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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE
Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost
2030-06-12 - Eastertide - Privileged Octave of the First Order - red
PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY
Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. John of St. Facundo, Confessor on this date. The secondary saint and Breviary sermon or lesson panels below come from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance.
Octave: an eight-day extension of a major feast, allowing the Church to continue praying over the same mystery.
Commemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day.
Martyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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 feast of the Most Sacred Heart contemplates the Heart of Jesus opened by the lance after His sacrifice on Calvary. His tenderness is not permission to remain in sin: it calls the contrite soul to gratitude, reparation, conversion, and obedient love in return for divine charity. Ask Our Lady to lead you beyond spiritual mediocrity into intimate union with Our Lord and complete fidelity to the Holy Ghost. Offer all prayers, duties, sacrifices, relationships, possessions, and powers to Jesus through Mary for complete fidelity today.

"If devotion to the most holy Virgin Mary is necessary to all men, simply for working out their salvation, it is still more so for those who are called to any particular perfection."
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 43

Every Christian is commanded to be perfect according to his state, and some receive particular offices, graces, trials, or calls requiring still greater generosity. St. Louis de Montfort permits no Marian minimalism: devotion should deepen the soul's union with Our Lord and its fidelity to the Holy Ghost.

Do not ask how little prayer, sacrifice, obedience, or charity will suffice. Ask how completely grace may possess you. This generosity does not invent duties or neglect prudence; it fulfills the whole law of God, all obligations of one's state, and the inspirations of grace with greater purity, courage, and love.

PRACTICE
Offer today's sacrifices in reparation and surrender every excuse for the faults you already know.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Whatever the Roman Pontiffs have hitherto taught must be held with a firm grasp of mind."
Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, n. 41

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - June 12
At Salamanca, in Spain, St. John of St. Facundus, confessor, of the Order of Augustinians, renowned for his zeal for the faith, for holiness of life, and miracles. — At Rome, on the Aurelian road, during the persecution of Deems and under the prefect Aurelius, the birthday of the holy martyrs Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, soldiers, who were cast into prison for the confession of the Christian name, scourged with scorpions, and finally decapitated. — At Mcaea, in Bithynia, St. Antonina, martyr, who was scourged by order of the governor Priscillian during the same persecution, then racked, lacerated, exposed to the fire, and finally put to the sword. — In Thrace, St. Olympius, a bishop, who was expelled from his see by the Arians, and died a confessor. — At Rome, in the Vatican basilica, the pope St. Leo III., to whom God miraculously restored his eyes and his tongue after they had been torn out by impious men. — In Cilicia, the bishop St. Amphion, a celebrated confessor of the time of Galerius Maximian. — In Egypt, St. Onuphrius, an anchoret, who for sixty years led a religious life in the desert, and renowned for great virtues and merits, departed for heaven. His admirable deeds were recorded by the abbot Paphnutius.

