{"ok":true,"date":"2030-05-16","dateKey":"05-16","liturgicalDay":"St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor","rank":"Semi-Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned.","author":"St. Paul","source":"2 Thessalonians 2:14, Douay-Rheims","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor - 2030-05-16","previewText":"St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor. Obedience Serves Truth. Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor\n2030-05-16 - Eastertide - Semi-Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMortification: the deliberate restraint of a desire or comfort so that disordered habits weaken and love of God becomes freer.\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\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 Our Lady, contemplate the Eternal Son given to the world for our salvation. Thank the Father for giving His Son, adore the Word made flesh, and ask the Holy Ghost to form Mary's faithful consent in you.\n\n\"God the Father has not given His Only-begotten to the world except by Mary.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 16\n\nThe Father is the source of the mission of the Son, and the Son is the one Redeemer. Yet the Incarnation was accomplished in the virginal womb and with Mary's free consent. God entered His creation through the fiat of the humble Virgin He had prepared.\n\nDo not separate Marian devotion from the mystery it serves. Every Hail Mary should deepen faith in the Incarnate Word; every Rosary should make His life, Passion, and glory more governing; every recourse to His Mother should end in more complete obedience to Him.\n\nPRACTICE\nPray for the sanctity of bishops and choose holiness over efficiency throughout your own duties.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned.\"\nSt. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 16\nAt Gubbio, St. Ubaldus, a bishop renowned for miracles. — In Isauria, the birthday of the holy martyrs Aquillinus and Victorian. — At Auxerre, the passion of St. Peregrinus, first bishop of that city. He was sent into Gaul with other clerics by the blessed pope Xystus, and having accomplished his work of preaching the Gospel, he merited an ever lasting crown by being condemned to capital punishment. — At Uzalis, in Africa, the holy martyrs Felix and Gennadius. — In Palestine, the martyrdom of the holy monks massacred by the Saracens in the monastery of St. Sabas. — In Persia, the holy martyrs Audas, a bishop, seven priests, nine deacons and seven virgins, who endured various kinds of tormen ts under king Isdegerdes, and thus gloriously consummated their martyrdom. — At Prague, in Bohemia, St. John Nepomucen, a canon of the metropolitan church, who, being tempted in vain to betray the secret of confession, was cast into the river Moldau, and thus won the palm of martyrdom. — At Amiens, in France, the bishop St. Honoratus. — At Le Mans, St. Domnolus, bishop. — At Mirandola, in Emilia, St. Possidius, bishop of Calamae, discple of St. Augustine, and the writer of his glorious life. — At Troyes, St. Fidolus, confessor. — In Ireland, St. Brendan, abbot. — At Frejus, St. Maxima, virgin, who rested in peace with a reputation for many virtues.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nLet your lamps be burning.\nSt. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor - Luke 12:35-40\n\"And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord.\"\nAsk St. Ubaldus for shepherds whose lamps are burning. A holy pastor gives more light than a clever functionary.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nThe holy bishop keeps watch as a servant awaiting the Lord, not as an owner of souls.\nSt. Ubaldus teaches that pastoral work must be lit by sanctity and confidence in grace.\nThe Church is harmed when shepherding becomes management without prayer. Souls need holiness before efficiency.\nError corrected: The managerial religion that trusts technique more than grace.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Ubaldus\nBishop and confessor renowned for miracles.\nSt. Ubaldus, bishop of Gubbio, is honored by the Martyrology as a bishop renowned for miracles.\nHis witness teaches that episcopal holiness is not administration alone, but prayer, pastoral charity, purity of life, and confidence in God's power.\nAsk St. Ubaldus for shepherds whose holiness becomes a sign of God. The Church is helped most by saints, not mere functionaries.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe bishop renowned for miracles.\nMatins - St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor\n- The Breviary honors St. Ubaldus as bishop and confessor, remembered at Gubbio and renowned for miracles.\n- His witness teaches pastoral holiness: prayer, virtue, and confidence in grace before every outward work.\nPray for holy shepherds. St. Ubaldus teaches that the Church needs sanctity more than clever administration.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor 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 bishop renowned for miracles.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Ubaldus as bishop and confessor, remembered at Gubbio and renowned for miracles. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches pastoral holiness: prayer, virtue, and confidence in grace before every outward work.\nThe practical instruction is: Pray for holy shepherds. St. Ubaldus teaches that the Church needs sanctity more than clever administration. 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\nA bishop formed by virginity, common life, austerity, prayer, and mercy toward persecutors.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor\nRoman Breviary\n\"He became from the heart a pattern of the flock.\"\n- The Breviary remembers St. Ubaldus preserving virginity, distributing his inheritance to churches and the poor, embracing the Rule of St. Augustine, and restoring canonical common life in his homeland.\n- Raised unwillingly to the See of Gubbio, he changed nothing of his austere life: scant food, modest clothing, a hard bed, mortification, and insatiable prayer sustained his care for souls by word and example.\n- His meekness was not weakness. He endured grave insults with equanimity and answered persecutors with extraordinary charity while governing the flock faithfully.\n- During long and bitter illness he gave thanks to God without ceasing; the office also remembers his intercession against unclean spirits and the preservation of his incorrupt body.\nLet authority grow from chastity, common discipline, prayer, mortification, and mercy. Bear injury without surrendering duty, repay hostility with supernatural charity, and give thanks to God even when suffering is prolonged.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nObedience Serves Truth\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.\nThe grace to be practiced is Pastoral holiness and confidence in grace, 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 faith in the Incarnation by treating the words, commandments, and mysteries of Jesus Christ as the words of God made man.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine. 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 pastoral holiness and confidence in grace 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 humility of God's approach: He came in hiddenness and asks fidelity that may also remain hidden. Carry the mysteries of the Rosary through all your duties, returning often to the words and actions of the Incarnate Son.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.\nYour resolution before God: Pray for the sanctity of bishops and choose holiness over efficiency throughout your own duties.\nCarry this word: The Church needs shepherds whose administration is governed by prayer, holiness, and care for souls.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"A meek knowing of ourself is a surer way to God than is the searching for highness of cunning.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12\nLearning serves holiness only when it makes the soul humbler before God. Receive truth as a disciple of Christ, not as material for self-display.\n\nDo not measure profit by how much you can repeat. Ask whether what you have learned has made prayer more reverent, judgment more Catholic, speech more restrained, and duty more exact. Knowledge that never kneels easily becomes another possession of pride.\nToday's Practice: Keep good insights hidden when charity does not require speech, and turn them into prayer and amendment.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk whether devotion to Our Lady led you more deeply into adoration, obedience, and love of her Divine Son.\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 God, through St. Ubaldus, make bishops holy. Keep them from trusting management more than grace, and make their conduct a clear witness to Thee.\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\nObedience, the Virtue Modernism Must Redefine: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/obedience-the-virtue-modernism-must-redefine?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-05-16&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-05-16&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: St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor - 2030-05-16\n \n \n
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St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor

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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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the deliberate restraint of a desire or comfort so that disordered habits weaken and love of God becomes freer.
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in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
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Today in the Roman Year

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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 Our Lady, contemplate the Eternal Son given to the world for our salvation.

Thank the Father for giving His Son, adore the Word made flesh, and ask the Holy Ghost to form Mary's faithful consent in you.

“God the Father has not given His Only-begotten to the world except by Mary.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 16

The Father is the source of the mission of the Son, and the Son is the one Redeemer. Yet the Incarnation was accomplished in the virginal womb and with Mary's free consent. God entered His creation through the fiat of the humble Virgin He had prepared.

Do not separate Marian devotion from the mystery it serves. Every Hail Mary should deepen faith in the Incarnate Word; every Rosary should make His life, Passion, and glory more governing; every recourse to His Mother should end in more complete obedience to Him.

Pray for the sanctity of bishops and choose holiness over efficiency throughout your own duties.

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Quote of the Day

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“Stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned.”
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St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - May 16

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At Gubbio, St. Ubaldus, a bishop renowned for miracles. — In Isauria, the birthday of the holy martyrs Aquillinus and Victorian. — At Auxerre, the passion of St. Peregrinus, first bishop of that city. He was sent into Gaul with other clerics by the blessed pope Xystus, and having accomplished his work of preaching the Gospel, he merited an ever lasting crown by being condemned to capital punishment. — At Uzalis, in Africa, the holy martyrs Felix and Gennadius. — In Palestine, the martyrdom of the holy monks massacred by the Saracens in the monastery of St. Sabas. — In Persia, the holy martyrs Audas, a bishop, seven priests, nine deacons and seven virgins, who endured various kinds of tormen ts under king Isdegerdes, and thus gloriously consummated their martyrdom. — At Prague, in Bohemia, St. John Nepomucen, a canon of the metropolitan church, who, being tempted in vain to betray the secret of confession, was cast into the river Moldau, and thus won the palm of martyrdom. — At Amiens, in France, the bishop St. Honoratus. — At Le Mans, St. Domnolus, bishop. — At Mirandola, in Emilia, St. Possidius, bishop of Calamae, discple of St. Augustine, and the writer of his glorious life. — At Troyes, St. Fidolus, confessor. — In Ireland, St. Brendan, abbot. — At Frejus, St. Maxima, virgin, who rested in peace with a reputation for many virtues.

