{"ok":true,"date":"2028-05-14","dateKey":"05-14","liturgicalDay":"Fourth Sunday after Easter","rank":"Semi-Double Sunday","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.","author":"St. Paul","source":"1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Fourth Sunday after Easter - 2028-05-14","previewText":"Fourth Sunday after Easter. Christ Is King Over Public Life. Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nTHE DAILY PILGRIMAGE\n\"Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.\" - Proverbs 8:32\n\"Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\" - Luke 12:32-34\nFourth Sunday after Easter\n2028-05-14 - Eastertide - Semi-Double Sunday - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nFourth Sunday after Easter is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Boniface, Martyr on this date. The secondary observance remains part of the calendar context for the date. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nTract: in a source title, a written commentary or treatise; in the Mass, the same word can name a solemn chant sung in place of the Alleluia during penitential seasons.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\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. Stand with Our Lady at the Visitation and Cana, where her intercession serves the saving work of Christ. Entrust the needs of souls and households to Our Lady, asking her to present them to Jesus according to His will.\n\n\"If we examine narrowly the rest of our Blessed Lord's Life, we shall see that it was His Will to begin His miracles by Mary.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 19\n\nSt. John was sanctified at the sound of Mary's greeting because Jesus was present within her; Cana received wine because she presented the need and commanded obedience to her Son. Her intercession never competes with Christ's power. It disposes servants to hear Him: whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye.\n\nBring real needs to Our Lady, including conversion, perseverance, sickness, family trials, and the souls who have no one to pray for them. Then accept her direction at Cana. Petition must be joined to obedience, and confidence must not become an excuse for retaining sin.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for family members and friends. Love them sincerely, but do not pretend the truth is less serious just to keep peace.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.\"\nSt. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 14\nThe birthday of the holy martyr Boniface, who - suffered at Tarsus, in Cilicia, under Diocletian and Maximian. His body was subsequently carried to Rome, and buried on the Latin road. — In France, St. Pontius, martyr. Having by his preaching and his zeal converted to the faith of Christ the two Caesars Philip, he obtained the palm of martyrdom under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus. — In Syria, the holy martyrs Victor and Corona, under the emperor Antoninus. Victor was subjected to various horrible torments by the judge Sebastian. As Corona, the wife of a certain soldier, was proclaiming him happy for his fortitude in his sufferings, she saw two crowns falling from heaven, one for Victor, the other for herself. She related this to all present, and was torn to pieces between two trees; Victor was beheaded. — In Sardinia, the holy martyrs Justa, Justina, and Henedina. — At Rome, pope St. Paschal, who took up from the crypts many bodies of the holy martyrs, and placed them honorably in various churches. — At Ferentino, in Tuscany, the holy bishop Boniface, who was renowned from his childhood for holiness and miracles, as is related by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Naples, in Campania, St. Pomponius, bishop. — In Egypt, St. Pachomius, an abbot, who erected many monasteries in that country, and wrote a monastic rule, which was dictated to him by an angel.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nThe Spirit of truth will teach you all truth.\nFourth Sunday after Easter - John 16:5-14\n\"When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth.