{"ok":true,"date":"2030-02-10","dateKey":"02-10","liturgicalDay":"4th Sunday after the Epiphany","rank":"Semi-Double Sunday","color":"green","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.","author":"St. Cyprian of Carthage","source":"On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#the-church-for-his-mother","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Time after Epiphany","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: 4th Sunday after the Epiphany - 2030-02-10","previewText":"4th Sunday after the Epiphany. Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies. Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\n4th Sunday after the Epiphany\n2030-02-10 - Time after Epiphany - Semi-Double Sunday - green\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\n4th Sunday after the Epiphany is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Scholastica, Virgin on this date. The Gospel, Breviary witness and Breviary sermon or lesson panels below come from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nEpiphany: the feast of Christ being revealed to the nations, represented especially by the Magi who came to adore Him.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\nDivine Providence: God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.\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. Ask Our Lady to form the likeness of her Son throughout His members and to make your whole life subject to Him. Offer your whole person to Jesus through Mary and ask that His mind, virtues, commandments, and Cross govern you today.\n\n\"God the Son wishes to form Himself, and, so to speak, to incarnate Himself, every day by His dear Mother in His members, and He has said to her, In Israel hæreditare—‘Take Israel for your inheritance.’\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 31\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort says ‘so to speak’: he does not teach a new Incarnation or identify the Christian substantially with Christ. The eternal Son became man once in Mary's womb. He now forms His supernatural likeness by grace in the members of His Mystical Body.\n\nMary's maternal formation must therefore yield recognizable conformity to Jesus: His faith, humility, purity, obedience, charity, prayer, sacrifice, and zeal for the Father's glory. Submit every part of life to this work through Catholic doctrine, sacramental grace, daily prayer, mortification, and complete fidelity to duty.\n\nPRACTICE\nName the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.\"\nSt. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - February 10\nAN Mount Cassino, St. Scholastica, a virgin, whose soul her brother, St. Benedict, the abbot, saw leaving her body in the form of a dove, and ascending to heaven. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Zoticus, Irenaeus, Hyacinthus, and Amantius. — In the same place, on the Lavican road, ten holy soldiers, martyrs. — Also at Rome, on the Appian way, St. Soteres, virgin and martyr, who was descended of a noble race, as St. Ambrose testifies, but for the love of Christ set at naught the consular and other dignities of her family. On her refusal to sacrifice to the gods, she was for a long time cruelly buffeted. After she had overcome various other torments, she was struck with the sword, and joyfully went to her heavenly spouse. — In Campania, St. Silvanus, bishop and confessor. — At Maleval, in the diocese of Siena, St. William, a hermit. — In the diocese of Roueu, St. Austreberta, a virgin renowned for miracles.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nAn enemy hath done this.\nSunday after the Epiphany cycle - Matthew 13:24-30\n\"The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.\"\nLet Our Lord govern the field. Your task is fidelity, discernment, and patience; His task is the harvest.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nChrist warns that the field will contain wheat and cockle until the appointed judgment.\nThe patience of God is not indifference, but ordered providence.\nError corrected: The rash zeal that would uproot what God has not commanded us to uproot.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Scholastica\nVirgin sister of St. Benedict and lover of holy conversation.\nSt. Scholastica, virgin and sister of St. Benedict, is honored for a life consecrated to God in monastic holiness.\nThe tradition of her final meeting with St. Benedict teaches the power of holy charity, prayer, and longing for heavenly things.\nAsk St. Scholastica to purify friendship and speech. Conversation becomes holy when charity turns it toward Heaven.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nHoly charity in monastic life.\nMatins - St. Scholastica, Virgin\n- The Breviary honors St. Scholastica as virgin and sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God in monastic holiness.\n- Her witness teaches prayerful charity, holy conversation, and longing for the things of Heaven.\nLet friendship lift the soul. St. Scholastica teaches that conversation is best when it leaves the heart nearer to God.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Scholastica, Virgin 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 Holy charity in monastic life.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Scholastica as virgin and sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God in monastic holiness. Its next point develops the lesson: Her witness teaches prayerful charity, holy conversation, and longing for the things of Heaven.\nThe practical instruction is: Let friendship lift the soul. St. Scholastica teaches that conversation is best when it leaves the heart nearer to God. 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\nHoly conversation and the soul flying home.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Scholastica, Virgin\nPope St. Gregory the Great\n\"They passed the whole day together, praising God, and speaking one to the other of spiritual things.\"\n- The Breviary receives St. Gregory's account of St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood.\n- Her yearly meeting with St. Benedict becomes a lesson in spiritual friendship: they spend the day in praise of God and holy conversation on eternal life.\n- After prayer obtains the storm that keeps St. Benedict with her, he later sees her soul fly heavenward in the form of a dove, and brother and sister are not divided even in burial.\nLet conversation become preparation for heaven. St. Scholastica teaches that holy affection is not chatter, but charity ordered toward God, eternity, and final union in Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nModernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.\nThe grace to be practiced is Consecrated charity and prayer, 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 conformity to Christ across all virtues and duties, refusing to confine devotion to words, feelings, or isolated exercises.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 consecrated charity and prayer 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. Accept the cutting and shaping by which self-love is removed and the image of the crucified Jesus becomes clearer. Let Our Lady form Christ's likeness in every prayer, decision, conversation, duty, sacrifice, and act of charity.\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: 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\"It behoveth thee to break thine own will in many things, if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 17, p. 27\nConcord bought by surrendering truth is false, but many quarrels arise from preference rather than principle. Yield what belongs to self-will while holding fast what belongs to God.\n\nLearn to distinguish the two before the moment of conflict. Doctrine, purity, justice, and necessary duty may require firmness. Your preferred method, timing, recognition, or last word usually does not. The soul becomes strong when it stops spending zeal upon the defense of self.\nToday's Practice: Yield harmless preferences cheerfully whenever truth and duty do not require firmness.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nCompare the day's conduct with Jesus Christ rather than with your preferences, and repent wherever His likeness was obscured.\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\nSt. Pius X and the War Against Modernism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-pius-x-and-the-war-against-modernism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-02-10&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-02-10&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: 4th Sunday after the Epiphany - 2030-02-10\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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4th Sunday after the Epiphany is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Scholastica, Virgin on this date. The Gospel, Breviary witness and Breviary sermon or lesson panels below come from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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Epiphany
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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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Virgin
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in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.
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God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom.
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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.

