{"ok":true,"date":"2030-11-10","dateKey":"11-10","liturgicalDay":"22nd Sunday after Pentecost","rank":"Semi-Double Sunday","color":"green","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":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: 22nd Sunday after Pentecost - 2030-11-10","previewText":"22nd Sunday after Pentecost. Doctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine. Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\n22nd Sunday after Pentecost\n2030-11-10 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\n22nd Sunday after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Andrew Avellino, Confessor on this date. The secondary observance remains part of the calendar context for the date. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nCommemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nBishop: a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nSt. Andrew Avellino was struck by the gravity of a lie and answered it with confession, amendment, and a more perfect surrender to God. He later died at the altar, but his preparation for that death had been made through years of penance and priestly fidelity. Do not postpone the correction of a known fault. Receive from Jesus through Mary only so that you may belong and return more completely to Jesus. Ask Jesus for mercy through His Mother and offer yourself as an instrument by which His charity may reach the persons entrusted to you.\n\n\"She is His mysterious canal; she is His aqueduct, through which He makes His mercies flow gently and abundantly.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 24\n\nChrist is the source; Mary is the canal. The distinction is essential. She neither originates grace nor replaces Our Lord's sacrifice, Church, or sacraments. Everything she gives is His, and her whole maternal action carries souls toward union with Him.\n\nAn aqueduct receives in order to convey. Imitate that self-forgetful service. Whatever truth, time, strength, material good, consolation, or spiritual help God sends should not stagnate in self-possession. Let it pass through your duties into prayer, charity, reparation, and service of souls.\n\nPRACTICE\nName your recurring faults, make an act of contrition, and practice their contrary virtues today.\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 - November 10\nAt Naples, in Campania, the birthday of St. Andrew Avellini, Clerk Regular, very celebrated for his sanctity, and his zeal in procuring the salvation of souls. Being renowned for miracles, he was inscribed on the catalogue of saints by Clement XI. — The birthday of the holy martyrs Tryphon and Kespicius, and the virgin Nympha. — In the diocese of Agde, the holy martyrs Tiberius, Modestus, and Florentia, who, after being subjected to various torments, consummated their martyrdom in the time of Diocletian. — At Antioch, the Saints Demetrius, bishop, Anian, deacon, Eustosius, and twenty other martyrs. — At Ravenna, St. Probus, a bishop, renowned for miracles. — At Orleans, St. Monitor, bishop and confessor. In England, St. Justus, bishop, who was sent by pope Gregory with Augustine, Mellitus, and others to preach the Gospel in that country. There he went to his repose in the Lord, celebrated for sanctity. — At Melun, St. Leo, confessor. — At Iconium, in Lycaonia, the holy women Tryphenna and Tryphosa, who profited by the preaching of blessed Paul and the example of Thecla to make great progress in Christian perfection. — In the island of Paros, St. Theoctistes, virgin.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nRender therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.\n22nd Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 22:15-21\n\"Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.\"\nKeep your duties ordered. Earthly authority has limits; God's claim on the soul does not.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nChrist answers malice with wisdom, preserving the rights of God above all earthly power.\nCivil duties are real, but they do not swallow the soul owed to God.\nError corrected: The political religion that lets Caesar claim what belongs to God.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. Andrew Avellino\nClerk Regular zealous for the salvation of souls.\nThe Martyrology honors St. Andrew Avellino at Naples as a Clerk Regular celebrated for sanctity, miracles, and zeal in procuring the salvation of souls.\nHis feast teaches that priestly zeal must be directed to salvation, not mere influence. True pastoral work labors so that souls know truth, repent, persevere, and die in grace.\nAsk St. Andrew Avellino for zeal without vanity. Souls are not helped by vague concern, but by prayer, doctrine, sacrifice, and courage.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nRender to God the things that are God's.\nMatins - 22nd Sunday after Pentecost\n- The Sunday office keeps the Church attentive to the Gospel in which Our Lord answers the Pharisees and Herodians concerning tribute to Caesar.\n- The lesson teaches true order: earthly duties are not denied, but God must receive the soul, worship, obedience, and final allegiance that belong to Him.\nGive lawful duties their place without surrendering the soul. The image of Caesar may be on the coin, but the image of God is on man.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for 22nd Sunday after Pentecost 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 Render to God the things that are God's.. Its first point is this: The Sunday office keeps the Church attentive to the Gospel in which Our Lord answers the Pharisees and Herodians concerning tribute to Caesar. Its next point develops the lesson: The lesson teaches true order: earthly duties are not denied, but God must receive the soul, worship, obedience, and final allegiance that belong to Him.\nThe practical instruction is: Give lawful duties their place without surrendering the soul. The image of Caesar may be on the coin, but the image of God is on man. 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\nRender to God body, soul, and will.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - 22nd Sunday after Pentecost\nSt. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers\n\"Unto God all of us are bound always to render the things that are God's.\"\n- Christ exposes the Pharisees' snare and keeps temporal duty beneath divine lordship.\n- St. Hilary teaches that earthly obligations do not excuse withholding oneself from God.\n- The soul belongs to God by creation and must render itself wholly back to Him.\nGive civil duty its limited due, but never let Caesar receive what belongs to God: conscience, worship, doctrine, and the soul itself.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nDoctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine\nThe Church places this truth before you today: True growth in Catholic doctrine preserves the same meaning and the same judgment; it unfolds what was received, without changing the faith into a novelty. 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. Unity of faith is protected when later expression remains identical in substance with what the Church has always taught.\nThe grace to be practiced is Zeal for the salvation of souls, 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 generosity by receiving God's gifts gratefully and placing them at the service of His glory and your neighbor's salvation.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age. 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 zeal for the salvation of souls 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. Renounce possessiveness over gifts, time, spiritual consolations, and the fruit of good works. Use all your duties, prayers, resources, and opportunities as channels of truth and charity without seeking ownership of the good accomplished.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Vincent of Lerins.\nYour resolution before God: Name your recurring faults, make an act of contrition, and practice their contrary virtues today.\nCarry this word: A holy death is ordinarily prepared by prompt amendment.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"All that is in this world is vanity, but to love God and only to serve Him.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 1, p. 9\nCreated things are good when they lead the soul to God and become dangerous when they claim the heart. Put the day's lesser goods beneath the one necessary end.\n\nVanity does not always announce itself through great ambition. It often appears as a small comfort you believe you cannot surrender, an opinion you must defend, or praise you continue to replay. Ask God to show you the attachment that is quietly asking to be treated as necessary.\nToday's Practice: Renounce needless comforts whenever they compete with prayer, duty, or charity, and offer the sacrifices to God through Mary.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nAsk whether grace ended in self-satisfaction or flowed onward into obedience, reparation, intercession, and works of mercy.\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, through St. Andrew Avellino, give me honest contrition and the courage to repair without delay what sin has disordered.\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. Vincent of Lerins and Catholic Continuity: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-vincent-of-lerins-and-the-rule-of-catholic-continuity?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-11-10&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-11-10&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: 22nd Sunday after Pentecost - 2030-11-10\n \n \n
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22nd Sunday after Pentecost

