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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow
2027-08-21 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Octave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
Apostolic: belonging to the faith, mission, teaching, or authority handed down from Christ through the apostles.
Spiritual consolation: encouragement, peace, light, or strength permitted by God in prayer; it is a help toward fidelity, not the purpose of the spiritual life.
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
Pentecost does not end when the octave passes. Its fruit must remain in the soul: public confession of truth, docility to apostolic doctrine, courage before false authority, and charity strong enough to resist error without bitterness. Ask for the childlike faith that receives Catholic truth humbly while remaining ready to learn its foundations in Scripture and Tradition. Ask for a docile mind that loves Catholic truth, learns it faithfully, and never uses complexity to evade obedience.

"But as I speak particularly to the poor and simple, who being of good-will, and having more faith than the common run of scholars, believe more simply and so more meritoriously, I content myself with putting out the truth quite simply, without stopping to quote the original passages, which they would not understand."
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 26

St. Louis de Montfort is not praising ignorance, credulity, or contempt for sacred learning. In this very paragraph he explains that his teaching can be confirmed from Holy Scripture and the Fathers. He adapts the manner of instruction so that souls of good will may receive substantial truth without an academic obstacle.

Simplicity of faith is the opposite of self-sufficient cleverness, but it must never become indifference to doctrine. Receive what the Church teaches, seek sound reasons according to your capacity and duties, refuse novelty and private invention, and submit every conclusion to the revealed Faith handed down by the Church.

OCTAVE CONTEXT
Within the Common Octave of the Assumption - Common Octave

PRACTICE
Receive traditional Catholic teaching as a rule for conversion, not as an ornament of identity.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him."
St. Jane Frances de Chantal

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - August 21
At Annecy, in Savoy, the festival of St. Jane -" Frances Fremiot de Chantal, foundress of the Order of Nuns of the Visitation of St. Mary, who is commemorated on the 13th of December. — At Rome, in the Veran field, St. Cyriaca, widow and martyr. In the persecution of Valerian, after devoting herself and all her goods in the service of the saints, she gave up her life by suffering martyrdom for Christ. — At Salona, St. Anastasius, a law officer, who was converted to the faith by seeing the fortitude with which blessed Agapitus bore his torments, and being put to death by order of the emperor Auvolian, for confessing the name of Christ, went to Our Lord. — In Sardinia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus, and Camerinus, who were put to the sword in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Delphius. — In Gevaudan, St. Privatus, bishop and martyr, who suffered in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus. — The same day, the holy martyrs Bonosus and Maximian. — At Fundi, in Campania, St. Paternus, a martyr, who came from Alexandria to Rome to visit the tomb of the Apostles. Thence he retired to the neighborhood of Fundi, where, being seized by the tribune whilst he was burying the bodies of the martyrs, he died in captivity. — At Edessa, in Syria, during the persecution of Maximian, the holy martyrs.Bassa, and her sons Theogonius, Agapius, and Fidelis, whom their pious mother exhorted to martyrdom and sent before her bearing their crowns. Being herself beheaded, she joyfully followed them and shared their victory. — At Verona, St. Euprepius, bishop and confessor. — Also St. Quadratus, bishop. — At Siena, in Tuscany, blessed Bernard Ptolemy, abbot and founder of the Congregation of Olivetans.

