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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor 2028-07-18 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY Tract: in a source title, a written commentary or treatise; in the Mass, the same word can name a solemn chant sung in place of the Alleluia during penitential seasons. Confessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr. Divine Providence: God's wise and loving governance of creation, by which He directs all things without destroying human freedom. 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. Camillus de Lellis was converted from disorder and became a father and servant to the sick and dying. He teaches charity that bends near wounds, performs repulsive duties patiently, seeks the sacraments for souls, and refuses to measure suffering persons by usefulness or convenience. Ask the Holy Ghost to strike deep within you the roots of every virtue He formed so perfectly in His faithful Spouse. Ask the Holy Ghost through Our Lady for the increase of every theological, moral, and necessary particular virtue. "Strike the roots, My Well-beloved and My Spouse, of all your virtues in My elect, in order that they may grow from virtue to virtue, and from grace to grace." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 34 The Holy Ghost forms no shallow or selective holiness. St. Louis de Montfort names Mary's faith, humility, universal mortification, sublime prayer, ardent charity, firm hope, and other virtues as living roots to be planted in the elect. Devotion that excuses a ruling vice or neglects duty has resisted her formation. Roots grow beneath the surface through repeated fidelity. Seek all the virtues required by your state and present defects honestly to grace. Let faith govern judgment, hope prevent discouragement, charity animate obedience, humility welcome correction, mortification restrain appetite, prudence choose the means, and perseverance carry the work to completion. PRACTICE Visit, call, assist, or pray for the sick persons within your reach, remembering both bodily need and eternal salvation. QUOTE OF THE DAY "I was sick, and you visited me." Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 25:36, Douay-Rheims ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - July 18 The feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor, - founder of the Clerks Regular ministering to the sick, whose birthday is the 14th of July. Leo XIII. declared him Celestial Patron of hospitals and the infirm. — At Tivoli, in the time of the emperor Adrian, St. Symphorosa, wife of the martyr St. Getulius, with her seven sons, Crescens, Julian, Nemesius, Primitivus, Justinus, Stacteus, and Eugenius. Their mother, because of her invincible constancy, was first buffeted a long time, then suspended by her hair, and lastly thrown into the river with a stone tied to her body. Her sons had their limbs distended by pulleys and bound to stakes, and terminated their martyrdom by different kinds of death. The bodies were subsequently taken to Rome, and were found in the sacristy of St. Angelo in Piscina, under the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius IV. — At Carthage, St. Gundenes, virgin. By order of the proconsul Rufinus, she was four different times stretched on the rack for the faith of Christ, horribly lacerated with iron hooks, confined for a long time in a filthy dungeon, and finally put to the sword. At Dorostorum, in Mysia, in the time of Julian the Apostate and the governor Capitolinus, St. JEmilian, martyr, who was cast into a furnace, and thus received the palm of martyrdom. — At Utrecht, St. Frederick, bishop and martyr. — In Spanish Galicia, St. Marina, virgin and martyr. — At Milan, in the reign of Maximian, the holy bishop Maternus. For the faith of Christ and the church entrusted to him, he was thrown into prison and often scourged. Finally he went to his rest in the Lord with a great renown for his repeated confession of the faith. — At Brescia, the birthday of St. Philastrius, bishop of that city, who in speech and writing combated heretics, especially the Arians, from whom he suffered much. Finally, he died in peace, renowned for miracles. — At Metz, in France, St. Arnulf, a bishop illustrious for holiness and the gift of miracles. He chose an eremitical life, and ended his blessed career in peace. — At Segni, St. Bruno, bishop and confessor. — At Forlimpopoli, in Emilia, St. Ruffillus, bishop of that city. HIGHLIGHTED SAINT St. Camillus de Lellis Confessor and servant of the sick. St. Camillus de Lellis was converted after a life marked by disorder and military hardship, then gave himself to the service of the sick with extraordinary tenderness. He founded the Clerks Regular who minister to the sick, teaching his sons to serve the suffering as Christ Himself. His witness teaches that infirm bodies are not burdens to be hidden; charity bends near sickness, especially near death. In exile, sickness can become lonely. Ask St. Camillus for a Catholic instinct toward the infirm: practical charity, patience, and reverence. FROM MATINS The servant who saw Christ in the sick. