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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
THE DAILY PILGRIMAGE
"Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways." - Proverbs 8:32
"Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Luke 12:32-34
St. Peter Claver, Confessor
2028-09-09 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Proper Mass or prayers: the texts assigned specifically to a particular feast or day, rather than texts shared with many celebrations.
Martyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
Confessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr.
TODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR
St. Peter Claver met souls where cruelty had left them: hungry, sick, frightened, displaced, and treated as merchandise. His proper Mass joins Isaias' command to break oppressive bonds with the Good Samaritan's command to draw near. Catholic mercy serves the body because the body belongs to a person, and seeks the soul because that person was made for eternal life in Christ. The pilgrim must therefore refuse both a cold orthodoxy that passes by suffering and a natural philanthropy that withholds the Saviour. Ask Our Lady to free your best actions from the subtle proprietorship that claims spiritual goods for self. Cede the value and fruit of every good work to Jesus through Mary, asking freedom from spiritual ownership and hidden self-interest.

"There is no other practice equal to this for enabling us to get rid with facility of a certain proprietorship, which imperceptibly insinuates itself into our best actions. Our good Jesus gives us this great grace in recompense for the heroic and disinterested action of making a cession to Him, by the hands of His holy Mother, of all the value of our good works."
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 137

Spiritual proprietorship is subtler than attachment to material goods. The soul may treat prayers, penances, merits, consolations, achievements, apostolic fruit, reputation for virtue, and even suffering as private capital. Total consecration cedes their value to Jesus through Mary and strikes at this hidden self-love.

Cession does not abolish responsible stewardship, prudence, justice, duties, or the examination of fruit. It removes possessive dominion and self-seeking. Work diligently, pray fervently, repair defects, and seek holiness; then release control over recognition, visible results, beneficiaries, consolation, and recompense.

PRACTICE
Choose one person whose suffering is easy to pass by. Draw near with a concrete work of mercy, and pray for that person's life in Christ as well as the immediate need.

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

NOVENA IN PROGRESS
Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows - Day 4 of 9

Preparing for Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2028-09-15.

TODAY'S MYSTERY
The Loss of Jesus in Jerusalem

PREPARATORY PRAYER
Bid me bear, O Mother blessed, on my heart the wounds impressed suffered by the Crucified!

MEDITATION
Mary sought Jesus sorrowing for three days. Her anguish rebukes the indifference of souls who lose God through mortal sin yet make little effort to recover His friendship.

PETITION
Sorrowful Mother, by thy anxious search for Jesus, preserve me from mortal sin and obtain for me chastity and the gift of knowledge.

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the most blessed Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, may intercede for us before the throne of Thy mercy, now and at the hour of our death, through whose most holy soul, in the hour of Thine own Passion, the sword of sorrow passed. Through Thee, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen.

A FAITHFUL ACT
Remove the occasion of sin you have tolerated, seek Christ through prayer and confession, and pray for those living carelessly outside His friendship.

CONCLUSION
Pray the Hail Mary. Then pray the Litany of Loreto. Conclude: Mother of Sorrows, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!

Open the complete Litany of Loreto: https://cityofgodinexile.com/basic-catholic-prayers?entered=1#litany-of-loreto
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - September 9
At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Dorotheus and Gorgonius. The greatest honors had been conferred on them by the emperor Diocletian, but as they detested the cruelty which he exercised against the Christians, they were by his order suspended in his presence, and lacerated with whips; then their skin being torn from their bodies, and vinegar with salt poured over them, they were burned on a gridiron and finally strangled. After some time, the body of blessed Gorgonius was brought to Rome, and deposited on the Latin road. Thence it was transferred to the basilica of St. Peter. — Among the Sabines, thirty miles from Rome, the holy martyrs Hyacinthus, Alexander, and Tiburtius. — At Sebaste, St. Severian, a soldier of the emperor Licinius. For frequently visiting the Forty Martyrs whilst they were in prison, he was suspended in the air with a stone tied to his feet by order of the governor Lysias, and being scourged and torn with whips, yielded up his soul in the midst of torments. — The same day, St. Straton, who ended his martyrdom for Christ by being tied to two trees and torn to pieces. — Also, the holy martyrs Rufinus and Rufinian, brothers. — At Rome, &t. Sergius, pope and confessor. — In the territory of TSrouanne, St. Omer, bishop. — In Ireland, St. Kieran, abbot. — At Cartagena, in South America, St. Peter Claver, confessor of the Society of Jesus, who labored with, wonderful self-abnegation and great charity among the negro slaves for more than forty years and baptized personally almost thirty thousand of them. He was canonized by order of pope Leo XIII.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
Go, and do thou in like manner.
St. Peter Claver, Confessor - Luke 10:29-37
"He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner."
Do the near mercy today. Ask who has been left upon your road, then give time, patience, material help, Catholic truth, or prayer according to that person's real need.

