{"ok":true,"date":"2028-07-06","dateKey":"07-06","liturgicalDay":"Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles","rank":"Greater Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Behold the handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Luke 1:38, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#our-ladys-fiat","category":"Under Our Lady's Rule"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Common Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul","rank":"Common Octave","color":"red","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, pp. xxii–xxiii."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - 2028-07-06","previewText":"Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles. Valid Sacraments Are a Grave Priority. Resist home-alone despair when it becomes settled indifference to seeking valid sacraments.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles\n2028-07-06 - Time after Pentecost - Greater Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nCommemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe octave day of Ss. Peter and Paul returns to the visible foundation, public doctrine, and missionary sacrifice of the Church. The commemoration of St. Maria Goretti shows that this inherited faith must also guard purity and teach the young to prefer Christ to mortal sin. Contemplate the one divine plan carried from the Incarnation into the sanctification of the Church. Adore the Blessed Trinity and place the complete day—not merely its devotional moments—within the divine plan of sanctification.\n\n\"The conduct which the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity have deigned to pursue in the Incarnation and first coming of Jesus Christ, They still pursue daily in an invisible manner throughout the whole Church, and They will still pursue it even to the consummation of ages in the last coming of Jesus Christ.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 22\n\nThe Blessed Trinity is the source and final end of the whole economy of grace. The Father's will, the Son's Incarnation and Redemption, and the Holy Ghost's sanctifying work are one divine plan. Mary's maternal office is entirely within that plan and entirely ordered to the reign of Jesus Christ.\n\nLet your spiritual life acquire the same unity. Doctrine, prayer, sacraments, Marian devotion, mortification, works of mercy, and daily duties must not become disconnected interests. All must proceed from God, conform you to Christ, and return you in the Holy Ghost to the Father.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Behold the handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.\"\nHoly Scripture, Luke 1:38, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 6\nThe Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. — In Judea, the holy prophet Isaias. In the reign of king Manasses he was put to death by being sawed in two and was buried beneath the oak Rogel, near a running stream. — At Rome, the birthday of St. Tranquillinus, martyr, father of the Saints Mark and Marcellian, who were converted to Christ by the preaching of the martyr St. Sebastian. Baptized by the blessed priest Polycarp, he was ordained priest by pope St. Caius. He was arrested while praying at the tomb of blessed Paul on the Octave of the Apostles, and stoned to death by the Pagans, and thus consummated his martyrdom. — At Fiesoli, in Tuscany, St. Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, he returned to Fiesoli, and was crowned with martyrdom with other Christians in the reign of Domitian. — In Campania, St. Dominica, virgin and martyr, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, she was beheaded and departed for heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria. — The same day, St. Lucia, martyr, a native of Campania. Being arrested and severely tortured by the lieutenant-governor Kictiovarus, she converted him to Christ. To them were added Antoninus, Severinus, Diodorus, Dion, and seventeen others, who shared their sufferings and their crowns. — In the vicinity of Treves, St. Goar, priest and confessor.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nUpon this rock I will build my Church.\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - Matthew 16:13-19\n\"Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church.\"\nStay with the apostolic pillars a little longer. The Church teaches by returning, repeating, and letting holy truths sink deeper.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe octave keeps the apostolic foundation before the Church beyond a single feast day.\nPeter's confession and Paul's labor remain one witness to Christ, truth received and truth preached.\nError corrected: The impatience that lets major feasts pass without letting them form memory.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nOctave of Ss. Peter and Paul\nThe apostolic foundation remembered again.\nThe Martyrology keeps July 6 as the Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.\nThe octave day returns the faithful to the Roman apostolic foundation: Peter's keys, Paul's mission, and the Church's public witness sealed by blood.