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Camillus de Lellis, Confessor Roman Breviary and St. Augustine "As though he saw Christ Himself in His suffering members." - The Breviary remembers St. Camillus as a converted soldier whose wounds and failed attempts at Capuchin life were governed by providence toward service of the sick. - In the Hospital for Incurables he became father and servant of the patients, making beds, cleansing wounds, praying with the dying, and studying as an adult so he could better help souls. - His congregation bound itself to serve the sick, even those stricken with plague, while the Gospel lesson places his charity under Christ's command to love one another as He has loved us. Serve suffering bodies as members of Christ. St. Camillus teaches practical charity, reverence for the dying, perseverance under pain, and love that does not flee danger. FULL BREVIARY LESSONS Fourth Lesson Camillus was a son of the noble family of the Lelli, and was born at Bacchianico, a town in the Diocese of Chieti. His mother was sixty years of age at the time of his birth. While she was great with child, she dreamed that she brought forth a babe bearing the mark of a Cross upon his breast, and going before a troop of other babes marked likewise. When Camillus was a young man he served as a soldier, and yielded himself for a while to the sins of the world. In the twenty-fifth year of his age light from God broke upon him; and in a violent fit of tears he determined to wipe away the evil relics of his past life, and to put on the new man. That very day, being the holiday of the Purification of the most blessed Virgin, he ran to the Friars Minors, who are commonly called Capuchins, and implored them to enrol him among them. They granted his wishes, but God was keeping him for greater things, and on this as well as on another occasion when he made the same attempt he was forced to abandon it by the increasing virulence of a loathsome running sore in the leg, with which he was afflicted. He meekly bowed himself to the will of Providence, and conquering his own wishes twice, stripped himself of the habit of the Order, which he had sought and received. Fifth Lesson He went to Rome and was received as an inmate in the Hospital for Incurables. In consequence of his eminent good qualities the administration of the Hospital was committed to his charge, and he discharged this office with the most thorough trustworthiness and with a tenderness like a father's. He counted himself the slave of all the patients, and made it a religious duty to make their beds, clean them, dress their sores, and help by godly prayers and exhortations such as were in their last agony. In doing these things he showed himself a bright example of wonderful patience, indomitable firmness, and heroic charity. He became persuaded that a knowledge of letters would make him much more useful as a comforter to the dying, who were his peculiar care, and therefore, at the age of thirty-two years, he humbly went to school again, among little boys learning the first rudiments. After a time he took Priests' orders, and, in company with some companions who joined him, he laid the first foundations of the Congregation of Regular Clerks for ministering to the sick, a scheme against which the enemy of man made an unsuccessful struggle. Camillus heard a voice from heaven issue from an image of Christ Crucified, strengthening him, and saw the nailed hands stretched out from the Cross to protect him. He obtained from the Apostolic see an approval of his Institute, the members of which, besides the three vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, take a fourth and very stern one, by which they bind themselves to serve all sick persons, even those stricken with the plague. Holy Philip Neri, who was Confessor to Camillus, testified that he had often seen Angels prompting the members of this Congregation what they should speak when they were assisting the dying, a proof how well-pleasing in the sight of God, and how useful for the salvation of souls, is this Institution. Sixth Lesson When he had thus given himself entirely over by these strict ties to the service of the sick, it was wonderful to see with what earnestness Camillus, broken by no weariness, and scared by no danger to himself, watched over their comfort by day and by night as long as life lasted. Becoming all things to all men, he took with cheerful readiness the most repulsive duties, discharging them with the most humble attention, and oftentimes on his knees, as though he saw Christ Himself in His suffering members. That he might be the readier to serve every one's need, he resigned the general government of his own Institute, and denied himself the indulgence in the heavenly refreshment which abundantly poured upon him, when he fixed his mind solely upon God. His tender, fatherly love toward the wretched had its brightest manifestations when Rome was stricken first by a contagious sickness, and then by famine, and Nola in Campagna suffered from a frightful plague. His love to God