{"ok":true,"date":"2028-07-23","dateKey":"07-23","liturgicalDay":"7th Sunday after Pentecost","rank":"Semi-Double Sunday","color":"green","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"And in all seducing of iniquity to them that perish; for that they have not received the charity of the truth that they might be saved.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"2 Thessalonians 2:10, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#love-the-truth","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: 7th Sunday after Pentecost - 2028-07-23","previewText":"7th Sunday after Pentecost. True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ. Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\n7th Sunday after Pentecost\n2028-07-23 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\n7th Sunday after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr on this date. The Breviary witness panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\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.\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Apollinaris preached the apostolic faith at Ravenna through beatings, exile, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. His endurance shows that opposition does not prove apostolic work false and that sacred office is fulfilled through doctrine, sacrifice, and care for souls rather than comfort. Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope. Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.\n\n\"The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259\n\nUnion with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.\n\nWhen a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for true shepherds and state necessary Catholic truths calmly despite fear of opposition.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"And in all seducing of iniquity to them that perish; for that they have not received the charity of the truth that they might be saved.\"\nHoly Scripture, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 23\nThe birthday of the holy bishop Apollinaris, who was consecrated at Rome by the apostle Peter, and sent to Kavenna, where he endured for the faith of Christ many different tribulations. He afterwards preached the Gospel in JEmilia, where he converted many from the worship of idols. Fianlly, returning to Kavenna, he terminated his confession of Christ by a glorious martyrdom under the Caesar Vespasian. — At Le Mans, in France, St. Liborius, bishop and confessor. — At Rome, St. Kasyphus, martyr. — In the same city, the martyrdom of St. Primitiva, virgin and martyr. — Also, the holy martyrs Apollonius and Eugenius. — The same day, the birthday of the holy martyrs Trophimus and Theophilus. who received their crown of martyrdom by being beaten with stones, scorched with fire, and finally struck with the sword, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. — In Bulgaria, many holy martyrs whom the impious emperor Nicephorus, whilst he was devastating the churches of God, put to death in various ways — by the sword, the halter, arrows, long imprisonment, and starvation. — At Rome, the saintly virgins Komula, Redempta, and Herundines, men tioned by pope St. Gregory in his writings. — In the same city, the departure from this life of St. Bridget, widow, whose sacred body was taken to Sweden on the 7th of October. Her feast is celebrated on the 8th of that month.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBy their fruits you shall know them.\n7th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 7:15-21\n\"Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.\"\nLet the warning be medicinal, not crushing. Our Lord shows the false fruit so the soul may ask for the true.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nChrist warns against false prophets and empty profession.\nThe test of religion is not sound alone but obedience to the will of the Father.\nError corrected: The piety of words that refuses amendment.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Apollinaris\nBishop and martyr who preached the faith received from the apostles at Ravenna.\nSt. Apollinaris is venerated as the first bishop of Ravenna, an early shepherd whose preaching of Christ brought persecution and suffering.\nTradition remembers repeated trials, banishment, and wounds borne for the Gospel. His feast teaches that apostolic ministry is not religious management: the bishop is called to preach, suffer, and guard souls.\nAsk St. Apollinaris to intercede for the Church's shepherds in exile, and for souls who must recognize true pastoral witness beneath suffering.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nApostolic preaching sealed by martyrdom.\nMatins - St. Apollinaris\n- The Breviary remembers St. Apollinaris as the first bishop of Ravenna, an early shepherd whose apostolic labor was joined to suffering for Christ.\n- His feast keeps before the Church the cost of planting the faith where pagan power resists the Gospel.\nDo not imagine that apostolic work is proved false because it meets opposition. The seed of the Church has often been watered by endurance.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Apollinaris 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 Apostolic preaching sealed by martyrdom.. Its first point is this: The Breviary remembers St. Apollinaris as the first bishop of Ravenna, an early shepherd whose apostolic labor was joined to suffering for Christ. Its next point develops the lesson: His feast keeps before the Church the cost of planting the faith where pagan power resists the Gospel.\nThe practical instruction is: Do not imagine that apostolic work is proved false because it meets opposition. The seed of the Church has often been watered by endurance. 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\nWisdom ripened by study, holiness, and prayer.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - 7th Sunday after Pentecost\nSt. Jerome, Priest\n\"They become more learned by their increased years, more experienced by constant use, more wise, through the advance of time.\"\n- The Breviary sets wisdom before the faithful as a treasure gained by discipline, prayer, and meditation on the law of the Lord.\n- St. Jerome warns that bodily strength fails, but holy knowledge may bear a richer harvest when youth has been spent faithfully.\n- Catholic zeal must be formed by study, chastity, perseverance, and the patient acquisition of sound doctrine.\nBegin now the work you want old age to bless. Read, pray, keep discipline, and let grace make your years fruitful rather than merely numerous.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nTrue Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ\nThe Church places this truth before you today: True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule. 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. Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.\nThe grace to be practiced is Pastoral courage, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Imitate Mary's fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion. 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 pastoral courage when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.\nDo the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for true shepherds and state necessary Catholic truths calmly despite fear of opposition.\nCarry this word: A true shepherd does not stop strengthening the flock because truth has brought wounds.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72\nThe cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.\n\nYou are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.\nToday's Practice: Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nPlace every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.\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. Apollinaris, give Thy Church faithful bishops and give me courage to confess Christ without bitterness.\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\nTrue Devotion to Mary: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mary-and-the-typologies-of-the-church/true-devotion-to-mary-not-sentiment-but-formation-in-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-07-23&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-07-23&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: 7th Sunday after Pentecost - 2028-07-23\n \n \n
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7th Sunday after Pentecost

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2028-07-23 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green

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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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7th Sunday after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr on this date. The Breviary witness panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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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.
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Today in the Roman Year

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St. Apollinaris preached the apostolic faith at Ravenna through beatings, exile, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. His endurance shows that opposition does not prove apostolic work false and that sacred office is fulfilled through doctrine, sacrifice, and care for souls rather than comfort.

