{"ok":true,"date":"2030-06-05","dateKey":"06-05","liturgicalDay":"St. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany","rank":"Double","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.","author":"Pope Gregory XVI","source":"Quo Graviora, n. 10","category":"Truth: Christ and His Church"},"season":"Eastertide","novenas":[{"title":"Novena to the Holy Ghost","feast":"Pentecost","day":6,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2030-05-31","feastIsoDate":"2030-06-09","intention":"Ask the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.","prayer":null,"practice":"Pray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of the Ascension","rank":"Privileged Octave of the Third Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany - 2030-06-05","previewText":"St. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany. Mary Is Mother of God and Mother of the Faithful. Resist every thin devotion that praises Mary while separating her from doctrine, sacrifice, and the life of grace.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany\n2030-06-05 - Eastertide - Double - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nConfessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe Corpus Christi octave keeps the true Eucharistic sacrifice before the Church, while St. Boniface shows the missionary consequence of true worship. Charity does not leave idols standing: it names and removes what holds souls from God, then calls them to the altar where Christ is truly adored. Invite the Holy Ghost to find in your soul a sincere union with His faithful Spouse and a generous readiness for His grace. Invoke the Holy Ghost and renew your consecration to Jesus through Mary with a firm purpose to cooperate with grace all day.\n\n\"When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fulness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which she makes room for her Spouse.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 36\n\nThe Holy Ghost is God, the uncreated source of sanctifying grace; Our Lady is His immaculate creature and faithful Spouse. St. Louis de Montfort's language magnifies the divine choice by which the Holy Ghost formed Christ in Mary and continues to form the likeness of Christ in souls united to her.\n\nMaking room is not a technique that obliges God. It is the removal of resistance: mortal sin, attachment to venial sin, neglect of prayer, contempt for doctrine, refusal of duty, and distrust of grace. Ask Mary to teach you her fiat, then cooperate with every actual grace throughout the entire day.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Ascension - Privileged Octave of the Third Order\n\nPRACTICE\nMake an act of adoration, then reject every superstition, false sacred custom, and compromise that competes with God.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.\"\nPope Gregory XVI, Quo Graviora, n. 10\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to the Holy Ghost - Day 6 of 9\nPreparing for Pentecost on 2030-06-09.\nAsk the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.\n\nPray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 5\n. BONIFACE, bishop of Mayence, who came from England to Rome, and was sent by Gregory II. to Germany to preach the faith of Christ to the people of that country. Having converted large multitudes to the Christian religion, especially in Friesland, he merited the title of Apostle of the Germans. Being finally put to the sword by the furious Gentiles, he consummated his martyrdom with Eobanus and some other servants of God. — In Egypt, the birthday of the holy martyrs Marcian, Nicanor, Apollonius, and others, who suffered a glorious martyrdom in the persecution of Galerius Maximian. — At Perugia, the holy martyrs Florentius, Julian, Cyriacus, Marcellinus, and Faustinus, who were beheaded in the persecution of Decius. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, the martyrdom of the Saints Zenaides, Cyria, Valeria, and Marcia, who through many torments attained to martyrdom rejoicing. — At Tyre, St. Dorotheus, a priest, who suffered much under Diocletian, but survived until the reign of Julian, under whom his venerable age was crowned with martyrdom, he being then one hundred and seven years old. — At Cordova, in Spain, blessed Sancius, a youth, who, though brought up in the royal court, did not hesitate to undergo martyrdom for the faith of Christ, during the persecution of the Arabs.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Boniface\nApostle of Germany and destroyer of false worship.\nSt. Boniface left the security of monastic life to preach Christ among peoples still bound to pagan worship and false sacred customs.\nHe did not treat idols as harmless cultural signs. His missionary charity was clear enough to cut down what held souls in bondage.\nAsk St. Boniface for courage that serves souls. The axe is not hatred when it falls on the idol that keeps men from Christ.\nFROM MATINS\nThe missionary who cut idolatry down at the root.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany\nRoman Breviary\n\"He thoroughly purged Hesse and Thuringia from all remains of idolatry.\"\n- The Breviary presents St. Boniface as an English monk whose zeal for souls drove him from cloistered security to the conversion of Germany.\n- He sought an apostolic commission from Rome, preached where his first labor seemed fruitless, reclaimed thousands from devil-worship, founded bishoprics, and held synods for the spread of the faith.\n- The Third Nocturn joins his apostolate to St. Augustine's teaching on purity of heart, ordered peace, obedience to truth, and the casting out of the prince of disorder.\nMission is not friendliness with idols. St. Boniface teaches that souls are won by prayer, Roman mission, hard labor, doctrinal courage, and the destruction of false worship.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nMary Is Mother of God and Mother of the Faithful\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The Blessed Virgin Mary is truly Mother of God, and her maternal office belongs to the order of Christ's Incarnation, Passion, and grace. 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. Marian doctrine protects the truth about Christ: one divine Person, truly God and truly man, born of the Virgin Mother.\nThe grace to be practiced is Missionary courage against idolatry, 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 docility by promptly following every known duty and every holy inspiration consistent with the Faith and your state of life.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist every thin devotion that praises Mary while separating her from doctrine, sacrifice, and the life of grace. 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 missionary courage against idolatry 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. Let contradiction reveal and enlarge the places where self-will has left too little room for the action of grace. Remove the deliberate distractions, sinful occasions, resentments, and delays that hinder recollection and faithful obedience.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Cyril of Alexandria.\nYour resolution before God: Make an act of adoration, then reject every superstition, false sacred custom, and compromise that competes with God.\nCarry this word: Hatred of false worship belongs to love for God and for the souls deceived by it.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203\nThe Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.\n\nIf you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.\nToday's Practice: Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank the Holy Ghost for His inspirations, repent of every resistance, and ask Our Lady to prepare a more generous welcome tomorrow.\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, keep me faithful to Thy true worship. Through St. Boniface, give me courage to reject idols without hatred of persons and to labor for their conversion.\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\nThe Mother of My Lord: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/luke-1-43-the-mother-of-my-lord-and-the-marian-guard-of-christological-truth?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-06-05&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-06-05&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. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany - 2030-06-05\n \n \n
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2030-06-05 - Eastertide - Double - white

