{"ok":true,"date":"2030-12-15","dateKey":"12-15","liturgicalDay":"Third Sunday of Advent","rank":"Sunday of the Second Class","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.","author":"St. Stephen","source":"Acts 7:60, Douay-Rheims","category":"The Love of God"},"season":"Advent","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Common Octave of the Immaculate Conception","rank":"Common Octave","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, p. xxviii."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Third Sunday of Advent - 2030-12-15","previewText":"Third Sunday of Advent. True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ. Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nThird Sunday of Advent\n2030-12-15 - Advent - Sunday of the Second Class - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nThird Sunday of Advent is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves Octave of the Immaculate Conception on this date. The Breviary witness panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.\nOctave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.\nImmaculate Conception: God's grace preserved Mary from original sin from the first instant of her own conception, in view of the saving merits of Christ; the term does not refer to Christ's conception.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nThe octave closes, but the Immaculate Conception must remain a living lesson: God placed enmity between the Woman and the serpent. The Christian cannot cultivate peace with sins, doctrines, or occasions that oppose Christ while claiming devotion to His Mother. Ask Our Lady for a clean and lasting separation from every compromise. Receive with Our Lady the order God freely chose for the works of grace. Adore God's sovereign freedom and ask Our Lady to obtain a docile acceptance of everything He has revealed and appointed.\n\n\"Nevertheless I say that, things being supposed as they are now, God having willed to commence and to complete His greatest works by the most holy Virgin, since He created her, we may well think He will not change His conduct in the eternal ages; for He is God, and He changes not either in His sentiments or in His conduct.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 15\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort has just confessed God's absolute independence. He now turns from what God could have done to what God freely willed to do. Devotion rests upon that divine choice, not upon an imagined necessity in God or an independent power in Mary.\n\nReceive God's order instead of designing a more convenient religion for yourself. The same humility that accepts the Incarnation through Mary must also accept Christ's doctrine, commandments, Church, sacraments, Cross, and means of grace without revision by private preference.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Common Octave of the Immaculate Conception - Common Octave\n\nPRACTICE\nRemove or avoid every concrete occasion that repeatedly weakens faith, purity, or prayer.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.\"\nSt. Stephen, Acts 7:60, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - December 15\nThe Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. — The same day, the consecration of St. Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, whose birthday is commemorated on the 1st of August. His feast is kept on the 16th of this month, by order of pope Benedict XIII. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Irenaeus, Anthony, Theodore, Saturninus, Victor and seventeen others, who suffered for Christ in the persecution of Valerian. — In Africa, the martyrdom of the Saints Faustinus, Lucius, Candidus, Caelian, Mark, Januarius and Fortunatus. — In the same country, the holy bishop Valerian, who, being upwards of eighty years old, in the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian king Genseric, was asked to deliver the vessels of the church, and as he constantly refused, an order was issued to drive him all alone out of the city, and all were forbidden to allow him to stay either in their houses or on their land. For a long time he remained lying on the public road, in the open air, and thus, in the confession and defence of the Catholic verity, closed his blessed life. — In the diocese of Orleans, St. Maximinus, confessor. — In Georgia, beyond the Euxine sea, St. Christiana, who, though a slave, was so gifted with the power of working miracles that she converted the inhabitants of that country to the faith of Christ, in the time of Cons tan tine.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nMake straight the way of the Lord.\nThird Sunday of Advent - John 1:19-28\n\"I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.\"\nLet Gaudete joy be quiet and clean. A soul becomes lighter when it stops needing to be the center of the scene.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nSt. John refuses borrowed glory and gives all attention to Christ.\nTrue joy is not self-display, but making a straight road for the Lord.\nError corrected: The vanity that wants religious work to become self-importance.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nOctave of the Immaculate Conception\nThe Church lingering before Mary's spotless beginning.