{"ok":true,"date":"2028-11-01","dateKey":"11-01","liturgicalDay":"All Saints","rank":"Double of the First Class","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations.","author":"St. John","source":"Apocalypse 7:9, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: All Saints - 2028-11-01","previewText":"All Saints. Truth and Charity Cannot Be Divided. Resist the counterfeit charity that calls correction unkind while leaving souls in danger.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nAll Saints\n2028-11-01 - Time after Pentecost - Double of the First Class - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\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\nAll Saints opens heaven before the pilgrim, not as a distant idea, but as the true country of those who died in sanctifying grace. The blessed came from every state of life, yet each allowed Christ to conquer sin, self-will, and fear within him. Do not merely admire their crowns; ask which surrender God requires so that you may follow them. Ask the Holy Ghost to produce the likeness of Jesus Christ in your soul through His faithful Spouse. Invoke the Holy Ghost and ask Him to reproduce in you the dispositions He formed so perfectly in Our Lady.\n\n\"This is the reason why He, the Holy Ghost, the more He finds Mary, His dear and indissoluble Spouse, in any soul, becomes the more active and mighty in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 20\n\nThe Holy Ghost alone is the divine Sanctifier. Our Lady is wholly His creature and faithful Spouse. Her presence in a soul means that her faith, humility, purity, obedience, prayer, and charity are welcomed there; these dispositions make room for His work rather than resisting it through pride and self-will.\n\nDo not ask merely for Marian feelings. Ask for Marian dispositions throughout the day. The true measure is whether Christ is being formed: whether His truth governs the mind, His commandments govern the will, His charity governs conduct, and His Cross governs the use of suffering.\n\nPRACTICE\nKeep today's saints as companions and imitate the concrete virtues shown in their lives.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations.\"\nSt. John, Apocalypse 7:9, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - November 1\nThe Festival of All Saints, which pope Boniface IV., after the dedication of the Pantheon, ordained to be kept generally and solemnly every year, in the city of Rome, in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of the holy martyrs. It was afterwards decreed by Gregory IV. that this feast, which was then celebrated in many dioceses, but at different times, should be on this day perpetually and solemnly kept by the whole Church in honor of all the Saints. — At Terracina, in Campania, the birthday of St. Caesarius, deacon, who was for many days detained in prison, afterwards put into a sack with St. Julian, priest, and then precipitated into the sea. — At Dijon, St. Benignus, a priest, who was sent to France by blessed Polycarp to preach the Gospel. After he had been subjected to many most grievous torments, by the judge Terentius, under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, he was finally condemned to have his neck struck with an iron bar and his body pierced with a lance. — The same day, St. Mary, handmaid. Accused of professing the Christian religion, in the time of the emperor Adrian, she was subjected to cruel scourging, to torture on the rack, and the lacerating of her body with iron hooks, and thus completed her martyrdom. — At Damascus, the martyrdom of the Saints Caesarius, Dacius and five others. — In Persia, under king Sapor, the holy martyrs John, bishop, and James, priest. — At Tarsus, the Saints Cyrenia and Juliana, under the emperor Maximian. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, St. Austremonius, first bishop of that city. — At Paris, the decease of St. Marcellus, bishop. — At Bayeux, St. Vigor, bishop, in the time of Childebert, king of the Franks. — At Tivoli, St. Severin, monk. — In Gatinais, St. Maturin, confessor.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are the clean of heart.\nAll Saints - Matthew 5:1-12\n\"Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven.\"\nDo not look at the saints as though they were far-off marble. They are family, and they urge you onward with the tenderness of those who know the road.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe Beatitudes reveal the true nobility of the City of God.\nSanctity is not one temperament or station; it is grace received and lived in poverty of spirit, purity, mercy, and endurance.\nError corrected: The lie that holiness is exceptional rather than the common vocation of the baptized.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nAll Saints\nThe citizens of heaven and the triumph of grace.\nAll Saints honors the whole company of the blessed in heaven: apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, penitents, hidden faithful, and all who died in the grace of God.\nThe feast teaches that holiness is the normal end of Catholic life. The saints are not ornaments of religion, but witnesses of what grace can make of men.\nLet the saints become companions, not distant statues. Heaven is full of those who fought, suffered, repented, and persevered.\nFROM MATINS\nThe footsteps of the saints into joy.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - All Saints\nVenerable Bede, Priest\n\"These are the steps which the Saints who have already gone home have left marked for us.\"\n- The Breviary keeps All Saints as a summons to the race of good living under the eyes of God and Christ.\n- Bede teaches that God gives the red crown to martyrs and the white crown to those who conquer in peace by righteousness, faith, and obedience.\n- The saints are not distant ornaments of heaven, but marked footsteps: simplicity, peaceable charity, humility, service, mercy toward the poor, firmness for truth, and discipline.