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2030-11-10 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green

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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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22nd Sunday after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Andrew Avellino, Confessor on this date. The secondary observance remains part of the calendar context for the date. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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Commemoration
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a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.
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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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a successor of the apostles charged with teaching, sanctifying, and governing a local Church.
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Today in the Roman Year

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St. Andrew Avellino was struck by the gravity of a lie and answered it with confession, amendment, and a more perfect surrender to God. He later died at the altar, but his preparation for that death had been made through years of penance and priestly fidelity. Do not postpone the correction of a known fault.

Receive from Jesus through Mary only so that you may belong and return more completely to Jesus.

Ask Jesus for mercy through His Mother and offer yourself as an instrument by which His charity may reach the persons entrusted to you.

“She is His mysterious canal; she is His aqueduct, through which He makes His mercies flow gently and abundantly.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 24

Christ is the source; Mary is the canal. The distinction is essential. She neither originates grace nor replaces Our Lord's sacrifice, Church, or sacraments. Everything she gives is His, and her whole maternal action carries souls toward union with Him.

An aqueduct receives in order to convey. Imitate that self-forgetful service. Whatever truth, time, strength, material good, consolation, or spiritual help God sends should not stagnate in self-possession. Let it pass through your duties into prayer, charity, reparation, and service of souls.

Name your recurring faults, make an act of contrition, and practice their contrary virtues today.

