{"ok":true,"date":"2028-11-20","dateKey":"11-20","liturgicalDay":"St. Felix of Valois, Confessor","rank":"Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.","author":"St. Augustine","source":"Confessions, Book I, chapter 1","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#our-heart-is-restless","category":"The Love of God"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Felix of Valois, Confessor - 2028-11-20","previewText":"St. Felix of Valois, Confessor. 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\nSt. Felix of Valois, Confessor\n2028-11-20 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nRedemption: Christ's saving work by which He paid the price of sin through His obedient suffering and death and frees sinners for life with God.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Felix of Valois helped found a religious family for the ransom of Christians held in captivity. His charity was organized, sacrificial, and directed toward souls endangered by oppression and apostasy. Pray for those trapped by persecution, vice, false religion, or fear, and ask what lawful sacrifice you can make for their deliverance. 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\nOffer your sacrifices and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for souls held captive by grave sin or false religion.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.\"\nSt. Augustine, Confessions, Book I, chapter 1\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - November 20\nCT. FELIX DE VALOIS, confessor. — At Messina, in Sicily, the holy martyrs Ampelus and Caius. — At Turin, the holy martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, soldiers of the Theban Legion, who fought valiantly for the faith under the emperor Maximian, and were crowned with martyrdom. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Galerius Maximian, the holy martyr Agapius, who was condemned to be devoured by the beasts; but being unhurt by them, he was cast into the sea with stones tied to his feet. — In Persia, the martyrdom of the holy bishop Nersas and his companions. — At Dorostorum, in Mysia, St. Dasius, bishop, who, for refusing to consent to the impurities practised on the feast of Saturn, was put to death, under the governor Bassus. At Nicsea, in Bithynia, the holy martyrs Eustachius, Thespesius and Anatolius, in the persecution of Maximinus. — At Heraclea, in Thrace, the holy martyrs Bassus, Denis, Agapitus and forty others. — In England, St. Edmund, king and martyr. — At Constantinople, St. Gregory of Decapolis, who suffered many tribulations for the worship of holy images. — At Milan, St. Benignus, a bishop, who, amidst the serious troubles caused by the barbarians, governed the church entrusted to him with the greatest constancy and piety. — At Chalons, St. Silvester, a bishop, who went to God in the forty-second year of his priesthood, full of days and virtues. — At Verona, St. Simplicius, bishop and confessor.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Felix of Valois\nFounder of the Trinitarians for the redemption of captives.\nThe Martyrology remembers St. Felix de Valois at Cerfroid as founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives.\nHis feast teaches that mercy must sometimes become organized sacrifice. Catholic charity seeks the deliverance of those bound in body, danger, false worship, or sin.\nLet St. Felix enlarge mercy. The Church does not merely pity bondage; she prays, labors, pays, and suffers for deliverance.\nFROM MATINS\nThe prince who entered the desert and founded a ransom for captives.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Felix of Valois, Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"Called by a heavenly voice from the desert to the work of redeeming captives.\"\n- The Breviary remembers St. Felix turning royal nearness, wealth, and prospects of succession away from self and toward the poor, mercy for the condemned, sacred orders, contemplation, and solitude.\n- His hidden life with St. John of Matha was not an escape from suffering souls. At God's command it became the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, confirmed by Pope Innocent III and visibly marked with the Trinitarian cross.\n- The lessons join contemplation to organized mercy: prayer, rule, community, papal approval, Marian favor, material sacrifice, and love for captives become one durable Catholic work of deliverance.\nLet contemplation make mercy more concrete. Pray for those held captive in body, false worship, or sin, and support works that labor, sacrifice, organize, and persevere for their deliverance beneath the authority and worship of the Church.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nFourth Lesson - Royal Prospects Exchanged for Mercy\nFelix, formerly called Hugh, was born in Gaul of the royal family of Valois. From his earliest years he gave no slight indications of his future holiness, especially by mercy toward the poor. While still an infant he distributed money to the needy with his own hand, as though he were older and possessed mature judgment. When somewhat grown, he frequently sent them food taken from the table and often stripped himself of his own clothing to cover the destitute. He obtained from his uncle Theobald, Count of Champagne and Blois, the life of a man condemned to death; and when the murderer was immediately surrounded by a most violent fire yet escaped it unharmed, the event gave clear divine testimony.\nFifth Lesson - Sacred Orders, Solitude, and St. John of Matha\nAfter passing his youth in a praiseworthy manner, he began, through love of heavenly contemplation, to think of solitude. He first chose, however, to be initiated into sacred orders, so that he might cut off every hope of the kingdom, from whose succession by Salic law he was not far removed. Having been ordained priest and celebrated his first Mass with the greatest devotion, he withdrew not long afterwards into a wilderness. There, living in extreme abstinence and abounding in heavenly gifts, he spent several years with St. John of Matha, Doctor of Paris, who had sought and found him by divine inspiration. At length both, admonished by an angel from God, went to Rome to seek a special rule of life from the Supreme Pontiff.\nSixth Lesson - The Order of the Most Holy Trinity\nHaving received from Pope Innocent III confirmation of their own rule, they first built, in the Diocese of Meaux at the place called Cerfroid, a monastery of the order which Felix and his companion had established shortly before. There he wonderfully cultivated religious observance and the work of redemption and diligently propagated them through his disciples into other provinces. He received an illustrious favor from the Blessed Virgin Mother: during the watches of the night before the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, when the brethren had not yet arisen for Matins, Felix entered the choir before the appointed hour and found the Blessed Virgin in the midst of the choir, clothed in the habit marked with the cross of the order and accompanied by heavenly spirits similarly clothed. Felix led the divine praises with the Mother of God presiding and completed the office according to custom. As though called already from the earthly to the heavenly choir and made more certain by an angel of his approaching death, he exhorted his sons to charity toward the poor and captives and gave his soul back to God, full of years and merits, in 1212 under Pope Innocent III.\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 Mercy ordered to ransom, 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 mercy ordered to ransom 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: Offer your sacrifices and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for souls held captive by grave sin or false religion.\nCarry this word: Mercy goes in search of souls whose freedom has been taken or surrendered.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21\nThe presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.\n\nDo not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.\nToday's Practice: Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.\nDAILY EXAMEN\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. Felix of Valois, strengthen persecuted Catholics and break the chains of error, addiction, fear, and human respect.\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=2028-11-20&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-11-20&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. Felix of Valois, Confessor - 2028-11-20\n \n \n
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St. Felix of Valois, Confessor