THE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL
What This Gospel Teaches
The proper Gospel places St. Peter Claver beside the wounded man on the road. Charity crosses the distance that fear, disgust, social contempt, and convenience try to preserve.
The Samaritan does not offer a sentiment. He approaches, binds wounds, gives what he possesses, carries the sufferer, and assumes the cost of continued care.
St. Peter's mission shows the full Catholic horizon of mercy: the afflicted person has a body that must be tended and an immortal soul that must be brought to Christ.
Error corrected: The respectable religion that knows the commandment, notices the wounded, and still finds a reason to pass by.
- Where does this error tempt me in practice?
- What act does this Gospel require of me today?

TODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST
St. Peter Claver
Priest and servant of captives at Cartagena.
The Roman Martyrology remembers St. Peter Claver at Cartagena in South America, where for more than forty years he labored among enslaved Africans with wonderful self-denial and great charity.
The proper Mass shows the form of that charity. Its Introit speaks of souls sitting in darkness and bound in misery and iron; its lesson commands the breaking of oppressive bonds, the feeding of the hungry, the sheltering of the homeless, and the clothing of the naked.
Ask St. Peter Claver for a charity willing to kneel beside misery. Do not love suffering mankind only in the imagination: bind one wound, carry one burden, teach one soul, and seek Christ in the person God has placed upon your road.
BREVIARY WITNESS
Honor surrendered for Christ.
Matins - St. Gorgonius
- The Martyrology remembers Gorgonius among martyrs who had received honor under Diocletian, yet detested the cruelty shown to Christians and suffered for their confession.
- His witness warns that favor from the powerful is dangerous when it asks the soul to ignore persecution, cruelty, or false worship.
Let no position make you cowardly. Human respect is a poor refuge when Christ asks for confession.
Instruction from the Breviary
The Breviary witness for St. Gorgonius is part of the Church's daily teaching. It should not be read as a list of isolated facts. In the Divine Office, Scripture, the lives of the saints, doctrine, and the Church's prayer are placed together so that the mind learns what the Church remembers and the heart learns how a Catholic ought to judge and live.
Today's witness is gathered under Honor surrendered for Christ.. Its first point is this: The Martyrology remembers Gorgonius among martyrs who had received honor under Diocletian, yet detested the cruelty shown to Christians and suffered for their confession. Its next point develops the lesson: His witness warns that favor from the powerful is dangerous when it asks the soul to ignore persecution, cruelty, or false worship.
The practical instruction is: Let no position make you cowardly. Human respect is a poor refuge when Christ asks for confession. Ask what truth is being guarded, what virtue is being praised, and what danger or forgetfulness is being corrected. In this way the Breviary becomes instruction for the present day rather than information that is quickly passed over.
- What truth does this Breviary witness teach or defend?
- What virtue does the Church place before me through it?
- What judgment or action should change because I have received this lesson?

FROM MATINS
Wonderful self-denial and great charity.
Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Peter Claver, Confessor
Roman Martyrology
"He labored with wonderful self-abnegation and great charity among the negro slaves for more than forty years."
- The Martyrology remembers a charity proved by duration: St. Peter did not merely visit misery for a moment, but spent more than forty years in service to the enslaved.
- His proper Mass refuses to separate corporal mercy from supernatural mission. The captive is to be fed, covered, defended, instructed, baptized, and led to the knowledge and love of the true God.
- The Good Samaritan answers every religion of excuses. Christ does not permit the passerby to admire mercy from afar; He commands, 'Go, and do thou in like manner.'
Make charity concrete and Catholic. Go near enough to see the wound, humble yourself enough to serve, and love the afflicted soul enough to desire not only relief for this life but eternal life in Christ.
THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ
The Church places this truth before you today: True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule. 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. Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.
The grace to be practiced is Patient, self-forgetting charity toward souls in misery, 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 disinterested stewardship by laboring faithfully while surrendering recognition, control, consolation, reward, and visible success.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion. 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 patient, self-forgetting charity toward souls in misery 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 obscurity, misunderstood effort, unseen fruit, delayed results, and benefits assigned beyond personal knowledge or preference. Perform every prayer, penance, duty, and charitable work completely, then release its value and outcome through Mary's hands.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.
Your resolution before God: Choose one person whose suffering is easy to pass by. Draw near with a concrete work of mercy, and pray for that person's life in Christ as well as the immediate need.
Carry this word: The glory has departed wherever worship and doctrine are severed from truth.
THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR
"Then shall a good clean conscience make us more gladsome and merry than the cunning of all philosophy."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 24, p. 44
At judgment, appearances will fall away and the soul will stand in truth before God. Learning, reputation, and skill have their proper uses, but none can replace a conscience purified by repentance and kept faithful through obedience.