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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 - November 10

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At Naples, in Campania, the birthday of St. Andrew Avellini, Clerk Regular, very celebrated for his sanctity, and his zeal in procuring the salvation of souls. Being renowned for miracles, he was inscribed on the catalogue of saints by Clement XI. — The birthday of the holy martyrs Tryphon and Kespicius, and the virgin Nympha. — In the diocese of Agde, the holy martyrs Tiberius, Modestus, and Florentia, who, after being subjected to various torments, consummated their martyrdom in the time of Diocletian. — At Antioch, the Saints Demetrius, bishop, Anian, deacon, Eustosius, and twenty other martyrs. — At Ravenna, St. Probus, a bishop, renowned for miracles. — At Orleans, St. Monitor, bishop and confessor. In England, St. Justus, bishop, who was sent by pope Gregory with Augustine, Mellitus, and others to preach the Gospel in that country. There he went to his repose in the Lord, celebrated for sanctity. — At Melun, St. Leo, confessor. — At Iconium, in Lycaonia, the holy women Tryphenna and Tryphosa, who profited by the preaching of blessed Paul and the example of Thecla to make great progress in Christian perfection. — In the island of Paros, St. Theoctistes, virgin.

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Gospel of the Day

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Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

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22nd Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 22:15-21

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“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.”
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Keep your duties ordered. Earthly authority has limits; God's claim on the soul does not.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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Christ answers malice with wisdom, preserving the rights of God above all earthly power.

Civil duties are real, but they do not swallow the soul owed to God.

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Error corrected: The political religion that lets Caesar claim what belongs to God.

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St. Andrew Avellino

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Clerk Regular zealous for the salvation of souls.

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The Martyrology honors St. Andrew Avellino at Naples as a Clerk Regular celebrated for sanctity, miracles, and zeal in procuring the salvation of souls.

His feast teaches that priestly zeal must be directed to salvation, not mere influence. True pastoral work labors so that souls know truth, repent, persevere, and die in grace.

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Ask St. Andrew Avellino for zeal without vanity. Souls are not helped by vague concern, but by prayer, doctrine, sacrifice, and courage.

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Breviary Witness

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Render to God the things that are God's.

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Matins - 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

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Give lawful duties their place without surrendering the soul. The image of Caesar may be on the coin, but the image of God is on man.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for 22nd Sunday after Pentecost 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 Render to God the things that are God's.. Its first point is this: The Sunday office keeps the Church attentive to the Gospel in which Our Lord answers the Pharisees and Herodians concerning tribute to Caesar. Its next point develops the lesson: The lesson teaches true order: earthly duties are not denied, but God must receive the soul, worship, obedience, and final allegiance that belong to Him.

The practical instruction is: Give lawful duties their place without surrendering the soul. The image of Caesar may be on the coin, but the image of God is on man. 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 truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
  • What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
  • What judgment or action should change because I have received this lesson?
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From Matins

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Render to God body, soul, and will.

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Matins - Third Nocturn - 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

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St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Commentary on St. Matthew

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“Unto God all of us are bound always to render the things that are God's.”
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Give civil duty its limited due, but never let Caesar receive what belongs to God: conscience, worship, doctrine, and the soul itself.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Doctrine Develops Without Becoming Another Doctrine

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The Church places this truth before you today: True growth in Catholic doctrine preserves the same meaning and the same judgment; it unfolds what was received, without changing the faith into a novelty. 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. Unity of faith is protected when later expression remains identical in substance with what the Church has always taught.

The grace to be practiced is Zeal for the salvation of souls, 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 generosity by receiving God's gifts gratefully and placing them at the service of His glory and your neighbor's salvation.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the modernist notion that dogma may change its meaning according to the religious needs of an age. 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 zeal for the salvation of souls 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. Renounce possessiveness over gifts, time, spiritual consolations, and the fruit of good works. Use all your duties, prayers, resources, and opportunities as channels of truth and charity without seeking ownership of the good accomplished.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Vincent of Lerins.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Name your recurring faults, make an act of contrition, and practice their contrary virtues today.

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A holy death is ordinarily prepared by prompt amendment.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“All that is in this world is vanity, but to love God and only to serve Him.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 1, p. 9

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Created things are good when they lead the soul to God and become dangerous when they claim the heart. Put the day's lesser goods beneath the one necessary end.

Vanity does not always announce itself through great ambition. It often appears as a small comfort you believe you cannot surrender, an opinion you must defend, or praise you continue to replay. Ask God to show you the attachment that is quietly asking to be treated as necessary.

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Today's Practice

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Renounce needless comforts whenever they compete with prayer, duty, or charity, and offer the sacrifices to God through Mary.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Ask whether grace ended in self-satisfaction or flowed onward into obedience, reparation, intercession, and works of mercy.

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O Lord, through St. Andrew Avellino, give me honest contrition and the courage to repair without delay what sin has disordered.

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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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