and to his neighbour was so glorious that he earned the nickname of "Angel," and found Angels helping him in the difficulties of his divers journeyings. He had the gifts of prophecy and healing, and could read the secret thoughts of men's hearts. At his prayer, food was multiplied, and water turned into wine. His want of sleep, fasting, and unceasing work wore him down till he seemed nothing but skin and bones. He suffered from a complication of five different painful and incurable diseases, which he was accustomed to call the Lord's mercies to him, and which he bore bravely. He died at Rome on the day which he had himself foretold, the fourteenth of July, in the year of salvation 1614, and of his own age the 65th. He had received the Sacraments, and fell asleep in the Lord in an attempt to utter the sweet names of JESUS and Mary, while the Priest was reciting the words of the Ritual: "Gentle and joyous may the Countenance of Christ JESUS appear to thee." He was famous for many miracles, and Benedict XIV. solemnly enrolled him in the Kalendar of the Saints. Seventh Lesson, St. Augustine on Charity What think ye, my brethren? Is this His only commandment, this, That we love one another? Is there not another and a greater, the commandment to love God? Or hath God commanded us only to love, so that we need seek to do no more? Surely the Apostle commendeth three things: "And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity." And although in charity, that is, in love, he included the two first and great commandments, and charity he called the greatest, yet is charity not said to be alone. Concerning Faith, concerning Hope, how much is commanded us! Who can gather them all together? Who can reckon them all? And yet let us consider how the same Apostle saith: "Love is the fulfilling of the Law." Eighth Lesson Where, therefore, Charity is, what can be lacking? or where Charity is not, what can there be availing? The devil believeth and loveth not, but there is no one that loveth and believeth not. Useless though it be, it is still possible for one that loveth not, to hope to be forgiven; but for one that loveth it is impossible to give up hope. Therefore, where love is, there also must faith and hope needs be, and where there is love toward our neighbour there also must there needs be love toward God. For one that loveth not God, how can he love his neighbour as himself, seeing he hateth himself, for he is a blasphemous, wicked wretch, and the lover of wickedness is not the lover, but the deadly enemy of his own self. Ninth Lesson for St. Camillus If we hold fast to this commandment of the Lord which biddeth us to love one another, we shall do whatsoever else He commandeth us, for all else is included in this. The difference between this love and the earthly love wherewith men use to love one another, is made, where it is added, "as I have loved you." To what end did Christ love us, but that we may be able to reign with Christ? To this end then let us also love one another, and so with a love different to the love of others, who love not one another to this end, because in this sense they love not at all. But they that love themselves to possess God, love themselves: therefore, they love God, that they may love themselves. This love have not all men: but few love themselves that God may be all in all. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE Revelation Was Entrusted to the Church The Church places this truth before you today: Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them. The grace to be practiced is Merciful service to the sick, 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 the whole order of virtue throughout the day, giving special vigilance to the defects that most frequently oppose grace. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing merciful service to the sick 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 sustained discipline, hidden repetition, and slow growth without replacing real virtue with passing fervor or token sacrifice. Fulfill all prayers, duties, penances, acts of charity, and occasions of witness with faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of apostolic; the witness placed beside it is St. Irenaeus. Your resolution before God: Visit, call, assist, or pray for the sick persons within your reach, remembering both bodily need and eternal salvation. Carry this word: The sick remain members of Christ, not interruptions to a more important life. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "Learn now to die to the world, that thou mayest then live with Christ." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 23, p. 41 Christian death to self is not despair but preparation for life with Christ. Refuse the command of every attachment that draws you from God's will, beginning with the strongest. The world tells you to preserve every comfort and construct an identity from passing things. Christ teaches you to travel lightly toward eternity. You need not despise God's gifts; receive them gratefully, but practice being able to surrender them when His will, charity, or duty requires it. Today's Practice: Accept unnoticed sacrifices without seeking relief or recognition. DAILY EXAMEN Examine the roots and fruits of the day, thanking God for growth and naming every vice that must be confessed, uprooted, and opposed tomorrow. - 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, through St. Camillus, give me tenderness, endurance, and supernatural charity toward the sick and dying. 