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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor
2027-07-19 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Clergy or cleric: the Church's ordained ministers; a cleric is a deacon, priest, or bishop.
Confessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
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
On the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Our Lord rebukes spiritual negligence through the shrewd steward. Time, money, possessions, and influence are temporary trusts; use them deliberately for mercy and salvation before death removes them from your hands. Ask Our Lady to make Jesus Christ known in you as He ought to be known: believed, adored, obeyed, and loved. Profess faith in Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and ask His Mother to lead you into complete obedience to Him.

"Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be."
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 13

St. Louis de Montfort's grief is not that Our Lady receives too little attention as though she sought a kingdom apart from Christ. He grieves because ignorance of Mary's place accompanies an impoverished knowledge of Jesus. The Son is treated as an idea, a moral teacher, or a source of comfort rather than as the Incarnate King who came through her and demands the whole man.

Ask whether you know Christ only in the truths you prefer. To know Him as He ought to be known is to receive His divinity, His Cross, His Church, His commandments, His sacraments, His judgment, and His mercy without division. Let Mary uncover every partial or comfortable image of Jesus that must give way to the Catholic whole.

PRACTICE
Use a definite amount of time, money, or influence today in a work of mercy performed for God.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings."
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 16:9, Douay-Rheims

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 19
T. VINCENT DE PAUL, confessor, who slept in the Lord on the 27th of September. Leo XIII. declared him heavenly patron before the throne of God of all charitable organizations throughout the Catholic world owing in any manner their origin to him. — The same day, the birthday of St. Epaphras, whom the apostle St. Paul calls his fellow-prisoner. By the same apostle he was consecrated bishop of Colossse, where becoming renowned for his virtues, he received the palm of martyrdom for defending courageously the flock committed to his charge. His body lies at Rome in the basilica of St. Mary the Greater. — At Seville, in Spain, the martyrdom of the holy virgins Justa and Kufina. Arrested by the governor Diogenian, they were stretched on the rack and lacerated with iron claws, then imprisoned, and subjected to starvation and various tortures. Lastly Justa breathed her last in prison, and Kufina had her neck broken while confessing Christ. — At Cordova, St. Aurea, virgin, who repented of a fault she had committed, and in a second combat overcame the enemy by the shedding of her blood. — At Treves, St. Martin, bishop and martyr. — At Rome, pope St. Symmachus, who for a long time had much to bear from a faction of schismatics. At last, distinguished by holiness, he went to God. — At Verona, St. Felix, bishop. — At Scete, a mountain in Egypt, St. Arsenius, a deacon of the Koman church. In the time of Theodosius, he retired into a wilderness, where, endowed with every virtue and shedding continual tears, he yielded his soul to God. — In Cappadocia, the holy virgin Marcina, sister of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa.

