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The Faith Must Be Confessed Publicly. Resist cowardly peace when silence would imply consent to error.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. Placid and Companions, Martyrs\n2030-10-05 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nSt. Placid and Companions, Martyrs is the principal observance today. The Gospel panel comes from the traditional Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept alongside this simple feast; it adds a Marian lesson without replacing the day's principal observance.\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.\nCloister: the enclosed part of a monastery or convent, and by extension the protected religious life of prayer lived there.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Placid learned fidelity first in the ordinary school of prayer, rule, and obedience. When martyrdom came, he was not asked to invent courage in a moment; he completed publicly the surrender already practiced in hidden life. Let today's small obedience become preparation for whatever Christ may later require. Join the praise of Heaven and earth, but ask that your praise of Mary become obedience to her Son. Offer the first Hail Mary slowly, praising God's work in Our Lady and asking to live beneath her standard.\n\n\"Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heights of the heavens and in the profoundest depths of the abysses, everything preaches, everything publishes, the admirable Mary!\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 8\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort allows the soul to hear a vast chorus of praise, but he does not invite it to remain among beautiful words. Heaven praises Our Lady because God has crowned His own work in her. The devils acknowledge her unwillingly because they cannot erase the victory of the Woman whom God has set against the serpent.\n\nYour praise must therefore take sides. To honor Mary is to reject the spirit that contradicts her: pride instead of humility, impurity instead of her spotless heart, revolt instead of her fiat, and doctrinal compromise instead of her unwavering faith. Let every praise of her today become a refusal of sin.\n\nPRACTICE\nObey God's commandments, fulfill your known duties, and receive just correction today as a direct answer to the temptation to say, 'I will not serve.'\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\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nNovena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 8 of 9\nPreparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2030-10-07.\nAsk for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.\n\nPray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 5\nAt Messina, in Sicily, the birthday of the holy martyrs Placidus, monk, disciple of the blessed abbot Benedict, and of his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus, and Flavia, virgin, their sister; also of Donatus, Firmatus, deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks, who were murdered for the faith of Christ by the pirate Manuchas. — The same day, the birthday of blessed Thraseas, bishop of Eumenia, who ended his career by martyrdom at Smyrna. — At Treves, the holy martyrs Palmatius and his companions, who suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Eictiovarus. — The same day, under the emperor Diocletian and the ex-consul Domitius, St. Charitina, a virgin, who was exposed to the fire and thrown into the sea; but escaping uninjured, she had her hands and feet cut off, her teeth plucked out, and finally she yielded her spirit in prayer. — At Auxerre, the departure from this life of the saintly deacon Firmatus and the virgin Flaviana, his sister. — At Ravenna, St. Marcellinus, bishop and confessor. — At Valence, in France, St. Apollinaris, a bishop, who was renowned in life for virtues, and in death for miracles and prodigies. — The same day, St. Attilanus, bishop of Zamora, who was ranked among the saints by Urban II. — At Leon, in Spain, St. Froilanus, bishop of that city, renowned for his zeal in spreading the monastic life, 308 OCTOBER. \" for his liberality to the poor and other virtues, and for miracles. — At Rome, St. Galla, widow, daughter of the consul Symmachus, who, after the death of her husband, remained many years near the church of St. Peter, applying to prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and other pious works. Her most happy death has been described by pope St. Gregory.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nBlessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.\nSaturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 11:27-28\n\"Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.\"\nGive Saturday to Our Lady in some concrete way. Let her teach you to hear, keep, and remain faithful in the ordinary hours.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nOur Lord praises the deepest Marian blessedness: hearing the word of God and keeping it.\nTrue devotion to Our Lady is obedient, doctrinal, and practical; it forms souls who receive Christ faithfully.\nError corrected: The sentimental devotion that honors Our Lady with words while neglecting obedience to the word of God.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Placid and Companions\nBenedictine martyrs slain for the faith of Christ.\nThe Martyrology honors Placidus, monk and disciple of St. Benedict, with his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus, their sister Flavia, and many companions murdered for the faith of Christ at Messina.\nTheir feast joins monastic discipline to martyrdom. The cloister is not flight from courage; it forms souls ready to belong to Christ in life and death.\nLet St. Placid and his companions strengthen disciplined fidelity. Prayer should make the soul softer toward God and firmer before evil.\nFROM MATINS\nThe school of St. Benedict crowned by martyrdom.\nMatins - One Nocturn - St. Placid and Companions, Martyrs\nRoman Breviary\n\"He was reckoned among the chiefest of his disciples.\"\n- The Breviary remembers Placid as a child offered to God and formed under St. Benedict's teaching and monastic rule.\n- His disciplined life bore missionary fruit in Sicily, where he founded a church and monastery dedicated to St. John the Baptist.\n- When violence reached the monastery, Placid, his family, and his monastic companions refused to deny Christ and completed their common discipline in martyrdom.\nLet ordinary discipline prepare extraordinary fidelity. Prayer, rule, family duty, and common life become strong when all are ordered toward confessing Christ without compromise.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nThird Lesson - Monastic Discipline Crowned by Martyrdom\nPlacidus was the son of Tertullus, one of the noblest persons of Rome. He was offered to God [by his father] when a child [only seven years of age,] and given over to holy Benedict, in whose teaching and Rule of monks he so profited that he was reckoned among the chiefest of his disciples. By him he was sent into Sicily, where he founded near the Port of Messina a Church and monastery in honour of St. John the Baptist, and lived therein with his monks in wonderful holiness. Thither there came to see him his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus and his virgin sister Flavia, and while they were together, there landed there a certain brutal pirate, named Manucha, who took the monastery, and when he could in no wise prevail upon Placidus and the others to deny Christ, he commanded him, his brothers, and his sister to be cruelly murdered. With them Donatus, Firmatus a Deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks brought the conflict of testimony to the blessed end of martyrdom, upon the fifth day of October, in the year of salvation 509.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Faith Must Be Confessed Publicly\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic faith is not a private sentiment. It must be confessed, defended, and lived before men when duty requires it. 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 sent to all nations. Her public confession cannot be reduced to hidden feeling or private preference.\nThe grace to be practiced is Monastic courage unto martyrdom, 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. Let praise become imitation. Honor Mary's humility by refusing the contrary movement of pride when it first appears.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist cowardly peace when silence would imply consent to error. 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 monastic courage unto martyrdom 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 fidelity separates you from the world's approval, remember that Heaven's judgment is the one that endures. Let your acts visibly reflect Mary's purity, obedience, recollection, and courageous faith.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is St. Athanasius.\nYour resolution before God: Obey God's commandments, fulfill your known duties, and receive just correction today as a direct answer to the temptation to say, 'I will not serve.'\nCarry this word: The root of revolt is refusal to hear God.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 23, p. 41\nChristian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest.\n\nThe world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it.\nToday's Practice: Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk whether your Marian words produced Marian conduct, and entrust the distance between them to her maternal correction.\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, keep me from Pharaoh's pride. When Moses delivered Thy command, Pharaoh asked, 'Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice?' Do not let me answer Thy known will with the same refusal.\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\nSt. Athanasius and the World Against Him: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-athanasius-and-the-world-against-him?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-10-05&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-10-05&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. Placid and Companions, Martyrs - 2030-10-05\n \n \n
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St. Placid and Companions, Martyrs is the principal observance today. The Gospel panel comes from the traditional Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept alongside this simple feast; it adds a Marian lesson without replacing the day's principal observance.

