{"ok":true,"date":"2028-09-01","dateKey":"09-01","liturgicalDay":"St. Giles, Abbot","rank":"Simple","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.","author":"Pope Gregory XVI","source":"Quo Graviora, n. 10","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[{"title":"Novena for the Nativity of Our Lady","feast":"Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary","day":3,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2028-08-30","feastIsoDate":"2028-09-08","intention":"Ask for childlike purity, Marian trust, and renewal of Catholic homes beneath Our Lady's care.","prayer":null,"practice":"Pray for children, mothers, and households wounded by modern errors.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Giles, Abbot - 2028-09-01","previewText":"St. Giles, Abbot. Justification Requires True Conversion. Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Giles, Abbot\n2028-09-01 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\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.\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\nAfter Pentecost the Church teaches the soul how grace matures. Consolation is not enough. The Spirit of truth forms endurance, obedience, hatred of heresy, reverence for true worship, and courage to confess Christ when the world calls fidelity narrow. Receive the Catechism of the Council of Trent's reminder that the baptized are bound and consecrated perpetually to Jesus Christ. Remember that you are perpetually bound and consecrated to Jesus Christ, and offer every faculty and duty to your Redeemer and Lord.\n\n\"The Catechism of the Council of Trent, the faithful interpreter of that holy Council, exhorts the parish-priests to do the same thing; and to induce the people to remember themselves, and to believe that they are bound and consecrated to our Lord Jesus Christ, as slaves to their Redeemer and Lord.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 129\n\nBaptism establishes objective belonging, not a temporary spiritual preference. The Roman Catechism teaches the faithful to remember that they are bound and consecrated perpetually to Jesus Christ, their Redeemer and Lord. Redemption creates a just claim upon the whole person and a joyful debt of worship, obedience, gratitude, and love.\n\nThe language of slavery here opposes the cruel slavery of Satan with voluntary, loving dependence upon Christ. It never licenses human domination, abuse, or neglect of justice. Jesus is the divine Redeemer who purchased freedom from sin; belonging to Him orders every human authority and relationship beneath truth, charity, and His commandments.\n\nPRACTICE\nPerform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.\"\nPope Gregory XVI, Quo Graviora, n. 10\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena for the Nativity of Our Lady - Day 3 of 9\nPreparing for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2028-09-08.\nAsk for childlike purity, Marian trust, and renewal of Catholic homes beneath Our Lady's care.\n\nPray for children, mothers, and households wounded by modern errors.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - September 1\nIn the province of Narbonne, St. Giles, abbot and confessor. — At Benevento, twelve saintly brothers, martyrs. — In Palestine, the Saints Josue and Gedeon. — At Jerusalem, blessed Anna, prophetess, whose sanctity is revealed in the Gospel. — At Capua, on the Aquarian road, St. Priscus, martyr, who was one of the ancient disciples of Christ. — At Rheims, in France, St. Xystus, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who was consecrated by him the first bishop of that city, and received the crown of martyrdom under Nero. — At Todi, in Umbria, St. Terentian, bishop and martyr. Under the emperor Adrian, he was racked, and scourged with whips set with metal by order of the proconsul Laetian, and finally, having his tongue cut out, he ended his martyrdom by undergoing capital punishment. — At Heraclea, St. Ammon, deacon, and forty holy virgins whom he instructed in the faith, and led with him to the glory of matryrdom, under the tyrant Licinius. — In Spain, the holy martyrs Vincent and Lsetus. — At Piombino, in Tuscany, St. Regulus, martyr, who went thither from Africa, and consummated his martyrdom under Totila. — At Sens, St. Lupus, bishop and confessor, of whom it is related, that on a certain day, whilst he stood at the holy altar in presence of the clergy, a gem fell from heaven into the consecrated chalice which he was using. — At Capua, St. Priscus, bishop. He was one of those priests who were subjected to various trials for the Catholic faith during the persecution of the Vandals. Being put in an old ship on the coast of Africa, they reached the shores of Campania, and separating, they were placed at the head of various churches, and thus greatly extended the Christian religion. The companions of Priscus were Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius, Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion, and Vindonius. — At Aquino, St. Constantius, a bishop renowned for the gift of prophecy and many virtues. — At Le Mans, St. Victorius, bishop. — In Baden, in the diocese of Constance, St. Verena, virgin.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Giles\nAbbot and confessor hidden with God.\nThe Martyrology commemorates St. Giles in the province of Narbonne as abbot and confessor, placing his monastic witness at the threshold of September.\nHis feast teaches the value of hidden fidelity. The Church needs not only public doctors and martyrs, but souls who keep the lamp of prayer burning in silence, abstinence, and stable service.\nLet St. Giles correct the hunger to be noticed. Much of the City is upheld by souls whose names are scarcely spoken, but whose fidelity is known to God.\nFROM MATINS\nThe holy abbot who fled from glory among men.\nMatins - Proper Ninth Lesson - St. Giles, Abbot and Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"As Giles became famous for working miracles, he fled from glory among men.\"\n- The proper lesson remembers St. Giles as a man of sacred learning and charity who gave his inheritance to the poor and fled from human glory.\n- His solitude joined abstinence to prayer, while his unwilling acceptance of monastic government shows authority received as duty rather than ambition.\n- The lesson keeps hidden prayer, works of mercy, and humble perseverance together as one path of abbatial holiness.\nDo not measure holiness by notice. St. Giles teaches the soul to give generously, flee vainglory, accept necessary responsibility, and let hidden prayer remain fruitful before God.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nNinth Lesson - St. Giles, Abbot\nThe holy Abbat Giles was by birth an Athenian, and of Royal lineage. From his youth he showed ever such a love for sacred learning and for works of charity, that he seemed to care for nothing else. When his father and mother were dead, he bestowed his whole inheritance upon the poor. He took off even his own coat, to clothe a poor sick man withal, and the sick man was healed forthwith as soon as he put it on him. As Giles became famous for working miracles, he fled from glory among men, and betook him to Arles, [in France,] to the company of blessed Cæsarius. After the space of two years he departed thence, and went into the desert, for he lived in wonderful holiness for a long while upon the roots of herbs and the milk of an hind, which came to him at regular hours. This hind was chased one day by the King's hounds, and took refuge in Giles's cave. Thereby the King of France was moved earnestly to entreat of him that he would suffer a monastery to be built in the place where this cave was. At the instant desire of the King, he took the rule of this monastery, albeit himself unwilling, and discharged this duty wisely and godly for some years, until he passed away to heaven.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nJustification Requires True Conversion\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. 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. Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional.\nThe grace to be practiced is Hidden fidelity in prayer, 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 grateful dependence by obeying Christ's doctrine, worship, commandments, Providence, and rightful order throughout the whole life.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. 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 hidden fidelity in prayer 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. Surrender the illusion of spiritual independence whenever preference, appetite, pride, or worldly opinion resists the Redeemer's claim. Use freedom as Christ's possession: reject sin, fulfill justice, honor obligations, serve souls, and submit every choice to His sovereignty.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent.\nYour resolution before God: Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.\nCarry this word: Charity is clearest when it remains joined to truth.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20\nThomas à Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.\n\nChoose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.\nToday's Practice: Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine whether the day reflected perpetual consecration to the Redeemer or practical independence from His rights and commands.\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, make my charity patient without weakness, firm without harshness, and always ordered toward the salvation of souls.\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\nGrace, Conversion, and Final Perseverance: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mercy-and-salvation/grace-conversion-and-final-perseverance?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-09-01&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-09-01&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. Giles, Abbot - 2028-09-01\n \n \n
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2028-09-01 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - white