\nDo not hurry away from the apostles. The octave day teaches the soul to return to foundations until obedience becomes steadier than reaction.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe apostles remembered on the octave day.\nMatins - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul\n- The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly.\n- The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.\nReturn to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul 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 apostles remembered on the octave day.. Its first point is this: The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly. Its next point develops the lesson: The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.\nThe practical instruction is: Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation. 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\nRome made bright by the twin pillars of the Church.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles\nSt. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople\n\"Your tongues were blessed instruments; it was for the Church's sake that your limbs were bloody.\"\n- The Octave Day keeps the Church before the toil, preaching, sufferings, and martyrdoms of the two great Apostles.\n- St. John Chrysostom honors Peter and Paul as soldiers of Christ whose prisons, fetters, wounds, and blood made the Churches glad.\n- Rome is praised not chiefly for earthly grandeur, but because the bodies of Peter and Paul adorn her as two bright eyes and two pillars of the Church.\nMeasure Catholic greatness by apostolic sacrifice, not worldly splendor. The Church is made illustrious by faith preached, suffering borne, and blood spent for Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nValid Sacraments Are a Grave Priority\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The faithful must seek valid sacraments with prudence, sacrifice, and holy seriousness, without inventing sacraments or despising them. 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. Families often move for work, schools, or safety. The sacraments are a higher good, and should weigh heavily in practical decisions when God makes such a move possible.\nThe grace to be practiced is Persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles, 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 unity of life by ordering prayer, work, relationships, suffering, and rest toward the glory of God.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist home-alone despair when it becomes settled indifference to seeking valid sacraments. 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 persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles 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. Reject the divided life that gives God religious moments while reserving other hours for self-will. Consecrate all your duties through Mary to Jesus, asking the Holy Ghost to make every lawful act serve the Father's glory.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Charles Borromeo.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.\nCarry this word: Apostolic fidelity protects both doctrine and the purity of souls.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"A meek knowing of ourself is a surer way to God than is the searching for highness of cunning.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12\nLearning serves holiness only when it makes the soul humbler before God. Receive truth as a disciple of Christ, not as material for self-display.\n\nDo not measure profit by how much you can repeat. Ask whether what you have learned has made prayer more reverent, judgment more Catholic, speech more restrained, and duty more exact. Knowledge that never kneels easily becomes another possession of pride.\nToday's Practice: Keep good insights hidden when charity does not require speech, and turn them into prayer and amendment.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nGather the entire day into a complete offering to the Blessed Trinity and repent of every division between profession and conduct.\n- For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?\n- What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?\n- What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?\nPRAYER\nO Lord, through Thy apostles and St. Maria Goretti, preserve the Faith in its integrity and keep the young courageous before sin.\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\nHow to Judge a Traditionalist Chapel: https://cityofgodinexile.com/the-counterfeit/how-to-judge-a-traditionalist-chapel?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-07-06&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-07-06&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: Octave of Ss. 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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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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 octave day of Ss. Peter and Paul returns to the visible foundation, public doctrine, and missionary sacrifice of the Church. The commemoration of St. Maria Goretti shows that this inherited faith must also guard purity and teach the young to prefer Christ to mortal sin.

