{"ok":true,"date":"2030-04-25","dateKey":"04-25","liturgicalDay":"Thursday within the Octave of Easter","rank":"Semi-Double within a Privileged Octave of the First Order","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Seek therefore first the Kingdom of God, and the justice of him, and all these things shall be given you besides.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Matthew 6:33, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#seek-first-the-kingdom","category":"Divine Providence"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of Easter","rank":"Privileged Octave of the First Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Thursday within the Octave of Easter - 2030-04-25","previewText":"Thursday within the Octave of Easter. The Cross Is Daily. Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nThursday within the Octave of Easter\n2030-04-25 - Eastertide - Semi-Double within a Privileged Octave of the First Order - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nThursday within the Octave of Easter is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Mark, Evangelist on this date. The secondary saint 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.\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nEcclesiastical or ecclesial: belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.\nApostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nChrist is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. With Mary, listen for the command of Christ: Do whatever He shall say to you. Ask for Our Lady's recollection before the noise of the day begins. Let her lead the mind away from distraction and toward the will of her Son.\n\n\"This devotion consists, then, in giving ourselves entirely to Our Lady, in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 121\n\nTrue devotion is not measured by the warmth of a feeling or the number of Marian words upon the lips. St. Louis de Montfort speaks of a gift of self. What is placed in Mary's hands must no longer be withheld whenever obedience becomes costly, prayer becomes dry, or duty asks to be preferred to inclination.\n\nDo not be frightened by the greatness of this surrender. Our Lady does not impoverish the soul that gives itself to her; she teaches it to cease wasting itself upon vanity and to belong more simply to Jesus. Begin with the next duty, and let your consecration become visible there.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of Easter - Privileged Octave of the First Order\n\nPRACTICE\nShow reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Seek therefore first the Kingdom of God, and the justice of him, and all these things shall be given you besides.\"\nHoly Scripture, Matthew 6:33, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - April 25\nAt Alexandria, the birthday of blessed Mark, evangelist, disciple and interpreter of the apostle St. Peter. He wrote his gospel at the request of the faithful of Rome, and taking it with him, proceeded to Egypt and founded a church at Alexandria, where he was the first to announce Christ. Afterwards, being arrested for the faith, he was bound, dragged over stones and endured great afflictions. Finally he was confined to prison, where, being comforted by the visit of an angel, and even by an apparition of our Lord himself, he was called to the heavenly kingdom in the eighth year of the reign of Nero. — At Rome, the great Litanies in the church of St. Peter. — At Syracuse, the holy martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes, and Callistus. — At Antioch, St. Stephen, bishop and martyr, who suffered much from the heretics opposed to the Council of Chalcedon, and was precipitated into the river Orontes, in the time APEIL. 117 of the emperor Zeno. — In the same city, the Saints Philo and Agathopodes, deacons. — At Alexandria, the bishop St. Anian, disciple of blessed Mark, and his successor in the episcopate. With a great renown for virtue, he rested in the Lord. — At Lobbes, the birthday of St. ErmiDus, bishop and confessor.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nMary.\nThursday within the Octave of Easter - John 20:11-18\n\"Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni.\"\nLet Magdalen teach you holy persistence. The soul that waits with love may be sent with joy.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe risen Christ calls Magdalen by name and turns faithful tears into recognition.\nPenitent love remains near the tomb until Christ Himself sends it forth as witness.\nError corrected: The false consolation that wants to move on without first recognizing the risen Lord.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThursday within the Octave of Easter\nMagdalen remains and hears her name.\nEaster Thursday contemplates St. Mary Magdalen weeping at the tomb until the risen Lord calls her by name.