The Daily Pilgrimage

Today in the Roman year

Today the Church turns the pilgrim toward apostolic order: the faith received, guarded, preached, and suffered for. In exile this is not an abstraction. The faithful must love the visible form Christ gave His Church without confusing office, truth, and fidelity.

Make a brief examination of conscience before sleep and end the day with an act of contrition.

Roman Martyrology

June 30

The commemoration of the holy apostle Paul. — At Limoges, in France, St. Martial, bishop, with two priests, Alpinian and Austriclinian, whose lives were distinguished for miracles. — The same day, the saints Caius, priest, and Leo, subdeacon. — At Alexandria, the passion of St. Basilides, under the eniperor Severus. He protected from the insults of profligate men the saintly virgin Potamioena, whom he was leading to execution, and received from her the reward of his pious action. For, at the end of three days, she appeared to him, and placing a crown on his head, not only converted him to Christ, but by her prayers made of him, after a short combat, a glorious martyr. — At Rome, St. Lucina, a disciple of the Apostles, who relieved the necessities of the saints with her goods, visited the Christians detained in prison, buried the martyrs, and was laid by their side in a crypt constructed by herself. — In the same city, St. Emiliana, martyr. — In the territory of Viviers, St. Ostian, priest and confessor.

Gospel of the Day

He that shall persevere unto the end.

Commemoration of St. Paul, Apostle - Matthew 10:16-22

“You shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.”

Ask St. Paul for a heart that keeps walking after wounds. The road is not false because it is hard.

Highlighted saint

St. Paul

Apostle, preacher, sufferer, and servant of Christ.

The Commemoration of St. Paul keeps before the Church the Apostle who labored, suffered, preached, and poured himself out for Christ.

His epistles show doctrine defended with clarity, charity ordered by truth, zeal for souls, endurance in persecution, and readiness to be spent for the Church.

Ask St. Paul for a heart that keeps walking after wounds. The road is not false because it is hard.

Breviary Witness

The apostle who kept walking after wounds.

Matins - Commemoration of St. Paul

• The Breviary commemoration of St. Paul keeps before the faithful his labor, doctrine, suffering, and perseverance.
• His witness teaches that apostolic fidelity is not disproved by opposition.

Persevere in one difficult duty without complaint. The road is not false because it is hard.

Truth of the Faith

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.

Prayer

O Lord, pardon my faults, raise my heart from discouragement, and teach me to begin again under Thy mercy.