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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
Feria of Passiontide
2030-04-10 - Passiontide - Feria - violet
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Deposit of Faith: the complete body of revealed truth entrusted by Christ and the apostles to the Church to be guarded, taught, and handed on unchanged; the older word depositum means this sacred trust.
Compunction: sorrow for sin that pierces the heart and moves a person toward repentance rather than despair.
Passion of Christ: the sufferings and death Jesus freely accepted for our salvation, from His agony in Gethsemane through His Crucifixion.
TODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR
Humiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair. Renew baptismal obligations through Our Lady as the most perfect means chosen by God for complete consecration to Christ. Renew every baptismal vow through Our Lady and ask her to make the entire day a complete profession of belonging to Christ.

"Now if the Councils, the Fathers, and experience even, show us that the best means of remedying the irregularities of Christians is by making them call to mind the obligations of their Baptism, and persuading them to renew now the vows they made then, does it not stand to reason that we shall do it in a perfect manner, by this devotion and consecration of ourselves to our Lord, through His holy Mother?"
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 130

St. Louis de Montfort unites authority and experience: Councils, Fathers, and the observed disorders of Christians support deliberate remembrance and renewal of Baptism. True devotion supplies the perfect manner because the entire person renews belonging to the Lord through His holy Mother, the most perfect means in God's order.

Do not separate Marian consecration from baptismal conversion. Renewal through Mary must intensify profession of the Faith, hatred of heresy and sin, sacramental fidelity, obedience to commandments, rejection of worldly pomps, mortification of passions, duties of state, and perseverance in Christ. Otherwise the words remain detached from their substance.

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

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge."
Holy Scripture, 1 Timothy 6:20, Original Douay-Rheims

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - April 10
The prophet Ezechiel, who was put to death in Babylon by the Judge of the people of Israel, because he reproved him for worshipping idols. He was buried in the sepulchre of Sem and Arphaxad, Abraham's ancestors. To his tomb many were wont to resort for the purpose of prayer. — At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Apollonius, priest, and five others, who, in the persecution of Maximian, were drowned in the sea. — In Africa, under the emperor Decius and the prefect Fortunian, the holy martyrs Terentius, African, Pompey, and their companions, who were scourged, racked, and subjected to other torments. Their martyrdom ended by decapitation. — The same day, St. Macarius, bishop of Antioch, celebrated for virtues and miracles. — At Valladolid, in Spain, St. Michael of the Saints, confessor, of the Order of Discalced Trinitarians for the Redemption of Captives, a man remarkable for integrity of life, for the penitential spirit, and for great love of God. Pius IX. solemnly canonized him on Whitsunday, 1862, and ordered his festival to be kept on the 5th of

HIGHLIGHTED SAINT
The Passiontide Feria
The veiled days near the Passion of Our Lord.
The ferias of Passiontide draw the faithful nearer to the sufferings of Christ, when the Church's prayer grows more grave and the Cross comes into sharper view.
These days teach that the Passion is not only remembered on Good Friday. The soul is led step by step into compunction, reparation, silence, and fidelity to the rejected Messias.
Walk more quietly now. Passiontide teaches the exile to stay near Christ when His glory is veiled and His enemies gather.
BREVIARY WITNESS
Nearer to the rejected Christ.
Matins - Feria of Passiontide
- The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord.
- Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.
Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted.
Instruction from the Breviary
The Breviary witness for Feria of Passiontide 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 Nearer to the rejected Christ.. Its first point is this: The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord. Its next point develops the lesson: Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.
The practical instruction is: Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted. 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?

THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
Grace Heals and Elevates Nature
The Church places this truth before you today: Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. The Church is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.
The grace to be practiced is Compunction and reparation, 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 comprehensive renewal by joining Marian dependence to doctrine, worship, moral obedience, mortification, charity, and perseverance.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life. 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 compunction and reparation 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. Reject every attempt to keep the consoling language of consecration while withholding the demanding obligations of Baptism. Carry baptismal renunciation and allegiance through every prayer, temptation, duty, relationship, possession, and use of time.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Thomas Aquinas.
Your resolution before God: 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
"Regard not much who is with thee, nor who is against thee, but be this thy greatest study, that God may be with thee."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 2, p. 55
Human approval is a poor compass. With Mary, seek first to be faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, whether praise follows or not.