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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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a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.
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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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Confessor
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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.

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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After Pentecost the Church teaches the soul how grace matures. Consolation is not enough. The Spirit of truth forms endurance, obedience, hatred of heresy, reverence for true worship, and courage to confess Christ when the world calls fidelity narrow.

Receive the Catechism of the Council of Trent's reminder that the baptized are bound and consecrated perpetually to Jesus Christ.

Remember that you are perpetually bound and consecrated to Jesus Christ, and offer every faculty and duty to your Redeemer and Lord.

“The Catechism of the Council of Trent, the faithful interpreter of that holy Council, exhorts the parish-priests to do the same thing; and to induce the people to remember themselves, and to believe that they are bound and consecrated to our Lord Jesus Christ, as slaves to their Redeemer and Lord.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 129

Baptism establishes objective belonging, not a temporary spiritual preference. The Roman Catechism teaches the faithful to remember that they are bound and consecrated perpetually to Jesus Christ, their Redeemer and Lord. Redemption creates a just claim upon the whole person and a joyful debt of worship, obedience, gratitude, and love.

The language of slavery here opposes the cruel slavery of Satan with voluntary, loving dependence upon Christ. It never licenses human domination, abuse, or neglect of justice. Jesus is the divine Redeemer who purchased freedom from sin; belonging to Him orders every human authority and relationship beneath truth, charity, and His commandments.

Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.

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“The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.”
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Novena in Progress

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Novena for the Nativity of Our Lady - Day 3 of 9

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Preparing for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2028-09-08.

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Ask for childlike purity, Marian trust, and renewal of Catholic homes beneath Our Lady's care.

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Pray for children, mothers, and households wounded by modern errors.

