{"ok":true,"date":"2028-12-28","dateKey":"12-28","liturgicalDay":"Holy Innocents, Martyrs","rank":"Double of the Second Class","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning.","author":"St. Matthew","source":"Matthew 2:18, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Christmastide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of the Nativity","rank":"Privileged Octave of the Third Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Holy Innocents, Martyrs - 2028-12-28","previewText":"Holy Innocents, Martyrs. Dogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken. Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nHoly Innocents, Martyrs\n2028-12-28 - Christmastide - Double of the Second Class - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nGentiles: in this biblical setting, the peoples and nations outside Israel; their call shows that Christ came as Savior for every nation.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nReparation: prayer or sacrifice offered in love to make amends for sin and the dishonor it gives to 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\nThe Holy Innocents could not speak Christ's Name, yet they died because the world feared His kingship. Their feast forbids a shallow Christmas that ignores innocent suffering, and it entrusts afflicted children to the justice and mercy of God. Pray and act for children endangered by violence, impurity, neglect, or false teaching. With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world. Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.\n\n\"He that is mighty hath done great things to me.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49\n\nOur Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.\n\nRecall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Nativity - Privileged Octave of the Third Order\n\nPRACTICE\nOffer a prayer and a concrete work of mercy or reparation for children who are abused, abandoned, or led away from the Faith.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning.\"\nSt. Matthew, Matthew 2:18, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - December 28\nIn Bethlehem, of Juda, the birthday of the Holy Innocents, who were massacred for Christ by king Herod. — At Ancyra, in Galatia, the holy martyrs Eutychius, priest, and Domitian, deacon. — In Africa, the birthday of the holy martyrs Castor, Victor and Rogatian. — At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Indes, eunuch, Domna, Agapes and Theophila, virgins, and their companions, who, after long combats, attained to the crown of martyrdom by various kinds of death during the persecution of Diocletian. — At Neocaesarea, in Pontus, St. Troadius, martyr, in the persecution of Decius. During his combat St. Gregory Thaumaturgus appeared to him in spirit, and encouraged him to undergo martyrdom. — At Arabissus, in Lower Armenia, St. Caesarius, a martyr who suffered under Galerius Maximian. — At Lyons, in France, the birthday of St. Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, ranked among the saints by Alexander VII., because of his most ardent zeal for the conversion of heretics. His festival, by order of the same Pontiff, is kept on the 29th of January, when his sacred body was translated from Lyons to Annecy. Pius IX. confirmed a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, declaring him Doctor of the universal Church. — At Rome, St. Domnion, priest. — In Egypt, St. Theodore, monk, disciple of St. Pachomius. — In the monastery of Lerins, St. Anthony, a monk renowned for miracles.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nRachel bewailing her children.\nHoly Innocents, Martyrs - Matthew 2:13-18\n\"Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.\"\nDo not hurry past grief today. Bring it to the Holy Family, and let compassion become prayer, protection, and some concrete act of mercy.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe kingdom of Christ is opposed by worldly power from the beginning.\nThe Innocents witness without speech, reminding the Church that suffering borne in union with Christ is not wasted.\nError corrected: The hard doctrine of power that treats the weak as expendable.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Holy Innocents\nInfant martyrs who suffered for Christ before knowing Him by speech.\nThe Holy Innocents were slain by Herod in his attempt to destroy the newborn King.\nTheir feast teaches the horror of innocent blood and the mystery of witness borne through suffering. They belong to Christ not by words, but by blood shed because of Him.\nDo not hurry past grief today. Bring it to the Holy Family, and let compassion become prayer, protection, and concrete mercy.\nFROM MATINS\nThe infant martyrs and the war against Christ.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - Holy Innocents, Martyrs\nSt. Jerome, Priest\n\"He took the young Child, and His mother, and fled into Egypt.\"\n- The Breviary places the Holy Innocents before the Church as the first tender victims slain because Herod sought the Saviour's life.\n- St. Jerome reads the flight into Egypt and return as a mystery of light for the Gentiles and future mercy for the Jews.