The desire to be supported can subtly alter judgment before you notice it. It softens a necessary word, delays a duty, or makes loneliness appear to be proof that fidelity was mistaken. Examine the act by Catholic truth and your real obligations; then leave the company or opposition of men in God's hands.
Today's Practice: Perform right acts without checking whether anyone noticed.
DAILY EXAMEN
Judge the consecration by lived baptismal fidelity, repent wherever words exceeded conduct, and renew the entire gift through Mary.
- 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
What Is Grace?: https://cityofgodinexile.com/catechism-foundations/what-is-grace?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO
Feria of Passiontide
2030-04-10 - Passiontide - Feria - violet
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HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
Humiliation, opposition, and penance do not mean that God has ceased to govern. Our Lord redeemed the world through His obedient suffering on the Cross. When Catholics accept unavoidable trials without sin, perform penance, and continue obeying the truth, those sufferings can humble pride and deepen fidelity rather than lead to despair.

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

CITA DEL DÍA
"O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge."
Holy Scripture, 1 Timothy 6:20, Original Douay-Rheims

MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - April 10
The prophet Ezechiel, who was put to death in Babylon by the Judge of the people of Israel, because he reproved him for worshipping idols. He was buried in the sepulchre of Sem and Arphaxad, Abraham's ancestors. To his tomb many were wont to resort for the purpose of prayer. — At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks. — At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Apollonius, priest, and five others, who, in the persecution of Maximian, were drowned in the sea. — In Africa, under the emperor Decius and the prefect Fortunian, the holy martyrs Terentius, African, Pompey, and their companions, who were scourged, racked, and subjected to other torments. Their martyrdom ended by decapitation. — The same day, St. Macarius, bishop of Antioch, celebrated for virtues and miracles. — At Valladolid, in Spain, St. Michael of the Saints, confessor, of the Order of Discalced Trinitarians for the Redemption of Captives, a man remarkable for integrity of life, for the penitential spirit, and for great love of God. Pius IX. solemnly canonized him on Whitsunday, 1862, and ordered his festival to be kept on the 5th of

SANTO DESTACADO
The Passiontide Feria
The veiled days near the Passion of Our Lord.
The ferias of Passiontide draw the faithful nearer to the sufferings of Christ, when the Church's prayer grows more grave and the Cross comes into sharper view.
These days teach that the Passion is not only remembered on Good Friday. The soul is led step by step into compunction, reparation, silence, and fidelity to the rejected Messias.
Walk more quietly now. Passiontide teaches the exile to stay near Christ when His glory is veiled and His enemies gather.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
Nearer to the rejected Christ.
Matins - Feria of Passiontide
- The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord.
- Their witness teaches silence, compunction, reparation, and steadfastness before the mystery of Christ opposed by sinners.
Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para Feria of Passiontide 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 Nearer to the rejected Christ.. Su primer punto es: The Passiontide ferias draw the faithful more directly toward the sufferings and rejection of Our Lord.
La instrucción práctica es: Do not flee the veiled days. Nearness to the Passion teaches the soul how to remain faithful when Christ is contradicted. 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?

VERDAD DE LA FE
Grace Heals and Elevates Nature
Man is not saved by natural goodness, sentiment, or progress. He needs sanctifying grace, the merits of Christ, and persevering conversion.
Nota de la Iglesia: Holy
Defensor: St. Thomas Aquinas
Defensa católica: The Church is holy because Christ is holy, because she possesses holy doctrine and sacraments, and because she forms saints by grace.
Error que resistir: Resist naturalism, which treats human improvement as though it could take the place of supernatural life.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Compunction and reparation.
La virtud de hoy es Compunction and reparation.. 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: Make an act of reparation to the suffering Christ.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Keep a little silence in honor of His Passion.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Accept contradictions without complaint.
- ¿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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