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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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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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Christ's saving work by which He paid the price of sin through His obedient suffering and death and frees sinners for life with God.

The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.

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Today in the Roman Year

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St. Felix of Valois helped found a religious family for the ransom of Christians held in captivity. His charity was organized, sacrificial, and directed toward souls endangered by oppression and apostasy. Pray for those trapped by persecution, vice, false religion, or fear, and ask what lawful sacrifice you can make for their deliverance.

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.

Offer your sacrifices and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for souls held captive by grave sin or false religion.

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“Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.”
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St. Augustine, Confessions, Book I, chapter 1

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Roman Martyrology - November 20

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CT. FELIX DE VALOIS, confessor. — At Messina, in Sicily, the holy martyrs Ampelus and Caius. — At Turin, the holy martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, soldiers of the Theban Legion, who fought valiantly for the faith under the emperor Maximian, and were crowned with martyrdom. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Galerius Maximian, the holy martyr Agapius, who was condemned to be devoured by the beasts; but being unhurt by them, he was cast into the sea with stones tied to his feet. — In Persia, the martyrdom of the holy bishop Nersas and his companions. — At Dorostorum, in Mysia, St. Dasius, bishop, who, for refusing to consent to the impurities practised on the feast of Saturn, was put to death, under the governor Bassus. At Nicsea, in Bithynia, the holy martyrs Eustachius, Thespesius and Anatolius, in the persecution of Maximinus. — At Heraclea, in Thrace, the holy martyrs Bassus, Denis, Agapitus and forty others. — In England, St. Edmund, king and martyr. — At Constantinople, St. Gregory of Decapolis, who suffered many tribulations for the worship of holy images. — At Milan, St. Benignus, a bishop, who, amidst the serious troubles caused by the barbarians, governed the church entrusted to him with the greatest constancy and piety. — At Chalons, St. Silvester, a bishop, who went to God in the forty-second year of his priesthood, full of days and virtues. — At Verona, St. Simplicius, bishop and confessor.

