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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2027-10-07 - Time after Pentecost - Double of the Second Class - white
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Incarnation: the mystery that the eternal Son of God truly took a human nature and became man without ceasing to be God.
Ascension: Christ's return to the Father in His glorified humanity forty days after the Resurrection.
Passion of Christ: the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.
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 Rosary places the mysteries of Jesus Christ into the keeping of the heart, decade by decade, under the guidance of His Mother. It is not a charm for vague peace, but a school of doctrine, perseverance, purity, and warfare against sin and heresy. Enter each mystery with Our Lady and ask her to form in you the dispositions it reveals. Receive Jesus anew as the blessed Fruit of Mary's womb and ask that He be formed fully in your heart. Greet Our Lady with the Angelic Salutation and ask her to give you Jesus more fully in faith, grace, obedience, and love.

"If any one of the faithful has Jesus Christ formed in his heart, he can say boldly, All thanks be to Mary! what I possess is her effect and her fruit, and without her I should never have had it."
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 33

Every ‘Blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus’ confesses the inseparable order of genuine Marian devotion: Mary gives us her Fruit. She does not terminate the soul in herself. Her maternal labor is fulfilled when Jesus Christ lives and reigns in the heart by sanctifying grace, true doctrine, virtue, and charity.

Pray the Angelus, the Hail Mary, and the Rosary with this Christ-centered attention. Ask not only for protection or temporal favors but for the full age of Christ in the soul. Let every mystery teach His life, every petition oppose sin, and every thanksgiving return through Mary to God.

PRACTICE
Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee."
St. Gabriel the Archangel, Luke 1:28, Douay-Rheims

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 7
The feast of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the commemoration of Our Lady of Victory, which the sovereign Pontiff, blessed Pius V., on account of the great naval victory gained by the Christians on this day, ordered to be kept annually. — At Rome, on the Ardeatine road, the demise of St. Mark, pope and confessor. — In the province of the Euphrates, the holy martyrs Sergius and Bacchus, noble Romans, in the time of the emperor Maximian. Bacchus, being scourged with rough whips until his body was completely mangled, breathed his last in the confession of Christ. Sergius had his feet forced into shoes full of sharp-pointed nails, and, remaining unshaken in the faith, he was sentenced to undergo capital punishment. The place where he reposes is called after him Sergiopolis, and, on account of the signal miracles wrought in it, is honored by a great concourse of Christians. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Marcellus and Apuleius, who at first followed Simon Magus, but seeing the wonders which the Lord performed by the apostle Peter, abandoned Simon, and embraced the apostolical doctrine. After the death of the Apostles, under the ex-consul Aurelian, they won the crown of martyrdom, and were buried near the city. — Also, in the province of the Euphrates, St. Julia, virgin, who endured martyrdom under the governor Marcian. — At Padua, St. Justina, virgin and martyr, who was baptized by the blessed Prosdocimus, disciple of St. Peter. As she remained firm in the faith of Christ, she was put to the sword by order of the governor Maximus, and thus went to God. — At Bourges, St. Augustus, priest and confessor. — In the diocese of Rheims, St. Helanus, priest. — In Sweden, the translation of the body of St. Bridget, widow.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
Hail, full of grace.
Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 1:26-38
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee."
Take the beads simply. Our Lady does not require brilliance; she teaches the faithful to return, mystery by mystery, to her Son.

THE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL
What This Gospel Teaches
The Rosary begins in the mysteries of Christ contemplated with Mary.
The Annunciation teaches humble consent, reverent wonder, and confidence in God's power.
Error corrected: The mechanical prayer that moves the lips while the heart wanders willingly.
- Where does this error tempt me in practice?
- What act does this Gospel require of me today?

