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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE THE DAILY PILGRIMAGE "Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways." - Proverbs 8:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Luke 12:32-34 Ascension of Our Lord 2026-05-14 - Eastertide - Double of the First Class - white PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY Ascension of Our Lord is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. Boniface, Martyr on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance. Ascension: Christ's return to the Father in His glorified humanity forty days after the Resurrection. Martyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith. Apostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles. TODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. With Our Lady, contemplate the Eternal Son given to the world for our salvation. Thank the Father for giving His Son, adore the Word made flesh, and ask the Holy Ghost to form Mary's faithful consent in you. "God the Father has not given His Only-begotten to the world except by Mary." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 16 The Father is the source of the mission of the Son, and the Son is the one Redeemer. Yet the Incarnation was accomplished in the virginal womb and with Mary's free consent. God entered His creation through the fiat of the humble Virgin He had prepared. Do not separate Marian devotion from the mystery it serves. Every Hail Mary should deepen faith in the Incarnate Word; every Rosary should make His life, Passion, and glory more governing; every recourse to His Mother should end in more complete obedience to Him. PRACTICE Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven. QUOTE OF THE DAY "He was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight." St. Luke, Acts 1:9, Douay-Rheims ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - May 14 The birthday of the holy martyr Boniface, who - suffered at Tarsus, in Cilicia, under Diocletian and Maximian. His body was subsequently carried to Rome, and buried on the Latin road. — In France, St. Pontius, martyr. Having by his preaching and his zeal converted to the faith of Christ the two Caesars Philip, he obtained the palm of martyrdom under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus. — In Syria, the holy martyrs Victor and Corona, under the emperor Antoninus. Victor was subjected to various horrible torments by the judge Sebastian. As Corona, the wife of a certain soldier, was proclaiming him happy for his fortitude in his sufferings, she saw two crowns falling from heaven, one for Victor, the other for herself. She related this to all present, and was torn to pieces between two trees; Victor was beheaded. — In Sardinia, the holy martyrs Justa, Justina, and Henedina. — At Rome, pope St. Paschal, who took up from the crypts many bodies of the holy martyrs, and placed them honorably in various churches. — At Ferentino, in Tuscany, the holy bishop Boniface, who was renowned from his childhood for holiness and miracles, as is related by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Naples, in Campania, St. Pomponius, bishop. — In Egypt, St. Pachomius, an abbot, who erected many monasteries in that country, and wrote a monastic rule, which was dictated to him by an angel. GOSPEL OF THE DAY Preach the gospel to every creature. Ascension of Our Lord - Mark 16:14-20 "Going into the whole world, preach the gospel to every creature." Do not think Our Lord has gone far away. He reigns, He sends, and He strengthens the little works done for Him with a faithful heart. THE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL What This Gospel Teaches Christ ascends as King and sends the apostles with a universal mission. Faith is not private consolation only; it must be confessed, taught, and guarded. Error corrected: The retreat that calls itself prudence while hiding the faith. - Where does this error tempt me in practice? - What act does this Gospel require of me today? TODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST Ascension of Our Lord The King ascends and sends His Church. On Ascension Day, Our Lord is taken up into Heaven after commanding the apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature. The feast teaches both triumph and mission: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and His Church must confess His doctrine, administer His sacraments, and live in hope of His return. Look upward without abandoning duty. The ascended Christ rules, intercedes, and sends His Church into the world with divine authority. SECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE St. Boniface Martyr whose witness was crowned after conversion. St. Boniface is honored on this day as a martyr, distinct from the missionary bishop St. Boniface kept in June. His feast teaches that grace can reclaim a disordered life and make it courageous for Christ. The past does not have to be the master of the soul when repentance becomes real. Ask St. Boniface for conversion that does not stop halfway. Grace can make a repentant soul braver than it ever was in sin. BREVIARY WITNESS He was taken up into Heaven. Matins - Ascension of Our Lord - The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. - Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave. Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. Instruction from the Breviary The Breviary witness for Ascension of Our Lord 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 He was taken up into Heaven.. Its first point is this: The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. Its next point develops the lesson: Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave. The practical instruction is: Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. 