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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE St. Wenceslaus, Martyr 2027-09-28 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - red PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY Martyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith. Chastity: the virtue that orders sexuality according to one's state of life and treats the body as belonging to God. 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 The Time after Pentecost is the long school of the Holy Ghost. The fire given at Pentecost must become doctrine believed, worship guarded, commandments kept, homes ordered, tongues governed, and charity practiced without novelty or disorder. With Mary, receive the silence in which God prepares His deepest works. Consecrate speech to Jesus through Mary and ask that no word be spent merely to serve vanity or irritation. "God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 4 Our Lady's silence is not emptiness, timidity, or ignorance. Wisdom dwells within her, and therefore speech is not used to prove that she possesses it. She speaks when charity and God's will require speech; otherwise she keeps the mystery entrusted to her and allows the Word Himself to be heard. A soul beginning the interior life must learn this custody. Much grace is dissipated through unnecessary explanation, argument, and self-defense. Before speaking today, ask whether the words protect truth, fulfill duty, or help a soul. If they merely relieve the pressure of self-love, remain with Mary in silence. PRACTICE Fulfill your ordinary duties promptly and offer them for the glory of God. QUOTE OF THE DAY "The fear of our Lord hateth evil: arrogancy, and pride, and wicked way, and a double tongued mouth I do detest." Holy Scripture, Proverbs 8:13, Original Douay-Rheims NOVENA IN PROGRESS Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Day 1 of 9 Preparing for Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2027-10-07. Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile. Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion. ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - September 28 In Bohemia, St. Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia and martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles. Being murdered in his brother's house, he went triumphantly to heaven. — At Rome, St. Privatus, martyr, who was cured of ulcers by the blessed pope Callistus. For the faith of Christ he was scourged to death with leaded whips, in the time of the emperor Alexander. — In the same place, St. Stacteus, martyr. — In Africa, the Saints Martial, Lawrence, and twenty other martyrs. — At Antioch, in Pisidia, the holy martyrs Mark, shepherd, Alphius, Alexander, and Zosimus, his brothers, Nicon, Neon Heliodorus, and thirty soldiers, who were converted to Christ on seeing the miracles of blessed Mark, and were crowned with martyrdom in different places and in various manners. — The same day, the martyrdom of St. Maximus, under the emperor Decius. — At Toulouse, St. Exuperius, bishop and confessor. St. Jerome bears to this blessed man a memorable testimony, relating how severe he was towards himself and how liberal towards others. — At Genoa, St. Solomon, bishop and confessor. — At Brescia, St. Silvinus, bishop. — The same day, the holy virgin Eustochium, daughter of blessed Paula, who was brought up at the manger of our Lord with other virgins, and being celebrated for merits, went to our Lord. — In Germany, St. Lioba, virgin, renowned for miracles. HIGHLIGHTED SAINT St. Wenceslaus Duke and martyr, ruler slain in his brother's house. The Martyrology honors St. Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia and martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles, murdered in his brother's house. His feast teaches that Christian rule may be hated even within one's own household. Fidelity to Christ does not guarantee peace with blood relations, courts, or political ambition. Ask St. Wenceslaus for courage where duty and family sorrow meet. A Catholic ruler of even a small household must serve Christ before blood, comfort, or approval. FROM MATINS A Christian ruler slain at the threshold of worship. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr Roman Breviary "He governed his kingdom better by kindness than by severity." - The Breviary presents St. Wenceslaus as a ruler formed by St. Ludmilla, devoted to worship, chastity, mercy, and care for the poor. - His government is Christian without becoming cruel: authority is strengthened by justice, personal holiness, and service rather than ambition. - His murder through family treachery at the church door shows public fidelity tested by disorder within his own house. Govern small duties beneath Christ even when those nearest resist. St. Wenceslaus teaches worship before power, mercy within authority, and fidelity above approval. FULL BREVIARY LESSONS Fourth Lesson - Formed in Godliness amid a Divided House Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, was the son of a Christian father, Duke Wratislaus I., and an heathen mother named Drahomira. He had for his grandmother a most holy woman, named Ludmilla, who trained him up in godliness. He was a man eminent in all graces, and one who carefully held his virginity unsullied throughout the whole course of his life. His mother seized the supreme power by the foul murder of Ludmilla, and lived foully with her younger son Boleslaus, and the nobles roused thereby to indignation, and wearied with her tyranny and wicked government, cast off the yoke of both of them, and hailed Wenceslaus in the city of Prague as their King. Fifth Lesson - A Ruler Governed by Virtue and Charity He ruled his kingdom by his virtues rather than by force. To the orphaned, the widowed, and the destitute he was very charitable, so that some whiles in the winter he carried firewood to the needy on his own shoulders. He helped oftentimes to bury the poor, he set captives free, and went many times to the prisons at the dead of night to comfort with money and advice them that were detained therein. To a Prince of so tender an heart it was a great grief to be behoven to condemn any to death, however guilty. For Priests he had a most earnest respect, and with his own hands sowed the corn and pressed the grapes for the bread and wine which they were to use for the Sacrifice. He would walk round the Church by night with bare feet upon the snow and ice, leaving behind him bloody footprints that warmed the ground. Sixth Lesson - Martyrdom through the Treachery of His Brother For his Body-guard he had