HIGHLIGHTED SAINT
St. Vincent de Paul
Confessor and father of ordered charity.
St. Vincent de Paul served Christ in the poor, the sick, abandoned children, prisoners, and country souls needing instruction. His charity was practical, priestly, and organized.
He founded works that joined mercy to doctrine, including missions for souls and stable service for the needy. His witness teaches that love of the poor is not sentiment detached from truth, but service under Christ.
Let charity become concrete today. St. Vincent teaches that love of neighbor should take form in real works governed by Catholic truth.
FROM MATINS
Apostolic charity ordered for the poor and the clergy.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor
Roman Breviary
"There was no kind of misery which he did not strive with fatherly tenderness to relieve."
- The Breviary honors St. Vincent de Paul as a French priest whose early charity toward the poor ripened into missions, clerical reform, and organized works of mercy.
- After captivity among Mohammedan pirates, he converted his apostate owner, escaped under Our Lady's protection, served parishes, cared for galley convicts, and governed the Visitation nuns with wisdom praised by St. Francis de Sales.
- His labors for seminaries, missions, retreats, worthy appointments, obedience to the Apostolic See, relief of captives, foundlings, the sick, the poor, and devastated provinces show charity as ordered, priestly, and doctrinally guarded.
Let charity become stable, Catholic, and practical. St. Vincent teaches that mercy for bodies and souls must be fatherly, organized, obedient to truth, and free from self-display.
FULL BREVIARY LESSONS
Fourth Lesson
Vincent de Paul was a Frenchman by nation, and was born at Pouy, not far from Dax in Gascony. From a little child he showed remarkable charity towards the poor. His father removed him from keeping his cattle, in order to give him a school education, and he learnt earthly things at Dax, and theology both at Toulouse and at Saragossa. He took Priest's orders, and a degree in Divinity.
He was taken prisoner by Mahommedan pirates, who carried him off, and sold him for a slave in Africa. In his slavery he converted his owner, who was an apostate, back to Christ. Under the protection of the Mother of God, Vincent escaped from Barbary. He first visited the thresholds of the Apostles, and afterwards returned to France.
He was the saintly Rector first of the Parish of Clichi, and afterwards of that of Chatillon. He was appointed by the King, Chaplain-General for the galleys of France, and worked with extraordinary zeal for the health of the souls both of those who commanded and of the convicts who rowed. He was made Superior of the Nuns of the Visitation by St. Francis de Sales, and discharged this duty for about forty years, with a wisdom which so approved itself to the judgment of their holy Founder, that he was used to say he knew no worthier Priest than Vincent.
Fifth Lesson
The preaching of the Gospel to the poor, especially peasants, was the work at which he toiled unweariedly, till he was disabled by age. To this special work he bound himself and the members of the Congregation which he founded under the missionary Congregation of Secular Priests, by a perpetual vow approved by the Holy See.
How great were his labours for bettering the discipline of the clergy, is attested by the building of Seminaries for the final education of young clerks, the number of meetings of Priests to discuss holy things, and the religious exercises preparatory to Ordination, for which, as well as for godly retreats by laymen, he wished that the houses belonging to his Institute should be always freely open.
To spread wider the growth of faith and godliness, he sent his Gospel labourers not only into the several provinces of France, but also into Italy, Poland, Scotland, and Ireland, and also to Barbary and India. He assisted Lewis XIII. on his death-bed, and the Queen Anne of Austria, mother of Lewis XIV., put him upon the young King's Council of Conscience during the Regency, in which position it was his unceasing effort that none but the most worthy should be named to churches and monasteries, that civil contests, duels, and creeping false doctrines, from which himself shrank as soon as he met them, should be put down, and that all men should yield the obedience which was due to the decisions of the Apostolic See.
Sixth Lesson
There was no kind of misery which he did not strive with fatherly tenderness to relieve. Christians groaning in Mahommedan slavery, foundlings, deformed children, young maidens exposed to danger, houseless nuns, fallen women, convicts sent to the galleys, sick foreigners, disabled workmen, lunatics, and beggars without number, all these he relieved, and devoutly housed in divers charitable institutions which remain to this day.
When Lorraine, Champagne, Picardy, and other districts were desolated by plague, famine, and war, he made immense efforts for their relief. He founded many charitable societies, to find out and succour the unfortunate. Among these are remarkable that of Matrons, and that of "Sisters of Charity" which hath been so widely spread. By those "of the Cross," "of Providence," and "of St Guinevere" he aimed at bringing up young girls as school-mistresses.
Amid all these and other most anxious business-matters, he remained always looking simply to God, kind to all, true to himself, plain, upright, and lowly. From all honours, riches, and pleasures, he ever shrank, and was heard to say, that nothing gave him any pleasure, except in Christ JESUS, Whom it was his wish in all things to follow.
With a body worn out with hardships, work, and old age, he gently fell asleep in the house of St Lazarus at Paris, the chief house of the Congregation of the Missions, upon the 27th day of September, in the year of salvation 1660, and of his own age the 85th. He was famous on account of his life, his works, and his miracles, and Clement XII. inscribed his name among those of the saints, appointing for his Feast-day the 19th day of the month of July.
Finally, at the earnest prayer of many prelates, Leo XIII. proclaimed and established this hero of charity, illustrious for his services to all classes of men, as the patron before God in heaven of all charitable societies throughout the whole Catholic world which derive their origin in any way from his institution.
Seventh Lesson, St. Gregory on Luke 10
Dearly beloved brethren, our Lord and Saviour doth sometimes admonish us by words, and sometimes by works. Yea, His very works do themselves teach us: for that which He doth silently His example still moveth us to copy.
Behold how He sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two: since there are two commandments to love, that is, a commandment to love God, and a commandment to love our neighbour: and where there are not two, the one, being alone, hath not whereon to do the Lord's commandment. And no man can properly be said to love himself: for love tendeth outward toward our neighbour, if it be the love whereto the Gospel doth oblige us.
Eighth Lesson
Behold, the Lord sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two: and thus doing, He doth silently teach us that whosoever loveth not his neighbour, such an one it behoveth not to take upon him the office of a preacher.
Well also is it said that He sent them before His face into every city and place whither He Himself would come. The Lord followeth His preachers: first cometh preaching, and then the Lord Himself cometh to the house of our mind, whither the word of exhortation hath come before: and so cometh the truth into our mind.
Ninth Lesson
Therefore to preachers saith Isaiah: "Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight an highway for our God." And again the Psalmist saith: "Spread a path before Him That rideth upon the West."
The Lord rideth upon the West; above that from which in death He veiled His glory hath He royally exalted that glory that excelleth, even the glory of His rising again. He rideth upon the West, Who, being risen again from the dead, is throned high above the death to which He bowed.
Before Him, therefore, That rideth upon the West, we spread a path, when we set forth His glory before the eyes of your mind, to the end that He Himself may come after, and Himself enlighten the same your minds by His presence and His love.
THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
Revelation Was Entrusted to the Church
The Church places this truth before you today: Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith. 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. Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them.
The grace to be practiced is Ordered charity, 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 integrity of faith: receive Christ whole rather than selecting only what consoles or agrees with the age.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine. 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 ordered charity 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 cost of belonging to the real Christ when the world offers a gentler counterfeit. Obey Christ's commandments today, beginning where feeling or human respect has encouraged delay.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Irenaeus.
Your resolution before God: Use a definite amount of time, money, or influence today in a work of mercy performed for God.
Carry this word: Temporal goods become useful when they are spent with eternity in view.
THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR
"Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 23, p. 41
Christian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest.