\"\nAsk the Holy Ghost to make truth lovable. He does not humiliate the soul by correction; He frees it from illusions.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe Holy Ghost leads the Church into truth, not into novelty against Christ.\nHe convinces the world of sin, justice, and judgment.\nError corrected: The false spirituality that opposes inner feeling to revealed truth.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nTODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST\nSt. Boniface\nMartyr whose witness was crowned after conversion.\nSt. Boniface is honored on this day as a martyr, distinct from the missionary bishop St. Boniface kept in June.\nHis feast teaches that grace can reclaim a disordered life and make it courageous for Christ. The past does not have to be the master of the soul when repentance becomes real.\nAsk St. Boniface for conversion that does not stop halfway. Grace can make a repentant soul braver than it ever was in sin.\nFROM MATINS\nThe Comforter promised for the hour of witness.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - Fourth Sunday after Easter\nSt. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo\n\"His visible Presence was then their sufficient Comfort.\"\n- The Breviary hears Christ tell the disciples that He goes to Him who sent Him and promises the Comforter.\n- St. Augustine explains that the Lord had already foretold persecutions, but now speaks especially of the Paraclete who will be needed when His visible presence is withdrawn.\n- The Holy Ghost strengthens the Church to bear witness under suffering, not by replacing Christ, but by testifying to Him.\nDo not mistake the loss of visible consolations for abandonment. Christ sends the Comforter so that witness may remain firm when the world presses and the soul feels alone.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nChrist Is King Over Public Life\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.\nThe grace to be practiced is Repentance crowned by courage, 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 obedient confidence: ask generously, obey completely, and leave the manner and hour of the answer to Christ.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 repentance crowned by courage 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 the answer is delayed or differs from your expectation, remain beside Mary and continue doing what her Son commands. Offer your Rosary, prayers, sacrifices, and duties for the intentions entrusted to you and for neglected souls in greatest need.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for family members and friends. Love them sincerely, but do not pretend the truth is less serious just to keep peace.\nCarry this word: Family peace cannot be purchased by surrendering the Faith.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Who hath a stronger battle than he that laboureth to overcome himself?\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12\nThe decisive field of combat is within. Heresy must be hated, and so must the pride, curiosity, compromise, and self-will by which falsehood finds lodging in the soul.\n\nMany souls desire victory in the Church while making peace with the tyrant within. Begin the restoration where grace has placed authority in your hands: over your next thought, word, appetite, and decision. A hidden victory over self-will is no small service to the City of God.\nToday's Practice: Refuse the demands of self-will promptly and without complaint.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank Jesus for every grace, visible or hidden, and ask whether your petitions were accompanied by faithful 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, make me patient in household division, firm without cruelty, and charitable without compromise. Let peace be made beneath truth, not against it.\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\nAuthority and the Kingship of Christ: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-05-14&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-05-14&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: Fourth Sunday after Easter - 2028-05-14\n \n \n
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City of God in Exile