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St. Felix of Valois

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Founder of the Trinitarians for the redemption of captives.

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The Martyrology remembers St. Felix de Valois at Cerfroid as founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives.

His feast teaches that mercy must sometimes become organized sacrifice. Catholic charity seeks the deliverance of those bound in body, danger, false worship, or sin.

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Let St. Felix enlarge mercy. The Church does not merely pity bondage; she prays, labors, pays, and suffers for deliverance.

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The prince who entered the desert and founded a ransom for captives.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Felix of Valois, Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Felix of Valois

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“Called by a heavenly voice from the desert to the work of redeeming captives.”
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  • The Breviary remembers St. Felix turning royal nearness, wealth, and prospects of succession away from self and toward the poor, mercy for the condemned, sacred orders, contemplation, and solitude.
  • His hidden life with St. John of Matha was not an escape from suffering souls. At God's command it became the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, confirmed by Pope Innocent III and visibly marked with the Trinitarian cross.
  • The lessons join contemplation to organized mercy: prayer, rule, community, papal approval, Marian favor, material sacrifice, and love for captives become one durable Catholic work of deliverance.
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Let contemplation make mercy more concrete. Pray for those held captive in body, false worship, or sin, and support works that labor, sacrifice, organize, and persevere for their deliverance beneath the authority and worship of the Church.

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Full Breviary Lessons

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Fourth Lesson - Royal Prospects Exchanged for Mercy

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Felix, formerly called Hugh, was born in Gaul of the royal family of Valois. From his earliest years he gave no slight indications of his future holiness, especially by mercy toward the poor. While still an infant he distributed money to the needy with his own hand, as though he were older and possessed mature judgment. When somewhat grown, he frequently sent them food taken from the table and often stripped himself of his own clothing to cover the destitute. He obtained from his uncle Theobald, Count of Champagne and Blois, the life of a man condemned to death; and when the murderer was immediately surrounded by a most violent fire yet escaped it unharmed, the event gave clear divine testimony.

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Fifth Lesson - Sacred Orders, Solitude, and St. John of Matha

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After passing his youth in a praiseworthy manner, he began, through love of heavenly contemplation, to think of solitude. He first chose, however, to be initiated into sacred orders, so that he might cut off every hope of the kingdom, from whose succession by Salic law he was not far removed. Having been ordained priest and celebrated his first Mass with the greatest devotion, he withdrew not long afterwards into a wilderness. There, living in extreme abstinence and abounding in heavenly gifts, he spent several years with St. John of Matha, Doctor of Paris, who had sought and found him by divine inspiration. At length both, admonished by an angel from God, went to Rome to seek a special rule of life from the Supreme Pontiff.

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Sixth Lesson - The Order of the Most Holy Trinity

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Having received from Pope Innocent III confirmation of their own rule, they first built, in the Diocese of Meaux at the place called Cerfroid, a monastery of the order which Felix and his companion had established shortly before. There he wonderfully cultivated religious observance and the work of redemption and diligently propagated them through his disciples into other provinces. He received an illustrious favor from the Blessed Virgin Mother: during the watches of the night before the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, when the brethren had not yet arisen for Matins, Felix entered the choir before the appointed hour and found the Blessed Virgin in the midst of the choir, clothed in the habit marked with the cross of the order and accompanied by heavenly spirits similarly clothed. Felix led the divine praises with the Mother of God presiding and completed the office according to custom. As though called already from the earthly to the heavenly choir and made more certain by an angel of his approaching death, he exhorted his sons to charity toward the poor and captives and gave his soul back to God, full of years and merits, in 1212 under Pope Innocent III.

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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 Mercy ordered to ransom, 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 mercy ordered to ransom 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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Offer your sacrifices and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for souls held captive by grave sin or false religion.

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Mercy goes in search of souls whose freedom has been taken or surrendered.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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

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

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

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Today's Practice

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

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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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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O Lord, through St. Felix of Valois, strengthen persecuted Catholics and break the chains of error, addiction, fear, and human respect.

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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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