\nHer love is purified from clinging to loss into obedient witness: she is sent to announce the Resurrection to the disciples.\nStand with Magdalen at the tomb. Easter does not rebuke faithful tears; it turns them toward recognition and mission.\nSECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE\nSt. Mark\nEvangelist and herald of the Gospel.\nSt. Mark is honored as an evangelist, preserving and preaching the Gospel of Christ for the Church.\nHis feast teaches that the Gospel is not private possession or religious mood, but apostolic testimony entrusted to the Church.\nAsk St. Mark for a faithful tongue and a disciplined pen. The truth need not be noisy to be brave.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nMagdalen's tears and recognition.\nMatins - Thursday within the Octave of Easter\n- The Easter Thursday office contemplates St. Mary Magdalen remaining at the tomb until the risen Lord calls her by name.\n- Its witness teaches penitent love, perseverance near Christ's apparent absence, and obedient witness after recognition.\nStay near the tomb without despair. Christ can turn faithful tears into recognition and mission.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Thursday within the Octave of Easter 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 Magdalen's tears and recognition.. Its first point is this: The Easter Thursday office contemplates St. Mary Magdalen remaining at the tomb until the risen Lord calls her by name. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness teaches penitent love, perseverance near Christ's apparent absence, and obedient witness after recognition.\nThe practical instruction is: Stay near the tomb without despair. Christ can turn faithful tears into recognition and mission. 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\nPeter's interpreter carries the Gospel to Alexandria.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Mark, Evangelist\nSt. Jerome, Priest\n\"He wrote the shortest of the Gospels.\"\n- The Breviary receives St. Mark as the disciple and interpreter of St. Peter, writing from what he had heard Peter teach.\n- St. Peter approved Mark's Gospel and gave it to the Church to be read by his authority. This connects the written Gospel with the preaching and testimony Peter had received directly from Christ.\n- Mark carried the Gospel into Egypt, founded the Church of Alexandria, and formed Christians whose common life recalled the first charity of Jerusalem.\nReceive the Gospel as apostolic testimony, not private literature. St. Mark teaches that Scripture is handed down in the Church, preached, approved, read, and lived.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Cross Is Daily\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.\nThe grace to be practiced is Penitent love transformed into witness, 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. Imitate Mary's obedience. Catholic obedience hears God first, receives the truth whole, and refuses every command that would require sin or betrayal of the Faith.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 penitent love transformed into witness 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 the duty is difficult, make Mary's fiat your own: accept God's will without bargaining, while using every lawful means duty requires. Begin this act with the aspiration, 'Jesus, living in Mary, live and reign in me.' Then perform it faithfully.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.\nYour resolution before God: Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.\nCarry this word: False worship wounds souls because worship forms belief.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20\nThomas à Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.\n\nChoose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.\nToday's Practice: Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine whether you obeyed Christ promptly or delayed through self-will. Entrust repentance and amendment to Our Lady.\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\nTake Up Thy Cross Daily: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/luke-9-23-deny-thyself-take-up-thy-cross-daily-and-the-standard-of-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-04-25&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-04-25&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: Thursday within the Octave of Easter - 2030-04-25\n \n \n
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Thursday within the Octave of Easter is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Mark, Evangelist on this date. The secondary saint 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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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.
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Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today.