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 St. Irenaeus and Apostolic Tradition: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-irenaeus-and-apostolic-tradition-against-the-innovators?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-07-18&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-07-18&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor 2028-07-18 - 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. Camillus de Lellis was converted from disorder and became a father and servant to the sick and dying. He teaches charity that bends near wounds, performs repulsive duties patiently, seeks the sacraments for souls, and refuses to measure suffering persons by usefulness or convenience. PRÁCTICA Visit, call, assist, or pray for the sick persons within your reach, remembering both bodily need and eternal salvation. CITA DEL DÍA "I was sick, and you visited me." Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 25:36, Douay-Rheims MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - July 18 The feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor, - founder of the Clerks Regular ministering to the sick, whose birthday is the 14th of July. Leo XIII. declared him Celestial Patron of hospitals and the infirm. — At Tivoli, in the time of the emperor Adrian, St. Symphorosa, wife of the martyr St. Getulius, with her seven sons, Crescens, Julian, Nemesius, Primitivus, Justinus, Stacteus, and Eugenius. Their mother, because of her invincible constancy, was first buffeted a long time, then suspended by her hair, and lastly thrown into the river with a stone tied to her body. Her sons had their limbs distended by pulleys and bound to stakes, and terminated their martyrdom by different kinds of death. The bodies were subsequently taken to Rome, and were found in the sacristy of St. Angelo in Piscina, under the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius IV. — At Carthage, St. Gundenes, virgin. By order of the proconsul Rufinus, she was four different times stretched on the rack for the faith of Christ, horribly lacerated with iron hooks, confined for a long time in a filthy dungeon, and finally put to the sword. At Dorostorum, in Mysia, in the time of Julian the Apostate and the governor Capitolinus, St. JEmilian, martyr, who was cast into a furnace, and thus received the palm of martyrdom. — At Utrecht, St. Frederick, bishop and martyr. — In Spanish Galicia, St. Marina, virgin and martyr. — At Milan, in the reign of Maximian, the holy bishop Maternus. For the faith of Christ and the church entrusted to him, he was thrown into prison and often scourged. Finally he went to his rest in the Lord with a great renown for his repeated confession of the faith. — At Brescia, the birthday of St. Philastrius, bishop of that city, who in speech and writing combated heretics, especially the Arians, from whom he suffered much. Finally, he died in peace, renowned for miracles. — At Metz, in France, St. Arnulf, a bishop illustrious for holiness and the gift of miracles. He chose an eremitical life, and ended his blessed career in peace. — At Segni, St. Bruno, bishop and confessor. — At Forlimpopoli, in Emilia, St. Ruffillus, bishop of that city. SANTO DESTACADO St. Camillus de Lellis Confessor and servant of the sick. St. Camillus de Lellis was converted after a life marked by disorder and military hardship, then gave himself to the service of the sick with extraordinary tenderness. He founded the Clerks Regular who minister to the sick, teaching his sons to serve the suffering as Christ Himself. His witness teaches that infirm bodies are not burdens to be hidden; charity bends near sickness, especially near death. In exile, sickness can become lonely. Ask St. Camillus for a Catholic instinct toward the infirm: practical charity, patience, and reverence. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO Mercy at the bedside of the suffering. Matins - St. Camillus de Lellis - The Breviary remembrance of St. Camillus presents a converted soldier who became father and servant to the sick. - His religious work shows that bodily misery is not beneath supernatural charity, and that the sick and dying must not be abandoned. Recover a Catholic instinct for the sickbed. Visit, pray, provide for the sacraments, and remember that charity becomes most serious near death. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para St. Camillus de Lellis 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 at the bedside of the suffering.. Su primer punto es: The Breviary remembrance of St. Camillus presents a converted soldier who became father and servant to the sick. La instrucción práctica es: Recover a Catholic instinct for the sickbed. Visit, pray, provide for the sacraments, and remember that charity becomes most serious near death. 