HIGHLIGHTED SAINT
The Octave of Pentecost
The fire of the Holy Ghost kept before the Church.
The privileged Octave of Pentecost prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine fire, truth, charity, and apostolic courage.
The octave teaches that Pentecost is not enthusiasm. The Spirit of truth strengthens the Church to confess Christ, keep His commandments, and carry doctrine to the nations.
Stay inside Pentecost. The exile needs fire, but it must be the fire of truth and charity, not the fever of novelty.
SECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE
St. John of St. Facundo
Confessor of peace, preaching, and Eucharistic reverence.
St. John of St. Facundo is honored as a confessor of the Augustinian Order, remembered for preaching, peace-making, and devotion to the Holy Sacrifice.
His feast teaches that peace must be made beneath truth. A priestly soul does not heal quarrels by pretending sin and error do not matter, but by bringing men back under God.
Ask St. John for peace that is not cowardice. Reconciliation becomes Catholic when it returns souls to truth, worship, and grace.
FROM MATINS
Peace restored by truth, priestly courage, and the Holy Sacrifice.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. John of St. Facundo, Confessor, with Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, Martyrs
Roman Breviary
"By sermons and private conversations he restored the city to tranquility."
- The Breviary shows St. John renouncing benefices and episcopal favor so that he could serve God more quietly through daily Mass, preaching, study, religious poverty, obedience, humility, vigils, and prayer.
- He restored peace to Salamanca not by avoiding truth but by preaching, private correction, and courageous opposition to cruelty. His peacemaking risked retaliation because charity defended those subject to injustice.
- His priestly life was centered on the Holy Sacrifice, where he was favored with contemplation of Christ. The commemorated martyrs complete the lesson: peace with God requires steadfast confession and contempt for idolatrous commands.
Seek peace beneath truth and the altar. Renounce ambition, receive discipline, correct cruelty even when it is dangerous, reconcile enemies through Catholic charity, and refuse every peace that demands silence before idolatry or injustice.
FULL BREVIARY LESSONS
Fourth Lesson - Benefices Renounced for Prayer and Preaching
John was born of a noble family at Sahagun in Spain. After his parents had long remained without children, they obtained him from God by pious works and prayers. From his earliest years he gave remarkable signs of future holiness, for he often spoke to other boys from a higher place, exhorting them to virtue and the worship of God and settling their quarrels. In his native place he was entrusted for his first instruction to the monks of St. Facundus of the Order of St. Benedict. While he pursued these studies, his father arranged for him to administer a parish, but no argument could induce the young man to retain that office. He entered the household of the Bishop of Burgos and, because of his proven integrity, became his intimate companion. The bishop ordained him priest and canon and enriched him with many benefices. But John left the episcopal court so that he might serve God more quietly, renounced all ecclesiastical revenues, and attached himself to a chapel where he offered the Holy Sacrifice daily and frequently preached on divine things to the great edification of his hearers.
Fifth Lesson - Religious Discipline amid a Violent City
He afterwards went to Salamanca for study and was admitted to the celebrated College of St. Bartholomew. He exercised the priestly ministry while pursuing his desired studies and was continually engaged in sacred preaching. When he fell into a most serious illness, he bound himself by a vow to stricter discipline. In fulfillment of it, after first giving to an almost naked poor man the better of the only two garments he possessed, he entered the monastery of St. Augustine, which then flourished in severe discipline. Once admitted, he surpassed the more advanced religious in obedience, humility, vigils, and prayer. When care of the refectory was entrusted to him, a small cask of wine which he touched supplied all the monks abundantly for a year. After completing the year of probation, he undertook preaching at the command of his superior. At that time Salamanca was so disturbed by bloody factions that murders occurred almost every hour and not only its streets and squares but even its churches ran with the blood of men of every rank, especially the nobility.
Sixth Lesson - Courageous Peacemaking before Christ
John softened the hearts of the citizens by sermons and private conversations and restored the city to tranquility. He gravely offended a powerful man by rebuking his cruelty toward his subjects. The man therefore sent two horsemen to kill John on the road. They had already drawn near when, struck by a divinely sent stupor, they and their horses remained immovable until they cast themselves at the saint's feet and begged pardon for their crime. The powerful man himself, suddenly struck with terror and despairing of his safety, recalled John, repented of his deed, and was restored to health. Factious men who attacked him with clubs likewise found their arms rigid and did not recover their strength until they begged pardon. John was accustomed to behold Christ the Lord present while he offered the Holy Sacrifice and to draw heavenly mysteries from the divine fountain itself. He frequently discerned the secrets of hearts and foretold future things. At last, having foretold the day of his death and received the sacraments of the Church with great devotion, he ended his earthly course, glorious for many miracles before and after death. After these had been duly proved, Pope Alexander VIII enrolled him among the Saints.
Commemoration - Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were Roman soldiers, noble by birth and distinguished by courage. Having embraced the Christian religion, they preached Christ the Son of God under the Emperor Diocletian. Arrested by Aurelius, prefect of the City, and commanded to sacrifice to the gods, they despised his orders and were sent to prison. While they prayed, a suddenly arisen and most brilliant light filled the prison before the eyes of all who were there. Moved by that heavenly splendor, Marcellus the jailer and many others believed in Christ the Lord. Later they were released from prison and brought before the Emperor Maximian. Since they disregarded his command also and had only Christ, God and Lord, upon their lips, they were tortured with scorpions and again cast into bonds. Brought out on the seventh day and set before the emperor, they persisted in mocking the empty gods and most steadfastly confessed Jesus Christ as God. They were therefore condemned and beheaded. Their bodies, exposed to wild beasts but left untouched by them, were honorably buried by Christians.
THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE
The Cross Is Daily
The Church places this truth before you today: The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance. 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. Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.
The grace to be practiced is Docility to the Spirit of truth, 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 magnanimity by pursuing the whole holiness God asks, without bargaining for a merely adequate or comfortable spiritual life.
There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial. 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 docility to the Spirit of truth 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 the greater purification, labor, patience, and perseverance required when grace calls you beyond mediocrity. Fulfill all duties thoroughly, answer every known demand of charity, and use every grace received for God's glory and souls.
The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is St. Bede the Venerable.
Your resolution before God: Offer today's sacrifices in reparation and surrender every excuse for the faults you already know.
Carry this word: The mercy of the Sacred Heart heals the sinner by drawing him out of sin.
THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR
"Ask not who said this, but take heed what is said."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 5, p. 14
Truth does not become true through fashion, applause, or a celebrated name. Test what you hear by revelation and the perennial teaching of the Church.