The world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it.
Today's Practice: Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition.
DAILY EXAMEN
Examine where you sought Christ's comfort while resisting His kingship, and ask pardon through the Sorrowful Mother.
- 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, free me from careless stewardship and teach me to use every possession for Thy glory and the good of souls.
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
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO
St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor
2027-07-19 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
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HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
On the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Our Lord rebukes spiritual negligence through the shrewd steward. Time, money, possessions, and influence are temporary trusts; use them deliberately for mercy and salvation before death removes them from your hands.

PRÁCTICA
Use a definite amount of time, money, or influence today in a work of mercy performed for God.

CITA DEL DÍA
"Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings."
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 16:9, Douay-Rheims

MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - July 19
T. VINCENT DE PAUL, confessor, who slept in the Lord on the 27th of September. Leo XIII. declared him heavenly patron before the throne of God of all charitable organizations throughout the Catholic world owing in any manner their origin to him. — The same day, the birthday of St. Epaphras, whom the apostle St. Paul calls his fellow-prisoner. By the same apostle he was consecrated bishop of Colossse, where becoming renowned for his virtues, he received the palm of martyrdom for defending courageously the flock committed to his charge. His body lies at Rome in the basilica of St. Mary the Greater. — At Seville, in Spain, the martyrdom of the holy virgins Justa and Kufina. Arrested by the governor Diogenian, they were stretched on the rack and lacerated with iron claws, then imprisoned, and subjected to starvation and various tortures. Lastly Justa breathed her last in prison, and Kufina had her neck broken while confessing Christ. — At Cordova, St. Aurea, virgin, who repented of a fault she had committed, and in a second combat overcame the enemy by the shedding of her blood. — At Treves, St. Martin, bishop and martyr. — At Rome, pope St. Symmachus, who for a long time had much to bear from a faction of schismatics. At last, distinguished by holiness, he went to God. — At Verona, St. Felix, bishop. — At Scete, a mountain in Egypt, St. Arsenius, a deacon of the Koman church. In the time of Theodosius, he retired into a wilderness, where, endowed with every virtue and shedding continual tears, he yielded his soul to God. — In Cappadocia, the holy virgin Marcina, sister of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa.