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 servant who saw Christ in the sick. Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Camillus de Lellis, Confessor Roman Breviary and St. Augustine "As though he saw Christ Himself in His suffering members." - The Breviary remembers St. Camillus as a converted soldier whose wounds and failed attempts at Capuchin life were governed by providence toward service of the sick. - In the Hospital for Incurables he became father and servant of the patients, making beds, cleansing wounds, praying with the dying, and studying as an adult so he could better help souls. - His congregation bound itself to serve the sick, even those stricken with plague, while the Gospel lesson places his charity under Christ's command to love one another as He has loved us. Serve suffering bodies as members of Christ. St. Camillus teaches practical charity, reverence for the dying, perseverance under pain, and love that does not flee danger. LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO Fourth Lesson Camillus was a son of the noble family of the Lelli, and was born at Bacchianico, a town in the Diocese of Chieti. His mother was sixty years of age at the time of his birth. While she was great with child, she dreamed that she brought forth a babe bearing the mark of a Cross upon his breast, and going before a troop of other babes marked likewise. When Camillus was a young man he served as a soldier, and yielded himself for a while to the sins of the world. In the twenty-fifth year of his age light from God broke upon him; and in a violent fit of tears he determined to wipe away the evil relics of his past life, and to put on the new man. That very day, being the holiday of the Purification of the most blessed Virgin, he ran to the Friars Minors, who are commonly called Capuchins, and implored them to enrol him among them. They granted his wishes, but God was keeping him for greater things, and on this as well as on another occasion when he made the same attempt he was forced to abandon it by the increasing virulence of a loathsome running sore in the leg, with which he was afflicted. He meekly bowed himself to the will of Providence, and conquering his own wishes twice, stripped himself of the habit of the Order, which he had sought and received. Fifth Lesson He went to Rome and was received as an inmate in the Hospital for Incurables. In consequence of his eminent good qualities the administration of the Hospital was committed to his charge, and he discharged this office with the most thorough trustworthiness and with a tenderness like a father's. He counted himself the slave of all the patients, and made it a religious duty to make their beds, clean them, dress their sores, and help by godly prayers and exhortations such as were in their last agony. In doing these things he showed himself a bright example of wonderful patience, indomitable firmness, and heroic charity. He became persuaded that a knowledge of letters would make him much more useful as a comforter to the dying, who were his peculiar care, and therefore, at the age of thirty-two years, he humbly went to school again, among little boys learning the first rudiments. After a time he took Priests' orders, and, in company with some companions who joined him, he laid the first foundations of the Congregation of Regular Clerks for ministering to the sick, a scheme against which the enemy of man made an unsuccessful struggle. Camillus heard a voice from heaven issue from an image of Christ Crucified, strengthening him, and saw the nailed hands stretched out from the Cross to protect him. He obtained from the Apostolic see an approval of his Institute, the members of which, besides the three vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, take a fourth and very stern one, by which they bind themselves to serve all sick persons, even those stricken with the plague. Holy Philip Neri, who was Confessor to Camillus, testified that he had often seen Angels prompting the members of this Congregation what they should speak when they were assisting the dying, a proof how well-pleasing in the sight of God, and how useful for the salvation of souls, is this Institution. Sixth Lesson When he had thus given himself entirely over by these strict ties to the service of the sick, it was wonderful to see with what earnestness Camillus, broken by no weariness, and scared by no danger to himself, watched over their comfort by day and by night as long as life lasted. Becoming all things to all men, he took with cheerful readiness the most repulsive duties, discharging them with the most humble attention, and oftentimes on his knees, as though he saw Christ Himself in His suffering members. That he might be the readier to serve every one's need, he resigned the general government of his own Institute, and denied himself the indulgence in the heavenly refreshment which abundantly poured upon him, when he fixed his mind solely upon God. His tender, fatherly