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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE St. Jerome Emiliani, Confessor 2027-07-20 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white 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. Confessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr. 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 St. Jerome Emiliani allowed conversion to become stable responsibility for orphans and abandoned children. His charity fed, clothed, taught, corrected, protected, and prayed; it did not pity suffering from a distance or leave young souls defenseless before ignorance and sin. Before going farther, stand with St. Louis de Montfort beneath the infinite majesty and complete sufficiency of God. Adore the Blessed Trinity first, then receive with gratitude the Mother whom God freely chose to employ in His works of grace. "I avow, with all the Church, that Mary, being a mere creature that has come from the hands of the Most High, is in comparison with His Infinite Majesty less than an atom; or rather, she is nothing at all, because only He is “He who is” (Exod. 3:14); consequently that grand Lord, always independent and sufficient to Himself, never had, and has not now, any absolute need of the holy Virgin for the accomplishment of His will and for the manifestation of His glory. He has but to will in order to do everything." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 14 St. Louis de Montfort pauses before teaching Mary's necessity in God's freely chosen order because devotion must remain beneath theology. Mary is a creature. God alone is Being of Himself, infinitely perfect and sufficient. He did not employ Our Lady because His power lacked anything; He chose her because His wisdom and goodness willed this beautiful order. This truth makes devotion both safer and deeper. You do not approach Mary as a rival source of grace or an easier substitute for God. You honor the creature precisely by reverencing the Creator's choice. Let every Marian prayer end where she desires it to end: in adoration of the Blessed Trinity and more perfect servitude to Jesus Christ. PRACTICE Pray for unprotected children and perform concrete acts that strengthen Catholic formation and responsible care. QUOTE OF THE DAY "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such." Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 19:14, Douay-Rheims ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 20 The festival of St. Jerome JEmiliani, confessor, -- founder of the Congergation of Somascha. Gaining renown for many miracles during his life and after his death, he was inscribed among the beatified by Benedict XIV., and canonized by Clement XIII. — At Antioch, St. Margaret, virgin and martyr. — On Mount Carmel, the holy prophet Eli as. — The same day, the birthday of blessed Joseph, surnamed the Just, whom the Apostles selected with blessed Matthias for the apostleship, in the place of the traitor Judas. The lot having fallen upon Matthias, Joseph, notwithstanding, continued to preach and to advance in virtue, and after having sustained from the Jews many persecutions for the faith of Christ, happily ended his life in Judea. It is related of him that having drunk poison, he received no injury from it, because of his confidence in the Lord. — At Damascus, the holy martyrs Sabinus, Julian, Maximus, Macrobius, Cassia, and Paula, with ten others. — At Cordova, St. Paul, deacon and martyr. For rebuking Mahometan princes for their impiety and cruelty, and preaching Christ courageously, he was put to death, and went to his reward in heaven. — In Portugal, St. Wilgefortes, virgin and martyr, who merited the crown of martyrdom on a cross in defence of the faith and her chastity. — At Boulogne, in France, the abbot St. Wulmar, a man of admirable sanctity. — At Treves, St. Severa, virgin. HIGHLIGHTED SAINT St. Jerome Emiliani Confessor, founder, and father of orphans. St. Jerome Emiliani was a Venetian soldier whose imprisonment became the beginning of deeper conversion. After his deliverance, he gave himself to works of mercy with a special love for orphans and abandoned children. He founded the Congregation of Somascha so that mercy would not remain passing emotion, but become stable Catholic service. His witness is especially tied to fatherly care, catechesis, and protection for children without ordinary guardians. Let St. Jerome Emiliani widen the heart toward the unprotected. Charity becomes Catholic when it takes form, bears cost, and guards souls for God. FROM MATINS Father of orphans and servant of wounded poverty. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Jerome Emiliani, Confessor Roman Breviary and St. John Chrysostom "He was an helper and a father to the fatherless." - The Breviary presents St. Jerome Emiliani as a soldier delivered from prison through Our Lady's mercy, who hung up his chains at her altar and gave himself to works of charity. - His charity became practical and fatherly: he gathered orphans, clothed and taught children, served the incurable sick, founded refuges for penitents, instructed laborers in the mysteries of the faith, and nursed the sick during contagion. - St. John Chrysostom's Gospel homily places the feast under Our Lord's welcome of little children, teaching humility, simplicity, freedom from resentment, and the danger of seeking honors. Let mercy become concrete. St. Jerome Emiliani teaches that love for the poor must feed, teach, cleanse, protect, correct, and pray, while remaining penitential and wholly dependent on Our Lady and Our Lord. FULL BREVIARY LESSONS Fourth Lesson This Jerome was born at Venice, of the Patrician family of the Miani. He was