SANTO DESTACADO
St. Vincent de Paul
Confessor and father of ordered charity.
St. Vincent de Paul served Christ in the poor, the sick, abandoned children, prisoners, and country souls needing instruction. His charity was practical, priestly, and organized.
He founded works that joined mercy to doctrine, including missions for souls and stable service for the needy. His witness teaches that love of the poor is not sentiment detached from truth, but service under Christ.
Let charity become concrete today. St. Vincent teaches that love of neighbor should take form in real works governed by Catholic truth.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
Charity organized for Christ's poor.
Matins - St. Vincent de Paul
- The Breviary honors St. Vincent de Paul as a priest of apostolic charity, missions for souls, care for the poor, and stable works of mercy.
- His witness refuses the false choice between doctrine and mercy: Catholic charity serves bodies because souls are made for God.
Let compassion become disciplined service. The poor need more than sentiment; they need Catholic works ordered to salvation.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para St. Vincent de Paul 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 Charity organized for Christ's poor.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary honors St. Vincent de Paul as a priest of apostolic charity, missions for souls, care for the poor, and stable works of mercy.
La instrucción práctica es: Let compassion become disciplined service. The poor need more than sentiment; they need Catholic works ordered to salvation. 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
Apostolic charity ordered for the poor and the clergy.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor
Roman Breviary
"There was no kind of misery which he did not strive with fatherly tenderness to relieve."
- The Breviary honors St. Vincent de Paul as a French priest whose early charity toward the poor ripened into missions, clerical reform, and organized works of mercy.
- After captivity among Mohammedan pirates, he converted his apostate owner, escaped under Our Lady's protection, served parishes, cared for galley convicts, and governed the Visitation nuns with wisdom praised by St. Francis de Sales.
- His labors for seminaries, missions, retreats, worthy appointments, obedience to the Apostolic See, relief of captives, foundlings, the sick, the poor, and devastated provinces show charity as ordered, priestly, and doctrinally guarded.
Let charity become stable, Catholic, and practical. St. Vincent teaches that mercy for bodies and souls must be fatherly, organized, obedient to truth, and free from self-display.
LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO
Fourth Lesson
Vincent de Paul was a Frenchman by nation, and was born at Pouy, not far from Dax in Gascony. From a little child he showed remarkable charity towards the poor. His father removed him from keeping his cattle, in order to give him a school education, and he learnt earthly things at Dax, and theology both at Toulouse and at Saragossa. He took Priest's orders, and a degree in Divinity.
He was taken prisoner by Mahommedan pirates, who carried him off, and sold him for a slave in Africa. In his slavery he converted his owner, who was an apostate, back to Christ. Under the protection of the Mother of God, Vincent escaped from Barbary. He first visited the thresholds of the Apostles, and afterwards returned to France.
He was the saintly Rector first of the Parish of Clichi, and afterwards of that of Chatillon. He was appointed by the King, Chaplain-General for the galleys of France, and worked with extraordinary zeal for the health of the souls both of those who commanded and of the convicts who rowed. He was made Superior of the Nuns of the Visitation by St. Francis de Sales, and discharged this duty for about forty years, with a wisdom which so approved itself to the judgment of their holy Founder, that he was used to say he knew no worthier Priest than Vincent.
Fifth Lesson
The preaching of the Gospel to the poor, especially peasants, was the work at which he toiled unweariedly, till he was disabled by age. To this special work he bound himself and the members of the Congregation which he founded under the missionary Congregation of Secular Priests, by a perpetual vow approved by the Holy See.
How great were his labours for bettering the discipline of the clergy, is attested by the building of Seminaries for the final education of young clerks, the number of meetings of Priests to discuss holy things, and the religious exercises preparatory to Ordination, for which, as well as for godly retreats by laymen, he wished that the houses belonging to his Institute should be always freely open.
To spread wider the growth of faith and godliness, he sent his Gospel labourers not only into the several provinces of France, but also into Italy, Poland, Scotland, and Ireland, and also to Barbary and India. He assisted Lewis XIII. on his death-bed, and the Queen Anne of Austria, mother of Lewis XIV., put him upon the young King's Council of Conscience during the Regency, in which position it was his unceasing effort that none but the most worthy should be named to churches and monasteries, that civil contests, duels, and creeping false doctrines, from which himself shrank as soon as he met them, should be put down, and that all men should yield the obedience which was due to the decisions of the Apostolic See.