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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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the enclosed part of a monastery or convent, and by extension the protected religious life of prayer lived there.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.

The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.

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St. Placid learned fidelity first in the ordinary school of prayer, rule, and obedience. When martyrdom came, he was not asked to invent courage in a moment; he completed publicly the surrender already practiced in hidden life. Let today's small obedience become preparation for whatever Christ may later require.

Join the praise of Heaven and earth, but ask that your praise of Mary become obedience to her Son.

Offer the first Hail Mary slowly, praising God's work in Our Lady and asking to live beneath her standard.

“Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heights of the heavens and in the profoundest depths of the abysses, everything preaches, everything publishes, the admirable Mary!”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 8

St. Louis de Montfort allows the soul to hear a vast chorus of praise, but he does not invite it to remain among beautiful words. Heaven praises Our Lady because God has crowned His own work in her. The devils acknowledge her unwillingly because they cannot erase the victory of the Woman whom God has set against the serpent.

Your praise must therefore take sides. To honor Mary is to reject the spirit that contradicts her: pride instead of humility, impurity instead of her spotless heart, revolt instead of her fiat, and doctrinal compromise instead of her unwavering faith. Let every praise of her today become a refusal of sin.

Obey God's commandments, fulfill your known duties, and receive just correction today as a direct answer to the temptation to say, 'I will not serve.'

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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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Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 8 of 9

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Preparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2030-10-07.

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Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile.

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Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion.