HIGHLIGHTED SAINT
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Widow, foundress, and mother of gentle strength.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal bore the grief of widowhood, the demands of family duty, and the long discipline of spiritual trial before becoming foundress of the Visitation of St. Mary with St. Francis de Sales.
Her witness teaches that suffering can be carried into obedience and religious fruitfulness. Catholic gentleness is not softness; it is strength kept beneath charity, rule, and perseverance.
Ask St. Jane Frances for a heart both tender and ruled. The wounds of life need not become rebellion when they are placed under Christ.
FROM MATINS
A widow's grief disciplined into visitation and charity.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow
Roman Breviary
"She founded the holy Order of the Visitation."
- The Breviary follows St. Jane Frances through marriage, widowhood, family duty, forgiveness, and obedience under the direction of St. Francis de Sales.
- The Visitation receives widows and women unable to bear harsher austerities, showing that gentleness may be governed by a demanding charity and stable rule.
- Her long interior trials teach perseverance when sensible consolation is absent and prayer must continue by faith.
- The childhood incident in the older lesson uses severe language characteristic of its historical translation. The pilgrim should imitate her refusal of heresy, never contempt or cruelty toward persons: Catholic charity rejects error precisely because it desires the salvation and conversion of souls.
Do not let grief become self-rule. St. Jane Frances teaches forgiveness, duty, spiritual direction, works of mercy, and perseverance through dryness beneath the gentle discipline of Christ.
FULL BREVIARY LESSONS
Fourth Lesson - The Early Life and Household of St. Jane Frances
Jeanne Frances Fremiot de Chantal was born of parents of the highest rank, at Dijon in Burgundy, [on the 23rd day of January, in the year 1575.] From her earliest childhood she gave no dark promise of a life of eminent holiness. It is said that when she was scarcely fifteen years of age she confuted with precocious acuteness a Presbyterian nobleman, and when he gave her a little present she put it in the fire, saying: "That is how heretics will burn in hell for not believing Christ when He speaketh." On the death of her mother, she placed herself under the keeping of the Virgin Mother of God, and discharged a maid who strove to beguile her into loving the world. She had nothing youthful about her ways. She shrank from the pleasures of life. She had a strong wish that she might die a martyr. She devoted herself unweariedly to religion and godliness. Her father gave her in marriage, [at twenty years of age,] to the Baron de Chantal, and she strove to excel in all the duties and graces of a wife. She made it her work to see that her children, her servants, and all others under her authority were taught the doctrines of the faith and the practice of good living. She relieved the sufferings of the poor by plentiful almsgiving, for which purposes God not unfrequently miraculously multiplied her money. And so it came to pass that no one ever asked her for food in Christ's name and was refused it.
Fifth Lesson - Widowhood, Forgiveness, and Mercy
[In 1601] her husband was accidentally killed out shooting, and in her widowhood she determined to embrace the more excellent way, and took a vow not to marry again. She bore her bereavement with resignation to the Will of God, and so far overcame her horror of the gentleman who had fired the shot, that, to show she attributed no blame to him, she stood god-mother to his little boy. She was quite content with few servants and plain cookery and dress, and sold her rich wardrobe for the benefit of charities. She received offers of second marriage which would have been both politic and honourable, but never was induced to accept one of them, and to harden herself in her intention of remaining in her widowhood, she renewed her vow to that effect, and branded on her chest with a hot iron the most holy name of JESUS Christ. Her love grew tenderer every day, and she had brought to her the starving, the abandoned, the diseased, and those who were afflicted with the most sickening disorders. Them she not only sheltered, comforted, and nursed, but washed and mended their filthy and ragged garments, and shrank not from putting her mouth to their sores oozing with disgusting matter. Whatever of her time was not taken up by her household duties she spent in prayer, reading godly books, and working.
Sixth Lesson - The Visitation and Final Perseverance
She used the services of St Francis de Sales as her spiritual adviser, and when she learnt from him what was the will of God, she scrupled not to disregard the wishes of her own father, brother-in-law, and even of her son, whom she left with calm determination, went forth from her home, and founded the holy Institution of the Sisters of the Visitation of St Mary, [at Annecy, upon Trinity Sunday 1610.] She most rigidly kept the rules of this Institute, and loved so well to be poor, that it made her glad to lack even the necessaries of life. She showed herself a model of Christian lowliness, obedience, and all graces. Having settled in her heart still to go up higher and higher towards the Temple of the Lord, she bound herself by a most difficult vow always to do that which she should understand to be best. It was chiefly through her labour that the holy Institute of the Visitation became spread far and wide, and she stirred up the sisters to godliness and love by her words, by her example, and by writings full of Divine wisdom. She duly received the Sacraments before her death, and then, at Moulins, on the 13th day of December, in the year 1641, departed hence, to be for ever with the Lord. St Vincent of Paul, who was far distant, in a vision beheld her soul borne to heaven, and St Francis de Sales coming to meet it. Her body was afterwards taken to Annecy. She was famous for miracles both before and after her death, and Pope Benedict XIV. enrolled her among the Blessed, and Pope Clement XIII. among the Saints. Pope Clement XIV. ordered her Feast-day to be kept by the whole Church upon the twenty-first day of August.
THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies
The Church places this truth before you today: Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change. 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 Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.
The grace to be practiced is Gentle strength under 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 teachability by receiving sound correction, studying what your duties require, and refusing both intellectual pride and careless credulity.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words. 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 gentle strength under 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 labor of learning, the humility of admitting ignorance, and the duty of abandoning opinions contrary to the Faith. Read, speak, and judge according to sound Catholic sources, explaining truth plainly without weakening or disguising it.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope St. Pius X.
Your resolution before God: Receive traditional Catholic teaching as a rule for conversion, not as an ornament of identity.
Carry this word: Tradition is received life, not mere oldness.
THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR
"I had liefer be poor with Thee, than rich without Thee."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, chapter 59, p. 173
Older English: “liefer” means “rather.”
No created success compensates for separation from Christ. Prefer His friendship, His truth, and His Cross to every advantage gained by compromise.