trained up to be a soldier, and in the most troublesome times of the Commonwealth, he commanded the fortress of Castel-nuovo at Quero, in the mountains near Treviso. After the fall of the place, he was chained hand and foot, and cast into a filthy prison. When all hope of help from man had forsaken him, the most blessed Virgin, in answer to his prayers, mercifully came to him, loosed his fetters, and brought him unhurt within sight of Treviso, through the midst of the enemy, who kept all the roads. As soon as he entered the city of Treviso, as an acknowledgment of the favour he had received, he hung up his chains, which he had brought away with him, at an Altar of the Mother of God, to whom he had vowed himself. After his return to Venice he gave himself up to godly works. Amid his great tenderness to all the poor, his compassion was chiefly roused by the fatherless little boys who wandered through the city starving and filthy; them he took into an house conducted by himself, where at his own cost he provided them with board, lodging, clothing, and a Christian education. Fifth Lesson In those days there came to Venice blessed Cajetan of Tiene, and Peter Carafa, who was afterwards Paul IV. They were pleased with the spirit of Jerome, and with his new Asylum for Orphans, and took him to the Hospital for Incurables, as well to bring up Orphans, as to extend his charity equally to the sick. Soon after, by the advice of the same, he went to the mainland, and built orphanages first at Brescia, then at Bergamo and Como. His chief foundations were at Bergamo, where besides an orphanage for little boys, and another for little girls, he opened an house of Refuge for repentant harlots, being the first institution of that kind in that part of the world. In the end he went to dwell at Somascha, a hamlet in the district of Bergamo, close to the frontiers of the Venetian territory, and there made an house for himself and his disciples, and gave shape to a congregation, which is generally called the Congregation of Somascha. This congregation grew and spread, and found its work not only in the education of orphans and the service of Churches, but also in a wider usefulness to the Christian Commonwealth, by training up lads in letters and good manners. Holy Pius V. enrolled it among the religious Orders, and other Popes have given it divers privileges. Sixth Lesson Jerome went to Milan and to Ticino to gather orphans together, and in both places he gathered a multitude of little boys for whom the charity of noblemen enabled him to provide board, lodging, clothes, and schooling. He returned to Somascha, and, still making himself all things to all men, refused no toil by which he saw that he could be of any use to his neighbour. He was used to go about in the fields, helping the reapers in their work, and meanwhile teaching them in the mysteries of the faith. He was very patient in cleansing and healing the heads of little boys foul with lice, and proved so successful a physician to the stinking sores of the poor country-people, that he got a reputation for having the gift of healing. He found a cave in the mountain which hangs over Somascha, and there he would hide himself, passing whole days without meat or drink, and oftentimes scourging himself, continuing in prayer long into the night, and taking his short sleep upon the bare rock, in expiation of his own sins and the sins of others. In the far end of this cave, there drippeth out of the dry stone some water, which is said by an unwavering tradition to have come there at the prayers of the man of God. It droppeth freely even to this day, and is taken to divers places at a distance, where it often hath an healing effect upon the sick. At length an infectious disorder broke out in all the valley, and Jerome, who nursed the sick and carried the dead to burial on his own shoulders, caught it, and died a precious death, as he had himself foretold, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and that of salvation 1537. He was famous for many miracles, both during his life and after his death; Benedict X. solemnly enrolled his name among those of the Blessed, and Clement XIII. inserted it in the Kalendar of the Saints. Seventh Lesson, St. John Chrysostom on Matthew 19 Wherefore did the disciples rebuke them that brought them? From an idea of His dignity. What therefore did He? To teach them to be lowly, and to be above the niceness of the world, He took the little children, and embraced them in His Arms, and declared that of such is the kingdom of heaven, as also He had said above. And we also, if we would fain be heirs of the kingdom of heaven, let us seek with great earnestness this virtue. For this is the highest peak of philosophy, to be simple and wise: this is the life of an Angel. The mind of a little child is free from all the diseases of the mind: a little child keepeth no remembrance of injuries, but goeth unto such as have inflicted them, as if unto friends, and as if nothing had happened. Although his mother give him stripes, yet a little child ever seeketh her, and putteth her before all. Eighth Lesson If thou wert to show him a Queen adorned with her crown, he would not prefer her before his own mother, in raiment how faded soever, and he would rather see her, albeit unkempt, than the Queen in all her glorious apparel. For his use is to account of things whether they be his own, or of others, not by the standard of poverty and riches, but by that of love only. He seeketh no more than he needeth. When he is satisfied with milk, he leaveth the pap. The things that press upon us, such as the loss of money, and the like, do not press upon him, nor do the same transitory things that please us, please