{"ok":true,"date":"2030-01-11","dateKey":"01-11","liturgicalDay":"Day within the Octave of the Epiphany","rank":"Semi-Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"1 Timothy 6:20, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#keep-the-deposit","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Christmastide","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague","feast":"Infant Jesus of Prague","day":7,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2030-01-05","feastIsoDate":"2030-01-14","intention":"Ask the Divine Infant for humility, confidence, household protection, and childlike submission to the reign of Christ.","prayer":null,"practice":"Entrust the whole day to the Child Jesus, especially wherever anxiety would rather govern it.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of the Epiphany","rank":"Privileged Octave of the Second Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Day within the Octave of the Epiphany - 2030-01-11","previewText":"Day within the Octave of the Epiphany. Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity. Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nDay within the Octave of the Epiphany\n2030-01-11 - Christmastide - Semi-Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nDeposit of Faith: the complete body of revealed truth entrusted by Christ and the apostles to the Church to be guarded, taught, and handed on unchanged; the older word depositum means this sacred trust.\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nEpiphany: the feast of Christ being revealed to the nations, represented especially by the Magi who came to adore Him.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe mystery of the coming of Christ teaches the pilgrim to wait without surrender, to recognize divine humility, and to adore the King where He truly appears. Sacred time trains hope, but hope must remain disciplined by doctrine and worship. Through Mary, receive the day from Jesus Christ and return it to Him. Place every prayer, work, joy, suffering, and temptation into the hands of Our Lady, asking her to present the whole day to her Divine Son.\n\n\"It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 1\n\nGod did not choose Our Lady because He needed assistance from a creature. He chose her freely, and by that choice He teaches us something about His own order: the Word came to us in humility, hidden beneath a Mother's heart, and He wills that pride should not prescribe the road by which grace reaches a soul.\n\nYou may desire the reign of Christ while still guarding some chamber of life for self-will. Bring that guarded place into the light today. Ask Mary to receive it, not as its final end, but as the Mother appointed to form in you a more obedient welcome for her Divine Son.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Epiphany - Privileged Octave of the Second Order\n\nPRACTICE\nName the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge.\"\nHoly Scripture, 1 Timothy 6:20, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Infant Jesus of Prague - Day 7 of 9\nPreparing for Infant Jesus of Prague on 2030-01-14.\nAsk the Divine Infant for humility, confidence, household protection, and childlike submission to the reign of Christ.\n\nEntrust the whole day to the Child Jesus, especially wherever anxiety would rather govern it.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - January 11\nAt Rome, the birthday of St. Hyginus, pope, who suffered a glorious martyrdom in the persecution of Antoninus. — In Africa, blessed Salvius, martyr, on whose birthday St. Augustine preached to the people of Carthage. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Peter, Severus, and Leucius. — At Fermo, in the Marches, St. Alexander, bishop and martyr. — At Amiens, St. Salvius, bishop and martyr. — At Brindisi, St. Leucius, bishop and confessor. — In Cappadocia, in a village called Magariassum, St. Theodosius, abbot, who, after great sufferings for the Catholic faith, finally rested in peace. — In Thebais, St. Palaemon, abbot, who was the teacher of St. Pachomius. — At Suppentonia, near Mount Soractes, the holy monk Anastasius, and his companions, who were called by a voice from heaven to enter the kingdom of God. — At Pavia, St. Honorata, virgin.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nWe have seen His star in the east.\nDay within the Octave of the Epiphany - Matthew 2:1-12\n\"And falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts.\"\nFollow the light you have been given. The road may be long, but it ends rightly only at the feet of the King.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe Epiphany octave prolongs the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles and the adoration of the Magi.\nThe Gospel teaches that true wisdom follows the light given by God and ends in worship before the King.\nError corrected: The proud wisdom that studies signs but refuses to kneel before Christ.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Epiphany of Our Lord\nThe manifestation of Christ prolonged before the nations.