Yet Thomas à Kempis also rebukes the curiosity that collects authorities without receiving their doctrine. Listen for the truth God is giving through a trustworthy witness, and then permit that truth to correct you. A holy author's name should not become decoration around an unchanged life.
Today's Practice: Reject claims based on novelty or popularity and ask what the Church has always taught.
DAILY EXAMEN
Examine where generosity answered grace and where calculation sought the minimum; repent and renew the gift of your whole self.
- 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 most Sacred Heart of Jesus, receive my contrition and cure my coldness. Teach me to answer Thy wounded love with reparation, obedience, and mercy toward others.
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.
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO
Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost
2030-06-12 - Eastertide - Privileged Octave of the First Order - red
Nota: las secciones fijas de formación se presentan en español; los textos diarios variables permanecen en el idioma mantenido en la fuente hasta que se agregue una traducción revisada.
HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO
The feast of the Most Sacred Heart contemplates the Heart of Jesus opened by the lance after His sacrifice on Calvary. His tenderness is not permission to remain in sin: it calls the contrite soul to gratitude, reparation, conversion, and obedient love in return for divine charity.

PRÁCTICA
Offer today's sacrifices in reparation and surrender every excuse for the faults you already know.

CITA DEL DÍA
"Whatever the Roman Pontiffs have hitherto taught must be held with a firm grasp of mind."
Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, n. 41

MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - June 12
At Salamanca, in Spain, St. John of St. Facundus, confessor, of the Order of Augustinians, renowned for his zeal for the faith, for holiness of life, and miracles. — At Rome, on the Aurelian road, during the persecution of Deems and under the prefect Aurelius, the birthday of the holy martyrs Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, soldiers, who were cast into prison for the confession of the Christian name, scourged with scorpions, and finally decapitated. — At Mcaea, in Bithynia, St. Antonina, martyr, who was scourged by order of the governor Priscillian during the same persecution, then racked, lacerated, exposed to the fire, and finally put to the sword. — In Thrace, St. Olympius, a bishop, who was expelled from his see by the Arians, and died a confessor. — At Rome, in the Vatican basilica, the pope St. Leo III., to whom God miraculously restored his eyes and his tongue after they had been torn out by impious men. — In Cilicia, the bishop St. Amphion, a celebrated confessor of the time of Galerius Maximian. — In Egypt, St. Onuphrius, an anchoret, who for sixty years led a religious life in the desert, and renowned for great virtues and merits, departed for heaven. His admirable deeds were recorded by the abbot Paphnutius.

