{"ok":true,"date":"2030-12-27","dateKey":"12-27","liturgicalDay":"St. John, Apostle and Evangelist","rank":"Double of the Second Class","color":"white","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you.","author":"St. John","source":"1 John 1:3, Douay-Rheims"},"season":"Christmastide","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[{"liturgicalDay":"Within the Privileged Octave of the Nativity","rank":"Privileged Octave of the Third Order","color":"white","sourceNotes":["St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. ix."]}],"subject":"City of God in Exile: St. John, Apostle and Evangelist - 2030-12-27","previewText":"St. John, Apostle and Evangelist. The Four Marks Are Not Decorative. Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSt. John, Apostle and Evangelist\n2030-12-27 - Christmastide - Double of the Second Class - white\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nEcclesiastical or ecclesial: belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.\nVirgin: in a saint's title, a woman honored for consecrating her chastity and whole life to Christ.\nApostle: one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.\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. John rests near the Heart of Jesus and speaks as an eyewitness of the Word made flesh. His purity, doctrine, and charity belong together: love does not dissolve commandments or reduce truth to feeling. Ask him to lead you through Mary to a more reverent knowledge of Christ and a more faithful keeping of His word. Contemplate the glorified Jesus as true God and true Man, eternally the Son of the Father and forever the Son of Mary according to His sacred humanity. Honor Jesus Christ as Mary's divine Son and ask her to make your will obedient to His in all things.\n\n\"Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that, consequently, He has preserved the most perfect obedience and submission of all children towards the best of all mothers.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 27\n\nThe Incarnation was not temporary. Jesus Christ reigns in heaven with the same sacred humanity He received from Our Lady. Yet St. Louis de Montfort immediately guards the truth: Mary is infinitely below her divine Son, and her will is perfectly conformed to the eternal and immutable will of God.\n\nOur Lady's intercession can therefore never oppose, correct, or replace Christ's sovereign will. Go to her with confidence because she belongs wholly to Him. Ask her to purify your petitions, obtain what serves salvation, and teach you the filial obedience by which Jesus was subject to her at Nazareth.\n\nOCTAVE CONTEXT\nWithin the Privileged Octave of the Nativity - Privileged Octave of the Third Order\n\nPRACTICE\nRead a passage from St. John's Gospel and obey every command of Our Lord found there.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you.\"\nSt. John, 1 John 1:3, Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - December 27\nAt Ephesus, the birthday of St. John, apostle and evangelist, who, after writing his gospel, and after enduring exile and writing the divine Apocalypse, lived till the time of the emperor Trajan, and founded and governed the churches of all Asia. Worn out with age, he died in the sixty-eighth year after the passion of our Lord, and was buried near Ephesus. — At Alexandria, St. Maximus, bishop, who became a renowned and distinguished confessor of the faith. — At Constantinople, the holy confessors Theodore and Theophanes, brothers, who were brought up from their childhood in the monastery of St. Sabbas. Afterwards, combating bravely for the worship of holy images against Leo the Armenian, they were scourged by his command and banished. After his death, they again firmly opposed the emperor Theophilus, who was imbued with the same impiety, and were scourged a second time and driven into exile, where Theodore expired in prison. Theophanes, after peace had at length been restored to the Church, was made bishop of Mcsea and rested in the Lord. — In the same city, St. Niceras, virgin, who was renowned for sanctity, in the time of the emperor Arcadius.\n\nGOSPEL OF THE DAY\nThis is that disciple who giveth testimony.\nSt. John, Apostle and Evangelist - John 21:19-24\n\"This is that disciple who giveth testimony of these things, and hath written these things.\"\nFollow the path given to you. St. John teaches that love can be both tender and exact in testimony.\n\nTHE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL\nWhat This Gospel Teaches\nSt. John bears witness to what he has seen and heard from Christ.\nThe beloved disciple teaches the Church contemplative fidelity and truthful testimony.\nError corrected: The distraction that asks, 'What about this man?' instead of following Christ.\n- Where does this error tempt me in practice?\n- What act does this Gospel require of me today?\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSt. John\nApostle, Evangelist, and witness of charity and truth.\nSt. John stood near the Cross, received the Mother of God into his care, and gave the Church the Gospel that opens with the eternal Word.\nHis witness is not soft sentiment. He teaches charity in truth, fidelity beneath the Cross, hatred of falsehood, and perseverance in the doctrine received from Christ.\nLet St. John keep charity exact and tender. The disciple of love is also the witness who tests spirits and remains near the Cross.\nFROM MATINS\nThe Evangelist who rose to the Word.\nMatins - Second Nocturn - St. John, Apostle and Evangelist\nSt. Jerome, Priest\n\"The Apostle John, whom Jesus loved, was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle James.