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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 St. Clement, Pope and Martyr 2026-11-23 - Time after Pentecost - Double - red PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY Commemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day. 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. 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. TODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR Pope St. Clement stands near the Apostles and witnesses that the Roman Church received a real duty to guard order, doctrine, and unity. His martyrdom teaches that authority is anchored not in earthly success but in fidelity to Christ. Pray for the Church to remain steady when confusion makes novelty appear stronger than tradition. Take up the Cross and Rosary beneath the sacred names of Jesus and Mary, asking to follow the pure truth without fear of men. Ask to follow Jesus in poverty, humility, contempt of worldly maxims, charity, pure truth, modesty, and mortification. "They shall be true disciples of Jesus Christ, who, marching in the footsteps of His poverty, humility, contempt of the world, and charity, shall teach the strait way of God in the pure truth, according to the holy Gospel, and not according to the maxims of the world." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 59 The true disciples are recognized by conformity to Jesus Christ: poverty of spirit and detachment, humility, rejection of worldly maxims, charity, the Cross, truth, modesty, mortification, and the Rosary. They neither flatter influential men nor adapt the narrow road to secure acceptance. Their doctrine and behavior confess the same Gospel. St. Louis de Montfort ends by refusing speculation: when and how these things shall occur, God alone knows; our part is to pray, sigh, and wait. Do not substitute timelines and identities for conversion. Carry the Cross, pray the Rosary, teach truth within your duty, and let providence determine the hour and form of God's designs. PRACTICE Read a short passage from an approved catechism and receive it as a rule of belief and life. QUOTE OF THE DAY "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:13, Douay-Rheims ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - November 23 The birthday of pope St. Clement, wno held the sovereign Pontificate the third after the blessed apostle Peter. In the persecution of Trajan, he was banished to Chersonesus, where, being precipitated into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck, he was crowned with martyrdom. His body was taken to Rome during the pontificate of Nicholas I., and placed with due honors in the church which had been previously built under his invocation. — At Rome, St. Felicitas, mother of seven sons, martyrs. After them she was beheaded for Christ, by order of the emperor Marcus Antoninus. — At Merida, in Spain, St. Lucretia, virgin and martyr, who consummated her martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Dacian. — At Cyzicum, in Hellespont, St. Sisinius, martyr, who, after many torments, was put to the sword, in the same persecution. — At Iconium, in Lycaonia, the holy bishop Amphilochius, who was the companion of St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen in the desert, and their colleague in the episcopate. After many combats for the Catholic faith, he rested in peace, with the reputation of a holy and learned prelate. — At Girgenti, the decease of St. Gregory, bishop. — In the village of Hasbein, St. Tron, priest and confessor. — At Mantua, blessed John the Good, of the Order of Augustinians, whose celebrated life was written by St. Antoninus. TODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST St. Clement Pope and martyr, third after blessed Peter. The Martyrology honors Pope St. Clement as holding the sovereign Pontificate third after blessed Peter. In the persecution of Trajan he was banished to Chersonesus and crowned with martyrdom by being cast into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck. Let St. Clement steady the exiled heart. The Church's pastors may be driven outward, but Christ's charge remains. FROM MATINS The Pope who recorded martyrs and fed exiles with living water. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Clement, Pope and Martyr Roman Breviary "His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ." - The Breviary identifies St. Clement as the third Pope after St. Peter and as the fellow-laborer praised by St. Paul. - It remembers his care for the memory of martyrs, assigning scribes to gather their acts and sufferings, and his orthodox writing in explanation of the Christian religion. - In exile among condemned Christians in the Crimea, his prayer and miracle of water brought consolation to the faithful and many unbelievers to Christ before his martyrdom. Let St. Clement teach you to remember and hand on what the apostles taught. The Church preserves the testimony of martyrs, feeds Christians in exile, writes in defense of true doctrine, and suffers rather than surrender Christ. FULL BREVIARY LESSONS Fourth Lesson - Disciple of St. Peter and Guardian of Martyr Memory Clement, the son of Faustinus, was a Roman, from the quarter of the Coelian Mount. He was a disciple of the blessed Peter, and is the same concerning whom Paul saith, writing to the Philippians: "And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are written in the book of life." He succeeded Cletus as Bishop of Rome. He it was who divided the seven quarters of the city among seven scribes, one to each, whose duty it was to search out most carefully, and record in writing the sufferings and acts of the Martyrs. He himself also wrote much, and that most orthodox and healthy, whereby he clearly explained the Christian Religion. Fifth Lesson - Living Water for Christians in Exile His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ, and he was therefore exiled by the Emperor Trajan to Kherson, in the Crimea, where he found two thousand Christians, who had been condemned by the same