\n- The lamentation of Rachel teaches that the coming of Christ is opposed by worldly power from the beginning, yet innocent suffering is gathered beneath God's altar.\nProtect innocence and refuse Herod's logic. The weak are never expendable before Christ, and grief must become prayer, protection, and fidelity.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nSeventh Lesson - The Flight into Egypt\nAt that time: The angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young Child, and His mother, and flee into Egypt; and be thou there until I bring thee word. And so on.\nHe took the young Child, and His mother, and fled into Egypt, by night and in darkness; and the darkness of that night was a figure of the darkness of ignorance in which they left the unbelievers from whom they fled. But when they returned into Judaea, we learn not from the Gospel that it was by night, or in darkness; which is an image of that light which will lighten the Jews, when, at the end of the world, they shall receive back the faith, which now lighteneth the Gentiles, even as Judaea received Christ returning from Egypt.\nEighth Lesson - Out of Egypt Have I Called My Son\n\"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called My Son.\" Those who go about to deny the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures, ask where any such passage is to be found in the Septuagint. But, although they find it not there, I tell them that the fact of its being written in the Prophet Hosea (xi. 1) can be proved by the texts which I have lately published.\nNinth Lesson - Rachel Weeping for Her Children\n\"Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet, saying; In Rama was there a voice heard, weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children.\" The child of Rachel was Benjamin, and Bethlehem is not a town belonging to his tribe. We must therefore seek another reason why Rachel should weep for the children of Judah, to whom Bethlehem belongeth, as for her own. The plain answer is that she is buried at Ephrath close to Bethlehem, and she is called Mother on account of the resting-place of her earthly tabernacle being there. It is possible also that she is called Mother because the tribes of Judah and Benjamin were joined together, and Herod slew not only all the children that were in Bethlehem, but also in all the coasts thereof.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nDogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken\nThe Church places this truth before you today: A Catholic dogma is not something the Church says for a while and later replaces. It is a truth revealed by God and taught by the Church. Because God cannot lie, the Church cannot later teach the opposite. 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 binding force of dogma protects souls from private invention and keeps charity rooted in truth rather than mood.\nThe grace to be practiced is Protection of innocence, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience. 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 protection of innocence 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. When a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope St. Pius X.\nYour resolution before God: Offer a prayer and a concrete work of mercy or reparation for children who are abused, abandoned, or led away from the Faith.\nCarry this word: The crib stands within a fallen world whose cruelty Christ came to judge and redeem.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203\nThe Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.\n\nIf you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.\nToday's Practice: Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.\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 the Holy Innocents, protect suffering children, convert those who harm them, and make me courageous in their defense.\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\nDogma and the Modernist War Against Binding Truth: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/chapter-dogma-the-modernist-war-against-the-binding-truth?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-12-28&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-12-28&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: Holy Innocents, Martyrs - 2028-12-28\n \n \n
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in this biblical setting, the peoples and nations outside Israel; their call shows that Christ came as Savior for every nation.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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prayer or sacrifice offered in love to make amends for sin and the dishonor it gives to 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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The Holy Innocents could not speak Christ's Name, yet they died because the world feared His kingship. Their feast forbids a shallow Christmas that ignores innocent suffering, and it entrusts afflicted children to the justice and mercy of God. Pray and act for children endangered by violence, impurity, neglect, or false teaching.