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“Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.”

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Fourth Sunday after Easter

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“Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. […] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Luke 12:32–34
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Fourth Sunday after Easter is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Boniface, Martyr on this date. The secondary observance remains part of the calendar context for the date. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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in a source title, a written commentary or treatise; in the Mass, the same word can name a solemn chant sung in place of the Alleluia during penitential seasons.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
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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.

Stand with Our Lady at the Visitation and Cana, where her intercession serves the saving work of Christ.

Entrust the needs of souls and households to Our Lady, asking her to present them to Jesus according to His will.

“If we examine narrowly the rest of our Blessed Lord's Life, we shall see that it was His Will to begin His miracles by Mary.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 19

St. John was sanctified at the sound of Mary's greeting because Jesus was present within her; Cana received wine because she presented the need and commanded obedience to her Son. Her intercession never competes with Christ's power. It disposes servants to hear Him: whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye.

Bring real needs to Our Lady, including conversion, perseverance, sickness, family trials, and the souls who have no one to pray for them. Then accept her direction at Cana. Petition must be joined to obedience, and confidence must not become an excuse for retaining sin.

Pray for family members and friends. Love them sincerely, but do not pretend the truth is less serious just to keep peace.

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Quote of the Day

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“The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.”
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St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - May 14

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The birthday of the holy martyr Boniface, who - suffered at Tarsus, in Cilicia, under Diocletian and Maximian. His body was subsequently carried to Rome, and buried on the Latin road. — In France, St. Pontius, martyr. Having by his preaching and his zeal converted to the faith of Christ the two Caesars Philip, he obtained the palm of martyrdom under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus. — In Syria, the holy martyrs Victor and Corona, under the emperor Antoninus. Victor was subjected to various horrible torments by the judge Sebastian. As Corona, the wife of a certain soldier, was proclaiming him happy for his fortitude in his sufferings, she saw two crowns falling from heaven, one for Victor, the other for herself. She related this to all present, and was torn to pieces between two trees; Victor was beheaded. — In Sardinia, the holy martyrs Justa, Justina, and Henedina. — At Rome, pope St. Paschal, who took up from the crypts many bodies of the holy martyrs, and placed them honorably in various churches. — At Ferentino, in Tuscany, the holy bishop Boniface, who was renowned from his childhood for holiness and miracles, as is related by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Naples, in Campania, St. Pomponius, bishop. — In Egypt, St. Pachomius, an abbot, who erected many monasteries in that country, and wrote a monastic rule, which was dictated to him by an angel.

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Gospel of the Day

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The Spirit of truth will teach you all truth.

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Fourth Sunday after Easter - John 16:5-14

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“When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth.”
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Ask the Holy Ghost to make truth lovable. He does not humiliate the soul by correction; He frees it from illusions.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The Holy Ghost leads the Church into truth, not into novelty against Christ.

He convinces the world of sin, justice, and judgment.

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Error corrected: The false spirituality that opposes inner feeling to revealed truth.

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Today's Saint or Feast

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St. Boniface

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Martyr whose witness was crowned after conversion.

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St. Boniface is honored on this day as a martyr, distinct from the missionary bishop St. Boniface kept in June.

His feast teaches that grace can reclaim a disordered life and make it courageous for Christ. The past does not have to be the master of the soul when repentance becomes real.

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Ask St. Boniface for conversion that does not stop halfway. Grace can make a repentant soul braver than it ever was in sin.

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From Matins

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The Comforter promised for the hour of witness.

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Matins - Third Nocturn - Fourth Sunday after Easter

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St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Tract 94 on St. John

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“His visible Presence was then their sufficient Comfort.”
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  • The Breviary hears Christ tell the disciples that He goes to Him who sent Him and promises the Comforter.
  • St. Augustine explains that the Lord had already foretold persecutions, but now speaks especially of the Paraclete who will be needed when His visible presence is withdrawn.
  • The Holy Ghost strengthens the Church to bear witness under suffering, not by replacing Christ, but by testifying to Him.
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Do not mistake the loss of visible consolations for abandonment. Christ sends the Comforter so that witness may remain firm when the world presses and the soul feels alone.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Christ Is King Over Public Life

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The Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers.

The grace to be practiced is Repentance crowned by courage, 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 obedient confidence: ask generously, obey completely, and leave the manner and hour of the answer to Christ.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 repentance crowned by courage 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 the answer is delayed or differs from your expectation, remain beside Mary and continue doing what her Son commands. Offer your Rosary, prayers, sacrifices, and duties for the intentions entrusted to you and for neglected souls in greatest need.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for family members and friends. Love them sincerely, but do not pretend the truth is less serious just to keep peace.

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Family peace cannot be purchased by surrendering the Faith.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Who hath a stronger battle than he that laboureth to overcome himself?”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12

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The decisive field of combat is within. Heresy must be hated, and so must the pride, curiosity, compromise, and self-will by which falsehood finds lodging in the soul.

Many souls desire victory in the Church while making peace with the tyrant within. Begin the restoration where grace has placed authority in your hands: over your next thought, word, appetite, and decision. A hidden victory over self-will is no small service to the City of God.

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Today's Practice

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Refuse the demands of self-will promptly and without complaint.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank Jesus for every grace, visible or hidden, and ask whether your petitions were accompanied by faithful obedience.

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O Lord, make me patient in household division, firm without cruelty, and charitable without compromise. Let peace be made beneath truth, not against it.

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Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

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A brief rule to keep every day:

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Begin with morning prayer

Adore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.

Keep the Angelus

Pause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.

Seek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

Attend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Return to Jesus and Mary

Use frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.

Pray the Rosary

Keep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.

End with night prayer and examen

Give thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.

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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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