Temptation often presents the price first and hides the loss. It tells you what obedience may cost in comfort, reputation, companionship, or opportunity, while concealing the poverty of possessing these things without peace with God. Look beyond the immediate bargain and choose with eternity in view.
Today's Practice: Refuse every compromise made for comfort, gain, or human respect.
DAILY EXAMEN
Examine whether pride rejected simple truth or laziness refused the study needed to understand and defend it.
- 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, keep me faithful to what Thy Church received: doctrine, worship, discipline, and holy memory. Preserve me from novelty and from empty nostalgia alike.
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.
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO
St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow
2027-08-21 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
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HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
Pentecost does not end when the octave passes. Its fruit must remain in the soul: public confession of truth, docility to apostolic doctrine, courage before false authority, and charity strong enough to resist error without bitterness.

PRÁCTICA
Receive traditional Catholic teaching as a rule for conversion, not as an ornament of identity.

CITA DEL DÍA
"Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him."
St. Jane Frances de Chantal

MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - August 21
At Annecy, in Savoy, the festival of St. Jane -" Frances Fremiot de Chantal, foundress of the Order of Nuns of the Visitation of St. Mary, who is commemorated on the 13th of December. — At Rome, in the Veran field, St. Cyriaca, widow and martyr. In the persecution of Valerian, after devoting herself and all her goods in the service of the saints, she gave up her life by suffering martyrdom for Christ. — At Salona, St. Anastasius, a law officer, who was converted to the faith by seeing the fortitude with which blessed Agapitus bore his torments, and being put to death by order of the emperor Auvolian, for confessing the name of Christ, went to Our Lord. — In Sardinia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus, and Camerinus, who were put to the sword in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Delphius. — In Gevaudan, St. Privatus, bishop and martyr, who suffered in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus. — The same day, the holy martyrs Bonosus and Maximian. — At Fundi, in Campania, St. Paternus, a martyr, who came from Alexandria to Rome to visit the tomb of the Apostles. Thence he retired to the neighborhood of Fundi, where, being seized by the tribune whilst he was burying the bodies of the martyrs, he died in captivity. — At Edessa, in Syria, during the persecution of Maximian, the holy martyrs.Bassa, and her sons Theogonius, Agapius, and Fidelis, whom their pious mother exhorted to martyrdom and sent before her bearing their crowns. Being herself beheaded, she joyfully followed them and shared their victory. — At Verona, St. Euprepius, bishop and confessor. — Also St. Quadratus, bishop. — At Siena, in Tuscany, blessed Bernard Ptolemy, abbot and founder of the Congregation of Olivetans.

