{"ok":true,"date":"2030-12-19","dateKey":"12-19","liturgicalDay":"Feria of Advent","rank":"Feria","color":"violet","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"Many suffer everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed.","author":"Pope St. Pius X","source":"Acerbo Nimis, n. 2","category":"Wisdom and Holy Fear"},"season":"Advent","novenas":[{"title":"Christmas Novena","feast":"Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ","day":4,"totalDays":9,"startIsoDate":"2030-12-16","feastIsoDate":"2030-12-25","intention":"Prepare the soul and household to receive the King in humility, adoration, and Catholic faith.","prayer":null,"practice":"Keep silence and simplicity wherever they prepare the soul and household for the Christ Child.","sources":[]}],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Feria of Advent - 2030-12-19","previewText":"Feria of Advent. Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies. Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nFeria of Advent\n2030-12-19 - Advent - Feria - violet\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nOrdination: the sacrament by which a baptized man is made a deacon, priest, or bishop and receives the grace and authority needed for that ministry.\nFeria: a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.\nEmber Day: one of the traditional seasonal fast days—Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday—offered in thanksgiving, penance, and prayer for the Church's ministers.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nOn Ember Saturday the Church waits with the prophets for the Root of Jesse, before whom kings shall be silent and whom the nations shall seek. Christ's kingdom grows from promises the world thought buried, and no apparent weakness can annul God's fidelity. Unite prayer and penance for those to be ordained and for nations estranged from their King. Stand with Our Lady at the Visitation and Cana, where her intercession serves the saving work of Christ. Entrust the needs of souls and households to Our Lady, asking her to present them to Jesus according to His will.\n\n\"If we examine narrowly the rest of our Blessed Lord's Life, we shall see that it was His Will to begin His miracles by Mary.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 19\n\nSt. John was sanctified at the sound of Mary's greeting because Jesus was present within her; Cana received wine because she presented the need and commanded obedience to her Son. Her intercession never competes with Christ's power. It disposes servants to hear Him: whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye.\n\nBring real needs to Our Lady, including conversion, perseverance, sickness, family trials, and the souls who have no one to pray for them. Then accept her direction at Cana. Petition must be joined to obedience, and confidence must not become an excuse for retaining sin.\n\nPRACTICE\nOffer the day's Ember observance and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for ordinands, seminarians, and missionary conversions.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"Many suffer everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed.\"\nPope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, n. 2\n\nNOVENA IN PROGRESS\nChristmas Novena - Day 4 of 9\nPreparing for Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ on 2030-12-25.\nPrepare the soul and household to receive the King in humility, adoration, and Catholic faith.\n\nKeep silence and simplicity wherever they prepare the soul and household for the Christ Child.\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - December 19\nAt Alexandria, in Egypt, blessed Nemesius, martyr, who was first denounced before the judge as a robber, but on being freed from that charge, was soon after, in the persecution of Decius, accused before the judge Emilian of being a Christian. By him he was twice subjected to the torture, and condemned to be burned alive with robbers, thus bearing a resemblance to our Saviour, who was crucified with thieves. — At Mcsea, the Saints Darius, Zosimus, Paul, and Secundus, martyrs. — At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Cyriacus, Paulillus, Secundus, Anastasius, Sindimius, and their companions. — In Mauritania (Barbary), St. Timothy, deacon, who, after enduring a painful imprisonment for the faith of Christ, was cast into the fire, where he consummated his martyr dom. — At Gaza, in Palestine, the martyrdom of the Saints Meuris and Thea. — At Avignon, blessed Urban V., who deserved well of the Church by restoring the Apostolic See to Rome, by bringing about a reunion of the Latins and the Greeks, and by suppressing heretics. Pius IX. approved and confirmed the veneration which had long been paid to him. — At Auxerre, St. Gregory, bishop and confessor. — At Orleans, St. Adjutus, an abbot renowned for the spirit of prophecy. — At Rome, St. Fausta, mother of St. Anastasia, distinguished for noble birth and piety.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nThe Advent Feria\nThe Church waiting for the coming of Our Lord.\nThe Advent feria is a school of sober expectation, teaching the faithful to wait for the coming of Christ with repentance, desire, vigilance, and hope.\nThese weekdays keep the soul from treating Advent as mere atmosphere. The Church asks for preparation: crooked ways made straight, hearts awakened, and the Saviour truly desired.\nLet Advent weekdays make room in the soul. The City waits with lamps lit, not with noise.\nBREVIARY WITNESS\nWaiting with the Church.\nMatins - Feria of Advent\n- The Advent ferias school the faithful in expectation, repentance, vigilance, and desire for the coming Saviour.\n- Their witness is sober hope: the Church waits not as the world waits, but with prayer, preparation, and longing for Christ.\nLet the waiting become clean and watchful. Advent is not delay; it is preparation.\nInstruction from the Breviary\nThe Breviary witness for Feria of Advent 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 Waiting with the Church.. Its first point is this: The Advent ferias school the faithful in expectation, repentance, vigilance, and desire for the coming Saviour. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is sober hope: the Church waits not as the world waits, but with prayer, preparation, and longing for Christ.\nThe practical instruction is: Let the waiting become clean and watchful. Advent is not delay; it is preparation. 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\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nModernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.\nThe grace to be practiced is Watchful expectation, 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 obedient confidence: ask generously, obey completely, and leave the manner and hour of the answer to Christ.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 watchful expectation 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 the answer is delayed or differs from your expectation, remain beside Mary and continue doing what her Son commands. Offer your Rosary, prayers, sacrifices, and duties for the intentions entrusted to you and for neglected souls in greatest need.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope St. Pius X.\nYour resolution before God: Offer the day's Ember observance and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for ordinands, seminarians, and missionary conversions.\nCarry this word: What appears hidden or cut down remains fruitful when rooted in God's promise.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Then shall a good clean conscience make us more gladsome and merry than the cunning of all philosophy.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 24, p. 44\nAt judgment, appearances will fall away and the soul will stand in truth before God. Learning, reputation, and skill have their proper uses, but none can replace a conscience purified by repentance and kept faithful through obedience.\n\nDo not seek peace by avoiding examination. Ask the Holy Ghost to show you every matter that remains unsettled: sins requiring confession, injuries requiring forgiveness, restitution that can be made, or duties repeatedly postponed. A clean conscience is not sinlessness claimed by pride; it is the peace of a soul that refuses concealment and returns to grace.\nToday's Practice: Settle every matter of conscience that can rightly be settled today, and prepare definitely to bring the rest to Confession.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nThank Jesus for every grace, visible or hidden, and ask whether your petitions were accompanied by faithful obedience.\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 Root of Jesse, come to deliver us and delay not; strengthen Thy Church and raise up faithful ministers for her altars.\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. Pius X and the War Against Modernism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-pius-x-and-the-war-against-modernism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-12-19&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-12-19&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: Feria of Advent - 2030-12-19\n \n \n
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Feria of Advent

