{"ok":true,"date":"2028-07-13","dateKey":"07-13","liturgicalDay":"St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr","rank":"Semi-Double","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"John 8:32, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#the-truth-shall-make-you-free","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr - 2028-07-13","previewText":"St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. Dogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken. Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr\n2028-07-13 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\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.\nSacramental: connected with the sacraments, the visible rites instituted by Christ to give grace.\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\nSt. Anacletus belongs to the first Roman succession after St. Peter. His feast joins visible government, sacramental order, reverence for the apostolic foundation, and martyrdom, teaching that Christ did not leave His flock to private improvisation. Invite Our Lady to establish within you the dispositions of the predestinate and to drive out the habits of Esau. Ask Our Lady to dwell in your soul and to order your memory, understanding, will, imagination, passions, senses, and works toward Jesus.\n\n\"God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world; and He has said to her these words, In Jacob inhabita—‘Dwell in Jacob,’—that is to say, Make your dwelling and residence in My predestinated children, figured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 29\n\nThe language of Jacob and Esau is a summons to conversion, not permission to presume that a devotional label guarantees salvation. A soul in which Mary dwells must welcome what she loves: Jesus Christ, the Catholic Faith, purity, humility, obedience, prayer, sacrifice, and perseverance.\n\nPrepare an interior dwelling for her by expelling mortal sin, rejecting heresy, repairing scandal, and cleansing daily conduct of deliberate compromise. If you fall, return through contrition and the means appointed by Christ. Let the whole household of the soul come under her maternal order.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for true bishops and review why apostolic succession is necessary to the Church's visible life.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.\"\nHoly Scripture, John 8:32, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 13\nAt Rome, St. Anacletus, pope and martyr, who governed the Church of God after St. Clement, and shed lustre on it by a glorious martyrdom. — The same day, the holy prophets Joel and Esdras. — In Macedonia, blessed Silas, one of the first Christians. By the Apostles he was destined for the churches of the Gentiles with Paul and Barnabas. Filled with the grace of God, he zealously discharged the office of preaching, and after glorifying Christ by his sufferings, rested in peace. — Also, St. Serapion, martyr, who obtained the crown of martyrdom by fire, in the time of the emperor Severus and the governor Aquila. — In the island of Chio, in the time of the emperor Decius and the governor Numerian, the martyr St. Myrops. Being clubbed to death, he went to our Lord. — In Africa, the holy confessors Eugenius, the faithful and virtuous bishop of Carthage, and all the clergy of that church, to the number of about five hundred or more, among whom were many small children employed as lectors. In the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian king Hunneric, they were subjected to scourging and starvation, and driven into a most painful banishment, which they bore with joy for God's sake. In their number were also two distinguished personages, the archdeacon Salutaris, and Muritta, occupying the second rank among the ministers of the church. Both had three times confessed the faith, and were illustrious by their sturdy perseverance in Christianity. — In Bretagne, St. Turian, bishop and confessor, a man of admirable simplicity and innocence.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Anacletus\nPope and martyr in the apostolic succession.\nSt. Anacletus, also called Cletus, belongs to the first Roman succession after St. Peter. The Church venerates him as pope and martyr, a shepherd in the generation nearest the apostolic foundation.\nHis feast keeps the soul near the early Roman line: the Church is visible, governed, apostolic, and sealed by witness. The papacy is not a later sentiment, but part of Christ's provision for His flock.\nLet St. Anacletus steady love for the Church's visible order. The line of shepherds is not an ornament; it is part of Christ's provision for His flock.\nFROM MATINS\nThe apostolic line guarded in visible order.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr\nRoman Breviary\n\"He received the crown of his testimony, and was buried on the Vatican Hill.\"\n- The lesson presents the early Roman Church as visibly governed, sacramentally ordered, and conscious of continuity with blessed Peter.\n- Holy Orders, Eucharistic worship, and reverence for the apostolic grave stand together in its remembrance of St. Anacletus.\n- His martyrdom seals pastoral government with testimony to Christ.\nReceive the Church as visible and apostolic. St. Anacletus teaches that order, sacramental worship, Roman continuity, and costly witness cannot be separated without loss.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nFourth Lesson\nAnacletus was an Athenian who governed the Church in the time of the Emperor Trajan. The lesson remembers his ordinances concerning episcopal consecration, public ordination by the proper bishop, and Communion after the Consecration at Mass.\nHe adorned the grave of blessed Peter and appointed a place for the burial of the Popes. After governing the Church and conferring Holy Orders, he received the crown of martyrdom and was buried on the Vatican Hill.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nDogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken\nThe Church places this truth before you today: A Catholic dogma is not something the Church says for a while and later replaces. It is a truth revealed by God and taught by the Church. Because God cannot lie, the Church cannot later teach the opposite. 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 binding force of dogma protects souls from private invention and keeps charity rooted in truth rather than mood.\nThe grace to be practiced is Visible apostolic 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 interior order by rejecting every deliberate occasion of sin and governing the whole day according to faith and duty.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience. 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 visible apostolic 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. Permit the painful removal of attachments, habits, entertainments, and compromises that cannot remain in Mary's household. Make your home, speech, labor, recreation, prayer, and relationships fitting for the presence of the Mother of Jesus.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope St. Pius X.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for true bishops and review why apostolic succession is necessary to the Church's visible life.\nCarry this word: The Church is visible, apostolic, governed, and costly to betray.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21\nThe presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.\n\nDo not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.\nToday's Practice: Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine what welcomed Our Lady's dispositions and what made the soul resemble Esau rather than Jacob.\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 St. Anacletus, keep me grateful for apostolic succession and obedient to the order Thou gavest Thy Church.\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\nDogma and the Modernist War Against Binding Truth: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/chapter-dogma-the-modernist-war-against-the-binding-truth?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-07-13&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-07-13&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr - 2028-07-13\n \n \n
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St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr

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2028-07-13 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - red

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“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Martyr
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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Apostolic
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belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
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connected with the sacraments, the visible rites instituted by Christ to give grace.