SANTO DESTACADO
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Widow, foundress, and mother of gentle strength.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal bore the grief of widowhood, the demands of family duty, and the long discipline of spiritual trial before becoming foundress of the Visitation of St. Mary with St. Francis de Sales.
Her witness teaches that suffering can be carried into obedience and religious fruitfulness. Catholic gentleness is not softness; it is strength kept beneath charity, rule, and perseverance.
Ask St. Jane Frances for a heart both tender and ruled. The wounds of life need not become rebellion when they are placed under Christ.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
A widow's grief made fruitful.
Matins - St. Jane Frances de Chantal
- The Breviary honors St. Jane Frances de Chantal as widow and foundress, a soul whose grief, family duty, and spiritual trials were carried into obedience and religious fruitfulness.
- With St. Francis de Sales she helped found the Visitation, teaching strength without harshness and tenderness without self-rule.
Let grief become governed by Christ. Sorrow need not harden the soul when charity, obedience, and prayer give it form.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para St. Jane Frances de Chantal 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 A widow's grief made fruitful.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary honors St. Jane Frances de Chantal as widow and foundress, a soul whose grief, family duty, and spiritual trials were carried into obedience and religious fruitfulness.
La instrucción práctica es: Let grief become governed by Christ. Sorrow need not harden the soul when charity, obedience, and prayer give it form. 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
A widow's grief disciplined into visitation and charity.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow
Roman Breviary
"She founded the holy Order of the Visitation."
- The Breviary follows St. Jane Frances through marriage, widowhood, family duty, forgiveness, and obedience under the direction of St. Francis de Sales.
- The Visitation receives widows and women unable to bear harsher austerities, showing that gentleness may be governed by a demanding charity and stable rule.
- Her long interior trials teach perseverance when sensible consolation is absent and prayer must continue by faith.
- The childhood incident in the older lesson uses severe language characteristic of its historical translation. The pilgrim should imitate her refusal of heresy, never contempt or cruelty toward persons: Catholic charity rejects error precisely because it desires the salvation and conversion of souls.
Do not let grief become self-rule. St. Jane Frances teaches forgiveness, duty, spiritual direction, works of mercy, and perseverance through dryness beneath the gentle discipline of Christ.
LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO
Fourth Lesson - The Early Life and Household of St. Jane Frances
Jeanne Frances Fremiot de Chantal was born of parents of the highest rank, at Dijon in Burgundy, [on the 23rd day of January, in the year 1575.] From her earliest childhood she gave no dark promise of a life of eminent holiness. It is said that when she was scarcely fifteen years of age she confuted with precocious acuteness a Presbyterian nobleman, and when he gave her a little present she put it in the fire, saying: "That is how heretics will burn in hell for not believing Christ when He speaketh." On the death of her mother, she placed herself under the keeping of the Virgin Mother of God, and discharged a maid who strove to beguile her into loving the world. She had nothing youthful about her ways. She shrank from the pleasures of life. She had a strong wish that she might die a martyr. She devoted herself unweariedly to religion and godliness. Her father gave her in marriage, [at twenty years of age,] to the Baron de Chantal, and she strove to excel in all the duties and graces of a wife. She made it her work to see that her children, her servants, and all others under her authority were taught the doctrines of the faith and the practice of good living. She relieved the sufferings of the poor by plentiful almsgiving, for which purposes God not unfrequently miraculously multiplied her money. And so it came to pass that no one ever asked her for food in Christ's name and was refused it.
Fifth Lesson - Widowhood, Forgiveness, and Mercy
[In 1601] her husband was accidentally killed out shooting, and in her widowhood she determined to embrace the more excellent way, and took a vow not to marry again. She bore her bereavement with resignation to the Will of God, and so far overcame her horror of the gentleman who had fired the shot, that, to show she attributed no blame to him, she stood god-mother to his little boy. She was quite content with few servants and plain cookery and dress, and sold her rich wardrobe for the benefit of charities. She received offers of second marriage which would have been both politic and honourable, but never was induced to accept one of them, and to harden herself in her intention of remaining in her widowhood, she renewed her vow to that effect, and branded on her chest with a hot iron the most holy name of JESUS Christ. Her love grew tenderer every day, and she had brought to her the starving, the abandoned, the diseased, and those who were afflicted with the most sickening disorders. Them she not only sheltered, comforted, and nursed, but washed and mended their filthy and ragged garments, and shrank not from putting her mouth to their sores oozing with disgusting matter. Whatever of her time was not taken up by her household duties she spent in prayer, reading godly books, and working.
Sixth Lesson - The Visitation and Final Perseverance
She used the services of St Francis de Sales as her spiritual adviser, and when she learnt from him what was the will of God, she scrupled not to disregard the wishes of her own father, brother-in-law, and even of her son, whom she left with calm determination, went forth from her home, and founded the holy Institution of the Sisters of the Visitation of St Mary, [at Annecy, upon Trinity Sunday 1610.] She most rigidly kept the rules of this Institute, and loved so well to be poor, that it made her glad to lack even the necessaries of life. She showed herself a model of Christian lowliness, obedience, and all graces. Having settled in her heart still to go up higher and higher towards the Temple of the Lord, she bound herself by a most difficult vow always to do that which she should understand to be best. It was chiefly through her labour that the holy Institute of the Visitation became spread far and wide, and she stirred up the sisters to godliness and love by her words, by her example, and by writings full of Divine wisdom. She duly received the Sacraments before her death, and then, at Moulins, on the 13th day of December, in the year 1641, departed hence, to be for ever with the Lord. St Vincent of Paul, who was far distant, in a vision beheld her soul borne to heaven, and St Francis de Sales coming to meet it. Her body was afterwards taken to Annecy. She was famous for miracles both before and after her death, and Pope Benedict XIV. enrolled her among the Blessed, and Pope Clement XIII. among the Saints. Pope Clement XIV. ordered her Feast-day to be kept by the whole Church upon the twenty-first day of August.
VERDAD DE LA FE
Modernism Is the Synthesis of Heresies
Modernism corrodes the faith from within by subjecting revelation, dogma, worship, and authority to religious experience and historical change.
Nota de la Iglesia: One
Defensor: Pope St. Pius X
Defensa católica: The Catholic answer is not panic but firm adherence to objective revelation, defined dogma, apostolic tradition, and the anti-modernist judgments of the Church.
Error que resistir: Resist the language of continuity when it is used to smuggle contradiction into Catholic words.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Gentle strength under obedience.
La virtud de hoy es Gentle strength under 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: Offer grief without bitterness.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Practice gentleness under contradiction.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Let family duties be governed by God.
- ¿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, keep me faithful to what Thy Church received: doctrine, worship, discipline, and holy memory. Preserve me from novelty and from empty nostalgia alike.
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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