\nThe days within the Octave of the Epiphany keep the Church near the mystery of Christ manifested to the Gentiles, adored by the Magi, and revealed as King, God, and Victim.\nThe octave teaches that the light of Christ is not a passing decoration of the season. It summons nations, rulers, families, and private souls to adore Him with real gifts and real obedience.\nRemain with the Magi during the octave. The exile is not homeless when he follows the light to the King and bends the knee.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe Gentiles come to the light.\nMatins - Day within the Octave of the Epiphany\n- The Epiphany octave keeps the manifestation of Christ before the Church, prolonging the adoration of the Magi and the calling of the nations.\n- Its witness is royal and missionary: Christ is not one religious teacher among many, but the King before whom nations must bow.\nAdore publicly in the heart even when the world refuses. The light that guided the Magi still judges and consoles nations.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Day within the Octave of the Epiphany is part of the Church's daily teaching. It should not be read as a list of isolated facts. In the Divine Office, Scripture, the lives of the saints, doctrine, and the Church's prayer are placed together so that the mind learns what the Church remembers and the heart learns how a Catholic ought to judge and live.\nToday's witness is gathered under The Gentiles come to the light.. Its first point is this: The Epiphany octave keeps the manifestation of Christ before the Church, prolonging the adoration of the Magi and the calling of the nations. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness is royal and missionary: Christ is not one religious teacher among many, but the King before whom nations must bow.\nThe practical instruction is: Adore publicly in the heart even when the world refuses. The light that guided the Magi still judges and consoles nations. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.\n- What truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?\n- What virtue does the Church place before me through it?\n- What judgment or action should change because I have received this lesson?\n\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nUnity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. 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 Church unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.\nThe grace to be practiced is Adoration and public allegiance to Christ, 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. Ask Our Lady to form this virtue in you by teaching you her humility: she received every gift from God and returned all glory to Him.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. 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 adoration and public allegiance to Christ 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 carry the cross alone or waste it in complaint. Stand beneath it with Our Lady and remain faithful to Jesus. Offer this duty through Mary, without seeking notice, so that it may belong more perfectly to Jesus Christ.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.\nCarry this word: There is no holiness where heresy is treated as harmless.\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\nÀ 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\nReturn the completed day into Our Lady's hands. Ask her to obtain pardon for its faults and to preserve whatever grace bore fruit.\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, give me hatred of error without hatred of souls. Let charity make me clearer, humbler, more patient, and more willing to defend what saves.\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\nUnity Without Obedience and Indifferentism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/unity-without-obedience-the-condemned-religion-of-indifferentism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-01-11&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-01-11&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: Day within the Octave of the Epiphany - 2030-01-11\n \n \n
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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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Deposit of Faith
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the complete body of revealed truth entrusted by Christ and the apostles to the Church to be guarded, taught, and handed on unchanged; the older word depositum means this sacred trust.
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Octave
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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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the feast of Christ being revealed to the nations, represented especially by the Magi who came to adore Him.
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Today in the Roman Year