him, neither doth he gaze with admiration at loveliness of shape. Therefore Christ said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," to make us do by force of will what little children do by nature. Ninth Lesson The Pharisees' usual springs of action were spite and vanity; therefore doth the Lord everywhere command His disciples to be simple, and in teaching the one, pointeth silently at the other class. Nothing breedeth pride so much as princedom and precedence. Since, then, His disciples were to receive much honour throughout all the world, He warneth their minds beforehand, and letteth them not stumble into the snare of men, nor go seeking for honours from the mob, nor put themselves forward before others. It is true, these may seem little things, but they give occasion for very great evils. It was when they were placed in these positions, that the Pharisees fell into their direst misfortunes: from looking for salutations, and foremost or good places, they got into a keen desire of distinction, and from that into ungodliness. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE Hold the Traditions The Church places this truth before you today: Apostolic tradition is not nostalgia. It is the handing down of what the Church received from Christ and the Apostles. 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. Tradition protects the faithful from the tyranny of the present moment and from teachers who mistake novelty for life. The grace to be practiced is Protective mercy, 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 theological order: worship God alone, honor Our Lady according to His will, and let every devotion serve union with Christ. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist innovation that claims continuity while contradicting what was handed down. 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 protective mercy 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. Renounce both irreverent neglect of Mary and sentimental exaggeration; truth is a narrower and more beautiful road than either distortion. End your Marian prayers with deliberate adoration and obedience to Jesus Christ. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Paul. Your resolution before God: Pray for unprotected children and perform concrete acts that strengthen Catholic formation and responsible care. Carry this word: Catholic mercy takes responsibility for both the body and the soul of the vulnerable. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "Then shall a good clean conscience make us more gladsome and merry than the cunning of all philosophy." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 24, p. 44 At judgment, appearances will fall away and the soul will stand in truth before God. Learning, reputation, and skill have their proper uses, but none can replace a conscience purified by repentance and kept faithful through obedience. Do not seek peace by avoiding examination. Ask the Holy Ghost to show you every matter that remains unsettled: sins requiring confession, injuries requiring forgiveness, restitution that can be made, or duties repeatedly postponed. A clean conscience is not sinlessness claimed by pride; it is the peace of a soul that refuses concealment and returns to grace. Today's Practice: Settle every matter of conscience that can rightly be settled today, and prepare definitely to bring the rest to Confession. DAILY EXAMEN Ask whether your devotion magnified God, diminished self-will, and made obedience to Christ more exact. - 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 God, through St. Jerome Emiliani, give me fatherly charity toward abandoned children and courage to protect souls entrusted to me. 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 Hold the Traditions and Refuse the Innovators: https://cityofgodinexile.com/scripture-treasury/2-thessalonians-2-14-15-hold-the-traditions-and-refuse-the-innovators?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-07-20&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-07-20&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO St. Jerome Emiliani, Confessor 2027-07-20 - Time after Pentecost - Double - 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 St. Jerome Emiliani allowed conversion to become stable responsibility for orphans and abandoned children. His charity fed, clothed, taught, corrected, protected, and prayed; it did not pity suffering from a distance or leave young souls defenseless before ignorance and sin. PRÁCTICA Pray for unprotected children and perform concrete acts that strengthen Catholic formation and responsible care. CITA DEL DÍA "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such." Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 19:14, Douay-Rheims MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - July 20 The festival of St. Jerome JEmiliani, confessor, -- founder of the Congergation of Somascha. Gaining renown for many miracles during his life and after his death, he was inscribed among the beatified by Benedict XIV., and canonized by Clement XIII. — At Antioch, St. Margaret, virgin and martyr. — On Mount Carmel, the holy prophet Eli as. — The same day, the birthday of blessed Joseph, surnamed the Just, whom the Apostles selected with blessed Matthias for the apostleship, in the place of the traitor Judas. The lot having fallen upon Matthias, Joseph, notwithstanding, continued to preach and to advance in virtue, and after having sustained from the Jews many persecutions for the faith of Christ, happily ended his life in Judea. It is related of him that having drunk poison, he received no injury from it, because of his confidence in the Lord. — At Damascus, the holy martyrs