SANTO DESTACADO
The Octave of Pentecost
The fire of the Holy Ghost kept before the Church.
The privileged Octave of Pentecost prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine fire, truth, charity, and apostolic courage.
The octave teaches that Pentecost is not enthusiasm. The Spirit of truth strengthens the Church to confess Christ, keep His commandments, and carry doctrine to the nations.
Stay inside Pentecost. The exile needs fire, but it must be the fire of truth and charity, not the fever of novelty.
TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO
The Spirit of truth forms the Church.
Matins - Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost
- The Pentecost octave prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine truth, charity, and apostolic courage.
- Its witness refuses any separation of the Spirit from doctrine. The Paraclete strengthens the Church to confess Christ and keep His commandments.
Ask for fire that makes you faithful, not restless. The Spirit of truth does not build a religion of novelty.
Instrucción del Breviario
El testimonio del Breviario para Within the Privileged Octave of Pentecost 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 Spirit of truth forms the Church.. Su primer punto es: The Pentecost octave prolongs the descent of the Holy Ghost, keeping the Church within the mystery of divine truth, charity, and apostolic courage.
La instrucción práctica es: Ask for fire that makes you faithful, not restless. The Spirit of truth does not build a religion of novelty. 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
Peace restored by truth, priestly courage, and the Holy Sacrifice.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. John of St. Facundo, Confessor, with Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, Martyrs
Roman Breviary
"By sermons and private conversations he restored the city to tranquility."
- The Breviary shows St. John renouncing benefices and episcopal favor so that he could serve God more quietly through daily Mass, preaching, study, religious poverty, obedience, humility, vigils, and prayer.
- He restored peace to Salamanca not by avoiding truth but by preaching, private correction, and courageous opposition to cruelty. His peacemaking risked retaliation because charity defended those subject to injustice.
- His priestly life was centered on the Holy Sacrifice, where he was favored with contemplation of Christ. The commemorated martyrs complete the lesson: peace with God requires steadfast confession and contempt for idolatrous commands.
Seek peace beneath truth and the altar. Renounce ambition, receive discipline, correct cruelty even when it is dangerous, reconcile enemies through Catholic charity, and refuse every peace that demands silence before idolatry or injustice.
LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO
Fourth Lesson - Benefices Renounced for Prayer and Preaching
John was born of a noble family at Sahagun in Spain. After his parents had long remained without children, they obtained him from God by pious works and prayers. From his earliest years he gave remarkable signs of future holiness, for he often spoke to other boys from a higher place, exhorting them to virtue and the worship of God and settling their quarrels. In his native place he was entrusted for his first instruction to the monks of St. Facundus of the Order of St. Benedict. While he pursued these studies, his father arranged for him to administer a parish, but no argument could induce the young man to retain that office. He entered the household of the Bishop of Burgos and, because of his proven integrity, became his intimate companion. The bishop ordained him priest and canon and enriched him with many benefices. But John left the episcopal court so that he might serve God more quietly, renounced all ecclesiastical revenues, and attached himself to a chapel where he offered the Holy Sacrifice daily and frequently preached on divine things to the great edification of his hearers.
Fifth Lesson - Religious Discipline amid a Violent City
He afterwards went to Salamanca for study and was admitted to the celebrated College of St. Bartholomew. He exercised the priestly ministry while pursuing his desired studies and was continually engaged in sacred preaching. When he fell into a most serious illness, he bound himself by a vow to stricter discipline. In fulfillment of it, after first giving to an almost naked poor man the better of the only two garments he possessed, he entered the monastery of St. Augustine, which then flourished in severe discipline. Once admitted, he surpassed the more advanced religious in obedience, humility, vigils, and prayer. When care of the refectory was entrusted to him, a small cask of wine which he touched supplied all the monks abundantly for a year. After completing the year of probation, he undertook preaching at the command of his superior. At that time Salamanca was so disturbed by bloody factions that murders occurred almost every hour and not only its streets and squares but even its churches ran with the blood of men of every rank, especially the nobility.
Sixth Lesson - Courageous Peacemaking before Christ
John softened the hearts of the citizens by sermons and private conversations and restored the city to tranquility. He gravely offended a powerful man by rebuking his cruelty toward his subjects. The man therefore sent two horsemen to kill John on the road. They had already drawn near when, struck by a divinely sent stupor, they and their horses remained immovable until they cast themselves at the saint's feet and begged pardon for their crime. The powerful man himself, suddenly struck with terror and despairing of his safety, recalled John, repented of his deed, and was restored to health. Factious men who attacked him with clubs likewise found their arms rigid and did not recover their strength until they begged pardon. John was accustomed to behold Christ the Lord present while he offered the Holy Sacrifice and to draw heavenly mysteries from the divine fountain itself. He frequently discerned the secrets of hearts and foretold future things. At last, having foretold the day of his death and received the sacraments of the Church with great devotion, he ended his earthly course, glorious for many miracles before and after death. After these had been duly proved, Pope Alexander VIII enrolled him among the Saints.
Commemoration - Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were Roman soldiers, noble by birth and distinguished by courage. Having embraced the Christian religion, they preached Christ the Son of God under the Emperor Diocletian. Arrested by Aurelius, prefect of the City, and commanded to sacrifice to the gods, they despised his orders and were sent to prison. While they prayed, a suddenly arisen and most brilliant light filled the prison before the eyes of all who were there. Moved by that heavenly splendor, Marcellus the jailer and many others believed in Christ the Lord. Later they were released from prison and brought before the Emperor Maximian. Since they disregarded his command also and had only Christ, God and Lord, upon their lips, they were tortured with scorpions and again cast into bonds. Brought out on the seventh day and set before the emperor, they persisted in mocking the empty gods and most steadfastly confessed Jesus Christ as God. They were therefore condemned and beheaded. Their bodies, exposed to wild beasts but left untouched by them, were honorably buried by Christians.
VERDAD DE LA FE
The Cross Is Daily
The disciple of Christ must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Our Lord in obedience, penance, and perseverance.
Nota de la Iglesia: Holy
Defensor: St. Bede the Venerable
Defensa católica: Holiness is formed in ordinary fidelity before it is tested in public suffering.
Error que resistir: Resist a comfortable religion that admires Christ while refusing self-denial.
VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR
Docility to the Spirit of truth.
La virtud de hoy es Docility to the Spirit of truth.. 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: Invoke the Holy Ghost before work and prayer.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Choose truth over human respect.
Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Ask for charity that strengthens obedience.
- ¿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 most Sacred Heart of Jesus, receive my contrition and cure my coldness. Teach me to answer Thy wounded love with reparation, obedience, and mercy toward others.
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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