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The mystery of the coming of Christ teaches the pilgrim to wait without surrender, to recognize divine humility, and to adore the King where He truly appears. Sacred time trains hope, but hope must remain disciplined by doctrine and worship.

Through Mary, receive the day from Jesus Christ and return it to Him.

Place every prayer, work, joy, suffering, and temptation into the hands of Our Lady, asking her to present the whole day to her Divine Son.

“It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 1

God did not choose Our Lady because He needed assistance from a creature. He chose her freely, and by that choice He teaches us something about His own order: the Word came to us in humility, hidden beneath a Mother's heart, and He wills that pride should not prescribe the road by which grace reaches a soul.

You may desire the reign of Christ while still guarding some chamber of life for self-will. Bring that guarded place into the light today. Ask Mary to receive it, not as its final end, but as the Mother appointed to form in you a more obedient welcome for her Divine Son.

Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.

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Quote of the Day

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“O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge.”
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Holy Scripture, 1 Timothy 6:20, Original Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague - Day 7 of 9

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Preparing for Infant Jesus of Prague on 2030-01-14.

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Ask the Divine Infant for humility, confidence, household protection, and childlike submission to the reign of Christ.

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Entrust the whole day to the Child Jesus, especially wherever anxiety would rather govern it.

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Roman Martyrology - January 11

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At Rome, the birthday of St. Hyginus, pope, who suffered a glorious martyrdom in the persecution of Antoninus. — In Africa, blessed Salvius, martyr, on whose birthday St. Augustine preached to the people of Carthage. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Peter, Severus, and Leucius. — At Fermo, in the Marches, St. Alexander, bishop and martyr. — At Amiens, St. Salvius, bishop and martyr. — At Brindisi, St. Leucius, bishop and confessor. — In Cappadocia, in a village called Magariassum, St. Theodosius, abbot, who, after great sufferings for the Catholic faith, finally rested in peace. — In Thebais, St. Palaemon, abbot, who was the teacher of St. Pachomius. — At Suppentonia, near Mount Soractes, the holy monk Anastasius, and his companions, who were called by a voice from heaven to enter the kingdom of God. — At Pavia, St. Honorata, virgin.

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Gospel of the Day

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We have seen His star in the east.

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Day within the Octave of the Epiphany - Matthew 2:1-12

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“And falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts.”
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Follow the light you have been given. The road may be long, but it ends rightly only at the feet of the King.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The Epiphany octave prolongs the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles and the adoration of the Magi.

The Gospel teaches that true wisdom follows the light given by God and ends in worship before the King.

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Error corrected: The proud wisdom that studies signs but refuses to kneel before Christ.

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The Epiphany of Our Lord

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The manifestation of Christ prolonged before the nations.

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The days within the Octave of the Epiphany keep the Church near the mystery of Christ manifested to the Gentiles, adored by the Magi, and revealed as King, God, and Victim.

The octave teaches that the light of Christ is not a passing decoration of the season. It summons nations, rulers, families, and private souls to adore Him with real gifts and real obedience.

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Remain with the Magi during the octave. The exile is not homeless when he follows the light to the King and bends the knee.

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Breviary Witness

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The Gentiles come to the light.

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Matins - Day within the Octave of the Epiphany

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  • Its witness is royal and missionary: Christ is not one religious teacher among many, but the King before whom nations must bow.
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Adore publicly in the heart even when the world refuses. The light that guided the Magi still judges and consoles nations.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Day within the Octave of the Epiphany is part of the Church's daily teaching. It should not be read as a list of isolated facts. In the Divine Office, Scripture, the lives of the saints, doctrine, and the Church's prayer are placed together so that the mind learns what the Church remembers and the heart learns how a Catholic ought to judge and live.

Today's witness is gathered under The Gentiles come to the light.. Its first point is this: The Epiphany octave keeps the manifestation of Christ before the Church, prolonging the adoration of the Magi and the calling of the nations. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness is royal and missionary: Christ is not one religious teacher among many, but the King before whom nations must bow.

The practical instruction is: Adore publicly in the heart even when the world refuses. The light that guided the Magi still judges and consoles nations. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.

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  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. 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 Church unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.

The grace to be practiced is Adoration and public allegiance to Christ, 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. Ask Our Lady to form this virtue in you by teaching you her humility: she received every gift from God and returned all glory to Him.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. 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 adoration and public allegiance to Christ 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 carry the cross alone or waste it in complaint. Stand beneath it with Our Lady and remain faithful to Jesus. Offer this duty through Mary, without seeking notice, so that it may belong more perfectly to Jesus Christ.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.

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There is no holiness where heresy is treated as harmless.
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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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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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Return the completed day into Our Lady's hands. Ask her to obtain pardon for its faults and to preserve whatever grace bore fruit.

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O Lord, give me hatred of error without hatred of souls. Let charity make me clearer, humbler, more patient, and more willing to defend what saves.

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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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