HIGHLIGHTED SAINT
The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Gospel contemplated with Our Lady.
The feast of the Holy Rosary honors the prayer by which the faithful contemplate the mysteries of Christ with the Mother of God.
It teaches doctrine through prayer: Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, and glory are held in memory until they form the soul.
Take up the beads with patience. The Rosary teaches the soul to return, mystery by mystery, to the Incarnation, Passion, and glory of Christ.
FROM MATINS
The Rosary, the mysteries, and the weapon against heresy.
Matins - Second Nocturn - Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Roman Breviary
"A strong help against heresy and sin."
- The Breviary links the Holy Rosary to St. Dominic's warfare against the Albigensian heresy and to the maternal help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- The lesson describes the Rosary as prayer joined to meditation on the great mysteries of redemption, not as a merely counted devotion.
- The feast teaches that Our Lady protects doctrine by keeping Catholic memory close to the Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, and glory of her Son.
Pray the Rosary as a doctrinal school. The beads should train memory, attention, purity, perseverance, and hatred of error because they keep the soul near Christ with Mary.
FULL BREVIARY LESSONS
Fourth Lesson - A Strong Help Against Heresy and Sin
When the heresy of the Albigenses was making head against God in the County of Toulouse, and striking deeper roots every day, the holy Dominick, who had but just laid the foundations of the Order of Friars Preachers, threw his whole strength into the travail of plucking these blasphemies up. That he might be fitter for the work, he cried for help with his whole soul to that Blessed Maiden, whose glory the falsehoods of the heretics so insolently assailed, and to whom it hath been granted to trample down every heresy throughout the whole earth. It is said that he had from her a word, bidding him preach up the saying of the Rosary among the people, as a strong help against heresy and sin, and it is wonderful with how stout an heart and how good a success he did the work laid upon him. This Rose-garden [or Rosary] is a certain form of prayer, wherein we say one-hundred-and-fifty times the salutation of the Angel, and the Lord's Prayer between every ten times, and, each of the fifteen times that we say the Lord's Prayer, and repeat tenfold the salutation, think of one of fifteen great events in the history of our Redemption. From that time forth this form of godly prayer was extraordinarily spread about by holy Dominick, and waxed common. That this same Dominick was the founder and prime mover thereof hath been said by Popes in divers letters of the Apostolic See.
Fifth Lesson - Victory and Thanksgiving Through the Rosary
From this healthy exercise have grown up numberless good fruits in the Christian Commonwealth. Among these deserveth well to be named that great victory over the Sultan of Turkey, which the most holy Pope Pius V., and the Christian Princes whom he had roused, won at Lepanto, [on the 7th day of October, the first Lord's Day in the month, in the year of our Lord 1571.] The day whereon this victory was gained was the very one whereon the Guild-brethren of the most holy Rosary, throughout the whole world, were used to offer their accustomed prayers and appointed supplications, and the event therefore was not unnaturally connected therewith. This being the avowed opinion of Gregory XIII., he ordered that in all Churches where there was, or should be, an Altar of the Rosary, a Feast, in the form of a Greater Double, should be kept for ever upon the first Lord's Day of the month of October, to give unceasing thanks to the Blessed Virgin, under her style of [Queen of] the [Most Holy] Rosary, for that extraordinary mercy of God. Other Popes also have granted almost numberless Indulgences to those who say the Rosary, and to those who join its Guilds.
Sixth Lesson - The Rosary Commended to the Whole Church
In the year 1716, Charles VI., Elect-Emperor of the Romans, won a famous victory over countless hordes of Turks, [near Temeswar,] in the kingdom of Hungary, upon the day when the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of St Mary of the Snows was being kept, and almost at the very moment when the Guild-brethren of the most holy Rosary were moving through the streets of Rome in public and solemn procession, amid vast multitudes, all filled with the deepest enthusiasm, calling vehemently upon God for the defeat of the Turks, and entreating the Virgin Mother of God to bring the might of her succour to the help of the Christians. A few days later, [upon the Octave of the Feast of the Assumption,] the Turks raised the siege of Corfu. These mercies Clement XI. devoutly ascribed to the helpful prayers of the Blessed Virgin, and that the memory and the sweetness of such a blessing might for all time coming endure gloriously, he extended to the whole Church the observance of the Feast of the most holy Rosary, for the same day and of the same rank, [as it had already been in the places before mentioned.] Benedict XIII. commanded the record of all these things to be given a place in the Service-book of the Church of Rome; and Leo XIII., in the most troublous times of the Church and the cruel storm of long pressing evils, by fresh Apostolic letters vehemently urged upon all the faithful throughout the earth the often saying of the Rosary of [the Blessed Virgin] Mary, raised the dignity of the yearly festival, added to the Litany of Loretto the Invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary," and granted to the whole Church a special Office for this solemn occasion. Let us all then be earnest in honouring the most holy Mother of God in this form which she liketh so well, that even as the entreaties of Christ's faithful people, approaching her in her Garden of Roses, have so often won her to scatter and destroy their earthly foes, so she may gain for them the victory over their hellish foes likewise.
THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
Obedience Serves Truth
The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command. 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. Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.
The grace to be practiced is Persevering meditation on Christ with Mary, 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 grateful recollection by carrying the name, mysteries, teaching, and example of Jesus throughout the entire day.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray 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 persevering meditation on Christ with Mary 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. Unite every suffering to a mystery of the Rosary and accept it as part of Mary's labor that Christ be formed in you. Pray the Rosary with the goal of saying all three traditional groups of mysteries, offering it for an intention and for souls who have no one to pray for them.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.
Your resolution before God: Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.
Carry this word: What is said of Our Lady teaches the soul how to see the Church.
THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR
"My son, be waking and diligent in the service of God, and think oft wherefore thou art come, and why thou hast forsaken the world."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 25, p. 45
Fervor is not religious excitement. It is the awakened will that remembers its end and returns to duty when nature grows sluggish. You were created to know, love, and serve God and thereby attain eternal life; every lesser purpose must remain beneath this one.