Sixth Lesson
There was no kind of misery which he did not strive with fatherly tenderness to relieve. Christians groaning in Mahommedan slavery, foundlings, deformed children, young maidens exposed to danger, houseless nuns, fallen women, convicts sent to the galleys, sick foreigners, disabled workmen, lunatics, and beggars without number, all these he relieved, and devoutly housed in divers charitable institutions which remain to this day.
When Lorraine, Champagne, Picardy, and other districts were desolated by plague, famine, and war, he made immense efforts for their relief. He founded many charitable societies, to find out and succour the unfortunate. Among these are remarkable that of Matrons, and that of "Sisters of Charity" which hath been so widely spread. By those "of the Cross," "of Providence," and "of St Guinevere" he aimed at bringing up young girls as school-mistresses.
Amid all these and other most anxious business-matters, he remained always looking simply to God, kind to all, true to himself, plain, upright, and lowly. From all honours, riches, and pleasures, he ever shrank, and was heard to say, that nothing gave him any pleasure, except in Christ JESUS, Whom it was his wish in all things to follow.
With a body worn out with hardships, work, and old age, he gently fell asleep in the house of St Lazarus at Paris, the chief house of the Congregation of the Missions, upon the 27th day of September, in the year of salvation 1660, and of his own age the 85th. He was famous on account of his life, his works, and his miracles, and Clement XII. inscribed his name among those of the saints, appointing for his Feast-day the 19th day of the month of July.
Finally, at the earnest prayer of many prelates, Leo XIII. proclaimed and established this hero of charity, illustrious for his services to all classes of men, as the patron before God in heaven of all charitable societies throughout the whole Catholic world which derive their origin in any way from his institution.
Seventh Lesson, St. Gregory on Luke 10
Dearly beloved brethren, our Lord and Saviour doth sometimes admonish us by words, and sometimes by works. Yea, His very works do themselves teach us: for that which He doth silently His example still moveth us to copy.
Behold how He sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two: since there are two commandments to love, that is, a commandment to love God, and a commandment to love our neighbour: and where there are not two, the one, being alone, hath not whereon to do the Lord's commandment. And no man can properly be said to love himself: for love tendeth outward toward our neighbour, if it be the love whereto the Gospel doth oblige us.
Eighth Lesson
Behold, the Lord sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two: and thus doing, He doth silently teach us that whosoever loveth not his neighbour, such an one it behoveth not to take upon him the office of a preacher.
Well also is it said that He sent them before His face into every city and place whither He Himself would come. The Lord followeth His preachers: first cometh preaching, and then the Lord Himself cometh to the house of our mind, whither the word of exhortation hath come before: and so cometh the truth into our mind.
Ninth Lesson
Therefore to preachers saith Isaiah: "Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight an highway for our God." And again the Psalmist saith: "Spread a path before Him That rideth upon the West."
The Lord rideth upon the West; above that from which in death He veiled His glory hath He royally exalted that glory that excelleth, even the glory of His rising again. He rideth upon the West, Who, being risen again from the dead, is throned high above the death to which He bowed.
Before Him, therefore, That rideth upon the West, we spread a path, when we set forth His glory before the eyes of your mind, to the end that He Himself may come after, and Himself enlighten the same your minds by His presence and His love.
VERDAD DE LA FE
Revelation Was Entrusted to the Church
Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith.
Nota de la Iglesia: Apostolic
Defensor: St. Irenaeus
Defensa católica: Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them.
Error que resistir: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Ordered charity.
La virtud de hoy es Ordered charity.. 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: Serve the poor with order and humility.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Keep charity joined to doctrine.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Give practical help without seeking praise.
- ¿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, free me from careless stewardship and teach me to use every possession for Thy glory and the good of souls.
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?
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