\"\n- The Breviary honors St. John as apostle, evangelist, beloved disciple, witness, and virgin.\n- St. Jerome teaches that John received special love from the Lord and care of the Virgin Mother, and that his Gospel rises above the earth to the eternal Word.\n- His feast keeps Christmas contemplative: the Child in the crib is the Word who was with God and was God.\nAsk St. John for clean contemplation and exact witness. The soul that leans near Christ must also confess the Word made flesh without dilution.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nFourth Lesson - The Evangelist against the Heretics\nThe Apostle John \"whom Jesus loved\" was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle James, who was beheaded by Herod soon after our Lord suffered. He was the last of the Evangelists to write his Gospel, which he published at the request of the Bishops of Asia, against Cerinthus and other heretics, and particularly against the then spreading doctrine of the Ebionites, who asserted that Christ had had no existence before Mary. It was therefore needful for the Evangelist to declare His Eternal and Divine Generation.\nFifth Lesson - Patmos, the Apocalypse, and the Churches of Asia\nIn the fourteenth year after Nero, Domitian stirred up the second persecution, and John was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote his Apocalypse, which hath been explained by Justin the Martyr and Irenaeus. When Domitian was killed, the Senate annulled all his acts, on account of his savage cruelty, and the Apostle returned to Ephesus, during the reign of Nerva. He remained at Ephesus until the time of Trajan, and founded and governed all the Churches of Asia. There, in an extreme old age, he died, in the sixty-eighth year after the Lord's passion, and was buried near the city.\nSixth Lesson - My Little Children, Love One Another\nThe Blessed Evangelist John lived at Ephesus down to an extreme old age, and, at length, when he was with difficulty carried to the Church, and was not able to exhort the congregation at length, he was used simply to say at each meeting, \"My little children, love one another.\" At last the disciples and brethren were weary with hearing these words continually, and asked him, \"Master, wherefore ever sayest thou this only?\" Whereto he replied to them, (worthy of John,) \"It is the commandment of the Lord, and if this only be done, it is enough.\"\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nThe Four Marks Are Not Decorative\nThe Church places this truth before you today: The Church must be one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic because she bears the identity Christ gave her, not because men assign those titles by preference. 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 marks are tests of recognition. They prevent the faithful from confusing religious intensity, social size, antiquarian taste, or institutional claims with the true Church.\nThe grace to be practiced is Charity governed by truth, 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 filial obedience by receiving every lawful command promptly, reverently, and without self-willed reservation.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity. 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 charity governed by truth 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. Accept the humiliation of dependence and correction after the example of the Incarnate Word, who freely chose a hidden and obedient life. Bring every intention to Our Lady while surrendering its outcome completely to the sovereign will of her Son.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is St. Robert Bellarmine.\nYour resolution before God: Read a passage from St. John's Gospel and obey every command of Our Lord found there.\nCarry this word: The beloved disciple teaches that true love sees, believes, testifies, and obeys.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72\nThe cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.\n\nYou are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.\nToday's Practice: Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine where self-will resisted God, rightful authority, or duty, and ask Our Lady to lead you back to Jesus in humble 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 Lord Jesus Christ, through St. John the Apostle, purify my heart, strengthen my faith, and make my charity faithful to Thy commandments.\nDAILY RULE FOR THE PILGRIM\nA brief rule to keep every day:\nBegin with morning prayer\nAdore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.\nKeep the Angelus\nPause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.\nSeek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament\nAttend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.\nReturn to Jesus and Mary\nUse frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.\nPray the Rosary\nKeep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.\nEnd with night prayer and examen\nGive thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.\nCONTINUE STUDY\nThe Four Marks of the Church: https://cityofgodinexile.com/how-the-true-church-is-known/chapter-9-the-four-marks-of-the-church-one-holy-catholic-and-apostolic?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2030-12-27&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2030-12-27&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. John, Apostle and Evangelist - 2030-12-27\n \n \n
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2030-12-27 - Christmastide - Double of the Second Class - white