With Mary, listen for the command of Christ: Do whatever He shall say to you.

Ask for Our Lady's recollection before the noise of the day begins. Let her lead the mind away from distraction and toward the will of her Son.

“This devotion consists, then, in giving ourselves entirely to Our Lady, in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 121

True devotion is not measured by the warmth of a feeling or the number of Marian words upon the lips. St. Louis de Montfort speaks of a gift of self. What is placed in Mary's hands must no longer be withheld whenever obedience becomes costly, prayer becomes dry, or duty asks to be preferred to inclination.

Do not be frightened by the greatness of this surrender. Our Lady does not impoverish the soul that gives itself to her; she teaches it to cease wasting itself upon vanity and to belong more simply to Jesus. Begin with the next duty, and let your consecration become visible there.

Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.

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Quote of the Day

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“Seek therefore first the Kingdom of God, and the justice of him, and all these things shall be given you besides.”
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Holy Scripture, Matthew 6:33, Original Douay-Rheims

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At Alexandria, the birthday of blessed Mark, evangelist, disciple and interpreter of the apostle St. Peter. He wrote his gospel at the request of the faithful of Rome, and taking it with him, proceeded to Egypt and founded a church at Alexandria, where he was the first to announce Christ. Afterwards, being arrested for the faith, he was bound, dragged over stones and endured great afflictions. Finally he was confined to prison, where, being comforted by the visit of an angel, and even by an apparition of our Lord himself, he was called to the heavenly kingdom in the eighth year of the reign of Nero. — At Rome, the great Litanies in the church of St. Peter. — At Syracuse, the holy martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes, and Callistus. — At Antioch, St. Stephen, bishop and martyr, who suffered much from the heretics opposed to the Council of Chalcedon, and was precipitated into the river Orontes, in the time APEIL. 117 of the emperor Zeno. — In the same city, the Saints Philo and Agathopodes, deacons. — At Alexandria, the bishop St. Anian, disciple of blessed Mark, and his successor in the episcopate. With a great renown for virtue, he rested in the Lord. — At Lobbes, the birthday of St. ErmiDus, bishop and confessor.

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Thursday within the Octave of Easter - John 20:11-18

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“Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni.”
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Let Magdalen teach you holy persistence. The soul that waits with love may be sent with joy.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The risen Christ calls Magdalen by name and turns faithful tears into recognition.

Penitent love remains near the tomb until Christ Himself sends it forth as witness.

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Error corrected: The false consolation that wants to move on without first recognizing the risen Lord.

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Magdalen remains and hears her name.

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Easter Thursday contemplates St. Mary Magdalen weeping at the tomb until the risen Lord calls her by name.

Her love is purified from clinging to loss into obedient witness: she is sent to announce the Resurrection to the disciples.

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Stand with Magdalen at the tomb. Easter does not rebuke faithful tears; it turns them toward recognition and mission.

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St. Mark

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Evangelist and herald of the Gospel.

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St. Mark is honored as an evangelist, preserving and preaching the Gospel of Christ for the Church.

His feast teaches that the Gospel is not private possession or religious mood, but apostolic testimony entrusted to the Church.

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Ask St. Mark for a faithful tongue and a disciplined pen. The truth need not be noisy to be brave.

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Magdalen's tears and recognition.

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Stay near the tomb without despair. Christ can turn faithful tears into recognition and mission.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Thursday within the Octave of Easter 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 Magdalen's tears and recognition.. Its first point is this: The Easter Thursday office contemplates St. Mary Magdalen remaining at the tomb until the risen Lord calls her by name. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness teaches penitent love, perseverance near Christ's apparent absence, and obedient witness after recognition.

The practical instruction is: Stay near the tomb without despair. Christ can turn faithful tears into recognition and mission. 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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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Mark, Evangelist

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St. Jerome, Priest, On Ecclesiastical Writers

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“He wrote the shortest of the Gospels.”
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  • St. Peter approved Mark's Gospel and gave it to the Church to be read by his authority. This connects the written Gospel with the preaching and testimony Peter had received directly from Christ.
  • Mark carried the Gospel into Egypt, founded the Church of Alexandria, and formed Christians whose common life recalled the first charity of Jerusalem.
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Receive the Gospel as apostolic testimony, not private literature. St. Mark teaches that Scripture is handed down in the Church, preached, approved, read, and lived.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Cross Is Daily

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The Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.

The grace to be practiced is Penitent love transformed into witness, 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. Imitate Mary's obedience. Catholic obedience hears God first, receives the truth whole, and refuses every command that would require sin or betrayal of the Faith.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 penitent love transformed into witness 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 the duty is difficult, make Mary's fiat your own: accept God's will without bargaining, while using every lawful means duty requires. Begin this act with the aspiration, 'Jesus, living in Mary, live and reign in me.' Then perform it faithfully.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Show reverence for the Holy Sacrifice in thought, word, and conduct, and pray for souls misled by false worship.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20

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Thomas à Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life.

Choose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion.

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Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears.

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine whether you obeyed Christ promptly or delayed through self-will. Entrust repentance and amendment to Our Lady.

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

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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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