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Roman Martyrology - October 5

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At Messina, in Sicily, the birthday of the holy martyrs Placidus, monk, disciple of the blessed abbot Benedict, and of his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus, and Flavia, virgin, their sister; also of Donatus, Firmatus, deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks, who were murdered for the faith of Christ by the pirate Manuchas. — The same day, the birthday of blessed Thraseas, bishop of Eumenia, who ended his career by martyrdom at Smyrna. — At Treves, the holy martyrs Palmatius and his companions, who suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Eictiovarus. — The same day, under the emperor Diocletian and the ex-consul Domitius, St. Charitina, a virgin, who was exposed to the fire and thrown into the sea; but escaping uninjured, she had her hands and feet cut off, her teeth plucked out, and finally she yielded her spirit in prayer. — At Auxerre, the departure from this life of the saintly deacon Firmatus and the virgin Flaviana, his sister. — At Ravenna, St. Marcellinus, bishop and confessor. — At Valence, in France, St. Apollinaris, a bishop, who was renowned in life for virtues, and in death for miracles and prodigies. — The same day, St. Attilanus, bishop of Zamora, who was ranked among the saints by Urban II. — At Leon, in Spain, St. Froilanus, bishop of that city, renowned for his zeal in spreading the monastic life, 308 OCTOBER. " for his liberality to the poor and other virtues, and for miracles. — At Rome, St. Galla, widow, daughter of the consul Symmachus, who, after the death of her husband, remained many years near the church of St. Peter, applying to prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and other pious works. Her most happy death has been described by pope St. Gregory.

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Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

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Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 11:27-28

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“Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
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Give Saturday to Our Lady in some concrete way. Let her teach you to hear, keep, and remain faithful in the ordinary hours.

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Our Lord praises the deepest Marian blessedness: hearing the word of God and keeping it.

True devotion to Our Lady is obedient, doctrinal, and practical; it forms souls who receive Christ faithfully.

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Error corrected: The sentimental devotion that honors Our Lady with words while neglecting obedience to the word of God.

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St. Placid and Companions

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Benedictine martyrs slain for the faith of Christ.

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The Martyrology honors Placidus, monk and disciple of St. Benedict, with his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus, their sister Flavia, and many companions murdered for the faith of Christ at Messina.

Their feast joins monastic discipline to martyrdom. The cloister is not flight from courage; it forms souls ready to belong to Christ in life and death.

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Let St. Placid and his companions strengthen disciplined fidelity. Prayer should make the soul softer toward God and firmer before evil.

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The school of St. Benedict crowned by martyrdom.

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Let ordinary discipline prepare extraordinary fidelity. Prayer, rule, family duty, and common life become strong when all are ordered toward confessing Christ without compromise.

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Third Lesson - Monastic Discipline Crowned by Martyrdom

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Placidus was the son of Tertullus, one of the noblest persons of Rome. He was offered to God [by his father] when a child [only seven years of age,] and given over to holy Benedict, in whose teaching and Rule of monks he so profited that he was reckoned among the chiefest of his disciples. By him he was sent into Sicily, where he founded near the Port of Messina a Church and monastery in honour of St. John the Baptist, and lived therein with his monks in wonderful holiness. Thither there came to see him his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus and his virgin sister Flavia, and while they were together, there landed there a certain brutal pirate, named Manucha, who took the monastery, and when he could in no wise prevail upon Placidus and the others to deny Christ, he commanded him, his brothers, and his sister to be cruelly murdered. With them Donatus, Firmatus a Deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks brought the conflict of testimony to the blessed end of martyrdom, upon the fifth day of October, in the year of salvation 509.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Faith Must Be Confessed Publicly

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic faith is not a private sentiment. It must be confessed, defended, and lived before men when duty requires it. 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 sent to all nations. Her public confession cannot be reduced to hidden feeling or private preference.

The grace to be practiced is Monastic courage unto martyrdom, 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. Let praise become imitation. Honor Mary's humility by refusing the contrary movement of pride when it first appears.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist cowardly peace when silence would imply consent to error. 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 monastic courage unto martyrdom 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 fidelity separates you from the world's approval, remember that Heaven's judgment is the one that endures. Let your acts visibly reflect Mary's purity, obedience, recollection, and courageous faith.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is St. Athanasius.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Obey God's commandments, fulfill your known duties, and receive just correction today as a direct answer to the temptation to say, 'I will not serve.'

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ.”
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Christian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest.

The world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it.

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Today's Practice

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Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition.

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Daily Examen

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Ask whether your Marian words produced Marian conduct, and entrust the distance between them to her maternal correction.

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O Lord, keep me from Pharaoh's pride. When Moses delivered Thy command, Pharaoh asked, 'Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice?' Do not let me answer Thy known will with the same refusal.

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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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Persevere, pilgrim.

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