Recall why you began to seek a more faithful Catholic life. Then ask what has cooled: prayer postponed, sacrifice avoided, truth softened, or daily duty performed without love. Do not attempt to recover everything through emotion. Renew the next act, and let diligence carry the soul where feeling does not.
Today's Practice: Renew aloud the purpose of your life before God, then complete the duty you have most resisted.
DAILY EXAMEN
Thank Our Lady for every trace of her Son formed in you and ask pardon where sin or negligence drove His likeness from your conduct.
- 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 Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.
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
Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2027-10-07 - Time after Pentecost - Double of the Second Class - white
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HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
The Rosary places the mysteries of Jesus Christ into the keeping of the heart, decade by decade, under the guidance of His Mother. It is not a charm for vague peace, but a school of doctrine, perseverance, purity, and warfare against sin and heresy. Enter each mystery with Our Lady and ask her to form in you the dispositions it reveals.

PRÁCTICA
Honor Our Lady throughout the day and ask what her privileges teach about the Church's fidelity.

CITA DEL DÍA
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee."
St. Gabriel the Archangel, Luke 1:28, Douay-Rheims

MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - October 7
The feast of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the commemoration of Our Lady of Victory, which the sovereign Pontiff, blessed Pius V., on account of the great naval victory gained by the Christians on this day, ordered to be kept annually. — At Rome, on the Ardeatine road, the demise of St. Mark, pope and confessor. — In the province of the Euphrates, the holy martyrs Sergius and Bacchus, noble Romans, in the time of the emperor Maximian. Bacchus, being scourged with rough whips until his body was completely mangled, breathed his last in the confession of Christ. Sergius had his feet forced into shoes full of sharp-pointed nails, and, remaining unshaken in the faith, he was sentenced to undergo capital punishment. The place where he reposes is called after him Sergiopolis, and, on account of the signal miracles wrought in it, is honored by a great concourse of Christians. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Marcellus and Apuleius, who at first followed Simon Magus, but seeing the wonders which the Lord performed by the apostle Peter, abandoned Simon, and embraced the apostolical doctrine. After the death of the Apostles, under the ex-consul Aurelian, they won the crown of martyrdom, and were buried near the city. — Also, in the province of the Euphrates, St. Julia, virgin, who endured martyrdom under the governor Marcian. — At Padua, St. Justina, virgin and martyr, who was baptized by the blessed Prosdocimus, disciple of St. Peter. As she remained firm in the faith of Christ, she was put to the sword by order of the governor Maximus, and thus went to God. — At Bourges, St. Augustus, priest and confessor. — In the diocese of Rheims, St. Helanus, priest. — In Sweden, the translation of the body of St. Bridget, widow.