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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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Ordination
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the sacrament by which a baptized man is made a deacon, priest, or bishop and receives the grace and authority needed for that ministry.
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Feria
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a weekday without a higher feast of its own; its prayers usually follow the current liturgical season.
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Ember Day
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one of the traditional seasonal fast days—Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday—offered in thanksgiving, penance, and prayer for the Church's ministers.
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Today in the Roman Year

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On Ember Saturday the Church waits with the prophets for the Root of Jesse, before whom kings shall be silent and whom the nations shall seek. Christ's kingdom grows from promises the world thought buried, and no apparent weakness can annul God's fidelity. Unite prayer and penance for those to be ordained and for nations estranged from their King.

Stand with Our Lady at the Visitation and Cana, where her intercession serves the saving work of Christ.

Entrust the needs of souls and households to Our Lady, asking her to present them to Jesus according to His will.

“If we examine narrowly the rest of our Blessed Lord's Life, we shall see that it was His Will to begin His miracles by Mary.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 19

St. John was sanctified at the sound of Mary's greeting because Jesus was present within her; Cana received wine because she presented the need and commanded obedience to her Son. Her intercession never competes with Christ's power. It disposes servants to hear Him: whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye.

Bring real needs to Our Lady, including conversion, perseverance, sickness, family trials, and the souls who have no one to pray for them. Then accept her direction at Cana. Petition must be joined to obedience, and confidence must not become an excuse for retaining sin.

Offer the day's Ember observance and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for ordinands, seminarians, and missionary conversions.