Sabinus, Julian, Maximus, Macrobius, Cassia, and Paula, with ten others. — At Cordova, St. Paul, deacon and martyr. For rebuking Mahometan princes for their impiety and cruelty, and preaching Christ courageously, he was put to death, and went to his reward in heaven. — In Portugal, St. Wilgefortes, virgin and martyr, who merited the crown of martyrdom on a cross in defence of the faith and her chastity. — At Boulogne, in France, the abbot St. Wulmar, a man of admirable sanctity. — At Treves, St. Severa, virgin. SANTO DESTACADO St. Jerome Emiliani Confessor, founder, and father of orphans. St. Jerome Emiliani was a Venetian soldier whose imprisonment became the beginning of deeper conversion. After his deliverance, he gave himself to works of mercy with a special love for orphans and abandoned children. He founded the Congregation of Somascha so that mercy would not remain passing emotion, but become stable Catholic service. His witness is especially tied to fatherly care, catechesis, and protection for children without ordinary guardians. Let St. Jerome Emiliani widen the heart toward the unprotected. Charity becomes Catholic when it takes form, bears cost, and guards souls for God. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO Mercy for children without protection. Matins - St. Jerome Emiliani - The Breviary honors St. Jerome Emiliani as confessor and founder, a Venetian soldier converted through trial and remembered for works of mercy made stable by Catholic discipline. - His witness directs charity toward the abandoned and the unprotected, especially orphans and children in need of fatherly care. Let mercy take responsibility. The abandoned need prayer, order, protection, and Catholic charity strong enough to endure. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para St. Jerome Emiliani 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 Mercy for children without protection.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary honors St. Jerome Emiliani as confessor and founder, a Venetian soldier converted through trial and remembered for works of mercy made stable by Catholic discipline. La instrucción práctica es: Let mercy take responsibility. The abandoned need prayer, order, protection, and Catholic charity strong enough to endure. 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 Father of orphans and servant of wounded poverty. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Jerome Emiliani, Confessor Roman Breviary and St. John Chrysostom "He was an helper and a father to the fatherless." - The Breviary presents St. Jerome Emiliani as a soldier delivered from prison through Our Lady's mercy, who hung up his chains at her altar and gave himself to works of charity. - His charity became practical and fatherly: he gathered orphans, clothed and taught children, served the incurable sick, founded refuges for penitents, instructed laborers in the mysteries of the faith, and nursed the sick during contagion. - St. John Chrysostom's Gospel homily places the feast under Our Lord's welcome of little children, teaching humility, simplicity, freedom from resentment, and the danger of seeking honors. Let mercy become concrete. St. Jerome Emiliani teaches that love for the poor must feed, teach, cleanse, protect, correct, and pray, while remaining penitential and wholly dependent on Our Lady and Our Lord. LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO Fourth Lesson This Jerome was born at Venice, of the Patrician family of the Miani. He was trained up to be a soldier, and in the most troublesome times of the Commonwealth, he commanded the fortress of Castel-nuovo at Quero, in the mountains near Treviso. After the fall of the place, he was chained hand and foot, and cast into a filthy prison. When all hope of help from man had forsaken him, the most blessed Virgin, in answer to his prayers, mercifully came to him, loosed his fetters, and brought him unhurt within sight of Treviso, through the midst of the enemy, who kept all the roads. As soon as he entered the city of Treviso, as an acknowledgment of the favour he had received, he hung up his chains, which he had brought away with him, at an Altar of the Mother of God, to whom he had vowed himself. After his return to Venice he gave himself up to godly works. Amid his great tenderness to all the poor, his compassion was chiefly roused by the fatherless little boys who wandered through the city starving and filthy; them he took into an house conducted by himself, where at his own cost he provided them with board, lodging, clothing, and a Christian education. Fifth Lesson In those days there came to Venice blessed Cajetan of Tiene, and Peter Carafa, who was afterwards Paul IV. They were pleased with the spirit of Jerome, and with his new Asylum for Orphans, and took him to the Hospital for Incurables, as well to bring up Orphans, as to extend his charity equally to the sick. Soon after, by the advice of the same, he went to the mainland, and built orphanages first at Brescia, then at Bergamo and Como. His chief foundations were at Bergamo, where besides an orphanage for little boys, and another for little girls, he opened an house of Refuge for repentant harlots, being the first institution of that kind in that part of the world. In the end he went to dwell at Somascha, a hamlet in the district of Bergamo, close to the frontiers of the Venetian territory, and there made an house for himself and his disciples, and gave shape to a congregation, which is generally called the Congregation of Somascha. This congregation grew and spread, and found its work not only in the education of orphans and the service of Churches, but also in a wider usefulness to the Christian