EVANGELIO DEL DÍA
Hail, full of grace.
Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Luke 1:26-38
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee."
Take the beads simply. Our Lady does not require brilliance; she teaches the faithful to return, mystery by mystery, to her Son.

LA LECTURA DE LA IGLESIA DEL EVANGELIO
Lo que enseña este Evangelio
The Rosary begins in the mysteries of Christ contemplated with Mary.
The Annunciation teaches humble consent, reverent wonder, and confidence in God's power.
Error corregido: The mechanical prayer that moves the lips while the heart wanders willingly.
- ¿Dónde me tienta este error en la práctica?
- ¿Qué acto exige de mí este Evangelio hoy?

SANTO DESTACADO
The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Gospel contemplated with Our Lady.
The feast of the Holy Rosary honors the prayer by which the faithful contemplate the mysteries of Christ with the Mother of God.
It teaches doctrine through prayer: Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, and glory are held in memory until they form the soul.
Take up the beads with patience. The Rosary teaches the soul to return, mystery by mystery, to the Incarnation, Passion, and glory of Christ.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
The mysteries of Christ kept with Mary.
Matins - Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- The Breviary remembrance of the Holy Rosary presents Marian prayer as contemplation of Christ's mysteries.
- The beads are not a distraction from doctrine, but a school where Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, and glory are held in memory.
Pray the Rosary as formation, not mere repetition. Let Our Lady teach the soul to return to Christ steadily and without noise.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary forma parte de la enseñanza diaria de la Iglesia. No debe leerse como una lista de datos aislados: la Sagrada Escritura, las vidas de los santos, la doctrina y la oración de la Iglesia se unen para formar el juicio y la vida católica.
El testimonio de hoy se reúne bajo The mysteries of Christ kept with Mary.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary remembrance of the Holy Rosary presents Marian prayer as contemplation of Christ's mysteries.
La instrucción práctica es: Pray the Rosary as formation, not mere repetition. Let Our Lady teach the soul to return to Christ steadily and without noise. Pregunte qué verdad se custodia, qué virtud se alaba y qué peligro u olvido se corrige.
- ¿Qué verdad enseña o defiende este testimonio del Breviario?
- ¿Qué virtud pone la Iglesia ante mí?
- ¿Qué juicio o acción debe cambiar por haber recibido esta lección?