love toward the wretched had its brightest manifestations when Rome was stricken first by a contagious sickness, and then by famine, and Nola in Campagna suffered from a frightful plague. His love to God and to his neighbour was so glorious that he earned the nickname of "Angel," and found Angels helping him in the difficulties of his divers journeyings. He had the gifts of prophecy and healing, and could read the secret thoughts of men's hearts. At his prayer, food was multiplied, and water turned into wine. His want of sleep, fasting, and unceasing work wore him down till he seemed nothing but skin and bones. He suffered from a complication of five different painful and incurable diseases, which he was accustomed to call the Lord's mercies to him, and which he bore bravely. He died at Rome on the day which he had himself foretold, the fourteenth of July, in the year of salvation 1614, and of his own age the 65th. He had received the Sacraments, and fell asleep in the Lord in an attempt to utter the sweet names of JESUS and Mary, while the Priest was reciting the words of the Ritual: "Gentle and joyous may the Countenance of Christ JESUS appear to thee." He was famous for many miracles, and Benedict XIV. solemnly enrolled him in the Kalendar of the Saints. Seventh Lesson, St. Augustine on Charity What think ye, my brethren? Is this His only commandment, this, That we love one another? Is there not another and a greater, the commandment to love God? Or hath God commanded us only to love, so that we need seek to do no more? Surely the Apostle commendeth three things: "And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity." And although in charity, that is, in love, he included the two first and great commandments, and charity he called the greatest, yet is charity not said to be alone. Concerning Faith, concerning Hope, how much is commanded us! Who can gather them all together? Who can reckon them all? And yet let us consider how the same Apostle saith: "Love is the fulfilling of the Law." Eighth Lesson Where, therefore, Charity is, what can be lacking? or where Charity is not, what can there be availing? The devil believeth and loveth not, but there is no one that loveth and believeth not. Useless though it be, it is still possible for one that loveth not, to hope to be forgiven; but for one that loveth it is impossible to give up hope. Therefore, where love is, there also must faith and hope needs be, and where there is love toward our neighbour there also must there needs be love toward God. For one that loveth not God, how can he love his neighbour as himself, seeing he hateth himself, for he is a blasphemous, wicked wretch, and the lover of wickedness is not the lover, but the deadly enemy of his own self. Ninth Lesson for St. Camillus If we hold fast to this commandment of the Lord which biddeth us to love one another, we shall do whatsoever else He commandeth us, for all else is included in this. The difference between this love and the earthly love wherewith men use to love one another, is made, where it is added, "as I have loved you." To what end did Christ love us, but that we may be able to reign with Christ? To this end then let us also love one another, and so with a love different to the love of others, who love not one another to this end, because in this sense they love not at all. But they that love themselves to possess God, love themselves: therefore, they love God, that they may love themselves. This love have not all men: but few love themselves that God may be all in all. VERDAD DE LA FE Revelation Was Entrusted to the Church Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are received within the Church, whose divinely assisted teaching office guards the deposit of faith. Nota de la Iglesia: Apostolic Defensor: St. Irenaeus Defensa católica: Private reading must remain subject to the faith once delivered, because the Scriptures belong to the Church that received, preserved, and interprets them. Error que resistir: Resist private judgment when it sets itself above the Church's received doctrine. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Merciful service to the sick. La virtud de hoy es Merciful service to the sick.. 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: Visit or assist the sick when duty permits. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Bear illness without losing hope. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Treat the suffering with reverence and patience. - ¿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, through St. Camillus, give me tenderness, endurance, and supernatural charity toward the sick and dying. 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? Continuar estudio: https://cityofgodinexile.com/champions-of-orthodoxy/st-irenaeus-and-apostolic-tradition-against-the-innovators?entered=1 Abrir este día en el Calendario Sagrado: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-07-18&entered=1 Abrir vista web: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-07-18&entered=1 Índice de formación: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1