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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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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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Confessor
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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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one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.
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Today in the Roman Year

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The Corpus Christi octave keeps the true Eucharistic sacrifice before the Church, while St. Boniface shows the missionary consequence of true worship. Charity does not leave idols standing: it names and removes what holds souls from God, then calls them to the altar where Christ is truly adored.

Invite the Holy Ghost to find in your soul a sincere union with His faithful Spouse and a generous readiness for His grace.

Invoke the Holy Ghost and renew your consecration to Jesus through Mary with a firm purpose to cooperate with grace all day.

“When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fulness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which she makes room for her Spouse.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 36

The Holy Ghost is God, the uncreated source of sanctifying grace; Our Lady is His immaculate creature and faithful Spouse. St. Louis de Montfort's language magnifies the divine choice by which the Holy Ghost formed Christ in Mary and continues to form the likeness of Christ in souls united to her.

Making room is not a technique that obliges God. It is the removal of resistance: mortal sin, attachment to venial sin, neglect of prayer, contempt for doctrine, refusal of duty, and distrust of grace. Ask Mary to teach you her fiat, then cooperate with every actual grace throughout the entire day.

Make an act of adoration, then reject every superstition, false sacred custom, and compromise that competes with God.

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Quote of the Day

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“The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Ghost.”
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Pope Gregory XVI, Quo Graviora, n. 10

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Novena in Progress

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Novena to the Holy Ghost - Day 6 of 9

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Preparing for Pentecost on 2030-06-09.

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Ask the Holy Ghost for truth, fortitude, docility, and zeal without novelty or disorder.

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Pray for light to obey the truth already known and for courage to confess the Faith publicly.

