{"ok":true,"date":"2028-06-26","dateKey":"06-26","liturgicalDay":"Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs","rank":"Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. 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John and Paul, Roman Martyrs. 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\nSs. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs\n2028-06-26 - Time after Pentecost - 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.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSs. John and Paul served honorably in an imperial household but refused Julian's demand for apostasy and sacrifice to Jupiter. Their martyrdom teaches that position, property, and civil pressure remain beneath Christ; when authority demands false worship, fidelity must refuse even at the cost of security. Approach the Mother by contemplating the Divine Son whose glory explains every grace in her. Ponder the mysteries of the Rosary and ask Mary to teach you the mind and dispositions of Jesus within them.\n\n\"If you wish to comprehend the Mother … comprehend the Son; for she is the worthy Mother of God.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 12\n\nOur Lady cannot be understood as an isolated religious figure. Her dignity comes from the mystery of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, whom she conceived, bore, nourished, and followed to the Cross. Every title rightly given to Mary protects or illuminates some truth about her Divine Son and His work of redemption.\n\nLet today's Rosary become Christological contemplation. In its mysteries, look with Mary at Jesus. Notice what He does, what He suffers, what He commands, and what response He asks from you. The Mother is best honored when the soul receives the Son more faithfully.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nName the favors and securities that tempt you to silence, then make a clear act of allegiance to Christ.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.\"\nHoly Scripture, Proverbs 8:7–8, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Most Precious Blood - Day 5 of 9\nPreparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2028-07-01.\nAsk for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.\n\nOffer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 26\nAt Rome, on Mount Coelius, the holy martyrs John and Paul, brothers. The former was steward, the other secretary of the virgin Constantia, daughter of the emperor Constantine. Afterwards, under Julian the Apostate, they received the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded. — At Trent, St. Vigilius, bishop, who, whilst he endeavored to root out the remains of idolatry, was overwhelmed with a shower of stones by cruel and barbarous men, and thus endured martyrdom for the name of Christ. — At Cordova, in Spain, under the Saracen king Abderahman, the birthday of St. Pelagius, a young man who gloriously consummated his martyrdom for the faith by having his flesh torn to pieces with iron pincers. — At Valenciennes, the holy martyrs Salvius, bishop of Angouleme, and Superius. — Also, the comemmoration of St. Anthelmus, bishop of Belley. — In Poitou, St. Maxentius, priest and confessor, renowned for miracles. — At Thessalonica, St. David, hermit. — The same day, St. Perseveranda, virgin.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nYour reward is great in heaven.\nSs. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs - Luke 6:17-23\n\"Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven.\"\nAsk Ss. John and Paul for fidelity under pressure. No earthly household is worth losing the household of God.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe martyrs prefer the heavenly reward to security under apostate power.\nSs. John and Paul teach that household honor, courtly service, and civil pressure must all yield to Christ.\nTheir fidelity gives courage to Catholics pressured to keep status by silence. No earthly favor is worth apostasy.\nError corrected: The apostate spirit that asks Catholics to keep place by surrendering confession.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSs. John and Paul\nRoman brothers and martyrs under Julian the Apostate.\nSs. John and Paul, brothers, served in the household of the virgin Constantia, daughter of Constantine.\nUnder Julian the Apostate they received the palm of martyrdom by beheading, witnessing that no imperial favor or former honor can excuse apostasy.\nAsk Ss. John and Paul for steadfastness under pressure. The household, the court, and the city all belong beneath Christ.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe brothers martyred under Julian.\nMatins - Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs\n- The Breviary honors Ss. John and Paul as Roman brothers martyred under Julian the Apostate.\n- Their witness teaches fidelity in household and public life, refusing apostasy even when power demands surrender.\nDo not keep comfort by betraying confession. Ss. John and Paul teach steadfastness under apostate pressure.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs 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 brothers martyred under Julian.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors Ss. John and Paul as Roman brothers martyred under Julian the Apostate. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches fidelity in household and public life, refusing apostasy even when power demands surrender.\nThe practical instruction is: Do not keep comfort by betraying confession. Ss. John and Paul teach steadfastness under apostate pressure. 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\nOne faith and one suffering made brothers indeed.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs\nRoman Breviary\n\"We have no other Lord but the Lord Jesus Christ.\"\n- The Breviary honors John and Paul as Roman brothers and faithful servants of Constantia, daughter of Constantine, who spent her goods feeding Christ's poor.\n- When Julian the Apostate demanded their service and sacrifice to Jupiter, they used the time granted them to distribute what remained to the poor.\n- They chose death rather than apostasy, and their hidden martyrdom was revealed through deliverance at their grave and the conversion of Terentian and his son.\nUse what remains before pressure comes. Ss. John and Paul teach that household honor, possessions, and public safety must yield to Christ when apostate power demands worship.\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 Fraternal martyr fidelity, 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 faith by receiving the mystery as revealed truth before seeking consolation from it.\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 fraternal martyr fidelity 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 mystery exceeds understanding, remain obedient to what God has revealed instead of making private judgment the measure of truth. Return once during work to the chosen mystery and unite the duty to an action of Our Lord within it.\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: Name the favors and securities that tempt you to silence, then make a clear act of allegiance to Christ.\nCarry this word: No earthly favor is worth apostasy from Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55\nHuman approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.\n\nThe desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.\nToday's Practice: Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk whether today's devotion left you more attentive to Christ's word, sacrifice, and commandments.\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, through Thy martyrs John and Paul, keep my allegiance undivided. Give me courage to refuse false worship without bitterness and to prefer Thy household to every earthly advantage.\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=2028-06-26&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-06-26&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: Ss. 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Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs

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2028-06-26 - Time after Pentecost - Double - red

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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Ss. John and Paul served honorably in an imperial household but refused Julian's demand for apostasy and sacrifice to Jupiter. Their martyrdom teaches that position, property, and civil pressure remain beneath Christ; when authority demands false worship, fidelity must refuse even at the cost of security.