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“Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.”
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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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belonging or relating to the Church; the words refer to her life, law, worship, ministers, or common mission.
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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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one sent by Christ with authority to preach and establish the Church; the title especially names the Twelve and St. Paul.

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. John rests near the Heart of Jesus and speaks as an eyewitness of the Word made flesh. His purity, doctrine, and charity belong together: love does not dissolve commandments or reduce truth to feeling. Ask him to lead you through Mary to a more reverent knowledge of Christ and a more faithful keeping of His word.

Contemplate the glorified Jesus as true God and true Man, eternally the Son of the Father and forever the Son of Mary according to His sacred humanity.

Honor Jesus Christ as Mary's divine Son and ask her to make your will obedient to His in all things.

“Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that, consequently, He has preserved the most perfect obedience and submission of all children towards the best of all mothers.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 27

The Incarnation was not temporary. Jesus Christ reigns in heaven with the same sacred humanity He received from Our Lady. Yet St. Louis de Montfort immediately guards the truth: Mary is infinitely below her divine Son, and her will is perfectly conformed to the eternal and immutable will of God.

Our Lady's intercession can therefore never oppose, correct, or replace Christ's sovereign will. Go to her with confidence because she belongs wholly to Him. Ask her to purify your petitions, obtain what serves salvation, and teach you the filial obedience by which Jesus was subject to her at Nazareth.

Read a passage from St. John's Gospel and obey every command of Our Lord found there.

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Quote of the Day

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St. John, 1 John 1:3, Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - December 27

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At Ephesus, the birthday of St. John, apostle and evangelist, who, after writing his gospel, and after enduring exile and writing the divine Apocalypse, lived till the time of the emperor Trajan, and founded and governed the churches of all Asia. Worn out with age, he died in the sixty-eighth year after the passion of our Lord, and was buried near Ephesus. — At Alexandria, St. Maximus, bishop, who became a renowned and distinguished confessor of the faith. — At Constantinople, the holy confessors Theodore and Theophanes, brothers, who were brought up from their childhood in the monastery of St. Sabbas. Afterwards, combating bravely for the worship of holy images against Leo the Armenian, they were scourged by his command and banished. After his death, they again firmly opposed the emperor Theophilus, who was imbued with the same impiety, and were scourged a second time and driven into exile, where Theodore expired in prison. Theophanes, after peace had at length been restored to the Church, was made bishop of Mcsea and rested in the Lord. — In the same city, St. Niceras, virgin, who was renowned for sanctity, in the time of the emperor Arcadius.

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This is that disciple who giveth testimony.

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St. John, Apostle and Evangelist - John 21:19-24

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Follow the path given to you. St. John teaches that love can be both tender and exact in testimony.

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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 bears witness to what he has seen and heard from Christ.

The beloved disciple teaches the Church contemplative fidelity and truthful testimony.

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Error corrected: The distraction that asks, 'What about this man?' instead of following Christ.

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St. John

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Apostle, Evangelist, and witness of charity and truth.

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St. John stood near the Cross, received the Mother of God into his care, and gave the Church the Gospel that opens with the eternal Word.

