{"ok":true,"date":"2030-02-24","dateKey":"02-24","liturgicalDay":"Sexagesima Sunday","rank":"Sunday of the Second Class","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"You were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ.","author":"St. Peter","source":"1 Peter 1:18-19, Douay-Rheims","category":"Christ, the Wisdom of God"},"season":"Septuagesima","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Holy Face","feast":"Holy Face of Jesus","day":1,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2030-02-24","feastIsoDate":"2030-03-05","intention":"Ask for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.","prayer":null,"practice":"Offer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Sexagesima Sunday - 2030-02-24","previewText":"Sexagesima Sunday. The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ. Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSexagesima Sunday\n2030-02-24 - Septuagesima - Sunday of the Second Class - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nSexagesima Sunday is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Matthias, Apostle on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nSexagesima: the second Sunday of the traditional pre-Lenten season, when the parable of the sower teaches the faithful to receive and preserve God's word before Lent.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe Church does not leave the faithful to pass through time as though days were neutral. This observance teaches the soul to receive the day under grace, to remember what God has done, and to let sacred time order study, prayer, and perseverance. Enter the sanctuary of this day with reverence for what God formed in His Mother. Ask Our Lady to teach you reverence before the mysteries of God and custody over whatever would profane them.\n\n\"Mary is the excellent masterpiece of the Most High, the knowledge and possession of which He has reserved to Himself.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 5\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort does not invite idle curiosity about Our Lady. A masterpiece is known by attending to the intention of its maker. Everything in Mary points to God's holiness, wisdom, purity, and condescension; the more truly she is known, the less the soul is able to treat the Incarnation and the life of grace casually.\n\nApproach her today with reverence rather than familiarity emptied of awe. Ask what God loves in her: immaculate purity, perfect faith, prompt obedience, and complete belonging. Then allow that knowledge to judge what you permit in your thoughts, your home, and your worship.\n\nPRACTICE\nRead the parable of the sower in Luke 8:4-15 and name the distraction, hardness, or worldly care most likely to choke God's word in you.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"You were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ.\"\nSt. Peter, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Douay-Rheims\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Holy Face - Day 1 of 9\nPreparing for Holy Face of Jesus on 2030-03-05.\nAsk for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.\n\nOffer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - February 24\nIn Judea, the birthday of the Apostle St. Matthias, - who was chosen by lot by the apostles after the Ascension of our Lord in the place of the traitor Judas, and suffered martyrdom for preaching the Gospel. — At Rome, St. Primitiva, martyr. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Sergius, martyr, of whose life a beautiful account still exists. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Montanus, Lucius, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions. They were disciples of St. Cyprian, and suffered martyrdom under the emperor Valerian. — At Rouen, the passion of St. Prsetextatus, bishop and martyr. — At Treves, St. Modestus, bishop and confessor. — In England, St. Ethelbert, king of Kent, converted to the faith of Christ by St. Augustine, bishop of the English. — At Jerusalem, the first finding of the head of our Lord's Precursor.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nThe seed is the word of God.\nSexagesima Sunday - Luke 8:4-15\n\"And that in the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it.\"\nAsk Our Lord for good soil. Even a distracted heart can be tilled by humility, silence, and sincere obedience whenever His will is known.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe same seed bears different fruit according to the state of the heart.\nPerseverance, not first emotion, proves the good soil.\nError corrected: The habit of hearing sacred truth without letting it take root.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSexagesima Sunday\nThe seed of the word and the guarded heart.\nSexagesima places the parable of the sower before the faithful, showing the different soils on which the word of God falls.\nThe day teaches that hearing is not enough. The soul must resist distraction, shallowness, temptation, and worldly thorns if doctrine is to bear fruit unto patience.\nMake the heart good ground. The word of God is not barren; the danger is the soul that will not keep it.\nSECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE\nSt. Matthias\nApostle chosen to fill the place of betrayal.\nSt. Matthias was numbered with the apostles after the fall of Judas, showing that Christ preserves apostolic order even after betrayal.\nHis feast teaches that the Church is not destroyed by treachery. God supplies faithful witnesses where men have failed.\nLet St. Matthias teach you that God can repair breaches without noise. The soul becomes useful when it first becomes teachable.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe seed received in patience.\nMatins - Sexagesima Sunday\n- The Sexagesima office keeps the parable of the sower before the faithful as Lent draws nearer.\n- Its witness warns that divine truth can be lost through distraction, shallowness, temptation, or the thorns of worldly care unless the soul guards it with patience.\nProtect the word after hearing it. Doctrine bears fruit when it is kept, pondered, and obeyed through contradiction.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Sexagesima Sunday 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 seed received in patience.. Its first point is this: The Sexagesima office keeps the parable of the sower before the faithful as Lent draws nearer. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness warns that divine truth can be lost through distraction, shallowness, temptation, or the thorns of worldly care unless the soul guards it with patience.\nThe practical instruction is: Protect the word after hearing it. Doctrine bears fruit when it is kept, pondered, and obeyed through contradiction. 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 word of God and the deceitfulness of riches.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - Sexagesima Sunday\nPope St. Gregory the Great\n\"The food of the soul is the word of God.\"\n- The Breviary places the parable of the sower before the faithful so they may examine how the word of God is received, lost, choked, or made fruitful.\n- St. Gregory teaches that riches become thorns when anxiety, deceit, and sin tear the soul away from heavenly fruitfulness.\n- The true riches are virtues, the kingdom of heaven, and a name written in the court above.\nLet the word sink below the surface. Refuse the thorns that make the soul busy, anxious, respectable, and barren.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. 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. Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear.\nThe grace to be practiced is Docile and persevering reception of the word, 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. Reverence sees created holiness as God's work and returns admiration to His glory.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. 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 docile and persevering reception of the word 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 discipline required to protect purity and recollection from the day's intrusions. Perform your sacred and ordinary duties without haste or carelessness, giving full attention to the duty now before you.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.\nYour resolution before God: Read the parable of the sower in Luke 8:4-15 and name the distraction, hardness, or worldly care most likely to choke God's word in you.\nCarry this word: False worship wounds souls because worship forms belief.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Words feed not the soul; but a good life refresheth the mind, and a clean conscience bringeth a man to a firm and stable trust in God.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 10\nPious speech cannot replace obedience. Peace grows where known duty is fulfilled and forgiven sin is honestly confessed.\n\nThe soul sometimes speaks about prayer, holiness, or the crisis in the Church because speaking is easier than amendment. Do not despise true words, but require them first of yourself. Let the repair of neglected duties become proof that truth has entered the will.\nToday's Practice: Begin completing the neglected duties you have discussed more than performed, ordering them justly and without further excuse.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk where familiarity made you careless with prayer, holy things, or another soul made in God's image.\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 holy fear before Thy altar. Preserve me from casualness, invention, and every worship that weakens faith in Thy sacrifice.\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\nWhat Are the Sacraments?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-are-the-sacraments?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-02-24&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-02-24&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: Sexagesima Sunday - 2030-02-24\n \n \n
\n Sexagesima Sunday. The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ. Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms.\n
\n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
\n \"City\n
\n