Contemplate the one divine plan carried from the Incarnation into the sanctification of the Church.

Adore the Blessed Trinity and place the complete day—not merely its devotional moments—within the divine plan of sanctification.

“The conduct which the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity have deigned to pursue in the Incarnation and first coming of Jesus Christ, They still pursue daily in an invisible manner throughout the whole Church, and They will still pursue it even to the consummation of ages in the last coming of Jesus Christ.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 22

The Blessed Trinity is the source and final end of the whole economy of grace. The Father's will, the Son's Incarnation and Redemption, and the Holy Ghost's sanctifying work are one divine plan. Mary's maternal office is entirely within that plan and entirely ordered to the reign of Jesus Christ.

Let your spiritual life acquire the same unity. Doctrine, prayer, sacraments, Marian devotion, mortification, works of mercy, and daily duties must not become disconnected interests. All must proceed from God, conform you to Christ, and return you in the Holy Ghost to the Father.

Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.

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“Behold the handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.”
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Holy Scripture, Luke 1:38, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - July 6

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The Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. — In Judea, the holy prophet Isaias. In the reign of king Manasses he was put to death by being sawed in two and was buried beneath the oak Rogel, near a running stream. — At Rome, the birthday of St. Tranquillinus, martyr, father of the Saints Mark and Marcellian, who were converted to Christ by the preaching of the martyr St. Sebastian. Baptized by the blessed priest Polycarp, he was ordained priest by pope St. Caius. He was arrested while praying at the tomb of blessed Paul on the Octave of the Apostles, and stoned to death by the Pagans, and thus consummated his martyrdom. — At Fiesoli, in Tuscany, St. Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, he returned to Fiesoli, and was crowned with martyrdom with other Christians in the reign of Domitian. — In Campania, St. Dominica, virgin and martyr, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, she was beheaded and departed for heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria. — The same day, St. Lucia, martyr, a native of Campania. Being arrested and severely tortured by the lieutenant-governor Kictiovarus, she converted him to Christ. To them were added Antoninus, Severinus, Diodorus, Dion, and seventeen others, who shared their sufferings and their crowns. — In the vicinity of Treves, St. Goar, priest and confessor.

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Upon this rock I will build my Church.

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Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles - Matthew 16:13-19

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“Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church.”
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Stay with the apostolic pillars a little longer. The Church teaches by returning, repeating, and letting holy truths sink deeper.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The octave keeps the apostolic foundation before the Church beyond a single feast day.

Peter's confession and Paul's labor remain one witness to Christ, truth received and truth preached.

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Error corrected: The impatience that lets major feasts pass without letting them form memory.

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The apostolic foundation remembered again.

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The Martyrology keeps July 6 as the Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.

The octave day returns the faithful to the Roman apostolic foundation: Peter's keys, Paul's mission, and the Church's public witness sealed by blood.

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Do not hurry away from the apostles. The octave day teaches the soul to return to foundations until obedience becomes steadier than reaction.

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Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul 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 apostles remembered on the octave day.. Its first point is this: The Roman year keeps the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul so the apostolic foundation is not passed over quickly. Its next point develops the lesson: The Church returns to Peter and Paul because authority and mission, confession and preaching, must remain together.

The practical instruction is: Return to foundations without embarrassment. A Catholic in exile needs Peter's confession and Paul's labor more than private improvisation. 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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Rome made bright by the twin pillars of the Church.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles

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St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, Sermon on Ss. Peter and Paul

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  • St. John Chrysostom honors Peter and Paul as soldiers of Christ whose prisons, fetters, wounds, and blood made the Churches glad.
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Measure Catholic greatness by apostolic sacrifice, not worldly splendor. The Church is made illustrious by faith preached, suffering borne, and blood spent for Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Valid Sacraments Are a Grave Priority

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The Church places this truth before you today: The faithful must seek valid sacraments with prudence, sacrifice, and holy seriousness, without inventing sacraments or despising them. 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. Families often move for work, schools, or safety. The sacraments are a higher good, and should weigh heavily in practical decisions when God makes such a move possible.

The grace to be practiced is Persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles, 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 unity of life by ordering prayer, work, relationships, suffering, and rest toward the glory of God.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist home-alone despair when it becomes settled indifference to seeking valid sacraments. 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 persevering fidelity to the teaching handed down from the apostles 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. Reject the divided life that gives God religious moments while reserving other hours for self-will. Consecrate all your duties through Mary to Jesus, asking the Holy Ghost to make every lawful act serve the Father's glory.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Charles Borromeo.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for young people by name and reject every occasion in which purity or apostolic truth is treated lightly.

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Apostolic fidelity protects both doctrine and the purity of souls.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“A meek knowing of ourself is a surer way to God than is the searching for highness of cunning.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12

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Learning serves holiness only when it makes the soul humbler before God. Receive truth as a disciple of Christ, not as material for self-display.

Do not measure profit by how much you can repeat. Ask whether what you have learned has made prayer more reverent, judgment more Catholic, speech more restrained, and duty more exact. Knowledge that never kneels easily becomes another possession of pride.

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Today's Practice

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Daily Examen

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Gather the entire day into a complete offering to the Blessed Trinity and repent of every division between profession and conduct.

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O Lord, through Thy apostles and St. Maria Goretti, preserve the Faith in its integrity and keep the young courageous before sin.

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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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