{"ok":true,"date":"2028-08-11","dateKey":"08-11","liturgicalDay":"Ss. Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs","rank":"Simple","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.","author":"St. Paul","source":"1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[{"title":"Novena for the Assumption","feast":"Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary","day":6,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2028-08-06","feastIsoDate":"2028-08-15","intention":"Ask Our Lady to detach the soul from earth and order hope toward Heaven.","prayer":"O Lord, we beseech Thee, forgive the transgressions of Thy servants, and, forasmuch as by our own deeds we cannot please Thee, may we find safety through the prayers of the Mother of Thy Son and our Lord. 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Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs\n2028-08-11 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - 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.\nChastity: the virtue that orders sexuality according to one's state of life and treats the body as belonging to God.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe green season is not empty time. It is growth under grace. The pilgrim must ask whether the seed of doctrine is becoming virtue, whether prayer is becoming habit, whether zeal is becoming charity, and whether Catholic truth is governing ordinary choices. Ask Our Lady to make devotion holy by leading you away from every sin and into the full imitation of her principal virtues. Ask Our Lady for hatred of every sin and faithful imitation of the entire pattern of virtues St. Louis de Montfort names.\n\n\"True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin, and to imitate in the Blessed Virgin particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelical sweetness, and her divine wisdom.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 108\n\nHoliness supplies an unmistakable test: devotion must lead away from sin and toward resemblance to Mary. St. Louis de Montfort names ten principal virtues, not a narrow devotional specialty. Humility, faith, prayer, mortification, purity, charity, patience, sweetness, and wisdom must penetrate the whole moral and spiritual life.\n\nUniversal mortification prevents selective holiness. Every disordered appetite must be governed; every commandment and duty must be obeyed; every virtue must be cultivated according to present obligations. Marian devotion that leaves pride, impurity, bitterness, dishonesty, sloth, falsehood, or self-will undisturbed contradicts its own holy purpose.\n\nPRACTICE\nThank God for natural goods and order their use to grace and truth.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.\"\nSt. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena for the Assumption - Day 6 of 9\nPreparing for Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2028-08-15.\nAsk Our Lady to detach the soul from earth and order hope toward Heaven.\nO Lord, we beseech Thee, forgive the transgressions of Thy servants, and, forasmuch as by our own deeds we cannot please Thee, may we find safety through the prayers of the Mother of Thy Son and our Lord. Through the Same our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.\nRenounce every earthly attachment that weakens prayer or purity, beginning with the attachment that most often draws the heart from God.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - August 11\nAt Rome, between the two laurels situated about three miles from the city, the birthday of St. Tiburtius, martyr, under the judge Fabian, in the persecution of Diocletian. After he hard walked barefoot on burning coals and confessed Christ with increased constancy, he was put to the sword. — Also, at Rome, the holy virgin Susanna, a woman of noble race, and niece of the blessed Pontiff Caius. She merited the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded in the time of Diocletian. — At Gomana, in Pontus, St. Alexander, bishop, surnamed Carbonarius, who added to a consummate knowledge of philosophy an eminent degree of Christian humility. He was promoted to the See of that church by St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, and became illustrious, not only by preaching, but also by suffering martyrdom by fire. — The same day, the martyrdom of St. Rufinus, bishop of the Marsi, and his companions, under the emperor Maximinus. — At Evreux, in France, St. Taurinus, bishop. Being made bishop of that city by the blessed pope Clement, he propagated the Christian faith by the preaching of the Gospel, and the many labors he sustained for it. Celebrated for glorious miracles, he slept in the Lord. — At Cambrai, in France, St. Gaugericus, bishop and confessor. — In the province of Valeria, St. Equitius, abbot, whose sanctity is attested by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Todi, St. Digna, virgin.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSs. Tiburtius and Susanna\nMartyrs of Rome, steadfast under pressure.\nDuring the persecution of Diocletian, St. Tiburtius walked barefoot upon burning coals and confessed Christ with still greater constancy before he was put to the sword.\nSt. Susanna, a Roman virgin of noble family and niece of Pope St. Caius, received the palm of martyrdom by beheading. Together these saints show that neither physical torment nor social position can excuse denial of Christ.\nLet these Roman martyrs steady you. The world often begins by asking for a little silence, a little compromise, a little surrender of modesty. The Catholic answer must remain calm, clear, and faithful to Christ.\nFROM MATINS\nThe martyrs who answered fire and rank with a firmer confession.\nMartyrology - Martyrology Notice - Ss. Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs\nRoman Martyrology\n\"After he had walked barefoot on burning coals and confessed Christ with increased constancy, he was put to the sword.\"\n- The Martyrology remembers St. Tiburtius confessing Christ with greater constancy after walking barefoot upon burning coals, and receiving the sword when torment could not obtain apostasy.\n- It remembers St. Susanna as a Roman virgin of noble race and a kinswoman of Pope St. Caius who received the palm of martyrdom by beheading.\n- Their notices unite bodily courage, chastity, and freedom from the fear of status or authority. Neither pain nor social advantage can make denial of Christ lawful.\nAsk these martyrs for chastity and firmness under pressure. Refuse the small compromises by which the world first trains a soul to fear suffering more than sin.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nRevelation Was Entrusted to the Church\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith. 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. Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them.\nThe grace to be practiced is Chaste firmness under pressure, 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 comprehensive holiness through humility, faith, prayer, mortification, purity, charity, patience, sweetness, and wisdom.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing chaste firmness under pressure 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. Welcome the searching purification required when Mary's virtues expose sinful habits, neglected duties, and resistant appetites. Oppose every known sin and exercise the full range of Marian virtue throughout worship, labor, speech, relationships, and sacrifice.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Irenaeus.\nYour resolution before God: Thank God for natural goods and order their use to grace and truth.\nCarry this word: Natural kindness is not the same as supernatural fidelity.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"In silence and quietness of heart a devout soul profiteth much and learneth the hidden sentences of Scripture.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 20, p. 33\nHoly silence is not the absence of sound alone. A room may be quiet while the mind repeats injuries, imagines arguments, and pursues every rumor. À Kempis asks for quietness of heart: the recollection in which the soul stops scattering itself and becomes able to receive what God has already spoken.\n\nGive Scripture a little protected ground today. Read a few verses slowly, preferably from the day's Gospel, and resist the urge to hurry toward commentary or novelty. Ask what God reveals, what He commands, and what response must be made before the words are allowed to pass.\nToday's Practice: Keep ten quiet minutes with the day's Gospel, asking what truths it teaches and what commands require your obedience.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine the whole list of virtues, make contrition for every contrary fault, and plan concrete amendment across the entire life.\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, bless every natural good, but do not let me confuse it with the life of grace. Draw my family, my work, and my affections beneath the Catholic Faith.\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\nSt. Irenaeus and Apostolic Tradition: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-irenaeus-and-apostolic-tradition-against-the-innovators?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-08-11&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-08-11&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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2028-08-11 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - red