angels. For when Radislaus, Prince of Gurinna, invaded Bohemia, and Wenceslaus, to save the effusion of his people's blood, went out to meet him in single combat, [two] angels were seen serving him with arms, and heard to say to the adversary: "Strike not." Therefore, his enemy was stricken with terror, fell down in reverence before him, and begged his forgiveness. When he went to Germany, the Emperor saw two angels carrying a golden Cross before him as he drew nigh him, and arose from his throne, embraced him in his arms, created him a King, and gifted him with the arm of the holy [Martyr] Vitus. Nevertheless, his godless brother, at the exhortation of their mother, bade him to a feast, [given on account of the birth of his son,] and when Wenceslaus, with a foreboding of the death prepared for him, went afterwards into the Church, and was praying there, [Boleslaus followed him thither,] together with some accomplices of his crime, and [when they had wounded him,] despatched him [with his own hand, running him through the body with a lance. He suffered a little after midnight, upon the 28th day of September, in the year of our Lord 938.] The stains of his blood may still be seen upon the walls. By the judgment of God, his unnatural mother was swallowed up by the earth, and his murderers, in divers ways, perished miserably. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ The Church places this truth before you today: The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. 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. Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear. The grace to be practiced is Christian fortitude in public and family duty, 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 recollected silence: not refusal of necessary truth, but restraint governed by charity and duty. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. 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 christian fortitude in public and family duty 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. When tempted to defend yourself unnecessarily, remain peaceful beneath God's knowledge. Give full attention to the person or duty before you instead of preparing the next thing you wish to say. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas. Your resolution before God: Fulfill your ordinary duties promptly and offer them for the glory of God. Carry this word: Grace is guarded by ordinary fidelity. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "If we would every year overcome one vice, we should anon come to perfection." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 11, p. 20 À Kempis does not flatter the soul with the promise of instant perfection. He asks for patient warfare against a definite vice. Much spiritual discouragement comes from trying vaguely to become holy while refusing to name the repeated fault through which self-will governs ordinary life. Choose the vice by its actual frequency, not by how dramatic its name appears. It may be complaint, delay, curiosity, harsh judgment, vanity, impurity of thought, or refusal of prayer. Place it before God without excuse, ask Our Lady for the contrary virtue, and begin with its next small occasion. Today's Practice: Name your recurring vice and write down the contrary acts you will make whenever it appears. DAILY EXAMEN Review your conversations. Ask whether your words made Christ better known or merely made self more visible. - 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, strengthen the little duties of this day with Thy grace, that nothing entrusted to me may be wasted through negligence or vanity. 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 What Are the Sacraments?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-are-the-sacraments?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2027-09-28&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2027-09-28&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO St. Wenceslaus, Martyr 2027-09-28 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double - red Nota: las secciones fijas de formación se presentan en español; los textos diarios variables permanecen en el idioma mantenido en la fuente hasta que se agregue una traducción revisada. HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO The Time after Pentecost is the long school of the Holy Ghost. The fire given at Pentecost must become doctrine believed, worship guarded, commandments kept, homes ordered, tongues governed, and charity practiced without novelty or disorder. PRÁCTICA Fulfill your ordinary duties promptly and offer them for the glory of God. CITA DEL DÍA "The fear of our Lord hateth evil: arrogancy, and pride, and wicked way, and a double tongued mouth I do detest." Holy Scripture, Proverbs 8:13, Original Douay-Rheims NOVENA EN CURSO Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary - Día 1 de 9 Preparación para Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary el 2027-10-07. Ask for perseverance in the Rosary, victory over error, and Marian protection of the faithful in exile. Pray the Rosary with attention and offer it for souls deceived by false religion. MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - September 28 In Bohemia, St. Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia and martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles. Being murdered in his brother's house, he went triumphantly to heaven. — At Rome, St. Privatus, martyr, who was cured of ulcers by the blessed pope Callistus. For the faith of Christ he was scourged to death with leaded whips, in the time of the emperor Alexander. — In the same place, St. Stacteus, martyr. — In Africa, the Saints Martial, Lawrence, and twenty other martyrs. — At Antioch, in Pisidia, the holy martyrs Mark, shepherd, Alphius, Alexander, and Zosimus, his brothers, Nicon, Neon Heliodorus, and thirty soldiers, who were converted to Christ on seeing the miracles of blessed Mark, and were crowned with martyrdom in different places and in various manners. — The same day, the martyrdom of St. Maximus, under the emperor Decius. — At Toulouse, St. Exuperius, bishop and confessor. St. Jerome bears to this blessed man a memorable testimony, relating how severe he was towards himself and how liberal towards others. — At Genoa, St. Solomon, bishop and confessor. — At Brescia, St. Silvinus, bishop. — The same day, the holy virgin Eustochium, daughter of blessed Paula, who was brought up at the manger of our Lord with other virgins, and being celebrated for merits, went to our Lord. — In Germany, St. Lioba, virgin, renowned for miracles. SANTO DESTACADO St. Wenceslaus Duke and martyr, ruler slain in his brother's house. The Martyrology honors St. Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia and martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles, murdered in his brother's house. His feast teaches that Christian rule may be hated even within one's own household. Fidelity to Christ does not guarantee peace with blood relations, courts, or political ambition. Ask St. Wenceslaus for courage where duty and family sorrow meet. A Catholic ruler of even a small household must serve Christ before blood, comfort, or approval. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO A ruler martyred in his own house. Matins - St. Wenceslaus - The Breviary honors St. Wenceslaus as duke and martyr, renowned for holiness and slain amid the treachery of his own house. - His witness teaches that Christian rule can draw hatred from ambition, rivalry, and even family disorder. Govern small duties under Christ even when those nearest do not understand. Holiness is worth more than approval. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para St. Wenceslaus 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 ruler martyred in his own house.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary honors St. Wenceslaus as duke and martyr, renowned for holiness and slain amid the treachery of his own house. La instrucción práctica es: Govern small duties under Christ even when those nearest do not understand. Holiness is worth more than approval. 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 Christian ruler slain at the threshold of worship. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr Roman Breviary "He governed his kingdom better by kindness than by severity." - The Breviary presents St. Wenceslaus as a ruler formed by St. Ludmilla, devoted to worship, chastity, mercy, and care for the poor. - His government is Christian without becoming cruel: authority is strengthened by justice, personal holiness, and service rather than ambition. - His murder through family treachery at the church door shows public fidelity tested by disorder within his own house. Govern small duties beneath Christ even when those nearest resist. St. Wenceslaus teaches worship before power, mercy within authority, and fidelity above approval. LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO Fourth Lesson - Formed in Godliness amid a Divided House Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, was the son of a Christian father, Duke Wratislaus I., and an heathen mother named Drahomira. He had for his grandmother a most holy woman, named Ludmilla, who trained him up in godliness. He was a man eminent in all graces, and one who carefully held his virginity unsullied throughout the whole course of his life. His mother seized the supreme power by the foul murder of Ludmilla, and lived foully with her younger son Boleslaus, and the nobles roused thereby to indignation, and wearied with her tyranny and wicked government, cast off the yoke of both of them, and hailed Wenceslaus in the city of Prague as their King. Fifth Lesson - A Ruler Governed by Virtue and Charity He ruled his kingdom by his virtues rather than by force. To the orphaned, the widowed, and the destitute he was very charitable, so that some whiles in the winter he carried firewood to the needy on his own shoulders. He helped oftentimes to bury the poor, he set captives free, and went many times to the prisons at the dead of night to comfort with money and advice them that were detained therein. To a Prince of so tender an heart it was a great grief to be behoven to condemn any to death, however guilty. For Priests he had a most earnest respect, and with his own hands sowed the corn and pressed the grapes for the bread and wine which they were to use for the Sacrifice. He would walk round the Church by night with bare feet upon the snow and ice, leaving behind him bloody footprints that warmed the ground. Sixth Lesson - Martyrdom through the Treachery of His Brother For his Body-guard he had angels. For when Radislaus, Prince of Gurinna, invaded Bohemia, and Wenceslaus, to save the effusion of his people's blood, went out to meet him in single combat, [two] angels were seen serving him with arms, and heard to say to the adversary: "Strike not." Therefore, his enemy was stricken with terror, fell down in reverence before him, and begged his forgiveness. When he went to Germany, the Emperor saw two angels carrying a golden Cross before him as he drew nigh him, and arose from his throne, embraced him in his arms, created him a King, and gifted him with the arm of the holy [Martyr] Vitus. Nevertheless, his godless brother, at the exhortation of their mother, bade him to a feast, [given on account of the birth of his son,] and when Wenceslaus, with a foreboding of the death prepared for him, went afterwards into the Church, and was praying there, [Boleslaus followed him thither,] together with some accomplices of his crime, and [when they had wounded him,] despatched him [with his own hand, running him through the body with a lance. He suffered a little after midnight, upon the 28th day of September, in the year of our Lord 938.] The stains of his blood may still be seen upon the walls. By the judgment of God, his unnatural mother was swallowed up by the earth, and his murderers, in divers ways, perished miserably. VERDAD DE LA FE The Sacraments Are Instruments of Christ The sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ to give grace; they are not symbols invented by the community. Nota de la Iglesia: Holy Defensor: St. Thomas Aquinas Defensa católica: Because Christ instituted the sacraments, the Church must guard their matter, form, minister, and intention with holy fear. Error que resistir: Resist sacramental casualness, especially the idea that good intention can repair invalid rites or invented forms. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Christian fortitude in public and family duty. La virtud de hoy es Christian fortitude in public and family duty.. 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: Rule small duties with justice and prayer. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Forgive family wounds without surrendering truth. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Choose holiness over political advantage. - ¿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, strengthen the little duties of this day with Thy grace, that nothing entrusted to me may be wasted through negligence or vanity. 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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