Commonwealth, by training up lads in letters and good manners. Holy Pius V. enrolled it among the religious Orders, and other Popes have given it divers privileges. Sixth Lesson Jerome went to Milan and to Ticino to gather orphans together, and in both places he gathered a multitude of little boys for whom the charity of noblemen enabled him to provide board, lodging, clothes, and schooling. He returned to Somascha, and, still making himself all things to all men, refused no toil by which he saw that he could be of any use to his neighbour. He was used to go about in the fields, helping the reapers in their work, and meanwhile teaching them in the mysteries of the faith. He was very patient in cleansing and healing the heads of little boys foul with lice, and proved so successful a physician to the stinking sores of the poor country-people, that he got a reputation for having the gift of healing. He found a cave in the mountain which hangs over Somascha, and there he would hide himself, passing whole days without meat or drink, and oftentimes scourging himself, continuing in prayer long into the night, and taking his short sleep upon the bare rock, in expiation of his own sins and the sins of others. In the far end of this cave, there drippeth out of the dry stone some water, which is said by an unwavering tradition to have come there at the prayers of the man of God. It droppeth freely even to this day, and is taken to divers places at a distance, where it often hath an healing effect upon the sick. At length an infectious disorder broke out in all the valley, and Jerome, who nursed the sick and carried the dead to burial on his own shoulders, caught it, and died a precious death, as he had himself foretold, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and that of salvation 1537. He was famous for many miracles, both during his life and after his death; Benedict X. solemnly enrolled his name among those of the Blessed, and Clement XIII. inserted it in the Kalendar of the Saints. Seventh Lesson, St. John Chrysostom on Matthew 19 Wherefore did the disciples rebuke them that brought them? From an idea of His dignity. What therefore did He? To teach them to be lowly, and to be above the niceness of the world, He took the little children, and embraced them in His Arms, and declared that of such is the kingdom of heaven, as also He had said above. And we also, if we would fain be heirs of the kingdom of heaven, let us seek with great earnestness this virtue. For this is the highest peak of philosophy, to be simple and wise: this is the life of an Angel. The mind of a little child is free from all the diseases of the mind: a little child keepeth no remembrance of injuries, but goeth unto such as have inflicted them, as if unto friends, and as if nothing had happened. Although his mother give him stripes, yet a little child ever seeketh her, and putteth her before all. Eighth Lesson If thou wert to show him a Queen adorned with her crown, he would not prefer her before his own mother, in raiment how faded soever, and he would rather see her, albeit unkempt, than the Queen in all her glorious apparel. For his use is to account of things whether they be his own, or of others, not by the standard of poverty and riches, but by that of love only. He seeketh no more than he needeth. When he is satisfied with milk, he leaveth the pap. The things that press upon us, such as the loss of money, and the like, do not press upon him, nor do the same transitory things that please us, please him, neither doth he gaze with admiration at loveliness of shape. Therefore Christ said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," to make us do by force of will what little children do by nature. Ninth Lesson The Pharisees' usual springs of action were spite and vanity; therefore doth the Lord everywhere command His disciples to be simple, and in teaching the one, pointeth silently at the other class. Nothing breedeth pride so much as princedom and precedence. Since, then, His disciples were to receive much honour throughout all the world, He warneth their minds beforehand, and letteth them not stumble into the snare of men, nor go seeking for honours from the mob, nor put themselves forward before others. It is true, these may seem little things, but they give occasion for very great evils. It was when they were placed in these positions, that the Pharisees fell into their direst misfortunes: from looking for salutations, and foremost or good places, they got into a keen desire of distinction, and from that into ungodliness. VERDAD DE LA FE Hold the Traditions Apostolic tradition is not nostalgia. It is the handing down of what the Church received from Christ and the Apostles. Nota de la Iglesia: Apostolic Defensor: St. Paul Defensa católica: Tradition protects the faithful from the tyranny of the present moment and from teachers who mistake novelty for life. Error que resistir: Resist innovation that claims continuity while contradicting what was handed down. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Protective mercy. La virtud de hoy es Protective mercy.. 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: Remember abandoned children and souls without protection. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Let mercy become organized service. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Practice charity that protects the weak under Catholic truth. - ¿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 God, through St. Jerome Emiliani, give me fatherly charity toward abandoned children and courage to protect souls entrusted to me. 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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