{"ok":true,"date":"2030-04-10","dateKey":"04-10","liturgicalDay":"Feria of Passiontide","rank":"Feria","color":"violet","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":"Passiontide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria of Passiontide - 2030-04-10","previewText":"Feria of Passiontide. Grace Heals and Elevates Nature. Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nFeria of Passiontide\n2030-04-10 - Passiontide - Feria - violet\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.\nCompunction: sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.\nPassion of Christ: the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nHumiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair. Renew baptismal obligations through Our Lady as the most perfect means chosen by God for complete consecration to Christ. Renew every baptismal vow through Our Lady and ask her to make the entire day a complete profession of belonging to Christ.\n\n\"Now if the Councils, the Fathers, and experience even, show us that the best means of remedying the irregularities of Christians is by making them call to mind the obligations of their Baptism, and persuading them to renew now the vows they made then, does it not stand to reason that we shall do it in a perfect manner, by this devotion and consecration of ourselves to our Lord, through His holy Mother?\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 130\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort unites authority and experience: Councils, Fathers, and the observed disorders of Christians support deliberate remembrance and renewal of Baptism. True devotion supplies the perfect manner because the entire person renews belonging to the Lord through His holy Mother, the most perfect means in God's order.\n\nDo not separate Marian consecration from baptismal conversion. Renewal through Mary must intensify profession of the Faith, hatred of heresy and sin, sacramental fidelity, obedience to commandments, rejection of worldly pomps, mortification of passions, duties of state, and perseverance in Christ. Otherwise the words remain detached from their substance.\n\nPRACTICE\nHonor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.\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\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - April 10\nThe prophet Ezechiel, who was put to death in Babylon by the Judge of the people of Israel, because he reproved him for worshipping idols. He was buried in the sepulchre of Sem and Arphaxad, Abraham's ancestors. To his tomb many were wont to resort for the purpose of prayer. — At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Apollonius, priest, and five others, who, in the persecution of Maximian, were drowned in the sea. — In Africa, under the emperor Decius and the prefect Fortunian, the holy martyrs Terentius, African, Pompey, and their companions, who were scourged, racked, and subjected to other torments. Their martyrdom ended by decapitation. — The same day, St. Macarius, bishop of Antioch, celebrated for virtues and miracles. — At Valladolid, in Spain, St. Michael of the Saints, confessor, of the Order of Discalced Trinitarians for the Redemption of Captives, a man remarkable for integrity of life, for the penitential spirit, and for great love of God. Pius IX. solemnly canonized him on Whitsunday, 1862, and ordered his festival to be kept on the 5th of\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Passiontide Feria\nThe veiled days near the Passion of Our Lord.\nThe ferias of Passiontide draw the faithful nearer to the sufferings of Christ, when the Church's prayer grows more grave and the Cross comes into sharper view.\nThese days teach that the Passion is not only remembered on Good Friday. The soul is led step by step into compunction, reparation, silence, and fidelity to the rejected Messias.\nWalk more quietly now. Passiontide teaches the exile to stay near Christ when His glory is veiled and His enemies gather.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nNearer to the rejected Christ.\nMatins - Feria of Passiontide\n- The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord.\n- Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.\nDo not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Feria of Passiontide 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 Nearer to the rejected Christ.. Its first point is this: The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.\nThe practical instruction is: Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted. 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\nGrace Heals and Elevates Nature\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion. 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 is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.\nThe grace to be practiced is Compunction and reparation, 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 comprehensive renewal by joining Marian dependence to doctrine, worship, moral obedience, mortification, charity, and perseverance.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life. 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 compunction and reparation 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. Reject every attempt to keep the consoling language of consecration while withholding the demanding obligations of Baptism. Carry baptismal renunciation and allegiance through every prayer, temptation, duty, relationship, possession, and use of time.\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: Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.\nCarry this word: What is said of Our Lady teaches the soul how to see the Church.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55\nHuman approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.\n\nThe desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.\nToday's Practice: Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nJudge the consecration by lived baptismal fidelity, repent wherever words exceeded conduct, and renew the entire gift through Mary.\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 Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.\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 Is Grace?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-is-grace?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-04-10&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-04-10&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: Feria of Passiontide - 2030-04-10\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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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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sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.
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the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.
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Today in the Roman Year

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Humiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair.

