside the Church There Is No Salvation. Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor\n2028-05-09 - Eastertide - Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nDoctor of the Church: a saint formally recognized for teaching the Catholic Faith with exceptional depth and lasting value.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nChrist is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. With Mary, receive the silence in which God prepares His deepest works. Consecrate speech to Jesus through Mary and ask that no word be spent merely to serve vanity or irritation.\n\n\"God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 4\n\nOur Lady's silence is not emptiness, timidity, or ignorance. Wisdom dwells within her, and therefore speech is not used to prove that she possesses it. She speaks when charity and God's will require speech; otherwise she keeps the mystery entrusted to her and allows the Word Himself to be heard.\n\nA soul beginning the interior life must learn this custody. Much grace is dissipated through unnecessary explanation, argument, and self-defense. Before speaking today, ask whether the words protect truth, fulfill duty, or help a soul. If they merely relieve the pressure of self-love, remain with Mary in silence.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of the Solemnity of St. Joseph - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nReview the Creed's teaching on the Trinity and replace vague religious expressions with clear Catholic language.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.\"\nSt. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 9\nAt Nazianzus, the birthday of St. Gregory, bishop and doctor of the church, surnamed the Theologian, because of his remarkable knowledge of divinity. At Constantinople, he restored the Catholic faith, which was fast waning, and repressed the rising heresies. — At Rome, St. Hennas, mentioned by the apostle St. Paul in the epistle to the Romans. Generously sacrificing himself, he became an offering acceptable to God, and adorned with virtues took his departure for the heavenly kingdom. — In Persia, three hundred and ten holy martyrs. — At Caglio, on the Flaminian road, the passion of St. Gerontius, bishop of Cervia. — In the castle of Windisch, the decease of St. Beatus, confessor. — At Constantinople, the translation of the apostle St. Andrew and the evangelist St. Luke, out of Achaia, and of Timothy, disciple of the blessed apostle Paul, from Ephesus. The body of St. Andrew, long after, was conveyed to Amalfi, where it is honored by the pious concourse of the faithful. From his tomb continually issues a liquid which heals diseases. — At Rome, also, the translation of St. Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church, from Bethlehem of Juda, to the basilica of St. Mary of the manger. — At Bari, in Apulia, the translation likewise of the holy bishop Nicholas, from Myra, a town of Lycia.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nSo let your light shine before men.\nSt. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor - Matthew 5:13-19\n\"So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works.\"\nAsk St. Gregory for doctrine that adores. The soul speaks best of God when it has first learned reverent silence before Him.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe Doctor's light is theological truth spoken with reverence for God.\nSt. Gregory Nazianzen teaches that heresy is not healed by vagueness, but by restoring Catholic confession.\nWords about God must be handled with fear of the Lord. Loose speech about doctrine wounds prayer because it darkens the One adored.\nError corrected: The vague religion that treats precision about God as needless controversy.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Gregory Nazianzen\nThe Theologian, restorer of Catholic faith at Constantinople.\nSt. Gregory Nazianzen, bishop and Doctor of the Church, is surnamed the Theologian because of his remarkable knowledge of divinity.\nAt Constantinople he restored the Catholic faith when it was fast waning and repressed the rising heresies.\nAsk St. Gregory for speech worthy of holy mysteries. Theology is safest when wonder and exact doctrine kneel together. Today, speak of God with more reverence and less carelessness.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe Theologian who restored the faith.\nMatins - St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor\n- The Breviary honors St. Gregory Nazianzen as bishop and Doctor, surnamed the Theologian for his knowledge of divine things.\n- His witness teaches that theology must restore Catholic faith, repress heresy, and speak of God with reverence.\nLet doctrine deepen awe. St. Gregory teaches that precision about God is not coldness, but worship guarded by truth.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor 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 Theologian who restored the faith.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Gregory Nazianzen as bishop and Doctor, surnamed the Theologian for his knowledge of divine things. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that theology must restore Catholic faith, repress heresy, and speak of God with reverence.\nThe practical instruction is: Let doctrine deepen awe. St. Gregory teaches that precision about God is not coldness, but worship guarded by truth. 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 theologian who would not invent the faith.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor\nRoman Breviary\n\"Framing their opinions, not out of their own heads, but according to the interpretation arrived at by the wisdom and decision of the ancients.\"\n- The Breviary calls St. Gregory Nazianzen the Theologian and remembers his friendship with St. Basil in sacred study, monastic discipline, and fidelity to the Fathers.\n- He restored Constantinople from the pollution of heresy to the Catholic faith, then relinquished his see to still contention rather than make himself the cause of further tempest.\n- His writings are praised for remaining within Catholic truth, especially in defense of the Son's consubstantiality with the Father.\nTheology is received before it is spoken. St. Gregory teaches that Catholic teachers must be rooted in prayer, the Fathers, humility, and exact confession of the Trinity.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nOutside the Church There Is No Salvation\nThe Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.\nThe grace to be practiced is Theological reverence and orthodox speech, 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 recollected silence: not refusal of necessary truth, but restraint governed by charity and duty.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 theological reverence and orthodox speech 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. When tempted to defend yourself unnecessarily, remain peaceful beneath God's knowledge. Give full attention to the person or duty before you instead of preparing the next thing you wish to say.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius IX.\nYour resolution before God: Review the Creed's teaching on the Trinity and replace vague religious expressions with clear Catholic language.\nCarry this word: Exact doctrine about God protects worship from vague language and hidden error.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203\nThe Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.\n\nIf you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.\nToday's Practice: Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nReview your conversations. Ask whether your words made Christ better known or merely made self more visible.\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 God, through St. Gregory Nazianzen, give me reverence before Thy mysteries and care in speaking about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.\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\nWhy Sincerity Cannot Replace the One True Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/why-sincerity-cannot-replace-the-one-true-church?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-05-09&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-05-09&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. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor - 2028-05-09\n \n \n
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a saint formally recognized for teaching the Catholic Faith with exceptional depth and lasting value.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today.