Approach the Mother by contemplating the Divine Son whose glory explains every grace in her.

Ponder the mysteries of the Rosary and ask Mary to teach you the mind and dispositions of Jesus within them.

“If you wish to comprehend the Mother … comprehend the Son; for she is the worthy Mother of God.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 12

Our Lady cannot be understood as an isolated religious figure. Her dignity comes from the mystery of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, whom she conceived, bore, nourished, and followed to the Cross. Every title rightly given to Mary protects or illuminates some truth about her Divine Son and His work of redemption.

Let today's Rosary become Christological contemplation. In its mysteries, look with Mary at Jesus. Notice what He does, what He suffers, what He commands, and what response He asks from you. The Mother is best honored when the soul receives the Son more faithfully.

Name the favors and securities that tempt you to silence, then make a clear act of allegiance to Christ.

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Quote of the Day

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“My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.”
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Holy Scripture, Proverbs 8:7–8, Original Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Most Precious Blood - Day 5 of 9

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Preparing for Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on 2028-07-01.

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Ask for gratitude, reparation, hatred of sin, and reverence for the price of grace.

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Offer the day's inconveniences in honor of the Precious Blood and for the conversion of sinners.

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Roman Martyrology - June 26

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At Rome, on Mount Coelius, the holy martyrs John and Paul, brothers. The former was steward, the other secretary of the virgin Constantia, daughter of the emperor Constantine. Afterwards, under Julian the Apostate, they received the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded. — At Trent, St. Vigilius, bishop, who, whilst he endeavored to root out the remains of idolatry, was overwhelmed with a shower of stones by cruel and barbarous men, and thus endured martyrdom for the name of Christ. — At Cordova, in Spain, under the Saracen king Abderahman, the birthday of St. Pelagius, a young man who gloriously consummated his martyrdom for the faith by having his flesh torn to pieces with iron pincers. — At Valenciennes, the holy martyrs Salvius, bishop of Angouleme, and Superius. — Also, the comemmoration of St. Anthelmus, bishop of Belley. — In Poitou, St. Maxentius, priest and confessor, renowned for miracles. — At Thessalonica, St. David, hermit. — The same day, St. Perseveranda, virgin.

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Your reward is great in heaven.

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Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs - Luke 6:17-23

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“Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven.”
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Ask Ss. John and Paul for fidelity under pressure. No earthly household is worth losing the household of God.

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The martyrs prefer the heavenly reward to security under apostate power.

Ss. John and Paul teach that household honor, courtly service, and civil pressure must all yield to Christ.

Their fidelity gives courage to Catholics pressured to keep status by silence. No earthly favor is worth apostasy.

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Error corrected: The apostate spirit that asks Catholics to keep place by surrendering confession.

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Ss. John and Paul

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Roman brothers and martyrs under Julian the Apostate.

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Ss. John and Paul, brothers, served in the household of the virgin Constantia, daughter of Constantine.

Under Julian the Apostate they received the palm of martyrdom by beheading, witnessing that no imperial favor or former honor can excuse apostasy.

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Ask Ss. John and Paul for steadfastness under pressure. The household, the court, and the city all belong beneath Christ.

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The brothers martyred under Julian.

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Matins - Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs

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Do not keep comfort by betraying confession. Ss. John and Paul teach steadfastness under apostate pressure.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs 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 brothers martyred under Julian.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors Ss. John and Paul as Roman brothers martyred under Julian the Apostate. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches fidelity in household and public life, refusing apostasy even when power demands surrender.

The practical instruction is: Do not keep comfort by betraying confession. Ss. John and Paul teach steadfastness under apostate pressure. 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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One faith and one suffering made brothers indeed.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - Ss. John and Paul, Roman Martyrs

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for Ss. John and Paul

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“We have no other Lord but the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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  • The Breviary honors John and Paul as Roman brothers and faithful servants of Constantia, daughter of Constantine, who spent her goods feeding Christ's poor.
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Use what remains before pressure comes. Ss. John and Paul teach that household honor, possessions, and public safety must yield to Christ when apostate power demands worship.

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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 Fraternal martyr fidelity, 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 faith by receiving the mystery as revealed truth before seeking consolation from it.

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 fraternal martyr fidelity 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 mystery exceeds understanding, remain obedient to what God has revealed instead of making private judgment the measure of truth. Return once during work to the chosen mystery and unite the duty to an action of Our Lord within it.

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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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Name the favors and securities that tempt you to silence, then make a clear act of allegiance to Christ.

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No earthly favor is worth apostasy from Christ.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.”
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Human approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.

The desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.

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Today's Practice

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Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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O Lord Jesus Christ, through Thy martyrs John and Paul, keep my allegiance undivided. Give me courage to refuse false worship without bitterness and to prefer Thy household to every earthly advantage.

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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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