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Gospel of the Day

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Let your lamps be burning.

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St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor - Luke 12:35-40

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“And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord.”
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Ask St. Ubaldus for shepherds whose lamps are burning. A holy pastor gives more light than a clever functionary.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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The holy bishop keeps watch as a servant awaiting the Lord, not as an owner of souls.

St. Ubaldus teaches that pastoral work must be lit by sanctity and confidence in grace.

The Church is harmed when shepherding becomes management without prayer. Souls need holiness before efficiency.

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Error corrected: The managerial religion that trusts technique more than grace.

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St. Ubaldus

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Bishop and confessor renowned for miracles.

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St. Ubaldus, bishop of Gubbio, is honored by the Martyrology as a bishop renowned for miracles.

His witness teaches that episcopal holiness is not administration alone, but prayer, pastoral charity, purity of life, and confidence in God's power.

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Ask St. Ubaldus for shepherds whose holiness becomes a sign of God. The Church is helped most by saints, not mere functionaries.

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Breviary Witness

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The bishop renowned for miracles.

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Matins - St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor

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Pray for holy shepherds. St. Ubaldus teaches that the Church needs sanctity more than clever administration.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor 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 bishop renowned for miracles.. Its first point is this: The Breviary honors St. Ubaldus as bishop and confessor, remembered at Gubbio and renowned for miracles. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness teaches pastoral holiness: prayer, virtue, and confidence in grace before every outward work.

The practical instruction is: Pray for holy shepherds. St. Ubaldus teaches that the Church needs sanctity more than clever administration. 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 virtue does the Church place before me through it?
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A bishop formed by virginity, common life, austerity, prayer, and mercy toward persecutors.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Confessor

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Ubaldus

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“He became from the heart a pattern of the flock.”
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  • The Breviary remembers St. Ubaldus preserving virginity, distributing his inheritance to churches and the poor, embracing the Rule of St. Augustine, and restoring canonical common life in his homeland.
  • Raised unwillingly to the See of Gubbio, he changed nothing of his austere life: scant food, modest clothing, a hard bed, mortification, and insatiable prayer sustained his care for souls by word and example.
  • His meekness was not weakness. He endured grave insults with equanimity and answered persecutors with extraordinary charity while governing the flock faithfully.
  • During long and bitter illness he gave thanks to God without ceasing; the office also remembers his intercession against unclean spirits and the preservation of his incorrupt body.
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Let authority grow from chastity, common discipline, prayer, mortification, and mercy. Bear injury without surrendering duty, repay hostility with supernatural charity, and give thanks to God even when suffering is prolonged.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Obedience Serves Truth

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.

The grace to be practiced is Pastoral holiness and confidence in grace, 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 faith in the Incarnation by treating the words, commandments, and mysteries of Jesus Christ as the words of God made man.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine. 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 pastoral holiness and confidence in grace 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 humility of God's approach: He came in hiddenness and asks fidelity that may also remain hidden. Carry the mysteries of the Rosary through all your duties, returning often to the words and actions of the Incarnate Son.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Pray for the sanctity of bishops and choose holiness over efficiency throughout your own duties.

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The Church needs shepherds whose administration is governed by prayer, holiness, and care for souls.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“A meek knowing of ourself is a surer way to God than is the searching for highness of cunning.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 3, p. 12

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Learning serves holiness only when it makes the soul humbler before God. Receive truth as a disciple of Christ, not as material for self-display.

Do not measure profit by how much you can repeat. Ask whether what you have learned has made prayer more reverent, judgment more Catholic, speech more restrained, and duty more exact. Knowledge that never kneels easily becomes another possession of pride.

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Today's Practice

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Keep good insights hidden when charity does not require speech, and turn them into prayer and amendment.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Ask whether devotion to Our Lady led you more deeply into adoration, obedience, and love of her Divine Son.

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Prayer

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O God, through St. Ubaldus, make bishops holy. Keep them from trusting management more than grace, and make their conduct a clear witness to Thee.

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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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