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Roman Martyrology - September 1

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In the province of Narbonne, St. Giles, abbot and confessor. — At Benevento, twelve saintly brothers, martyrs. — In Palestine, the Saints Josue and Gedeon. — At Jerusalem, blessed Anna, prophetess, whose sanctity is revealed in the Gospel. — At Capua, on the Aquarian road, St. Priscus, martyr, who was one of the ancient disciples of Christ. — At Rheims, in France, St. Xystus, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who was consecrated by him the first bishop of that city, and received the crown of martyrdom under Nero. — At Todi, in Umbria, St. Terentian, bishop and martyr. Under the emperor Adrian, he was racked, and scourged with whips set with metal by order of the proconsul Laetian, and finally, having his tongue cut out, he ended his martyrdom by undergoing capital punishment. — At Heraclea, St. Ammon, deacon, and forty holy virgins whom he instructed in the faith, and led with him to the glory of matryrdom, under the tyrant Licinius. — In Spain, the holy martyrs Vincent and Lsetus. — At Piombino, in Tuscany, St. Regulus, martyr, who went thither from Africa, and consummated his martyrdom under Totila. — At Sens, St. Lupus, bishop and confessor, of whom it is related, that on a certain day, whilst he stood at the holy altar in presence of the clergy, a gem fell from heaven into the consecrated chalice which he was using. — At Capua, St. Priscus, bishop. He was one of those priests who were subjected to various trials for the Catholic faith during the persecution of the Vandals. Being put in an old ship on the coast of Africa, they reached the shores of Campania, and separating, they were placed at the head of various churches, and thus greatly extended the Christian religion. The companions of Priscus were Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius, Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion, and Vindonius. — At Aquino, St. Constantius, a bishop renowned for the gift of prophecy and many virtues. — At Le Mans, St. Victorius, bishop. — In Baden, in the diocese of Constance, St. Verena, virgin.

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The Martyrology commemorates St. Giles in the province of Narbonne as abbot and confessor, placing his monastic witness at the threshold of September.

His feast teaches the value of hidden fidelity. The Church needs not only public doctors and martyrs, but souls who keep the lamp of prayer burning in silence, abstinence, and stable service.

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Let St. Giles correct the hunger to be noticed. Much of the City is upheld by souls whose names are scarcely spoken, but whose fidelity is known to God.

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From Matins

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The holy abbot who fled from glory among men.

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Matins - Proper Ninth Lesson - St. Giles, Abbot and Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lesson for St. Giles

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  • The proper lesson remembers St. Giles as a man of sacred learning and charity who gave his inheritance to the poor and fled from human glory.
  • His solitude joined abstinence to prayer, while his unwilling acceptance of monastic government shows authority received as duty rather than ambition.
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Do not measure holiness by notice. St. Giles teaches the soul to give generously, flee vainglory, accept necessary responsibility, and let hidden prayer remain fruitful before God.

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Full Breviary Lessons

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Ninth Lesson - St. Giles, Abbot

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The holy Abbat Giles was by birth an Athenian, and of Royal lineage. From his youth he showed ever such a love for sacred learning and for works of charity, that he seemed to care for nothing else. When his father and mother were dead, he bestowed his whole inheritance upon the poor. He took off even his own coat, to clothe a poor sick man withal, and the sick man was healed forthwith as soon as he put it on him. As Giles became famous for working miracles, he fled from glory among men, and betook him to Arles, [in France,] to the company of blessed Cæsarius. After the space of two years he departed thence, and went into the desert, for he lived in wonderful holiness for a long while upon the roots of herbs and the milk of an hind, which came to him at regular hours. This hind was chased one day by the King's hounds, and took refuge in Giles's cave. Thereby the King of France was moved earnestly to entreat of him that he would suffer a monastery to be built in the place where this cave was. At the instant desire of the King, he took the rule of this monastery, albeit himself unwilling, and discharged this duty wisely and godly for some years, until he passed away to heaven.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Justification Requires True Conversion

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The Church places this truth before you today: The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. 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. Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional.

The grace to be practiced is Hidden fidelity in prayer, 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 grateful dependence by obeying Christ's doctrine, worship, commandments, Providence, and rightful order throughout the whole life.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. 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 hidden fidelity in prayer 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. Surrender the illusion of spiritual independence whenever preference, appetite, pride, or worldly opinion resists the Redeemer's claim. Use freedom as Christ's possession: reject sin, fulfill justice, honor obligations, serve souls, and submit every choice to His sovereignty.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Perform hidden acts of charity without seeking notice or return.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20

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Thomas à Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.

Choose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.

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Today's Practice

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Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine whether the day reflected perpetual consecration to the Redeemer or practical independence from His rights and commands.

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O Lord, make my charity patient without weakness, firm without harshness, and always ordered toward the salvation of souls.

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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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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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