{"ok":true,"date":"2028-06-08","dateKey":"06-08","liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost","rank":"Privileged Octave of the First Order","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"It is a great error of this age that all religions are alike.","author":"Pope Leo XIII","source":"Humanum Genus, n. 16","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost - 2028-06-08","previewText":"Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost. Obedience Serves Truth. Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nWithin the Privileged Octave of Pentecost\n2028-06-08 - Eastertide - Privileged Octave of the First Order - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nWithin the Privileged Octave of Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Medard, Bishop and Confessor on this date. The secondary saint and Breviary sermon or lesson panels below come from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nEucharist: the sacrament in which, after the consecration at Mass, Jesus Christ is truly present—Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine.\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe Corpus Christi octave prolongs adoration, while St. Medard represents the quiet labor of a bishop who teaches, corrects, governs, and shows mercy. The day joins Eucharistic reverence to patient pastoral duty: fidelity need not be dramatic to feed and protect souls. Ask the Holy Ghost to strike deep within you the roots of every virtue He formed so perfectly in His faithful Spouse. Ask the Holy Ghost through Our Lady for the increase of every theological, moral, and necessary particular virtue.\n\n\"Strike the roots, My Well-beloved and My Spouse, of all your virtues in My elect, in order that they may grow from virtue to virtue, and from grace to grace.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 34\n\nThe Holy Ghost forms no shallow or selective holiness. St. Louis de Montfort names Mary's faith, humility, universal mortification, sublime prayer, ardent charity, firm hope, and other virtues as living roots to be planted in the elect. Devotion that excuses a ruling vice or neglects duty has resisted her formation.\n\nRoots grow beneath the surface through repeated fidelity. Seek all the virtues required by your state and present defects honestly to grace. Let faith govern judgment, hope prevent discouragement, charity animate obedience, humility welcome correction, mortification restrain appetite, prudence choose the means, and perseverance carry the work to completion.\n\nPRACTICE\nMake an act of Eucharistic thanksgiving and perform patient, unnoticed service for others.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"It is a great error of this age that all religions are alike.\"\nPope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus, n. 16\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 8\nAt Aix, in France, St. Maximin, first bishop of that city, who is said to have been a disciple of our Lord. — The same day, St. Calliopa, martyr, who, for the faith of Christ, had her breasts cut off, her flesh burned, was rolled on broken pottery, and being lastly decapitated, received the palm of martyrdom. — At York, in England, St. William, archbishop and confessor, who, among other miracles wrought at his tomb, raised three persons from the dead. He was placed in the calendar of the Saints by Honorius III. — At Soissons, in France, the birthday of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon, whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles. — At Rouen, St. Gildard, bishop, brother of St. Medard. They were born on the same day, consecrated bishops at the same time, and being taken away from this life also on the same day, they entered heaven together. — At Sens, St. Heraclius, bishop. — At Metz, St. Clodulphus, bishop. — In the March of Ancona, St. Severin, bishop of Stepternpeda. — In Sardinia, St. Sallustian, confessor. — At Camerino, St. Victorinus, confessor.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Octave of Pentecost\nThe fire of the Holy Ghost kept before the Church.\nThe privileged Octave of Pentecost prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine fire, truth, charity, and apostolic courage.\nThe octave teaches that Pentecost is not enthusiasm. The Spirit of truth strengthens the Church to confess Christ, keep His commandments, and carry doctrine to the nations.\nStay inside Pentecost. The exile needs fire, but it must be the fire of truth and charity, not the fever of novelty.\nSECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE\nSt. Medard\nBishop and confessor, shepherd of patient charity.\nSt. Medard is honored as bishop and confessor, a shepherd remembered in the Church's calendar for holiness and pastoral care.\nHis feast teaches that ordinary episcopal sanctity matters: teaching, patience, correction, mercy, and steady governance for souls.\nAsk St. Medard for steadiness. The Church is helped by patient shepherds and patient souls who keep doing the next faithful duty.\nFROM MATINS\nThe holy bishop whose life and death bore witness through miracles.\nMartyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Medard, Bishop and Confessor\nRoman Martyrology\n\"Whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles.\"\n- The Roman Martyrology names St. Medard as bishop of Noyon and marks both his life and his precious death as glorified by miracles.\n- The Church's concise witness refuses to separate a bishop's public office from personal holiness: pastoral authority must be sanctified in life and crowned by perseverance in death.\n- A holy shepherd belongs to Christ before he belongs to public memory. The miracles serve as divine testimony to sanctity, not as a substitute for the faithful life that preceded them.\nPray that bishops will be holy in life, faithful in death, and governed by Christ rather than by human respect. Honor quiet pastoral fidelity without reducing the episcopate to administration or reputation.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nRoman Martyrology Notice - June 8\nAt Soissons, in France, the birthday of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon, whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nObedience Serves Truth\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.\nThe grace to be practiced is Docility to the Spirit of truth, 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 the whole order of virtue throughout the day, giving special vigilance to the defects that most frequently oppose grace.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine. 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 docility to the Spirit of truth 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 sustained discipline, hidden repetition, and slow growth without replacing real virtue with passing fervor or token sacrifice. Fulfill all prayers, duties, penances, acts of charity, and occasions of witness with faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.\nYour resolution before God: Make an act of Eucharistic thanksgiving and perform patient, unnoticed service for others.\nCarry this word: Steady care for souls is one fruit of kneeling before Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"We be all frail: but thou shalt judge no man more frail than thyself.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 11\nCatholic judgment rejects error without forgetting one's own need of mercy. Let vigilance begin with the disorder nearest at hand: your own.\n\nYou need not call falsehood harmless in order to be humble. Humility simply refuses to use another person's fault as shelter from repentance. Condemn what God condemns, pray for the soul in danger, and then ask whether the same root - pride, fear, sensuality, or human respect - has found a quieter form in you.\nToday's Practice: When another's fault irritates you, pray for that soul and examine the same root in yourself.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine the roots and fruits of the day, thanking God for growth and naming every vice that must be confessed, uprooted, and opposed tomorrow.\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 Jesus Christ, make bishops faithful and patient before Thy altar. Teach me to value quiet duty and to care faithfully for the souls entrusted to me without seeking notice.\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\nObedience, the Virtue Modernism Must Redefine: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/obedience-the-virtue-modernism-must-redefine?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-06-08&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-06-08&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: Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost - 2028-06-08\n \n \n
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Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost

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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Medard, Bishop and Confessor on this date. The secondary saint and Breviary sermon or lesson panels below come from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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Octave
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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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the sacrament in which, after the consecration at Mass, Jesus Christ is truly present—Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine.
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in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.

The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.

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Today in the Roman Year

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The Corpus Christi octave prolongs adoration, while St. Medard represents the quiet labor of a bishop who teaches, corrects, governs, and shows mercy. The day joins Eucharistic reverence to patient pastoral duty: fidelity need not be dramatic to feed and protect souls.

Ask the Holy Ghost to strike deep within you the roots of every virtue He formed so perfectly in His faithful Spouse.

Ask the Holy Ghost through Our Lady for the increase of every theological, moral, and necessary particular virtue.

“Strike the roots, My Well-beloved and My Spouse, of all your virtues in My elect, in order that they may grow from virtue to virtue, and from grace to grace.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 34

The Holy Ghost forms no shallow or selective holiness. St. Louis de Montfort names Mary's faith, humility, universal mortification, sublime prayer, ardent charity, firm hope, and other virtues as living roots to be planted in the elect. Devotion that excuses a ruling vice or neglects duty has resisted her formation.

Roots grow beneath the surface through repeated fidelity. Seek all the virtues required by your state and present defects honestly to grace. Let faith govern judgment, hope prevent discouragement, charity animate obedience, humility welcome correction, mortification restrain appetite, prudence choose the means, and perseverance carry the work to completion.

Make an act of Eucharistic thanksgiving and perform patient, unnoticed service for others.