\nDo not admire the saints from afar. Walk where they walked: in mercy, purity, courage, prayer, discipline, and fidelity to the commandments of God.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nFourth Lesson - The Victories of the Church's Children\nDearly beloved brethren: This day we keep, with one great cry of joy, a Feast in memory of all God's holy children; His children, whose presence is a gladness to heaven; His children, whose prayers are a blessing to earth; His children, whose victories are the crown of the Holy Church; His chosen, whose testifying is the more glorious in honour, as the agony in which it was given was the sterner in intensity, for as the dreader grew the battle, so the grander grew the fighters, and the triumph of martyrdom waxed the more incisive by the multiplicity of suffering, and the heavier the torment the heavier the prize. And it is our Mother, the Catholic Church, spread far and wide throughout all this planet, it is she that hath learnt, in Christ Jesus her Head, not to fear shame, nor cross, nor death, but hath waxed lealer and lealer, and, not by fighting, but by enduring, hath breathed into all that noble band who have come up to the bitter starting-post the hope of conquest and glory which hath warmed them manfully to accept the race.\nFifth Lesson - Roses and Lilies in the Church's Crown\nOf a verity thou art blessed, O my Mother the Church! The blaze of God's mercy beateth full upon thee; thine adornment is the glorious blood of victorious Martyrs, and thy raiment the virgin whiteness of untarnished orthodoxy. Thy garlands lack neither roses nor lilies. And now, dearly beloved brethren, let each one of us strive to gain the goodly crown of one sort or the other, either the glistening whiteness of purity, or the red dye of suffering. In the army in heaven peace and war have both chaplets of their own, to crown Christ's soldiers withal.\nSixth Lesson - Brief Labour and Everlasting Reward\nMoreover, to this also hath the unutterable and boundless goodness of God seen, that He spreadeth not the time of working and wrestling, neither maketh it long, nor everlasting, and, as it were, but for a moment, so that in this short and scanty life there is wrestling and working, but the crown and the prize is in a life which is eternal. So the work is soon over, but the wage is paid for ever. And when the night of this world is over, the Saints are to see the clearness of the essential light, and to receive a blessedness outweighing the pangs of any torment, as testifieth the Apostle Paul, where he saith: \"The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.\"\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nTruth and Charity Cannot Be Divided\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Charity loves the real good of the soul, and therefore cannot ask truth to be hidden, softened into falsehood, or traded for comfort. 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 saints defended truth sharply when souls were endangered, yet their severity was ordered to salvation, not pride.\nThe grace to be practiced is Hopeful pursuit of holiness, 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 docility by promptly following grace and rejecting the resistance of pride, impurity, resentment, and self-will.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the counterfeit charity that calls correction unkind while leaving souls in danger. 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 hopeful pursuit of holiness 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. Allow contradiction and sacrifice to uncover what in you still resists conformity to Jesus Christ. Perform every duty with Mary's faith, recollection, obedience, purity of intention, and charity so that Christ may govern the whole day.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bernard of Clairvaux.\nYour resolution before God: Keep today's saints as companions and imitate the concrete virtues shown in their lives.\nCarry this word: The saints show what grace can make of a soul that perseveres.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"My son, be waking and diligent in the service of God, and think oft wherefore thou art come, and why thou hast forsaken the world.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 25, p. 45\nFervor is not religious excitement. It is the awakened will that remembers its end and returns to duty when nature grows sluggish. You were created to know, love, and serve God and thereby attain eternal life; every lesser purpose must remain beneath this one.\n\nRecall why you began to seek a more faithful Catholic life. Then ask what has cooled: prayer postponed, sacrifice avoided, truth softened, or daily duty performed without love. Do not attempt to recover everything through emotion. Renew the next act, and let diligence carry the soul where feeling does not.\nToday's Practice: Renew aloud the purpose of your life before God, then complete the duty you have most resisted.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine which dispositions resembled Mary and which resisted the Holy Ghost's work of forming Christ in you.\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 Jesus Christ, through the intercession of all Thy saints, make me hate sin, love Thy truth, and persevere in sanctifying grace until death.\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\nSpeaking the Truth in Charity: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/ephesians-4-15-speaking-the-truth-in-charity-doctrinal-clarity-and-pastoral-mercy?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-11-01&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-11-01&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: All Saints - 2028-11-01\n \n \n
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.