Trajan. There they all worked in the marble quarries. During their labour they suffered for want of water, and Clement prayed, and then went up an hill hard by, on the top whereof he saw a Lamb standing, touching with its right foot a flowing spring of sweet waters. Therewith they all quenched their thirst, and by this miracle many unbelievers were brought to believe in Christ, and began to honour the holiness of Clement. Sixth Lesson - Martyrdom in the Sea These things moved Trajan to send a messenger to the Crimea, who tied an anchor about Clement's neck, and cast him into the deep of the sea. After it had been done, while the Christians were praying on the shore, the sea went back three miles, and when they followed it, they found a grotto of marble, in form like a temple, and therein a stone coffin wherein was laid the body of the Martyr, and, hard by, the anchor wherewith he had been sunk. Then were the country people moved to receive the faith of Christ. The body of Clement was afterwards brought to Rome, in the time of Pope Nicholas I, and buried in his own Church. A Church was also built in the Crimea, in the place where God had made the water to break forth. Clement lived as Pope nine years, six months, and six days. He held two Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he made ten Priests, two Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for divers places. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE Christ Is King Over Public Life The Church places this truth before you today: Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. 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's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers. The grace to be practiced is Apostolic constancy in exile, 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 fearless fidelity to the Gospel without flattering power, adapting doctrine, pursuing influence, or presuming to know God's timetable. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. 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 apostolic constancy in exile 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. Carry the bloody standard of the Cross in patience and charity, refusing the world's promise of an easier Christianity. Keep the crucifix and Rosary spiritually at hand, confess Jesus and Mary by conduct, and fulfill every duty while praying and waiting upon God. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of catholic; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI. Your resolution before God: Read a short passage from an approved catechism and receive it as a rule of belief and life. Carry this word: The barque is safest when her shepherds remain anchored in the received Faith. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "It behoveth thee to break thine own will in many things, if thou wilt have peace and concord with others." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 17, p. 27 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. Today's Practice: Yield harmless preferences cheerfully whenever truth and duty do not require firmness. DAILY EXAMEN Examine whether worldly maxims altered your doctrine or behavior, and return every unanswered question about times and events to God. - 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 Lord, through Pope St. Clement, preserve the Roman Church in apostolic doctrine and give her children obedience without blindness and courage without rebellion. 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 Authority and the Kingship of Christ: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-11-23&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-11-23&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO St. Clement, Pope and Martyr 2026-11-23 - Time after Pentecost - Double - red 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 Pope St. Clement stands near the Apostles and witnesses that the Roman Church received a real duty to guard order, doctrine, and unity. His martyrdom teaches that authority is anchored not in earthly success but in fidelity to Christ. Pray for the Church to remain steady when confusion makes novelty appear stronger than tradition. PRÁCTICA Read a short passage from an approved catechism and receive it as a rule of belief and life. CITA DEL DÍA "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:13, Douay-Rheims MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - November 23 The birthday of pope St. Clement, wno held the sovereign Pontificate the third after the blessed apostle Peter. In the persecution of Trajan, he was banished to Chersonesus, where, being precipitated into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck, he was crowned with martyrdom. His body was taken to Rome during the pontificate of Nicholas I., and placed with due honors in the church which had been previously built under his invocation. — At Rome, St. Felicitas, mother of seven sons, martyrs. After them she was beheaded for Christ, by order of the emperor Marcus Antoninus. — At Merida, in Spain, St. Lucretia, virgin and martyr, who consummated her martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Dacian. — At Cyzicum, in Hellespont, St. Sisinius, martyr, who, after many torments, was put to the sword, in the same persecution. — At Iconium, in Lycaonia, the holy bishop Amphilochius, who was the companion of St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen in the desert, and their colleague in the episcopate. After many combats for the Catholic faith, he rested in peace, with the reputation of a holy and learned prelate. — At Girgenti, the decease of St. Gregory, bishop. — In the village of Hasbein, St. Tron, priest and confessor. — At Mantua, blessed John the Good, of the Order of Augustinians, whose celebrated life was written by St. Antoninus. SANTO O FIESTA DE HOY St. Clement Pope and martyr, third after blessed Peter. The Martyrology honors Pope St. Clement as holding the sovereign Pontificate third after blessed Peter. In the persecution of Trajan he was banished to Chersonesus and crowned with martyrdom by being cast into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck. Let St. Clement steady the exiled heart. The Church's pastors may be driven outward, but Christ's charge remains. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO The anchor of apostolic constancy. Matins - St. Clement - The Martyrology honors Pope St. Clement as third after blessed Peter, banished under Trajan and martyred in the sea with an anchor tied to his neck. - His witness keeps apostolic succession beneath the sign of exile and martyrdom rather than worldly security. Hold apostolic continuity soberly. Christ's office in the Church may pass through banishment, suffering, and apparent defeat. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para St. Clement 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 The anchor of apostolic constancy.. Su primer punto es: The Martyrology honors Pope St. Clement as third after blessed Peter, banished under Trajan and martyred in the sea with an anchor tied to his neck. La instrucción práctica es: Hold apostolic continuity soberly. Christ's office in the Church may pass through banishment, suffering, and apparent defeat. 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 Pope who recorded martyrs and fed exiles with living water. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Clement, Pope and Martyr Roman Breviary "His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ." - The Breviary identifies St. Clement as the third Pope after St. Peter and as the fellow-laborer praised by St. Paul. - It remembers his care for the memory of martyrs, assigning scribes to gather their acts and sufferings, and his orthodox writing in explanation of the Christian religion. - In exile among condemned Christians in the Crimea, his prayer and miracle of water brought consolation to the faithful and many unbelievers to Christ before his martyrdom. Let St. Clement teach you to remember and hand on what the apostles taught. The Church preserves the testimony of martyrs, feeds Christians in exile, writes in defense of true doctrine, and suffers rather than surrender Christ. LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO Fourth Lesson - Disciple of St. Peter and Guardian of Martyr Memory Clement, the son of Faustinus, was a Roman, from the quarter of the Coelian Mount. He was a disciple of the blessed Peter, and is the same concerning whom Paul saith, writing to the Philippians: "And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are written in the book of life." He succeeded Cletus as Bishop of Rome. He it was who divided the seven quarters of the city among seven scribes, one to each, whose duty it was to search out most carefully, and record in writing the sufferings and acts of the Martyrs. He himself also wrote much, and that most orthodox and healthy, whereby he clearly explained the Christian Religion. Fifth Lesson - Living Water for Christians in Exile His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ, and he was therefore exiled by the Emperor Trajan to Kherson, in the Crimea, where he found two thousand Christians, who had been condemned by the same Trajan. There they all worked in the marble quarries. During their labour they suffered for want of water, and Clement prayed, and then went up an hill hard by, on the top whereof he saw a Lamb standing, touching with its right foot a flowing spring of sweet waters. Therewith they all quenched their thirst, and by this miracle many unbelievers were brought to believe in Christ, and began to honour the holiness of Clement. Sixth Lesson - Martyrdom in the Sea These things moved Trajan to send a messenger to the Crimea, who tied an anchor about Clement's neck, and cast him into the deep of the sea. After it had been done, while the Christians were praying on the shore, the sea went back three miles, and when they followed it, they found a grotto of marble, in form like a temple, and therein a stone coffin wherein was laid the body of the Martyr, and, hard by, the anchor wherewith he had been sunk. Then were the country people moved to receive the faith of Christ. The body of Clement was afterwards brought to Rome, in the time of Pope Nicholas I, and buried in his own Church. A Church was also built in the Crimea, in the place where God had made the water to break forth. Clement lived as Pope nine years, six months, and six days. He held two Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he made ten Priests, two Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for divers places. VERDAD DE LA FE Christ Is King Over Public Life Our Lord's kingship is not confined to private devotion. Men, families, laws, and nations are subject to His authority. Nota de la Iglesia: Catholic Defensor: Pope Pius XI Defensa católica: The Church's Catholicity includes the public claim of Christ over all peoples, not merely the private consolation of believers. Error que resistir: Resist secular liberalism, which treats society as though it could be rightly ordered without Christ. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Apostolic constancy in exile. La virtud de hoy es Apostolic constancy in exile.. 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: Honor apostolic succession under suffering. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Stand firm when exile or loss follows fidelity. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Pray for Roman steadfastness. - ¿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 Lord, through Pope St. Clement, preserve the Roman Church in apostolic doctrine and give her children obedience without blindness and courage without rebellion. 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/authority-and-revolt/authority-the-modernist-revolt-against-the-kingship-of-christ?entered=1 Abrir este día en el Calendario Sagrado: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-11-23&entered=1 Abrir vista web: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-11-23&entered=1 Índice de formación: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1