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The Spirit indeed is prompt, but the flesh weak.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Matthew 26:41, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#watch-and-pray","category":"Prayer and the Interior Life"},"season":"Christmastide","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague","feast":"Infant Jesus of Prague","day":9,"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: Octave Day of the Epiphany - 2030-01-13","previewText":"Octave Day of the Epiphany. 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\nOctave Day of the Epiphany\n2030-01-13 - Christmastide - Greater Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\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.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\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. With Our Lady, ask to be hidden from vanity and humbled into truth. Ask for grace to accept the place Providence gives today without inward theatre or complaint.\n\n\"He heard her prayers when she begged to be hidden, to be humbled and to be treated as in all respects poor and of no account.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 3\n\nThis prayer of Our Lady is severe only to the part of us that desires religious importance. She does not ask to be separated from God, but to be freed from the false greatness that would draw the heart toward itself. Her littleness makes room for the mighty works of the Lord because she does not seize them as material for self-exaltation.\n\nDo not manufacture humiliation or permit injustice when duty requires a response. But when Providence allows you to be overlooked, misunderstood, or assigned an ordinary place, watch the inward protest. There you may offer Mary something real: the claim of self-love to be accounted greater than God has presently appointed.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Epiphany - Privileged Octave of the Second Order\n\nPRACTICE\nTest admired religious appearances by doctrine, valid worship, and Catholic obedience.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into tentation. The Spirit indeed is prompt, but the flesh weak.\"\nHoly Scripture, Matthew 26:41, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Infant Jesus of Prague - Day 9 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 13\nOctave of the Epiphany of Our Lord. — At Rome, on the Lavican road, the crowning of forty holy soldiers, — a reward they merited by confessing the true faith, under the emperor Gallienus. — In Sardinia, St. Potitus, martyr, who, having suffered much under the emperor Antoninus and the governor Gelasius, was at last put to death by the sword. — At Singidonum (now Belgrade), in Upper Moesia, of the holy martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus, who were severely tormented and drowned in the river Danube, under the emperor Licinius. — At Cordova, the holy martyrs Gumesindus, priest, and Servideus, monk. — At Poitiers, in France, the birthday of St. Hilary, bishop and confessor of the Catholic faith, which he courageously defended, and for which he was banished four years to Phrygia, where, among other miracles, he raised a man from the dead. Pius IX. declared him Doctor of the Church. His festival is celebrated on the 14th of this month. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Leontius, a bishop, who strongly opposed the Gentiles, under Licinius, and the Arians, under Constantine. — At Treves, St. Agritius, bishop. — In the monastery of Verzy, St. Viventius, confessor. — At Amasea, in Pontus, St. Glaphyra, virgin. — At Milan, in the monastery of St. Martha, blessed Veronica of Binasco, virgin of the Order of St. Augustine.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBehold the Lamb of God.\nOctave Day of the Epiphany - John 1:29-34\n\"Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.\"\nAsk for the Baptist's clean simplicity. The soul becomes freer when it is content to say: behold Him.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nSt. John points away from himself to the Lamb who takes away sin.\nThe Epiphany octave closes by making manifestation ordered toward redemption.\nError corrected: The religious vanity that wants to be noticed more than the Lamb.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nOctave Day of the Epiphany\nThe Lamb manifested as Redeemer.\nThe Octave Day of the Epiphany keeps the manifestation of Christ before the faithful as St. John points to the Lamb of God.\nIt teaches that Christ is not merely admired as King, but received as the Lamb who taketh away the sin of the world.\nAsk for St. John's clean simplicity. The soul becomes freer when it can say, behold Him, and be content.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nBehold the Lamb of God.\nMatins - Octave Day of the Epiphany\n- The Epiphany octave closes by pointing the soul toward the Lamb who takes away sin.\n- Manifestation is ordered to redemption: the King adored by the nations is the Lamb given for the world.\nAsk for the Baptist's simplicity. A soul becomes freer when it can point away from itself and say: behold Him.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Octave Day 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 Behold the Lamb of God.. Its first point is this: The Epiphany octave closes by pointing the soul toward the Lamb who takes away sin. Its next point develops the lesson: Manifestation is ordered to redemption: the King adored by the nations is the Lamb given for the world.\nThe practical instruction is: Ask for the Baptist's simplicity. A soul becomes freer when it can point away from itself and say: behold Him. 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\nFROM MATINS\nThe manifested King is proclaimed as the Lamb of God.\nMartyrology - Martyrology Notice - Octave Day of the Epiphany\nRoman Martyrology and St. John the Apostle\n\"The Octave of the Epiphany of Our Lord.\"\n- The octave closes by joining manifestation to redemption: the King adored by the nations is the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.\n- St. John Baptist points away from himself toward Christ, showing that true apostolic witness decreases so that the Saviour may be known.\n- The mystery therefore demands more than admiration. The manifested Christ must be received in faith, repentance, worship, and obedience.\nComplete the octave by turning attention from self to the Lamb of God. Confess Him plainly, repent of sin, and let every gift of light end in obedient worship.\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 Humility before the Lamb, 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. Humility receives truth about oneself from God and does not require either praise or false self-contempt.\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 humility before the Lamb 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 overlooked, remain charitable and exact in duty instead of withdrawing your good will. Let useful acts remain unannounced whenever charity does not require them to be known.\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: Test admired religious appearances by doctrine, valid worship, and Catholic obedience.\nCarry this word: The glory has departed wherever worship and doctrine are severed from truth.\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\nExamine the moments when being of little account disturbed your peace more than offending God would have done.\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, do not let me be satisfied with appearances when Thy glory is absent. Teach me to seek worship that is true, reverent, sacrificial, and received.\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=2030-01-13&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-01-13&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: Octave Day of the Epiphany - 2030-01-13\n \n \n
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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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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.