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“It is a great error of this age that all religions are alike.”
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Pope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus, n. 16

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Roman Martyrology - June 8

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At Aix, in France, St. Maximin, first bishop of that city, who is said to have been a disciple of our Lord. — The same day, St. Calliopa, martyr, who, for the faith of Christ, had her breasts cut off, her flesh burned, was rolled on broken pottery, and being lastly decapitated, received the palm of martyrdom. — At York, in England, St. William, archbishop and confessor, who, among other miracles wrought at his tomb, raised three persons from the dead. He was placed in the calendar of the Saints by Honorius III. — At Soissons, in France, the birthday of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon, whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles. — At Rouen, St. Gildard, bishop, brother of St. Medard. They were born on the same day, consecrated bishops at the same time, and being taken away from this life also on the same day, they entered heaven together. — At Sens, St. Heraclius, bishop. — At Metz, St. Clodulphus, bishop. — In the March of Ancona, St. Severin, bishop of Stepternpeda. — In Sardinia, St. Sallustian, confessor. — At Camerino, St. Victorinus, confessor.

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The Octave of Pentecost

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The fire of the Holy Ghost kept before the Church.

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The privileged Octave of Pentecost prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine fire, truth, charity, and apostolic courage.

The octave teaches that Pentecost is not enthusiasm. The Spirit of truth strengthens the Church to confess Christ, keep His commandments, and carry doctrine to the nations.

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Stay inside Pentecost. The exile needs fire, but it must be the fire of truth and charity, not the fever of novelty.

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St. Medard

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Bishop and confessor, shepherd of patient charity.

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St. Medard is honored as bishop and confessor, a shepherd remembered in the Church's calendar for holiness and pastoral care.

His feast teaches that ordinary episcopal sanctity matters: teaching, patience, correction, mercy, and steady governance for souls.

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Ask St. Medard for steadiness. The Church is helped by patient shepherds and patient souls who keep doing the next faithful duty.

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The holy bishop whose life and death bore witness through miracles.

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Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Medard, Bishop and Confessor

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Roman Martyrology, June 8 notice for St. Medard

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“Whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles.”
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  • The Roman Martyrology names St. Medard as bishop of Noyon and marks both his life and his precious death as glorified by miracles.
  • The Church's concise witness refuses to separate a bishop's public office from personal holiness: pastoral authority must be sanctified in life and crowned by perseverance in death.
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Pray that bishops will be holy in life, faithful in death, and governed by Christ rather than by human respect. Honor quiet pastoral fidelity without reducing the episcopate to administration or reputation.

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Roman Martyrology Notice - June 8

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At Soissons, in France, the birthday of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon, whose life and precious death are illustrated by glorious miracles.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Obedience Serves Truth

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.

The grace to be practiced is Docility to the Spirit of truth, 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 the whole order of virtue throughout the day, giving special vigilance to the defects that most frequently oppose grace.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine. 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 docility to the Spirit of truth 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 sustained discipline, hidden repetition, and slow growth without replacing real virtue with passing fervor or token sacrifice. Fulfill all prayers, duties, penances, acts of charity, and occasions of witness with faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Make an act of Eucharistic thanksgiving and perform patient, unnoticed service for others.

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Steady care for souls is one fruit of kneeling before Christ.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“We be all frail: but thou shalt judge no man more frail than thyself.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 11

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Catholic judgment rejects error without forgetting one's own need of mercy. Let vigilance begin with the disorder nearest at hand: your own.

You need not call falsehood harmless in order to be humble. Humility simply refuses to use another person's fault as shelter from repentance. Condemn what God condemns, pray for the soul in danger, and then ask whether the same root - pride, fear, sensuality, or human respect - has found a quieter form in you.

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When another's fault irritates you, pray for that soul and examine the same root in yourself.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine the roots and fruits of the day, thanking God for growth and naming every vice that must be confessed, uprooted, and opposed tomorrow.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, make bishops faithful and patient before Thy altar. Teach me to value quiet duty and to care faithfully for the souls entrusted to me without seeking notice.

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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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