His witness is not soft sentiment. He teaches charity in truth, fidelity beneath the Cross, hatred of falsehood, and perseverance in the doctrine received from Christ.

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Let St. John keep charity exact and tender. The disciple of love is also the witness who tests spirits and remains near the Cross.

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The Evangelist who rose to the Word.

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St. Jerome, Priest, Book on Ecclesiastical Writers and Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians

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“The Apostle John, whom Jesus loved, was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle James.”
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  • St. Jerome teaches that John received special love from the Lord and care of the Virgin Mother, and that his Gospel rises above the earth to the eternal Word.
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Ask St. John for clean contemplation and exact witness. The soul that leans near Christ must also confess the Word made flesh without dilution.

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Full Breviary Lessons

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Fourth Lesson - The Evangelist against the Heretics

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The Apostle John "whom Jesus loved" was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle James, who was beheaded by Herod soon after our Lord suffered. He was the last of the Evangelists to write his Gospel, which he published at the request of the Bishops of Asia, against Cerinthus and other heretics, and particularly against the then spreading doctrine of the Ebionites, who asserted that Christ had had no existence before Mary. It was therefore needful for the Evangelist to declare His Eternal and Divine Generation.

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Fifth Lesson - Patmos, the Apocalypse, and the Churches of Asia

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In the fourteenth year after Nero, Domitian stirred up the second persecution, and John was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote his Apocalypse, which hath been explained by Justin the Martyr and Irenaeus. When Domitian was killed, the Senate annulled all his acts, on account of his savage cruelty, and the Apostle returned to Ephesus, during the reign of Nerva. He remained at Ephesus until the time of Trajan, and founded and governed all the Churches of Asia. There, in an extreme old age, he died, in the sixty-eighth year after the Lord's passion, and was buried near the city.

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Sixth Lesson - My Little Children, Love One Another

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The Blessed Evangelist John lived at Ephesus down to an extreme old age, and, at length, when he was with difficulty carried to the Church, and was not able to exhort the congregation at length, he was used simply to say at each meeting, "My little children, love one another." At last the disciples and brethren were weary with hearing these words continually, and asked him, "Master, wherefore ever sayest thou this only?" Whereto he replied to them, (worthy of John,) "It is the commandment of the Lord, and if this only be done, it is enough."

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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The Four Marks Are Not Decorative

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The Church places this truth before you today: The Church must be one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic because she bears the identity Christ gave her, not because men assign those titles by preference. 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 marks are tests of recognition. They prevent the faithful from confusing religious intensity, social size, antiquarian taste, or institutional claims with the true Church.

The grace to be practiced is Charity governed by truth, 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 filial obedience by receiving every lawful command promptly, reverently, and without self-willed reservation.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist treating the marks as poetic language detached from visible doctrine, worship, and apostolic continuity. 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 charity governed by truth 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. Accept the humiliation of dependence and correction after the example of the Incarnate Word, who freely chose a hidden and obedient life. Bring every intention to Our Lady while surrendering its outcome completely to the sovereign will of her Son.

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

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Your Resolution Before God

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Read a passage from St. John's Gospel and obey every command of Our Lord found there.

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The beloved disciple teaches that true love sees, believes, testifies, and obeys.
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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“Take the cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into the life everlasting.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12, p. 72

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The cross is not an interruption of the pilgrimage; united to Christ, it is the road. Stand beneath it with Our Lady instead of fleeing into resentment.

You are not asked to enjoy pain or pretend that evil is good. You are asked not to lose the good that grace can draw from what Providence permits. Carry the unavoidable burden without adding the heavier cross of rebellion, and offer its hidden weight for a soul in danger.

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Today's Practice

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Receive today's unavoidable crosses and offer them through Mary for souls in need.

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine where self-will resisted God, rightful authority, or duty, and ask Our Lady to lead you back to Jesus in humble obedience.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, through St. John the Apostle, purify my heart, strengthen my faith, and make my charity faithful to Thy commandments.

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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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