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Quote of the Day

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“Many suffer everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed.”
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Pope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, n. 2

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Novena in Progress

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Christmas Novena - Day 4 of 9

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Preparing for Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ on 2030-12-25.

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Prepare the soul and household to receive the King in humility, adoration, and Catholic faith.

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Keep silence and simplicity wherever they prepare the soul and household for the Christ Child.

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Roman Martyrology - December 19

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At Alexandria, in Egypt, blessed Nemesius, martyr, who was first denounced before the judge as a robber, but on being freed from that charge, was soon after, in the persecution of Decius, accused before the judge Emilian of being a Christian. By him he was twice subjected to the torture, and condemned to be burned alive with robbers, thus bearing a resemblance to our Saviour, who was crucified with thieves. — At Mcsea, the Saints Darius, Zosimus, Paul, and Secundus, martyrs. — At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Cyriacus, Paulillus, Secundus, Anastasius, Sindimius, and their companions. — In Mauritania (Barbary), St. Timothy, deacon, who, after enduring a painful imprisonment for the faith of Christ, was cast into the fire, where he consummated his martyr dom. — At Gaza, in Palestine, the martyrdom of the Saints Meuris and Thea. — At Avignon, blessed Urban V., who deserved well of the Church by restoring the Apostolic See to Rome, by bringing about a reunion of the Latins and the Greeks, and by suppressing heretics. Pius IX. approved and confirmed the veneration which had long been paid to him. — At Auxerre, St. Gregory, bishop and confessor. — At Orleans, St. Adjutus, an abbot renowned for the spirit of prophecy. — At Rome, St. Fausta, mother of St. Anastasia, distinguished for noble birth and piety.

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The Advent Feria

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The Church waiting for the coming of Our Lord.

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The Advent feria is a school of sober expectation, teaching the faithful to wait for the coming of Christ with repentance, desire, vigilance, and hope.

These weekdays keep the soul from treating Advent as mere atmosphere. The Church asks for preparation: crooked ways made straight, hearts awakened, and the Saviour truly desired.

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Let Advent weekdays make room in the soul. The City waits with lamps lit, not with noise.

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Breviary Witness

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Waiting with the Church.

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Let the waiting become clean and watchful. Advent is not delay; it is preparation.

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Instruction from the Breviary

The Breviary witness for Feria of Advent 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 Waiting with the Church.. Its first point is this: The Advent ferias school the faithful in expectation, repentance, vigilance, and desire for the coming Saviour. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness is sober hope: the Church waits not as the world waits, but with prayer, preparation, and longing for Christ.

The practical instruction is: Let the waiting become clean and watchful. Advent is not delay; it is preparation. 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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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies

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The Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.

The grace to be practiced is Watchful expectation, 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 obedient confidence: ask generously, obey completely, and leave the manner and hour of the answer to Christ.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 watchful expectation 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 the answer is delayed or differs from your expectation, remain beside Mary and continue doing what her Son commands. Offer your Rosary, prayers, sacrifices, and duties for the intentions entrusted to you and for neglected souls in greatest need.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Offer the day's Ember observance and pray the Rosary with the goal of completing all three traditional sets of mysteries for ordinands, seminarians, and missionary conversions.

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What appears hidden or cut down remains fruitful when rooted in God's promise.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Then shall a good clean conscience make us more gladsome and merry than the cunning of all philosophy.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 24, p. 44

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At judgment, appearances will fall away and the soul will stand in truth before God. Learning, reputation, and skill have their proper uses, but none can replace a conscience purified by repentance and kept faithful through obedience.

Do not seek peace by avoiding examination. Ask the Holy Ghost to show you every matter that remains unsettled: sins requiring confession, injuries requiring forgiveness, restitution that can be made, or duties repeatedly postponed. A clean conscience is not sinlessness claimed by pride; it is the peace of a soul that refuses concealment and returns to grace.

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Today's Practice

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Settle every matter of conscience that can rightly be settled today, and prepare definitely to bring the rest to Confession.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Thank Jesus for every grace, visible or hidden, and ask whether your petitions were accompanied by faithful obedience.

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O Root of Jesse, come to deliver us and delay not; strengthen Thy Church and raise up faithful ministers for her altars.

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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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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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