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“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.
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the virtue that orders sexuality according to one's state of life and treats the body as belonging to God.
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Today in the Roman Year

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The green season is not empty time. It is growth under grace. The pilgrim must ask whether the seed of doctrine is becoming virtue, whether prayer is becoming habit, whether zeal is becoming charity, and whether Catholic truth is governing ordinary choices.

Ask Our Lady to make devotion holy by leading you away from every sin and into the full imitation of her principal virtues.

Ask Our Lady for hatred of every sin and faithful imitation of the entire pattern of virtues St. Louis de Montfort names.

“True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin, and to imitate in the Blessed Virgin particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelical sweetness, and her divine wisdom.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 108

Holiness supplies an unmistakable test: devotion must lead away from sin and toward resemblance to Mary. St. Louis de Montfort names ten principal virtues, not a narrow devotional specialty. Humility, faith, prayer, mortification, purity, charity, patience, sweetness, and wisdom must penetrate the whole moral and spiritual life.

Universal mortification prevents selective holiness. Every disordered appetite must be governed; every commandment and duty must be obeyed; every virtue must be cultivated according to present obligations. Marian devotion that leaves pride, impurity, bitterness, dishonesty, sloth, falsehood, or self-will undisturbed contradicts its own holy purpose.

Thank God for natural goods and order their use to grace and truth.

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“The word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, it is the power of God.”
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St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena for the Assumption - Day 6 of 9

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Preparing for Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2028-08-15.

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Ask Our Lady to detach the soul from earth and order hope toward Heaven.

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Novena Prayer

O Lord, we beseech Thee, forgive the transgressions of Thy servants, and, forasmuch as by our own deeds we cannot please Thee, may we find safety through the prayers of the Mother of Thy Son and our Lord. Through the Same our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

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Renounce every earthly attachment that weakens prayer or purity, beginning with the attachment that most often draws the heart from God.