With Mary, let the hidden mysteries of Christ become more precious than the passing noise of the world.

Make a quiet Magnificat by naming God's graces and returning all praise to Him through Mary.

“He that is mighty hath done great things to me.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 6, citing Luke 1:49

Our Lady names the greatness of what has been done in her without taking possession of the glory. This is the balance humility preserves. It neither denies grace nor converts grace into self-importance. It sees clearly that God is mighty, that His works are great, and that the creature remains a grateful receiver.

Recall God's mercies today, especially those that have become ordinary through familiarity. Thank Him for them with Mary. Then ask whether you have used His gifts for His service or treated them as personal property. Gratitude becomes fruitful when it returns every gift, with interest, to the purpose of the Giver.

Offer a prayer and a concrete work of mercy or reparation for children who are abused, abandoned, or led away from the Faith.

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Roman Martyrology - December 28

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In Bethlehem, of Juda, the birthday of the Holy Innocents, who were massacred for Christ by king Herod. — At Ancyra, in Galatia, the holy martyrs Eutychius, priest, and Domitian, deacon. — In Africa, the birthday of the holy martyrs Castor, Victor and Rogatian. — At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Indes, eunuch, Domna, Agapes and Theophila, virgins, and their companions, who, after long combats, attained to the crown of martyrdom by various kinds of death during the persecution of Diocletian. — At Neocaesarea, in Pontus, St. Troadius, martyr, in the persecution of Decius. During his combat St. Gregory Thaumaturgus appeared to him in spirit, and encouraged him to undergo martyrdom. — At Arabissus, in Lower Armenia, St. Caesarius, a martyr who suffered under Galerius Maximian. — At Lyons, in France, the birthday of St. Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, ranked among the saints by Alexander VII., because of his most ardent zeal for the conversion of heretics. His festival, by order of the same Pontiff, is kept on the 29th of January, when his sacred body was translated from Lyons to Annecy. Pius IX. confirmed a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, declaring him Doctor of the universal Church. — At Rome, St. Domnion, priest. — In Egypt, St. Theodore, monk, disciple of St. Pachomius. — In the monastery of Lerins, St. Anthony, a monk renowned for miracles.

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Rachel bewailing her children.

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“Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.”
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Do not hurry past grief today. Bring it to the Holy Family, and let compassion become prayer, protection, and some concrete act of mercy.

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The kingdom of Christ is opposed by worldly power from the beginning.

The Innocents witness without speech, reminding the Church that suffering borne in union with Christ is not wasted.

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Error corrected: The hard doctrine of power that treats the weak as expendable.

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The Holy Innocents

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Infant martyrs who suffered for Christ before knowing Him by speech.

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The Holy Innocents were slain by Herod in his attempt to destroy the newborn King.

Their feast teaches the horror of innocent blood and the mystery of witness borne through suffering. They belong to Christ not by words, but by blood shed because of Him.

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Do not hurry past grief today. Bring it to the Holy Family, and let compassion become prayer, protection, and concrete mercy.

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The infant martyrs and the war against Christ.

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St. Jerome, Priest, Commentary on St. Matthew

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Protect innocence and refuse Herod's logic. The weak are never expendable before Christ, and grief must become prayer, protection, and fidelity.

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Seventh Lesson - The Flight into Egypt

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At that time: The angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young Child, and His mother, and flee into Egypt; and be thou there until I bring thee word. And so on.

He took the young Child, and His mother, and fled into Egypt, by night and in darkness; and the darkness of that night was a figure of the darkness of ignorance in which they left the unbelievers from whom they fled. But when they returned into Judaea, we learn not from the Gospel that it was by night, or in darkness; which is an image of that light which will lighten the Jews, when, at the end of the world, they shall receive back the faith, which now lighteneth the Gentiles, even as Judaea received Christ returning from Egypt.

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"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called My Son." Those who go about to deny the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures, ask where any such passage is to be found in the Septuagint. But, although they find it not there, I tell them that the fact of its being written in the Prophet Hosea (xi. 1) can be proved by the texts which I have lately published.

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Ninth Lesson - Rachel Weeping for Her Children

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"Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet, saying; In Rama was there a voice heard, weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children." The child of Rachel was Benjamin, and Bethlehem is not a town belonging to his tribe. We must therefore seek another reason why Rachel should weep for the children of Judah, to whom Bethlehem belongeth, as for her own. The plain answer is that she is buried at Ephrath close to Bethlehem, and she is called Mother on account of the resting-place of her earthly tabernacle being there. It is possible also that she is called Mother because the tribes of Judah and Benjamin were joined together, and Herod slew not only all the children that were in Bethlehem, but also in all the coasts thereof.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Dogma Binds the Mind Because God Has Spoken

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The Church places this truth before you today: A Catholic dogma is not something the Church says for a while and later replaces. It is a truth revealed by God and taught by the Church. Because God cannot lie, the Church cannot later teach the opposite. 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 binding force of dogma protects souls from private invention and keeps charity rooted in truth rather than mood.

The grace to be practiced is Protection of innocence, 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 gratitude without self-congratulation: acknowledge the gift and glorify the Giver.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist habit of treating dogma as a symbol whose meaning may be revised by later experience. 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 protection of innocence 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. When a gift is absent or withdrawn, trust the same divine wisdom that first bestowed it. Use your abilities, possessions, and opportunities deliberately for God's service today.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope St. Pius X.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Offer a prayer and a concrete work of mercy or reparation for children who are abused, abandoned, or led away from the Faith.

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The crib stands within a fallen world whose cruelty Christ came to judge and redeem.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203

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The Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.

If you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.

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Today's Practice

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Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank God before counting disappointments, and entrust every received grace to Our Lady.

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O Lord, through the Holy Innocents, protect suffering children, convert those who harm them, and make me courageous in their defense.

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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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