Ask Our Lady to form the likeness of her Son throughout His members and to make your whole life subject to Him.

Offer your whole person to Jesus through Mary and ask that His mind, virtues, commandments, and Cross govern you today.

“God the Son wishes to form Himself, and, so to speak, to incarnate Himself, every day by His dear Mother in His members, and He has said to her, In Israel hæreditare—‘Take Israel for your inheritance.’”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 31

St. Louis de Montfort says ‘so to speak’: he does not teach a new Incarnation or identify the Christian substantially with Christ. The eternal Son became man once in Mary's womb. He now forms His supernatural likeness by grace in the members of His Mystical Body.

Mary's maternal formation must therefore yield recognizable conformity to Jesus: His faith, humility, purity, obedience, charity, prayer, sacrifice, and zeal for the Father's glory. Submit every part of life to this work through Catholic doctrine, sacramental grace, daily prayer, mortification, and complete fidelity to duty.

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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“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
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St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6

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Roman Martyrology - February 10

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AN Mount Cassino, St. Scholastica, a virgin, whose soul her brother, St. Benedict, the abbot, saw leaving her body in the form of a dove, and ascending to heaven. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Zoticus, Irenaeus, Hyacinthus, and Amantius. — In the same place, on the Lavican road, ten holy soldiers, martyrs. — Also at Rome, on the Appian way, St. Soteres, virgin and martyr, who was descended of a noble race, as St. Ambrose testifies, but for the love of Christ set at naught the consular and other dignities of her family. On her refusal to sacrifice to the gods, she was for a long time cruelly buffeted. After she had overcome various other torments, she was struck with the sword, and joyfully went to her heavenly spouse. — In Campania, St. Silvanus, bishop and confessor. — At Maleval, in the diocese of Siena, St. William, a hermit. — In the diocese of Roueu, St. Austreberta, a virgin renowned for miracles.

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Gospel of the Day

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An enemy hath done this.

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Sunday after the Epiphany cycle - Matthew 13:24-30

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“The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.”
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Let Our Lord govern the field. Your task is fidelity, discernment, and patience; His task is the harvest.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Christ warns that the field will contain wheat and cockle until the appointed judgment.

The patience of God is not indifference, but ordered providence.

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Error corrected: The rash zeal that would uproot what God has not commanded us to uproot.

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St. Scholastica

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Virgin sister of St. Benedict and lover of holy conversation.

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St. Scholastica, virgin and sister of St. Benedict, is honored for a life consecrated to God in monastic holiness.

The tradition of her final meeting with St. Benedict teaches the power of holy charity, prayer, and longing for heavenly things.

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Ask St. Scholastica to purify friendship and speech. Conversation becomes holy when charity turns it toward Heaven.

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Breviary Witness

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Holy charity in monastic life.

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Matins - St. Scholastica, Virgin

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Let friendship lift the soul. St. Scholastica teaches that conversation is best when it leaves the heart nearer to God.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Scholastica, Virgin 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 Holy charity in monastic life.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Scholastica as virgin and sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God in monastic holiness. Its next point develops the lesson: Her witness teaches prayerful charity, holy conversation, and longing for the things of Heaven.

The practical instruction is: Let friendship lift the soul. St. Scholastica teaches that conversation is best when it leaves the heart nearer to God. 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 truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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From Matins

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Holy conversation and the soul flying home.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Scholastica, Virgin

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Pope St. Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Book II

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“They passed the whole day together, praising God, and speaking one to the other of spiritual things.”
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  • The Breviary receives St. Gregory's account of St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood.
  • Her yearly meeting with St. Benedict becomes a lesson in spiritual friendship: they spend the day in praise of God and holy conversation on eternal life.
  • After prayer obtains the storm that keeps St. Benedict with her, he later sees her soul fly heavenward in the form of a dove, and brother and sister are not divided even in burial.
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Let conversation become preparation for heaven. St. Scholastica teaches that holy affection is not chatter, but charity ordered toward God, eternity, and final union in Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies

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The Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.

The grace to be practiced is Consecrated charity and prayer, 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 conformity to Christ across all virtues and duties, refusing to confine devotion to words, feelings, or isolated exercises.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 consecrated charity and prayer 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. Accept the cutting and shaping by which self-love is removed and the image of the crucified Jesus becomes clearer. Let Our Lady form Christ's likeness in every prayer, decision, conversation, duty, sacrifice, and act of charity.

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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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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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“It behoveth thee to break thine own will in many things, if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 17, p. 27

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Concord bought by surrendering truth is false, but many quarrels arise from preference rather than principle. Yield what belongs to self-will while holding fast what belongs to God.

Learn to distinguish the two before the moment of conflict. Doctrine, purity, justice, and necessary duty may require firmness. Your preferred method, timing, recognition, or last word usually does not. The soul becomes strong when it stops spending zeal upon the defense of self.

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Today's Practice

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Yield harmless preferences cheerfully whenever truth and duty do not require firmness.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Compare the day's conduct with Jesus Christ rather than with your preferences, and repent wherever His likeness was obscured.

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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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