With Our Lady, ask to be hidden from vanity and humbled into truth.

Ask for grace to accept the place Providence gives today without inward theatre or complaint.

“He heard her prayers when she begged to be hidden, to be humbled and to be treated as in all respects poor and of no account.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 3

This prayer of Our Lady is severe only to the part of us that desires religious importance. She does not ask to be separated from God, but to be freed from the false greatness that would draw the heart toward itself. Her littleness makes room for the mighty works of the Lord because she does not seize them as material for self-exaltation.

Do not manufacture humiliation or permit injustice when duty requires a response. But when Providence allows you to be overlooked, misunderstood, or assigned an ordinary place, watch the inward protest. There you may offer Mary something real: the claim of self-love to be accounted greater than God has presently appointed.

Test admired religious appearances by doctrine, valid worship, and Catholic obedience.

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Quote of the Day

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“Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into tentation. The Spirit indeed is prompt, but the flesh weak.”
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Holy Scripture, Matthew 26:41, Original Douay-Rheims

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague - Day 9 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 13

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Octave of the Epiphany of Our Lord. — At Rome, on the Lavican road, the crowning of forty holy soldiers, — a reward they merited by confessing the true faith, under the emperor Gallienus. — In Sardinia, St. Potitus, martyr, who, having suffered much under the emperor Antoninus and the governor Gelasius, was at last put to death by the sword. — At Singidonum (now Belgrade), in Upper Moesia, of the holy martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus, who were severely tormented and drowned in the river Danube, under the emperor Licinius. — At Cordova, the holy martyrs Gumesindus, priest, and Servideus, monk. — At Poitiers, in France, the birthday of St. Hilary, bishop and confessor of the Catholic faith, which he courageously defended, and for which he was banished four years to Phrygia, where, among other miracles, he raised a man from the dead. Pius IX. declared him Doctor of the Church. His festival is celebrated on the 14th of this month. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Leontius, a bishop, who strongly opposed the Gentiles, under Licinius, and the Arians, under Constantine. — At Treves, St. Agritius, bishop. — In the monastery of Verzy, St. Viventius, confessor. — At Amasea, in Pontus, St. Glaphyra, virgin. — At Milan, in the monastery of St. Martha, blessed Veronica of Binasco, virgin of the Order of St. Augustine.

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Behold the Lamb of God.

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Octave Day of the Epiphany - John 1:29-34

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“Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.”
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Ask for the Baptist's clean simplicity. The soul becomes freer when it is content to say: behold Him.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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St. John points away from himself to the Lamb who takes away sin.

The Epiphany octave closes by making manifestation ordered toward redemption.

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Error corrected: The religious vanity that wants to be noticed more than the Lamb.

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The Lamb manifested as Redeemer.

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The Octave Day of the Epiphany keeps the manifestation of Christ before the faithful as St. John points to the Lamb of God.

It teaches that Christ is not merely admired as King, but received as the Lamb who taketh away the sin of the world.

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Ask for St. John's clean simplicity. The soul becomes freer when it can say, behold Him, and be content.

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Behold the Lamb of God.

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Ask for the Baptist's simplicity. A soul becomes freer when it can point away from itself and say: behold Him.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Octave Day 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 Behold the Lamb of God.. Its first point is this: The Epiphany octave closes by pointing the soul toward the Lamb who takes away sin. Its next point develops the lesson: Manifestation is ordered to redemption: the King adored by the nations is the Lamb given for the world.

The practical instruction is: Ask for the Baptist's simplicity. A soul becomes freer when it can point away from itself and say: behold Him. 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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The manifested King is proclaimed as the Lamb of God.

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Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - Octave Day of the Epiphany

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Roman Martyrology and St. John the Apostle, January 13 notice and John 1

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“The Octave of the Epiphany of Our Lord.”
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  • St. John Baptist points away from himself toward Christ, showing that true apostolic witness decreases so that the Saviour may be known.
  • The mystery therefore demands more than admiration. The manifested Christ must be received in faith, repentance, worship, and obedience.
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Complete the octave by turning attention from self to the Lamb of God. Confess Him plainly, repent of sin, and let every gift of light end in obedient worship.

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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 Humility before the Lamb, 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. Humility receives truth about oneself from God and does not require either praise or false self-contempt.

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 humility before the Lamb 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 overlooked, remain charitable and exact in duty instead of withdrawing your good will. Let useful acts remain unannounced whenever charity does not require them to be known.

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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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Test admired religious appearances by doctrine, valid worship, and Catholic obedience.

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The glory has departed wherever worship and doctrine are severed from truth.
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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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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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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine the moments when being of little account disturbed your peace more than offending God would have done.

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O Lord, do not let me be satisfied with appearances when Thy glory is absent. Teach me to seek worship that is true, reverent, sacrificial, and received.

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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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