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Roman Martyrology - August 11

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At Rome, between the two laurels situated about three miles from the city, the birthday of St. Tiburtius, martyr, under the judge Fabian, in the persecution of Diocletian. After he hard walked barefoot on burning coals and confessed Christ with increased constancy, he was put to the sword. — Also, at Rome, the holy virgin Susanna, a woman of noble race, and niece of the blessed Pontiff Caius. She merited the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded in the time of Diocletian. — At Gomana, in Pontus, St. Alexander, bishop, surnamed Carbonarius, who added to a consummate knowledge of philosophy an eminent degree of Christian humility. He was promoted to the See of that church by St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, and became illustrious, not only by preaching, but also by suffering martyrdom by fire. — The same day, the martyrdom of St. Rufinus, bishop of the Marsi, and his companions, under the emperor Maximinus. — At Evreux, in France, St. Taurinus, bishop. Being made bishop of that city by the blessed pope Clement, he propagated the Christian faith by the preaching of the Gospel, and the many labors he sustained for it. Celebrated for glorious miracles, he slept in the Lord. — At Cambrai, in France, St. Gaugericus, bishop and confessor. — In the province of Valeria, St. Equitius, abbot, whose sanctity is attested by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Todi, St. Digna, virgin.

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Martyrs of Rome, steadfast under pressure.

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During the persecution of Diocletian, St. Tiburtius walked barefoot upon burning coals and confessed Christ with still greater constancy before he was put to the sword.

St. Susanna, a Roman virgin of noble family and niece of Pope St. Caius, received the palm of martyrdom by beheading. Together these saints show that neither physical torment nor social position can excuse denial of Christ.

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Let these Roman martyrs steady you. The world often begins by asking for a little silence, a little compromise, a little surrender of modesty. The Catholic answer must remain calm, clear, and faithful to Christ.

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The martyrs who answered fire and rank with a firmer confession.

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Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - Ss. Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs

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Roman Martyrology, Notice for August 11

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“After he had walked barefoot on burning coals and confessed Christ with increased constancy, he was put to the sword.”
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  • The Martyrology remembers St. Tiburtius confessing Christ with greater constancy after walking barefoot upon burning coals, and receiving the sword when torment could not obtain apostasy.
  • It remembers St. Susanna as a Roman virgin of noble race and a kinswoman of Pope St. Caius who received the palm of martyrdom by beheading.
  • Their notices unite bodily courage, chastity, and freedom from the fear of status or authority. Neither pain nor social advantage can make denial of Christ lawful.
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Ask these martyrs for chastity and firmness under pressure. Refuse the small compromises by which the world first trains a soul to fear suffering more than sin.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Revelation Was Entrusted to the Church

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The Church places this truth before you today: Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith. 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. Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them.

The grace to be practiced is Chaste firmness under pressure, 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 comprehensive holiness through humility, faith, prayer, mortification, purity, charity, patience, sweetness, and wisdom.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing chaste firmness under pressure 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. Welcome the searching purification required when Mary's virtues expose sinful habits, neglected duties, and resistant appetites. Oppose every known sin and exercise the full range of Marian virtue throughout worship, labor, speech, relationships, and sacrifice.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Thank God for natural goods and order their use to grace and truth.

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Natural kindness is not the same as supernatural fidelity.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“In silence and quietness of heart a devout soul profiteth much and learneth the hidden sentences of Scripture.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 20, p. 33

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Holy silence is not the absence of sound alone. A room may be quiet while the mind repeats injuries, imagines arguments, and pursues every rumor. À Kempis asks for quietness of heart: the recollection in which the soul stops scattering itself and becomes able to receive what God has already spoken.

Give Scripture a little protected ground today. Read a few verses slowly, preferably from the day's Gospel, and resist the urge to hurry toward commentary or novelty. Ask what God reveals, what He commands, and what response must be made before the words are allowed to pass.

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Today's Practice

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Keep ten quiet minutes with the day's Gospel, asking what truths it teaches and what commands require your obedience.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine the whole list of virtues, make contrition for every contrary fault, and plan concrete amendment across the entire life.

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O Lord, bless every natural good, but do not let me confuse it with the life of grace. Draw my family, my work, and my affections beneath the Catholic Faith.

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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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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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