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Roman Martyrology - June 5

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. BONIFACE, bishop of Mayence, who came from England to Rome, and was sent by Gregory II. to Germany to preach the faith of Christ to the people of that country. Having converted large multitudes to the Christian religion, especially in Friesland, he merited the title of Apostle of the Germans. Being finally put to the sword by the furious Gentiles, he consummated his martyrdom with Eobanus and some other servants of God. — In Egypt, the birthday of the holy martyrs Marcian, Nicanor, Apollonius, and others, who suffered a glorious martyrdom in the persecution of Galerius Maximian. — At Perugia, the holy martyrs Florentius, Julian, Cyriacus, Marcellinus, and Faustinus, who were beheaded in the persecution of Decius. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, the martyrdom of the Saints Zenaides, Cyria, Valeria, and Marcia, who through many torments attained to martyrdom rejoicing. — At Tyre, St. Dorotheus, a priest, who suffered much under Diocletian, but survived until the reign of Julian, under whom his venerable age was crowned with martyrdom, he being then one hundred and seven years old. — At Cordova, in Spain, blessed Sancius, a youth, who, though brought up in the royal court, did not hesitate to undergo martyrdom for the faith of Christ, during the persecution of the Arabs.

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St. Boniface

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Apostle of Germany and destroyer of false worship.

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St. Boniface left the security of monastic life to preach Christ among peoples still bound to pagan worship and false sacred customs.

He did not treat idols as harmless cultural signs. His missionary charity was clear enough to cut down what held souls in bondage.

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Ask St. Boniface for courage that serves souls. The axe is not hatred when it falls on the idol that keeps men from Christ.

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From Matins

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The missionary who cut idolatry down at the root.

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Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Boniface, Bishop, Confessor, and Apostle of Germany

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Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Boniface

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“He thoroughly purged Hesse and Thuringia from all remains of idolatry.”
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  • The Breviary presents St. Boniface as an English monk whose zeal for souls drove him from cloistered security to the conversion of Germany.
  • He sought an apostolic commission from Rome, preached where his first labor seemed fruitless, reclaimed thousands from devil-worship, founded bishoprics, and held synods for the spread of the faith.
  • The Third Nocturn joins his apostolate to St. Augustine's teaching on purity of heart, ordered peace, obedience to truth, and the casting out of the prince of disorder.
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Mission is not friendliness with idols. St. Boniface teaches that souls are won by prayer, Roman mission, hard labor, doctrinal courage, and the destruction of false worship.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Mary Is Mother of God and Mother of the Faithful

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The Church places this truth before you today: The Blessed Virgin Mary is truly Mother of God, and her maternal office belongs to the order of Christ's Incarnation, Passion, and grace. 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. Marian doctrine protects the truth about Christ: one divine Person, truly God and truly man, born of the Virgin Mother.

The grace to be practiced is Missionary courage against idolatry, 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 docility by promptly following every known duty and every holy inspiration consistent with the Faith and your state of life.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist every thin devotion that praises Mary while separating her from doctrine, sacrifice, and the life of grace. 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 missionary courage against idolatry 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. Let contradiction reveal and enlarge the places where self-will has left too little room for the action of grace. Remove the deliberate distractions, sinful occasions, resentments, and delays that hinder recollection and faithful obedience.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Make an act of adoration, then reject every superstition, false sacred custom, and compromise that competes with God.

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Hatred of false worship belongs to love for God and for the souls deceived by it.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Thou alone art the true refection of the soul, and he that worthily eateth Thee shall be partaker and heir of eternal glory.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, chapter 14, p. 203

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The Blessed Sacrament is not one devotion among many: it is Jesus Christ, the soul's true food. Let every Marian offering lead you more faithfully to her Eucharistic Son.

If you can assist at Mass and receive worthily, approach with recollection and hunger rather than habit. If you cannot, do not allow absence to become forgetfulness. Turn toward the tabernacle, confess your desire, and ask Our Lady to prepare in you a more faithful welcome for Jesus.

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Today's Practice

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Make a reverent Spiritual Communion, or prepare carefully for Holy Communion if you will receive today.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank the Holy Ghost for His inspirations, repent of every resistance, and ask Our Lady to prepare a more generous welcome tomorrow.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, keep me faithful to Thy true worship. Through St. Boniface, give me courage to reject idols without hatred of persons and to labor for their conversion.

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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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