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. - 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? FROM MATINS The Head has entered; the Body is called to follow. Matins - Second Nocturn - Ascension of Our Lord Pope St. Leo the Great "The Ascension of Christ is exaltation for us." - The Breviary keeps the fortieth day after Easter as the crown of the forty days in which Christ confirmed the reality of His Resurrection. - St. Leo teaches that the Ascension is not Christ's departure from concern for His members, but the exaltation of the Manhood He took from us. - Where the Head has gone in glory, the hope of the Body is summoned to follow; Paradise is made sure because Christ has entered as our Head. Lift the mind where Christ has gone. The Ascension teaches the soul to live on earth without making earth its home, because our Head reigns above. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE The Faith Must Be Confessed Publicly The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic faith is not a private sentiment. It must be confessed, defended, and lived before men when duty requires it. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. The Church is sent to all nations. Her public confession cannot be reduced to hidden feeling or private preference. The grace to be practiced is Heavenly hope and apostolic obedience, 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 faith in the Incarnation by treating the words, commandments, and mysteries of Jesus Christ as the words of God made man. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist cowardly peace when silence would imply consent to error. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing heavenly hope and apostolic obedience 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 humility of God's approach: He came in hiddenness and asks fidelity that may also remain hidden. Carry the mysteries of the Rosary through all your duties, returning often to the words and actions of the Incarnate Son. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is St. Athanasius. Your resolution before God: Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven. Carry this word: Christ's Ascension directs hope toward Heaven without releasing us from duty on earth. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "We be all frail: but thou shalt judge no man more frail than thyself." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 2, p. 11 Catholic judgment rejects error without forgetting one's own need of mercy. Let vigilance begin with the disorder nearest at hand: your own. You need not call falsehood harmless in order to be humble. Humility simply refuses to use another person's fault as shelter from repentance. Condemn what God condemns, pray for the soul in danger, and then ask whether the same root - pride, fear, sensuality, or human respect - has found a quieter form in you. Today's Practice: When another's fault irritates you, pray for that soul and examine the same root in yourself. DAILY EXAMEN Ask whether devotion to Our Lady led you more deeply into adoration, obedience, and love of her Divine Son. - For what grace or mercy should I thank God today? - What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess? - What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow? PRAYER O ascended Lord, lift my mind toward Heaven and keep my hands faithful to the work Thou hast given me. Make me obey Thy commands while I await eternal life with Thee. DAILY RULE FOR THE PILGRIM A brief rule to keep every day: 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. CONTINUE STUDY St. Athanasius and the World Against Him: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-athanasius-and-the-world-against-him?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-05-14&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-05-14&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO Ascension of Our Lord 2026-05-14 - Eastertide - Double of the First Class - white Nota: las secciones fijas de formación se presentan en español; los textos diarios variables permanecen en el idioma mantenido en la fuente hasta que se agregue una traducción revisada. HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO Christ is risen, has ascended in His glorified humanity, and reigns in Heaven. The Church and her members still suffer on earth, but their trials do not overturn His victory. Christian hope is therefore more than an encouraging feeling: it trusts Christ's promise of resurrection and eternal life and gives the faithful a reason to persevere in obedience today. PRÁCTICA Read Acts 1:1-11. Then begin repairing your known neglected duties in their proper order, in obedience to the King who reigns in Heaven. CITA DEL DÍA "He was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight." St. Luke, Acts 1:9, Douay-Rheims MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - May 14 The birthday of the holy martyr Boniface, who - suffered at Tarsus, in Cilicia, under Diocletian and Maximian. His body was subsequently carried to Rome, and buried on the Latin road. — In France, St. Pontius, martyr. Having by his preaching and his zeal converted to the faith of Christ the two Caesars Philip, he obtained the palm of martyrdom under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus. — In Syria, the holy martyrs Victor and Corona, under the emperor Antoninus. Victor was subjected to various horrible torments by the judge Sebastian. As Corona, the wife of a certain soldier, was proclaiming him happy for his fortitude in his sufferings, she saw two crowns falling from heaven, one for Victor, the other for herself. She related this to all present, and was torn to pieces between two trees; Victor was beheaded. — In Sardinia, the holy martyrs Justa, Justina, and Henedina. — At Rome, pope St. Paschal, who took up from the crypts many bodies of the holy martyrs, and placed them honorably in various churches. — At Ferentino, in Tuscany, the holy bishop Boniface, who was renowned from his childhood for holiness and miracles, as is related by the blessed pope Gregory. — At Naples, in Campania, St. Pomponius, bishop. — In Egypt, St. Pachomius, an abbot, who erected many monasteries in that country, and wrote a monastic rule, which was dictated to him by an angel. EVANGELIO DEL DÍA Preach the gospel to every creature. Ascension of Our Lord - Mark 16:14-20 "Going into the whole world, preach the gospel to