Renew baptismal obligations through Our Lady as the most perfect means chosen by God for complete consecration to Christ.

Renew every baptismal vow through Our Lady and ask her to make the entire day a complete profession of belonging to Christ.

“Now if the Councils, the Fathers, and experience even, show us that the best means of remedying the irregularities of Christians is by making them call to mind the obligations of their Baptism, and persuading them to renew now the vows they made then, does it not stand to reason that we shall do it in a perfect manner, by this devotion and consecration of ourselves to our Lord, through His holy Mother?”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 130

St. Louis de Montfort unites authority and experience: Councils, Fathers, and the observed disorders of Christians support deliberate remembrance and renewal of Baptism. True devotion supplies the perfect manner because the entire person renews belonging to the Lord through His holy Mother, the most perfect means in God's order.

Do not separate Marian consecration from baptismal conversion. Renewal through Mary must intensify profession of the Faith, hatred of heresy and sin, sacramental fidelity, obedience to commandments, rejection of worldly pomps, mortification of passions, duties of state, and perseverance in Christ. Otherwise the words remain detached from their substance.

Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

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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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Roman Martyrology - April 10

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The prophet Ezechiel, who was put to death in Babylon by the Judge of the people of Israel, because he reproved him for worshipping idols. He was buried in the sepulchre of Sem and Arphaxad, Abraham's ancestors. To his tomb many were wont to resort for the purpose of prayer. — At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Apollonius, priest, and five others, who, in the persecution of Maximian, were drowned in the sea. — In Africa, under the emperor Decius and the prefect Fortunian, the holy martyrs Terentius, African, Pompey, and their companions, who were scourged, racked, and subjected to other torments. Their martyrdom ended by decapitation. — The same day, St. Macarius, bishop of Antioch, celebrated for virtues and miracles. — At Valladolid, in Spain, St. Michael of the Saints, confessor, of the Order of Discalced Trinitarians for the Redemption of Captives, a man remarkable for integrity of life, for the penitential spirit, and for great love of God. Pius IX. solemnly canonized him on Whitsunday, 1862, and ordered his festival to be kept on the 5th of

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The Passiontide Feria

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The veiled days near the Passion of Our Lord.

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The ferias of Passiontide draw the faithful nearer to the sufferings of Christ, when the Church's prayer grows more grave and the Cross comes into sharper view.

These days teach that the Passion is not only remembered on Good Friday. The soul is led step by step into compunction, reparation, silence, and fidelity to the rejected Messias.

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Walk more quietly now. Passiontide teaches the exile to stay near Christ when His glory is veiled and His enemies gather.

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Breviary Witness

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Nearer to the rejected Christ.

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Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Feria of Passiontide 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 Nearer to the rejected Christ.. Its first point is this: The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.

The practical instruction is: Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted. 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 Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Grace Heals and Elevates Nature

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The Church places this truth before you today: Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion. 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 is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.

The grace to be practiced is Compunction and reparation, 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 comprehensive renewal by joining Marian dependence to doctrine, worship, moral obedience, mortification, charity, and perseverance.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life. 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 compunction and reparation 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. Reject every attempt to keep the consoling language of consecration while withholding the demanding obligations of Baptism. Carry baptismal renunciation and allegiance through every prayer, temptation, duty, relationship, possession, and use of time.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

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What is said of Our Lady teaches the soul how to see the Church.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55

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Human approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.

The desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.

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Today's Practice

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Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Judge the consecration by lived baptismal fidelity, repent wherever words exceeded conduct, and renew the entire gift through Mary.

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  • For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?
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O Lord Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.

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Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

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A brief rule to keep every day:

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Begin with morning prayer

Adore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.

Keep the Angelus

Pause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.

Seek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

Attend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Return to Jesus and Mary

Use frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.

Pray the Rosary

Keep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.

End with night prayer and examen

Give thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.

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

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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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