\nThe octave prolongs the Church's contemplation of Our Lady preserved from original sin by the merits of Christ.\nIt teaches that purity is not a passing thought, but a grace to be loved, guarded, and begged for with confidence.\nStay near the Immaculate Mother a little longer. She helps weak souls hate sin without losing hope.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nThe octave that keeps purity before the soul.\nMatins - Octave of the Immaculate Conception\n- The octave prolongs the Church's contemplation of Mary's spotless beginning and God's preserving grace.\n- It teaches that purity is not a seasonal thought, but a grace to be loved, guarded, and sought.\nRemain with the Immaculate Mother until compromise begins to look ugly again and hope begins to look possible.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Octave of the Immaculate Conception 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 octave that keeps purity before the soul.. Its first point is this: The octave prolongs the Church's contemplation of Mary's spotless beginning and God's preserving grace. Its next point develops the lesson: It teaches that purity is not a seasonal thought, but a grace to be loved, guarded, and sought.\nThe practical instruction is: Remain with the Immaculate Mother until compromise begins to look ugly again and hope begins to look possible. 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\nSt. John Baptist and the humility of truth.\nMatins - Third Nocturn - Third Sunday of Advent\nPope St. Gregory the Great\n\"He soberly chose rather to seem only what he really was.\"\n- The Breviary contemplates St. John Baptist confessing the truth about himself and refusing a dignity that did not belong to him.\n- St. Gregory teaches that John's humility made him a member of Christ, precisely because he would not take Christ's title.\n- True greatness in the Church is not self-enlargement, but faithful witness to the One who comes.\nLearn John's clean humility. Say what is true, refuse borrowed glory, and let every office, talent, and word point past you to Christ.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nTrue Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ\nThe Church places this truth before you today: True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule. 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. Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.\nThe grace to be practiced is Persevering confidence in cleansing 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 docility by receiving God's order whole rather than accepting only the parts agreeable to temperament.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion. 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 persevering confidence in cleansing 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. When obedience contradicts preference, surrender the desire to make God's way answer to your own design. Order all your prayers, duties, relationships, and sacrifices according to God's commandments and the obligations of your state in life.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.\nYour resolution before God: Remove or avoid every concrete occasion that repeatedly weakens faith, purity, or prayer.\nCarry this word: Love of Our Lady includes hatred of the sin and falsehood over which grace triumphed in her.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"It behoveth thee to break thine own will in many things, if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 17, p. 27\nConcord bought by surrendering truth is false, but many quarrels arise from preference rather than principle. Yield what belongs to self-will while holding fast what belongs to God.\n\nLearn to distinguish the two before the moment of conflict. Doctrine, purity, justice, and necessary duty may require firmness. Your preferred method, timing, recognition, or last word usually does not. The soul becomes strong when it stops spending zeal upon the defense of self.\nToday's Practice: Yield harmless preferences cheerfully whenever truth and duty do not require firmness.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine where private preference tried to replace God's revealed order, and renew your submission through Mary to Jesus Christ.\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 Immaculate Virgin, keep me in the enmity God established against the serpent and lead me in faithful service to Jesus Christ.\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\nTrue Devotion to Mary: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mary-and-the-typologies-of-the-church/true-devotion-to-mary-not-sentiment-but-formation-in-christ?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-12-15&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-12-15&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: Third Sunday of Advent - 2030-12-15\n \n \n
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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Third Sunday of Advent is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves Octave of the Immaculate Conception on this date. The Breviary witness panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.