Beside Our Lady, learn to persevere beneath the Cross without surrendering truth or hope.

Ask Mary, Queen of Martyrs, for constancy. Offer in advance the contradiction, delay, or sorrow that divine Providence may permit.

“The more often we do so, the sooner we shall be sanctified, and attain to union with Jesus Christ, which always follows necessarily on our union with Mary, because the spirit of Mary is the spirit of Jesus.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 259

Union with Our Lady is not a resting place apart from Christ. Her whole interior life belongs to Him. She believes His word, receives His will, keeps His mysteries, shares His sacrifice, and desires His glory. A soul formed in her spirit therefore becomes less occupied with itself and more ready for the reign of Jesus.

When a cross arrives, resist the habit of watching yourself suffer. Turn instead toward Christ with Mary. Ask not first whether the burden feels bearable, but how it may be carried faithfully, without sin, complaint, or surrender of hope.

Pray for true shepherds and state necessary Catholic truths calmly despite fear of opposition.

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Quote of the Day

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“And in all seducing of iniquity to them that perish; for that they have not received the charity of the truth that they might be saved.”
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Holy Scripture, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - July 23

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The birthday of the holy bishop Apollinaris, who was consecrated at Rome by the apostle Peter, and sent to Kavenna, where he endured for the faith of Christ many different tribulations. He afterwards preached the Gospel in JEmilia, where he converted many from the worship of idols. Fianlly, returning to Kavenna, he terminated his confession of Christ by a glorious martyrdom under the Caesar Vespasian. — At Le Mans, in France, St. Liborius, bishop and confessor. — At Rome, St. Kasyphus, martyr. — In the same city, the martyrdom of St. Primitiva, virgin and martyr. — Also, the holy martyrs Apollonius and Eugenius. — The same day, the birthday of the holy martyrs Trophimus and Theophilus. who received their crown of martyrdom by being beaten with stones, scorched with fire, and finally struck with the sword, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. — In Bulgaria, many holy martyrs whom the impious emperor Nicephorus, whilst he was devastating the churches of God, put to death in various ways — by the sword, the halter, arrows, long imprisonment, and starvation. — At Rome, the saintly virgins Komula, Redempta, and Herundines, men tioned by pope St. Gregory in his writings. — In the same city, the departure from this life of St. Bridget, widow, whose sacred body was taken to Sweden on the 7th of October. Her feast is celebrated on the 8th of that month.

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Gospel of the Day

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By their fruits you shall know them.

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7th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 7:15-21

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“Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
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Let the warning be medicinal, not crushing. Our Lord shows the false fruit so the soul may ask for the true.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Christ warns against false prophets and empty profession.

The test of religion is not sound alone but obedience to the will of the Father.

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Error corrected: The piety of words that refuses amendment.

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St. Apollinaris

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Bishop and martyr who preached the faith received from the apostles at Ravenna.

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St. Apollinaris is venerated as the first bishop of Ravenna, an early shepherd whose preaching of Christ brought persecution and suffering.

Tradition remembers repeated trials, banishment, and wounds borne for the Gospel. His feast teaches that apostolic ministry is not religious management: the bishop is called to preach, suffer, and guard souls.

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Ask St. Apollinaris to intercede for the Church's shepherds in exile, and for souls who must recognize true pastoral witness beneath suffering.

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Breviary Witness

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Apostolic preaching sealed by martyrdom.

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Matins - St. Apollinaris

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Do not imagine that apostolic work is proved false because it meets opposition. The seed of the Church has often been watered by endurance.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Apollinaris 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 Apostolic preaching sealed by martyrdom.. Its first point is this: The Breviary remembers St. Apollinaris as the first bishop of Ravenna, an early shepherd whose apostolic labor was joined to suffering for Christ. Its next point develops the lesson: His feast keeps before the Church the cost of planting the faith where pagan power resists the Gospel.

The practical instruction is: Do not imagine that apostolic work is proved false because it meets opposition. The seed of the Church has often been watered by endurance. 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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From Matins

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Wisdom ripened by study, holiness, and prayer.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - 7th Sunday after Pentecost

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St. Jerome, Priest, Epistle to Nepotian

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“They become more learned by their increased years, more experienced by constant use, more wise, through the advance of time.”
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  • The Breviary sets wisdom before the faithful as a treasure gained by discipline, prayer, and meditation on the law of the Lord.
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Begin now the work you want old age to bless. Read, pray, keep discipline, and let grace make your years fruitful rather than merely numerous.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ

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The Church places this truth before you today: True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule. 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. Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.

The grace to be practiced is Pastoral courage, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Imitate Mary's fortitude: quiet, steadfast, and wholly joined to the sacrifice of her Son.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion. 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 pastoral courage when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.

Do the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Do not seek suffering, but do not flee the cross attached to duty. Unite it to Christ through the Sorrowful Mother. Perform today's difficult act without dramatizing the cost. Let love, not self-observation, measure the offering.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for true shepherds and state necessary Catholic truths calmly despite fear of opposition.

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A true shepherd does not stop strengthening the flock because truth has brought wounds.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72

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The cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.

You are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.

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Today's Practice

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Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Place every wound and disappointment under Our Lady's mantle. Forgive injuries and ask for grace to remain at the Cross.

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Prayer

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O Lord, through St. Apollinaris, give Thy Church faithful bishops and give me courage to confess Christ without bitterness.

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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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