SERMÓN O LECCIÓN DEL BREVIARIO
The Rosary, the mysteries, and the weapon against heresy.
Matins - Second Nocturn - Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Roman Breviary
"A strong help against heresy and sin."
- The Breviary links the Holy Rosary to St. Dominic's warfare against the Albigensian heresy and to the maternal help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- The lesson describes the Rosary as prayer joined to meditation on the great mysteries of redemption, not as a merely counted devotion.
- The feast teaches that Our Lady protects doctrine by keeping Catholic memory close to the Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, and glory of her Son.
Pray the Rosary as a doctrinal school. The beads should train memory, attention, purity, perseverance, and hatred of error because they keep the soul near Christ with Mary.
LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO
Fourth Lesson - A Strong Help Against Heresy and Sin
When the heresy of the Albigenses was making head against God in the County of Toulouse, and striking deeper roots every day, the holy Dominick, who had but just laid the foundations of the Order of Friars Preachers, threw his whole strength into the travail of plucking these blasphemies up. That he might be fitter for the work, he cried for help with his whole soul to that Blessed Maiden, whose glory the falsehoods of the heretics so insolently assailed, and to whom it hath been granted to trample down every heresy throughout the whole earth. It is said that he had from her a word, bidding him preach up the saying of the Rosary among the people, as a strong help against heresy and sin, and it is wonderful with how stout an heart and how good a success he did the work laid upon him. This Rose-garden [or Rosary] is a certain form of prayer, wherein we say one-hundred-and-fifty times the salutation of the Angel, and the Lord's Prayer between every ten times, and, each of the fifteen times that we say the Lord's Prayer, and repeat tenfold the salutation, think of one of fifteen great events in the history of our Redemption. From that time forth this form of godly prayer was extraordinarily spread about by holy Dominick, and waxed common. That this same Dominick was the founder and prime mover thereof hath been said by Popes in divers letters of the Apostolic See.
Fifth Lesson - Victory and Thanksgiving Through the Rosary
From this healthy exercise have grown up numberless good fruits in the Christian Commonwealth. Among these deserveth well to be named that great victory over the Sultan of Turkey, which the most holy Pope Pius V., and the Christian Princes whom he had roused, won at Lepanto, [on the 7th day of October, the first Lord's Day in the month, in the year of our Lord 1571.] The day whereon this victory was gained was the very one whereon the Guild-brethren of the most holy Rosary, throughout the whole world, were used to offer their accustomed prayers and appointed supplications, and the event therefore was not unnaturally connected therewith. This being the avowed opinion of Gregory XIII., he ordered that in all Churches where there was, or should be, an Altar of the Rosary, a Feast, in the form of a Greater Double, should be kept for ever upon the first Lord's Day of the month of October, to give unceasing thanks to the Blessed Virgin, under her style of [Queen of] the [Most Holy] Rosary, for that extraordinary mercy of God. Other Popes also have granted almost numberless Indulgences to those who say the Rosary, and to those who join its Guilds.
Sixth Lesson - The Rosary Commended to the Whole Church
In the year 1716, Charles VI., Elect-Emperor of the Romans, won a famous victory over countless hordes of Turks, [near Temeswar,] in the kingdom of Hungary, upon the day when the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of St Mary of the Snows was being kept, and almost at the very moment when the Guild-brethren of the most holy Rosary were moving through the streets of Rome in public and solemn procession, amid vast multitudes, all filled with the deepest enthusiasm, calling vehemently upon God for the defeat of the Turks, and entreating the Virgin Mother of God to bring the might of her succour to the help of the Christians. A few days later, [upon the Octave of the Feast of the Assumption,] the Turks raised the siege of Corfu. These mercies Clement XI. devoutly ascribed to the helpful prayers of the Blessed Virgin, and that the memory and the sweetness of such a blessing might for all time coming endure gloriously, he extended to the whole Church the observance of the Feast of the most holy Rosary, for the same day and of the same rank, [as it had already been in the places before mentioned.] Benedict XIII. commanded the record of all these things to be given a place in the Service-book of the Church of Rome; and Leo XIII., in the most troublous times of the Church and the cruel storm of long pressing evils, by fresh Apostolic letters vehemently urged upon all the faithful throughout the earth the often saying of the Rosary of [the Blessed Virgin] Mary, raised the dignity of the yearly festival, added to the Litany of Loretto the Invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary," and granted to the whole Church a special Office for this solemn occasion. Let us all then be earnest in honouring the most holy Mother of God in this form which she liketh so well, that even as the entreaties of Christ's faithful people, approaching her in her Garden of Roses, have so often won her to scatter and destroy their earthly foes, so she may gain for them the victory over their hellish foes likewise.
VERDAD DE LA FE
Obedience Serves Truth
Catholic obedience is a virtue ordered to God and His truth. It is not servility before contradiction or unlawful command.
Nota de la Iglesia: Apostolic
Defensor: St. Thomas Aquinas
Defensa católica: Authority is real because it comes from God, but it remains ministerial. It cannot command against the faith it exists to guard.
Error que resistir: Resist both rebellion against true authority and false obedience to commands that betray doctrine.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Persevering meditation on Christ with Mary.
La virtud de hoy es Persevering meditation on Christ with Mary.. 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: Pray the Rosary with attention and perseverance.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Meditate on Christ through Mary's eyes.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Use prayer as a weapon against error and discouragement.
- ¿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 Jesus Christ, form in me a filial love for Thy Mother and a faithful love for Thy Church, that purity, doctrine, suffering, and hope may remain joined.
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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