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an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
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God's grace preserved Mary from original sin from the first instant of her own conception, in view of the saving merits of Christ; the term does not refer to Christ's conception.
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in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.
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The octave closes, but the Immaculate Conception must remain a living lesson: God placed enmity between the Woman and the serpent. The Christian cannot cultivate peace with sins, doctrines, or occasions that oppose Christ while claiming devotion to His Mother. Ask Our Lady for a clean and lasting separation from every compromise.

Receive with Our Lady the order God freely chose for the works of grace.

Adore God's sovereign freedom and ask Our Lady to obtain a docile acceptance of everything He has revealed and appointed.

“Nevertheless I say that, things being supposed as they are now, God having willed to commence and to complete His greatest works by the most holy Virgin, since He created her, we may well think He will not change His conduct in the eternal ages; for He is God, and He changes not either in His sentiments or in His conduct.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 15

St. Louis de Montfort has just confessed God's absolute independence. He now turns from what God could have done to what God freely willed to do. Devotion rests upon that divine choice, not upon an imagined necessity in God or an independent power in Mary.

Receive God's order instead of designing a more convenient religion for yourself. The same humility that accepts the Incarnation through Mary must also accept Christ's doctrine, commandments, Church, sacraments, Cross, and means of grace without revision by private preference.

Remove or avoid every concrete occasion that repeatedly weakens faith, purity, or prayer.

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Quote of the Day

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“Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”
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St. Stephen, Acts 7:60, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - December 15

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The Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. — The same day, the consecration of St. Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, whose birthday is commemorated on the 1st of August. His feast is kept on the 16th of this month, by order of pope Benedict XIII. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Irenaeus, Anthony, Theodore, Saturninus, Victor and seventeen others, who suffered for Christ in the persecution of Valerian. — In Africa, the martyrdom of the Saints Faustinus, Lucius, Candidus, Caelian, Mark, Januarius and Fortunatus. — In the same country, the holy bishop Valerian, who, being upwards of eighty years old, in the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian king Genseric, was asked to deliver the vessels of the church, and as he constantly refused, an order was issued to drive him all alone out of the city, and all were forbidden to allow him to stay either in their houses or on their land. For a long time he remained lying on the public road, in the open air, and thus, in the confession and defence of the Catholic verity, closed his blessed life. — In the diocese of Orleans, St. Maximinus, confessor. — In Georgia, beyond the Euxine sea, St. Christiana, who, though a slave, was so gifted with the power of working miracles that she converted the inhabitants of that country to the faith of Christ, in the time of Cons tan tine.

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Make straight the way of the Lord.

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Third Sunday of Advent - John 1:19-28

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“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.”
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Let Gaudete joy be quiet and clean. A soul becomes lighter when it stops needing to be the center of the scene.

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The Church's Reading of the Gospel

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What This Gospel Teaches

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St. John refuses borrowed glory and gives all attention to Christ.

True joy is not self-display, but making a straight road for the Lord.

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Error corrected: The vanity that wants religious work to become self-importance.

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Octave of the Immaculate Conception

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The Church lingering before Mary's spotless beginning.

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The octave prolongs the Church's contemplation of Our Lady preserved from original sin by the merits of Christ.

It teaches that purity is not a passing thought, but a grace to be loved, guarded, and begged for with confidence.

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The octave that keeps purity before the soul.

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Remain with the Immaculate Mother until compromise begins to look ugly again and hope begins to look possible.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Octave of the Immaculate Conception 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 octave that keeps purity before the soul.. Its first point is this: The octave prolongs the Church's contemplation of Mary's spotless beginning and God's preserving grace. Its next point develops the lesson: It teaches that purity is not a seasonal thought, but a grace to be loved, guarded, and sought.

The practical instruction is: Remain with the Immaculate Mother until compromise begins to look ugly again and hope begins to look possible. 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?
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St. John Baptist and the humility of truth.

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Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 7 on the Gospels

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“He soberly chose rather to seem only what he really was.”
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Learn John's clean humility. Say what is true, refuse borrowed glory, and let every office, talent, and word point past you to Christ.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ

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The Church places this truth before you today: True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule. 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. Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.

The grace to be practiced is Persevering confidence in cleansing 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 docility by receiving God's order whole rather than accepting only the parts agreeable to temperament.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion. 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 persevering confidence in cleansing 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. When obedience contradicts preference, surrender the desire to make God's way answer to your own design. Order all your prayers, duties, relationships, and sacrifices according to God's commandments and the obligations of your state in life.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.

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Your Resolution Before God

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Remove or avoid every concrete occasion that repeatedly weakens faith, purity, or prayer.

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Love of Our Lady includes hatred of the sin and falsehood over which grace triumphed in her.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“It behoveth thee to break thine own will in many things, if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 17, p. 27

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Concord bought by surrendering truth is false, but many quarrels arise from preference rather than principle. Yield what belongs to self-will while holding fast what belongs to God.

Learn to distinguish the two before the moment of conflict. Doctrine, purity, justice, and necessary duty may require firmness. Your preferred method, timing, recognition, or last word usually does not. The soul becomes strong when it stops spending zeal upon the defense of self.

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Today's Practice

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Yield harmless preferences cheerfully whenever truth and duty do not require firmness.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine where private preference tried to replace God's revealed order, and renew your submission through Mary to Jesus Christ.

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O Immaculate Virgin, keep me in the enmity God established against the serpent and lead me in faithful service to Jesus Christ.

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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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