every creature." Do not think Our Lord has gone far away. He reigns, He sends, and He strengthens the little works done for Him with a faithful heart. LA LECTURA DE LA IGLESIA DEL EVANGELIO Lo que enseña este Evangelio Christ ascends as King and sends the apostles with a universal mission. Faith is not private consolation only; it must be confessed, taught, and guarded. Error corregido: The retreat that calls itself prudence while hiding the faith. - ¿Dónde me tienta este error en la práctica? - ¿Qué acto exige de mí este Evangelio hoy? SANTO O FIESTA DE HOY Ascension of Our Lord The King ascends and sends His Church. On Ascension Day, Our Lord is taken up into Heaven after commanding the apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature. The feast teaches both triumph and mission: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and His Church must confess His doctrine, administer His sacraments, and live in hope of His return. Look upward without abandoning duty. The ascended Christ rules, intercedes, and sends His Church into the world with divine authority. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO He was taken up into Heaven. Matins - Ascension of Our Lord - The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. - Its witness joins royal triumph to command: Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father, and the Gospel must be preached with the authority He gave. Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para Ascension of Our Lord forma parte de la enseñanza diaria de la Iglesia. No debe leerse como una lista de datos aislados: la Sagrada Escritura, las vidas de los santos, la doctrina y la oración de la Iglesia se unen para formar el juicio y la vida católica. El testimonio de hoy se reúne bajo He was taken up into Heaven.. Su primer punto es: The Ascension office contemplates Our Lord taken up into Heaven after entrusting the apostolic mission to His Church. La instrucción práctica es: Look to Heaven without weakening duty on earth. The ascended King still commands, governs, intercedes, and sends. Pregunte qué verdad se custodia, qué virtud se alaba y qué peligro u olvido se corrige. - ¿Qué verdad enseña o defiende este testimonio del Breviario? - ¿Qué virtud pone la Iglesia ante mí? - ¿Qué juicio o acción debe cambiar por haber recibido esta lección? SERMÓN O LECCIÓN DEL BREVIARIO The Head has entered; the Body is called to follow. Matins - Second Nocturn - Ascension of Our Lord Pope St. Leo the Great "The Ascension of Christ is exaltation for us." - The Breviary keeps the fortieth day after Easter as the crown of the forty days in which Christ confirmed the reality of His Resurrection. - St. Leo teaches that the Ascension is not Christ's departure from concern for His members, but the exaltation of the Manhood He took from us. - Where the Head has gone in glory, the hope of the Body is summoned to follow; Paradise is made sure because Christ has entered as our Head. Lift the mind where Christ has gone. The Ascension teaches the soul to live on earth without making earth its home, because our Head reigns above. VERDAD DE LA FE The Faith Must Be Confessed Publicly Catholic faith is not a private sentiment. It must be confessed, defended, and lived before men when duty requires it. Nota de la Iglesia: Catholic Defensor: St. Athanasius Defensa católica: The Church is sent to all nations. Her public confession cannot be reduced to hidden feeling or private preference. Error que resistir: Resist cowardly peace when silence would imply consent to error. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Heavenly hope and apostolic obedience. La virtud de hoy es Heavenly hope and apostolic obedience.. No debe quedar como un buen pensamiento: la gracia ha de entrar en los deberes reales del día, en la oración, la vida familiar, el trabajo, la corrección necesaria, el silencio paciente y la resistencia a la tentación. La virtud no es solamente una disposición natural o un temperamento agradable. La virtud católica ordena el alma y sus actos hacia Dios; está gobernada por la verdad, fortalecida por la gracia, purificada por el arrepentimiento y perfeccionada por la caridad. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Lift the mind above earthly measures. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Confess Christ's kingship without embarrassment. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Accept the Church's missionary command as binding. - ¿Dónde será probada esta virtud en mis deberes reales de hoy? - ¿Qué mera apariencia natural podría confundir con la virtud misma? - ¿Qué acto concreto realizaré antes de la noche? ORACIÓN O ascended Lord, lift my mind toward Heaven and keep my hands faithful to the work Thou hast given me. Make me obey Thy commands while I await eternal life with Thee. REGLA DIARIA DEL PEREGRINO Una regla breve para guardar cada día: Comenzar con la oración de la mañana Reconozca a Dios y ofrézcale el día antes de atender otras obligaciones. Guardar el Ángelus Deténgase por la mañana, al mediodía y por la tarde para recordar la Encarnación. Hacer una comunión espiritual Renueve el deseo de Nuestro Señor en el Santísimo Sacramento sin tratar el exilio como algo normal. Rezar el Rosario Mantenga ante la mente los misterios de Cristo con Nuestra Señora. Volver a Dios con jaculatorias Use una breve aspiración santa durante el trabajo, la espera, el sufrimiento o la tentación. Terminar con oración nocturna y examen Dé gracias, confiese las faltas, perdone las ofensas y haga un propósito concreto. EXAMEN DIARIO - ¿Por qué gracia o misericordia debo dar gracias a Dios hoy? - ¿Qué pecado, falta, deber descuidado o resistencia a la gracia debo confesar? - ¿Qué propósito concreto llevaré a mañana? Continuar estudio: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-athanasius-and-the-world-against-him?entered=1 Abrir este día en el Calendario Sagrado: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-05-14&entered=1 Abrir vista web: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-05-14&entered=1 Índice de formación: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1