Do not seek peace by avoiding examination. Ask the Holy Ghost to show you every matter that remains unsettled: sins requiring confession, injuries requiring forgiveness, restitution that can be made, or duties repeatedly postponed. A clean conscience is not sinlessness claimed by pride; it is the peace of a soul that refuses concealment and returns to grace.
Today's Practice: Settle every matter of conscience that can rightly be settled today, and prepare definitely to bring the rest to Confession.
DAILY EXAMEN
Examine attachment to spiritual goods and reputation, make contrition for self-appropriation, and renew the complete cession.
- 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, do not let me be satisfied with appearances when Thy glory is absent. Teach me to seek worship that is true, reverent, sacrificial, and received.
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
St. Peter Claver, Confessor
2028-09-09 - Time after Pentecost - Double - white
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HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
St. Peter Claver met souls where cruelty had left them: hungry, sick, frightened, displaced, and treated as merchandise. His proper Mass joins Isaias' command to break oppressive bonds with the Good Samaritan's command to draw near. Catholic mercy serves the body because the body belongs to a person, and seeks the soul because that person was made for eternal life in Christ. The pilgrim must therefore refuse both a cold orthodoxy that passes by suffering and a natural philanthropy that withholds the Saviour.

PRÁCTICA
Choose one person whose suffering is easy to pass by. Draw near with a concrete work of mercy, and pray for that person's life in Christ as well as the immediate need.

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

NOVENA EN CURSO
Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows - Día 4 de 9

Preparación para Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary el 2028-09-15.

MISTERIO DE HOY
The Loss of Jesus in Jerusalem

ORACIÓN PREPARATORIA
Bid me bear, O Mother blessed, on my heart the wounds impressed suffered by the Crucified!

MEDITACIÓN
Mary sought Jesus sorrowing for three days. Her anguish rebukes the indifference of souls who lose God through mortal sin yet make little effort to recover His friendship.

PETICIÓN
Sorrowful Mother, by thy anxious search for Jesus, preserve me from mortal sin and obtain for me chastity and the gift of knowledge.

ORACIÓN DE LA IGLESIA
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the most blessed Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, may intercede for us before the throne of Thy mercy, now and at the hour of our death, through whose most holy soul, in the hour of Thine own Passion, the sword of sorrow passed. Through Thee, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen.

UN ACTO FIEL
Remove the occasion of sin you have tolerated, seek Christ through prayer and confession, and pray for those living carelessly outside His friendship.

CONCLUSIÓN
Pray the Hail Mary. Then pray the Litany of Loreto. Conclude: Mother of Sorrows, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!

Open the complete Litany of Loreto: https://cityofgodinexile.com/basic-catholic-prayers?entered=1#litany-of-loreto
MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - September 9
At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Dorotheus and Gorgonius. The greatest honors had been conferred on them by the emperor Diocletian, but as they detested the cruelty which he exercised against the Christians, they were by his order suspended in his presence, and lacerated with whips; then their skin being torn from their bodies, and vinegar with salt poured over them, they were burned on a gridiron and finally strangled. After some time, the body of blessed Gorgonius was brought to Rome, and deposited on the Latin road. Thence it was transferred to the basilica of St. Peter. — Among the Sabines, thirty miles from Rome, the holy martyrs Hyacinthus, Alexander, and Tiburtius. — At Sebaste, St. Severian, a soldier of the emperor Licinius. For frequently visiting the Forty Martyrs whilst they were in prison, he was suspended in the air with a stone tied to his feet by order of the governor Lysias, and being scourged and torn with whips, yielded up his soul in the midst of torments. — The same day, St. Straton, who ended his martyrdom for Christ by being tied to two trees and torn to pieces. — Also, the holy martyrs Rufinus and Rufinian, brothers. — At Rome, &t. Sergius, pope and confessor. — In the territory of TSrouanne, St. Omer, bishop. — In Ireland, St. Kieran, abbot. — At Cartagena, in South America, St. Peter Claver, confessor of the Society of Jesus, who labored with, wonderful self-abnegation and great charity among the negro slaves for more than forty years and baptized personally almost thirty thousand of them. He was canonized by order of pope Leo XIII.