With Mary, receive the silence in which God prepares His deepest works.

Consecrate speech to Jesus through Mary and ask that no word be spent merely to serve vanity or irritation.

“God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 4

Our Lady's silence is not emptiness, timidity, or ignorance. Wisdom dwells within her, and therefore speech is not used to prove that she possesses it. She speaks when charity and God's will require speech; otherwise she keeps the mystery entrusted to her and allows the Word Himself to be heard.

A soul beginning the interior life must learn this custody. Much grace is dissipated through unnecessary explanation, argument, and self-defense. Before speaking today, ask whether the words protect truth, fulfill duty, or help a soul. If they merely relieve the pressure of self-love, remain with Mary in silence.

Review the Creed's teaching on the Trinity and replace vague religious expressions with clear Catholic language.

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“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
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St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6

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Roman Martyrology - May 9

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At Nazianzus, the birthday of St. Gregory, bishop and doctor of the church, surnamed the Theologian, because of his remarkable knowledge of divinity. At Constantinople, he restored the Catholic faith, which was fast waning, and repressed the rising heresies. — At Rome, St. Hennas, mentioned by the apostle St. Paul in the epistle to the Romans. Generously sacrificing himself, he became an offering acceptable to God, and adorned with virtues took his departure for the heavenly kingdom. — In Persia, three hundred and ten holy martyrs. — At Caglio, on the Flaminian road, the passion of St. Gerontius, bishop of Cervia. — In the castle of Windisch, the decease of St. Beatus, confessor. — At Constantinople, the translation of the apostle St. Andrew and the evangelist St. Luke, out of Achaia, and of Timothy, disciple of the blessed apostle Paul, from Ephesus. The body of St. Andrew, long after, was conveyed to Amalfi, where it is honored by the pious concourse of the faithful. From his tomb continually issues a liquid which heals diseases. — At Rome, also, the translation of St. Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church, from Bethlehem of Juda, to the basilica of St. Mary of the manger. — At Bari, in Apulia, the translation likewise of the holy bishop Nicholas, from Myra, a town of Lycia.

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Gospel of the Day

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So let your light shine before men.

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St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor - Matthew 5:13-19

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“So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works.”
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Ask St. Gregory for doctrine that adores. The soul speaks best of God when it has first learned reverent silence before Him.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The Doctor's light is theological truth spoken with reverence for God.

St. Gregory Nazianzen teaches that heresy is not healed by vagueness, but by restoring Catholic confession.

Words about God must be handled with fear of the Lord. Loose speech about doctrine wounds prayer because it darkens the One adored.

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Error corrected: The vague religion that treats precision about God as needless controversy.

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St. Gregory Nazianzen

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The Theologian, restorer of Catholic faith at Constantinople.

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St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishop and Doctor of the Church, is surnamed the Theologian because of his remarkable knowledge of divinity.

At Constantinople he restored the Catholic faith when it was fast waning and repressed the rising heresies.

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Ask St. Gregory for speech worthy of holy mysteries. Theology is safest when wonder and exact doctrine kneel together. Today, speak of God with more reverence and less carelessness.

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The Theologian who restored the faith.

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Matins - St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor

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Let doctrine deepen awe. St. Gregory teaches that precision about God is not coldness, but worship guarded by truth.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor 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 Theologian who restored the faith.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Gregory Nazianzen as bishop and Doctor, surnamed the Theologian for his knowledge of divine things. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches that theology must restore Catholic faith, repress heresy, and speak of God with reverence.

The practical instruction is: Let doctrine deepen awe. St. Gregory teaches that precision about God is not coldness, but worship guarded by truth. 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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From Matins

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The theologian who would not invent the faith.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Gregory Nazianzen

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“Framing their opinions, not out of their own heads, but according to the interpretation arrived at by the wisdom and decision of the ancients.”
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  • The Breviary calls St. Gregory Nazianzen the Theologian and remembers his friendship with St. Basil in sacred study, monastic discipline, and fidelity to the Fathers.
  • He restored Constantinople from the pollution of heresy to the Catholic faith, then relinquished his see to still contention rather than make himself the cause of further tempest.
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Theology is received before it is spoken. St. Gregory teaches that Catholic teachers must be rooted in prayer, the Fathers, humility, and exact confession of the Trinity.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Outside the Church There Is No Salvation

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The Church places this truth before you today: All salvation comes through Christ and His Church; no soul is saved by false religion, indifferentism, or separation loved as separation. 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 doctrine does not deny God's mercy. It denies that error, schism, or religious indifference can be treated as paths equal to the Church founded by Christ.

The grace to be practiced is Theological reverence and orthodox speech, 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 recollected silence: not refusal of necessary truth, but restraint governed by charity and duty.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist indifferentism, which treats contradictory religions as though they were equally pleasing to God. 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 theological reverence and orthodox speech 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. When tempted to defend yourself unnecessarily, remain peaceful beneath God's knowledge. Give full attention to the person or duty before you instead of preparing the next thing you wish to say.

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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 IX.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Review the Creed's teaching on the Trinity and replace vague religious expressions with clear Catholic language.

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Exact doctrine about God protects worship from vague language and hidden error.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203

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The Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.

If you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.

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Today's Practice

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Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Review your conversations. Ask whether your words made Christ better known or merely made self more visible.

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O God, through St. Gregory Nazianzen, give me reverence before Thy mysteries and care in speaking about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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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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