City of God in Exile

\n

Sexagesima Sunday

\n

2030-02-24 - Septuagesima - Sunday of the Second Class - violet

\n
\n
\n
“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
John 12:35
\n \n
\n

Plain-Language Guide for Today

\n

Sexagesima Sunday is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Matthias, Apostle on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

\n
Sexagesima
\n
the second Sunday of the traditional pre-Lenten season, when the parable of the sower teaches the faithful to receive and preserve God's word before Lent.
\n
Apostle
\n
one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.
\n
Apostolic
\n
belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
\n
\n \n
\n

Today in the Roman Year

\n

The Church does not leave the faithful to pass through time as though days were neutral. This observance teaches the soul to receive the day under grace, to remember what God has done, and to let sacred time order study, prayer, and perseverance.

Enter the sanctuary of this day with reverence for what God formed in His Mother.

Ask Our Lady to teach you reverence before the mysteries of God and custody over whatever would profane them.

“Mary is the excellent masterpiece of the Most High, the knowledge and possession of which He has reserved to Himself.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 5

St. Louis de Montfort does not invite idle curiosity about Our Lady. A masterpiece is known by attending to the intention of its maker. Everything in Mary points to God's holiness, wisdom, purity, and condescension; the more truly she is known, the less the soul is able to treat the Incarnation and the life of grace casually.

Approach her today with reverence rather than familiarity emptied of awe. Ask what God loves in her: immaculate purity, perfect faith, prompt obedience, and complete belonging. Then allow that knowledge to judge what you permit in your thoughts, your home, and your worship.

Read the parable of the sower in Luke 8:4-15 and name the distraction, hardness, or worldly care most likely to choke God's word in you.

\n
\n \n \n
\n

Quote of the Day

\n
“You were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ.”
\n

St. Peter, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Douay-Rheims

\n
\n \n
\n

Novena in Progress

\n

Novena to the Holy Face - Day 1 of 9

\n

Preparing for Holy Face of Jesus on 2030-03-05.

\n

Ask for reparation, reverence, hatred of blasphemy, and love for the suffering Face of Christ before Lent begins.

\n \n

Offer the day's prayers, sacrifices, and duties in reparation for blasphemy, irreverence, false worship, and sins against the first three commandments.

\n
\n \n
\n

Roman Martyrology - February 24

\n

In Judea, the birthday of the Apostle St. Matthias, - who was chosen by lot by the apostles after the Ascension of our Lord in the place of the traitor Judas, and suffered martyrdom for preaching the Gospel. — At Rome, St. Primitiva, martyr. — At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, St. Sergius, martyr, of whose life a beautiful account still exists. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Montanus, Lucius, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions. They were disciples of St. Cyprian, and suffered martyrdom under the emperor Valerian. — At Rouen, the passion of St. Prsetextatus, bishop and martyr. — At Treves, St. Modestus, bishop and confessor. — In England, St. Ethelbert, king of Kent, converted to the faith of Christ by St. Augustine, bishop of the English. — At Jerusalem, the first finding of the head of our Lord's Precursor.

\n
\n \n
\n

Gospel of the Day

\n

The seed is the word of God.

\n

Sexagesima Sunday - Luke 8:4-15

\n
“And that in the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it.”
\n

Ask Our Lord for good soil. Even a distracted heart can be tilled by humility, silence, and sincere obedience whenever His will is known.

\n
\n \n
\n

The Church's Reading of the Gospel

\n

What This Gospel Teaches

\n

The same seed bears different fruit according to the state of the heart.

Perseverance, not first emotion, proves the good soil.

\n

Error corrected: The habit of hearing sacred truth without letting it take root.

\n \n
    \n
  • Where does this error tempt me in practice?
  • What act does this Gospel require of me today?
    • \n
\n
\n \n
\n

Highlighted Saint

\n

Sexagesima Sunday

\n

The seed of the word and the guarded heart.

\n

Sexagesima places the parable of the sower before the faithful, showing the different soils on which the word of God falls.

The day teaches that hearing is not enough. The soul must resist distraction, shallowness, temptation, and worldly thorns if doctrine is to bear fruit unto patience.

\n

Make the heart good ground. The word of God is not barren; the danger is the soul that will not keep it.

\n
\n \n
\n

Secondary Saint Assigned to This Date

\n

St. Matthias

\n

Apostle chosen to fill the place of betrayal.

\n

St. Matthias was numbered with the apostles after the fall of Judas, showing that Christ preserves apostolic order even after betrayal.

His feast teaches that the Church is not destroyed by treachery. God supplies faithful witnesses where men have failed.

\n

Let St. Matthias teach you that God can repair breaches without noise. The soul becomes useful when it first becomes teachable.

\n
\n \n
\n

Breviary Witness

\n

The seed received in patience.

\n

Matins - Sexagesima Sunday

\n \n
    \n
  • The Sexagesima office keeps the parable of the sower before the faithful as Lent draws nearer.
  • Its witness warns that divine truth can be lost through distraction, shallowness, temptation, or the thorns of worldly care unless the soul guards it with patience.
    • \n
\n

Protect the word after hearing it. Doctrine bears fruit when it is kept, pondered, and obeyed through contradiction.