EVANGELIO DEL DÍA
Go, and do thou in like manner.
St. Peter Claver, Confessor - Luke 10:29-37
"He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner."
Do the near mercy today. Ask who has been left upon your road, then give time, patience, material help, Catholic truth, or prayer according to that person's real need.

LA LECTURA DE LA IGLESIA DEL EVANGELIO
Lo que enseña este Evangelio
The proper Gospel places St. Peter Claver beside the wounded man on the road. Charity crosses the distance that fear, disgust, social contempt, and convenience try to preserve.
The Samaritan does not offer a sentiment. He approaches, binds wounds, gives what he possesses, carries the sufferer, and assumes the cost of continued care.
St. Peter's mission shows the full Catholic horizon of mercy: the afflicted person has a body that must be tended and an immortal soul that must be brought to Christ.
Error corregido: The respectable religion that knows the commandment, notices the wounded, and still finds a reason to pass by.
- ¿Dónde me tienta este error en la práctica?
- ¿Qué acto exige de mí este Evangelio hoy?

SANTO O FIESTA DE HOY
St. Peter Claver
Priest and servant of captives at Cartagena.
The Roman Martyrology remembers St. Peter Claver at Cartagena in South America, where for more than forty years he labored among enslaved Africans with wonderful self-denial and great charity.
The proper Mass shows the form of that charity. Its Introit speaks of souls sitting in darkness and bound in misery and iron; its lesson commands the breaking of oppressive bonds, the feeding of the hungry, the sheltering of the homeless, and the clothing of the naked.
Ask St. Peter Claver for a charity willing to kneel beside misery. Do not love suffering mankind only in the imagination: bind one wound, carry one burden, teach one soul, and seek Christ in the person God has placed upon your road.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
Honor surrendered for Christ.
Matins - St. Gorgonius
- The Martyrology remembers Gorgonius among martyrs who had received honor under Diocletian, yet detested the cruelty shown to Christians and suffered for their confession.
- His witness warns that favor from the powerful is dangerous when it asks the soul to ignore persecution, cruelty, or false worship.
Let no position make you cowardly. Human respect is a poor refuge when Christ asks for confession.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para St. Gorgonius 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 Honor surrendered for Christ.. Su primer punto es: The Martyrology remembers Gorgonius among martyrs who had received honor under Diocletian, yet detested the cruelty shown to Christians and suffered for their confession.
La instrucción práctica es: Let no position make you cowardly. Human respect is a poor refuge when Christ asks for confession. 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
Wonderful self-denial and great charity.
Martyrology - Martyrology Notice - St. Peter Claver, Confessor
Roman Martyrology
"He labored with wonderful self-abnegation and great charity among the negro slaves for more than forty years."
- The Martyrology remembers a charity proved by duration: St. Peter did not merely visit misery for a moment, but spent more than forty years in service to the enslaved.
- His proper Mass refuses to separate corporal mercy from supernatural mission. The captive is to be fed, covered, defended, instructed, baptized, and led to the knowledge and love of the true God.
- The Good Samaritan answers every religion of excuses. Christ does not permit the passerby to admire mercy from afar; He commands, 'Go, and do thou in like manner.'
Make charity concrete and Catholic. Go near enough to see the wound, humble yourself enough to serve, and love the afflicted soul enough to desire not only relief for this life but eternal life in Christ.
VERDAD DE LA FE
True Devotion to Mary Forms the Soul in Christ
True Marian devotion is not sentiment detached from obedience. It brings the soul more deeply under Christ's rule.
Nota de la Iglesia: Holy
Defensor: St. Louis-Marie de Montfort
Defensa católica: Our Lady does not compete with her Son. She forms servants who hear Him, believe Him, and remain beneath His Cross.
Error que resistir: Resist false Marian devotion that seeks comfort, novelty, or emotion without conversion.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Patient, self-forgetting charity toward souls in misery.
La virtud de hoy es Patient, self-forgetting charity toward souls in misery.. 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: Perform the work of mercy that is actually before you.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Serve the afflicted without disgust, delay, or concern for human praise.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Join bodily mercy to prayer and concern for the soul's eternal salvation.
- ¿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, do not let me be satisfied with appearances when Thy glory is absent. Teach me to seek worship that is true, reverent, sacrificial, and received.
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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