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All Saints opens heaven before the pilgrim, not as a distant idea, but as the true country of those who died in sanctifying grace. The blessed came from every state of life, yet each allowed Christ to conquer sin, self-will, and fear within him. Do not merely admire their crowns; ask which surrender God requires so that you may follow them.

Ask the Holy Ghost to produce the likeness of Jesus Christ in your soul through His faithful Spouse.

Invoke the Holy Ghost and ask Him to reproduce in you the dispositions He formed so perfectly in Our Lady.

“This is the reason why He, the Holy Ghost, the more He finds Mary, His dear and indissoluble Spouse, in any soul, becomes the more active and mighty in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 20

The Holy Ghost alone is the divine Sanctifier. Our Lady is wholly His creature and faithful Spouse. Her presence in a soul means that her faith, humility, purity, obedience, prayer, and charity are welcomed there; these dispositions make room for His work rather than resisting it through pride and self-will.

Do not ask merely for Marian feelings. Ask for Marian dispositions throughout the day. The true measure is whether Christ is being formed: whether His truth governs the mind, His commandments govern the will, His charity governs conduct, and His Cross governs the use of suffering.

Keep today's saints as companions and imitate the concrete virtues shown in their lives.

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“I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations.”
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St. John, Apocalypse 7:9, Douay-Rheims

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The Festival of All Saints, which pope Boniface IV., after the dedication of the Pantheon, ordained to be kept generally and solemnly every year, in the city of Rome, in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of the holy martyrs. It was afterwards decreed by Gregory IV. that this feast, which was then celebrated in many dioceses, but at different times, should be on this day perpetually and solemnly kept by the whole Church in honor of all the Saints. — At Terracina, in Campania, the birthday of St. Caesarius, deacon, who was for many days detained in prison, afterwards put into a sack with St. Julian, priest, and then precipitated into the sea. — At Dijon, St. Benignus, a priest, who was sent to France by blessed Polycarp to preach the Gospel. After he had been subjected to many most grievous torments, by the judge Terentius, under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, he was finally condemned to have his neck struck with an iron bar and his body pierced with a lance. — The same day, St. Mary, handmaid. Accused of professing the Christian religion, in the time of the emperor Adrian, she was subjected to cruel scourging, to torture on the rack, and the lacerating of her body with iron hooks, and thus completed her martyrdom. — At Damascus, the martyrdom of the Saints Caesarius, Dacius and five others. — In Persia, under king Sapor, the holy martyrs John, bishop, and James, priest. — At Tarsus, the Saints Cyrenia and Juliana, under the emperor Maximian. — At Clermont, in Auvergne, St. Austremonius, first bishop of that city. — At Paris, the decease of St. Marcellus, bishop. — At Bayeux, St. Vigor, bishop, in the time of Childebert, king of the Franks. — At Tivoli, St. Severin, monk. — In Gatinais, St. Maturin, confessor.

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Blessed are the clean of heart.

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“Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven.”
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Do not look at the saints as though they were far-off marble. They are family, and they urge you onward with the tenderness of those who know the road.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The Beatitudes reveal the true nobility of the City of God.

Sanctity is not one temperament or station; it is grace received and lived in poverty of spirit, purity, mercy, and endurance.

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Error corrected: The lie that holiness is exceptional rather than the common vocation of the baptized.

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The citizens of heaven and the triumph of grace.

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All Saints honors the whole company of the blessed in heaven: apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, penitents, hidden faithful, and all who died in the grace of God.

The feast teaches that holiness is the normal end of Catholic life. The saints are not ornaments of religion, but witnesses of what grace can make of men.

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Let the saints become companions, not distant statues. Heaven is full of those who fought, suffered, repented, and persevered.