\n

Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Sexagesima Sunday 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 seed received in patience.. Its first point is this: The Sexagesima office keeps the parable of the sower before the faithful as Lent draws nearer. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness warns that divine truth can be lost through distraction, shallowness, temptation, or the thorns of worldly care unless the soul guards it with patience.

The practical instruction is: Protect the word after hearing it. Doctrine bears fruit when it is kept, pondered, and obeyed through contradiction. 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
    \n
  • What truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
  • What judgment or action should change because I have received this lesson?
    • \n
\n
\n \n
\n

From Matins

\n

The word of God and the deceitfulness of riches.

\n

Matins - Third Nocturn - Sexagesima Sunday

\n

Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 15 on the Gospels

\n
“The food of the soul is the word of God.”
\n \n
    \n
  • The Breviary places the parable of the sower before the faithful so they may examine how the word of God is received, lost, choked, or made fruitful.
  • St. Gregory teaches that riches become thorns when anxiety, deceit, and sin tear the soul away from heavenly fruitfulness.
  • The true riches are virtues, the kingdom of heaven, and a name written in the court above.
    • \n
\n

Let the word sink below the surface. Refuse the thorns that make the soul busy, anxious, respectable, and barren.

\n
\n
\n \n
\n

The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

\n

The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ

\n

The Church places this truth before you today: The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. 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. Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear.

The grace to be practiced is Docile and persevering reception of the word, 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. Reverence sees created holiness as God's work and returns admiration to His glory.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. 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 docile and persevering reception of the word 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 discipline required to protect purity and recollection from the day's intrusions. Perform your sacred and ordinary duties without haste or carelessness, giving full attention to the duty now before you.

\n

The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.

\n

Your Resolution Before God

\n

Read the parable of the sower in Luke 8:4-15 and name the distraction, hardness, or worldly care most likely to choke God's word in you.

\n
False worship wounds souls because worship forms belief.
\n
\n \n
\n

The Pilgrim's Mirror

\n

How shall I imitate Christ today?

\n
“Words feed not the soul; but a good life refresheth the mind, and a clean conscience bringeth a man to a firm and stable trust in God.”
\n

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 10

\n \n

Pious speech cannot replace obedience. Peace grows where known duty is fulfilled and forgiven sin is honestly confessed.

The soul sometimes speaks about prayer, holiness, or the crisis in the Church because speaking is easier than amendment. Do not despise true words, but require them first of yourself. Let the repair of neglected duties become proof that truth has entered the will.

\n

Today's Practice

\n

Begin completing the neglected duties you have discussed more than performed, ordering them justly and without further excuse.

\n
\n \n
\n

Daily Examen

\n

Three questions before night prayer

\n

Ask where familiarity made you careless with prayer, holy things, or another soul made in God's image.

\n \n
    \n
  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
  • What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?
  • What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?
    • \n
\n
\n \n
\n

Prayer

\n

O Lord, give me holy fear before Thy altar. Preserve me from casualness, invention, and every worship that weakens faith in Thy sacrifice.

\n
\n \n
\n

Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

\n

A brief rule to keep every day:

\n

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.

\n
\n
\n
\n

Continue Study

\n

Carry today's lesson into a focused chapter from the library.

\n What Are the Sacraments?\n
\n \n
\n
\n
\n \n
\n

Persevere, pilgrim.

\n

The gates remain open to the faithful.

\n
\n \"The\n
\n
\n \n","links":{"sacredCalendar":"/sacred-calendar?date=2030-02-24","webPreview":"/daily-dispatch?date=2030-02-24","emailPreview":"/daily-dispatch/email?date=2030-02-24","formationIndex":"/daily-dispatch/formation","subscribe":"/daily-dispatch/subscribe"},"included":{"martyrology":true,"gospelReflection":true,"saintlyWitness":true,"breviaryReading":true,"patristicBreviaryLesson":true,"faithPoint":"The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ"}}