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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St. Anacletus belongs to the first Roman succession after St. Peter. His feast joins visible government, sacramental order, reverence for the apostolic foundation, and martyrdom, teaching that Christ did not leave His flock to private improvisation.

Invite Our Lady to establish within you the dispositions of the predestinate and to drive out the habits of Esau.

Ask Our Lady to dwell in your soul and to order your memory, understanding, will, imagination, passions, senses, and works toward Jesus.

“God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world; and He has said to her these words, In Jacob inhabita—‘Dwell in Jacob,’—that is to say, Make your dwelling and residence in My predestinated children, figured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 29

The language of Jacob and Esau is a summons to conversion, not permission to presume that a devotional label guarantees salvation. A soul in which Mary dwells must welcome what she loves: Jesus Christ, the Catholic Faith, purity, humility, obedience, prayer, sacrifice, and perseverance.

Prepare an interior dwelling for her by expelling mortal sin, rejecting heresy, repairing scandal, and cleansing daily conduct of deliberate compromise. If you fall, return through contrition and the means appointed by Christ. Let the whole household of the soul come under her maternal order.

Pray for true bishops and review why apostolic succession is necessary to the Church's visible life.

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Quote of the Day

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“And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.”
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Holy Scripture, John 8:32, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - July 13

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At Rome, St. Anacletus, pope and martyr, who governed the Church of God after St. Clement, and shed lustre on it by a glorious martyrdom. — The same day, the holy prophets Joel and Esdras. — In Macedonia, blessed Silas, one of the first Christians. By the Apostles he was destined for the churches of the Gentiles with Paul and Barnabas. Filled with the grace of God, he zealously discharged the office of preaching, and after glorifying Christ by his sufferings, rested in peace. — Also, St. Serapion, martyr, who obtained the crown of martyrdom by fire, in the time of the emperor Severus and the governor Aquila. — In the island of Chio, in the time of the emperor Decius and the governor Numerian, the martyr St. Myrops. Being clubbed to death, he went to our Lord. — In Africa, the holy confessors Eugenius, the faithful and virtuous bishop of Carthage, and all the clergy of that church, to the number of about five hundred or more, among whom were many small children employed as lectors. In the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian king Hunneric, they were subjected to scourging and starvation, and driven into a most painful banishment, which they bore with joy for God's sake. In their number were also two distinguished personages, the archdeacon Salutaris, and Muritta, occupying the second rank among the ministers of the church. Both had three times confessed the faith, and were illustrious by their sturdy perseverance in Christianity. — In Bretagne, St. Turian, bishop and confessor, a man of admirable simplicity and innocence.

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St. Anacletus

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Pope and martyr in the apostolic succession.

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St. Anacletus, also called Cletus, belongs to the first Roman succession after St. Peter. The Church venerates him as pope and martyr, a shepherd in the generation nearest the apostolic foundation.

His feast keeps the soul near the early Roman line: the Church is visible, governed, apostolic, and sealed by witness. The papacy is not a later sentiment, but part of Christ's provision for His flock.

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Let St. Anacletus steady love for the Church's visible order. The line of shepherds is not an ornament; it is part of Christ's provision for His flock.

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From Matins

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The apostolic line guarded in visible order.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr

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Roman Breviary, Proper lesson for St. Anacletus

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“He received the crown of his testimony, and was buried on the Vatican Hill.”
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Receive the Church as visible and apostolic. St. Anacletus teaches that order, sacramental worship, Roman continuity, and costly witness cannot be separated without loss.

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Full Breviary Lessons

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Fourth Lesson

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Anacletus was an Athenian who governed the Church in the time of the Emperor Trajan. The lesson remembers his ordinances concerning episcopal consecration, public ordination by the proper bishop, and Communion after the Consecration at Mass.

He adorned the grave of blessed Peter and appointed a place for the burial of the Popes. After governing the Church and conferring Holy Orders, he received the crown of martyrdom and was buried on the Vatican Hill.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Dogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken

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The Church places this truth before you today: A Catholic dogma is not something the Church says for a while and later replaces. It is a truth revealed by God and taught by the Church. Because God cannot lie, the Church cannot later teach the opposite. 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 binding force of dogma protects souls from private invention and keeps charity rooted in truth rather than mood.

The grace to be practiced is Visible apostolic 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 interior order by rejecting every deliberate occasion of sin and governing the whole day according to faith and duty.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience. 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 visible apostolic 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. Permit the painful removal of attachments, habits, entertainments, and compromises that cannot remain in Mary's household. Make your home, speech, labor, recreation, prayer, and relationships fitting for the presence of the Mother of Jesus.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for true bishops and review why apostolic succession is necessary to the Church's visible life.

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The Church is visible, apostolic, governed, and costly to betray.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21

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The presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.

Do not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.

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Today's Practice

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Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine what welcomed Our Lady's dispositions and what made the soul resemble Esau rather than Jacob.

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Prayer

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O Lord, through St. Anacletus, keep me grateful for apostolic succession and obedient to the order Thou gavest Thy Church.

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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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