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The footsteps of the saints into joy.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - All Saints

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Venerable Bede, Priest, Sermon on the Saints

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“These are the steps which the Saints who have already gone home have left marked for us.”
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  • The saints are not distant ornaments of heaven, but marked footsteps: simplicity, peaceable charity, humility, service, mercy toward the poor, firmness for truth, and discipline.
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Do not admire the saints from afar. Walk where they walked: in mercy, purity, courage, prayer, discipline, and fidelity to the commandments of God.

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Fourth Lesson - The Victories of the Church's Children

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Dearly beloved brethren: This day we keep, with one great cry of joy, a Feast in memory of all God's holy children; His children, whose presence is a gladness to heaven; His children, whose prayers are a blessing to earth; His children, whose victories are the crown of the Holy Church; His chosen, whose testifying is the more glorious in honour, as the agony in which it was given was the sterner in intensity, for as the dreader grew the battle, so the grander grew the fighters, and the triumph of martyrdom waxed the more incisive by the multiplicity of suffering, and the heavier the torment the heavier the prize. And it is our Mother, the Catholic Church, spread far and wide throughout all this planet, it is she that hath learnt, in Christ Jesus her Head, not to fear shame, nor cross, nor death, but hath waxed lealer and lealer, and, not by fighting, but by enduring, hath breathed into all that noble band who have come up to the bitter starting-post the hope of conquest and glory which hath warmed them manfully to accept the race.

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Fifth Lesson - Roses and Lilies in the Church's Crown

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Of a verity thou art blessed, O my Mother the Church! The blaze of God's mercy beateth full upon thee; thine adornment is the glorious blood of victorious Martyrs, and thy raiment the virgin whiteness of untarnished orthodoxy. Thy garlands lack neither roses nor lilies. And now, dearly beloved brethren, let each one of us strive to gain the goodly crown of one sort or the other, either the glistening whiteness of purity, or the red dye of suffering. In the army in heaven peace and war have both chaplets of their own, to crown Christ's soldiers withal.

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Sixth Lesson - Brief Labour and Everlasting Reward

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Moreover, to this also hath the unutterable and boundless goodness of God seen, that He spreadeth not the time of working and wrestling, neither maketh it long, nor everlasting, and, as it were, but for a moment, so that in this short and scanty life there is wrestling and working, but the crown and the prize is in a life which is eternal. So the work is soon over, but the wage is paid for ever. And when the night of this world is over, the Saints are to see the clearness of the essential light, and to receive a blessedness outweighing the pangs of any torment, as testifieth the Apostle Paul, where he saith: "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Truth and Charity Cannot Be Divided

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The Church places this truth before you today: Charity loves the real good of the soul, and therefore cannot ask truth to be hidden, softened into falsehood, or traded for comfort. 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 saints defended truth sharply when souls were endangered, yet their severity was ordered to salvation, not pride.

The grace to be practiced is Hopeful pursuit of holiness, 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 docility by promptly following grace and rejecting the resistance of pride, impurity, resentment, and self-will.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the counterfeit charity that calls correction unkind while leaving souls in danger. 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 hopeful pursuit of holiness 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. Allow contradiction and sacrifice to uncover what in you still resists conformity to Jesus Christ. Perform every duty with Mary's faith, recollection, obedience, purity of intention, and charity so that Christ may govern the whole day.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Keep today's saints as companions and imitate the concrete virtues shown in their lives.

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The saints show what grace can make of a soul that perseveres.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“My son, be waking and diligent in the service of God, and think oft wherefore thou art come, and why thou hast forsaken the world.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 25, p. 45

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Fervor is not religious excitement. It is the awakened will that remembers its end and returns to duty when nature grows sluggish. You were created to know, love, and serve God and thereby attain eternal life; every lesser purpose must remain beneath this one.

Recall why you began to seek a more faithful Catholic life. Then ask what has cooled: prayer postponed, sacrifice avoided, truth softened, or daily duty performed without love. Do not attempt to recover everything through emotion. Renew the next act, and let diligence carry the soul where feeling does not.

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Today's Practice

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Renew aloud the purpose of your life before God, then complete the duty you have most resisted.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine which dispositions resembled Mary and which resisted the Holy Ghost's work of forming Christ in you.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, through the intercession of all Thy saints, make me hate sin, love Thy truth, and persevere in sanctifying grace until death.

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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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