# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), live
# prayMatutinum query (2026-05-27). Matins reading for day 4 of Pentecost's
# own octave -- collapsed into one continuous reading per project convention.
# The source's own English translation is used as-is, including gaps in its
# own punctuation (some older "oct"/"bmv"-suffixed variant files drop question
# marks entirely in places) -- not corrected here, since guessing where they
# belong isn't the same class of fix as an isolated single-character typo.
id: pentecost-sunday-octave-day-4
source:
  la: "Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Joánnem"
  en: "Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John"
text:
  la: |
    Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Joánnem Joannes 6:44-52 In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus turbis Judæórum: Nemo potest veníre ad me, nisi Pater, qui misit me, tráxerit eum. Et réliqua. Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi Tract. 26 in Joann., post init. Noli cogitáre te invítum trahi: tráhitur ánimus et amóre. Nec timére debémus, ne ab homínibus, qui verba perpéndunt, et a rebus máxime divínis intellegéndis longe remóti sunt, in hoc Scripturárum sanctárum evangélico verbo fórsitan reprehendámur, et dicátur nobis: Quómodo voluntáte credo, si trahor? Ego dico: Parum est voluntáte: étiam voluptáte tráheris. Quid est, trahi voluptáte? Delectáre in Dómino: et dabit tibi petitiónes cordis tui. Est quædam volúptas cordis, cui panis dulcis est ille cæléstis. Porro si poétæ dícere lícuit: Trahit sua quemque volúptas: non necéssitas, sed volúptas; non obligátio, sed delectátio: quanto fórtius nos dícere debémus, trahi hóminem ad Christum, qui delectátur veritáte, delectátur beatitúdine, delectátur justítia, delectátur sempitérna vita, quod totum Christus est? An vero habent córporis sensus voluptátes suas, et ánimus deséritur a voluptátibus suis? Si ánimus non habet voluptátes suas, unde dícitur: Fílii autem hóminum sub tégmine alárum tuárum sperábunt: inebriabúntur ab ubertáte domus tuæ, et torrénte voluptátis tuæ potábis eos. Quóniam apud te est fons vitæ: et in lúmine tuo vidébimus lumen.

    Da amántem, et sentit quod dico: da desiderántem, da esuriéntem, da in ista solitúdine peregrinántem, atque sitiéntem, et fontem ætérnæ pátriæ suspirántem: da talem, et scit quid dicam. Si autem frígido loquor, nescit, quid loquor. Tales erant isti, qui ínvicem murmurábant. Pater, inquit, quem tráxerit, venit ad me. Quid est autem, Pater quem tráxerit, cum ipse Christus trahat? Quare vóluit dícere, Pater quem tráxerit? Si trahéndi sumus, ab illo trahámur, cui dicit quædam, quæ díligit: Post odórem unguentórum tuórum currémus. Sed quid intéllegi vóluit, advertámus fratres, et, quantum póssumus, capiámus. Trahit Pater ad Fílium eos, qui proptérea credunt in Fílium, quia eum cógitant Patrem habére Deum. Deus enim Pater æquálem sibi génuit Fílium; et qui cógitat, atque in fide sua sentit et rúminat, æquálem esse Patri eum, in quem credit, ipsum trahit Pater ad Fílium.

    Aríus crédidit creatúram, non eum traxit Pater; quia non consíderat Patrem, qui Fílium non credit æquálem. Quid dicis, o Ari? quid dicis, hærétice? quid loquéris? Quid est Christus? Non, inquit, Deus verus, sed quem fecit Deus verus. Non te traxit Pater; non enim intellexísti Patrem, cujus Fílium negas. Aliud cógitas, non est ipse Fílius: nec a Patre tráheris, nec ad Fílium tráheris. Aliud est enim Fílius, áliud quod tu dicis. Photínus dicit: Homo solum est Christus, non est et Deus. Qui sic credit, non Pater eum traxit. Quem traxit Pater? Illum qui dicit: Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi. Ramum víridem osténdis ovi, et trahis illam. Nuces púero demonstrántur, et tráhitur: et quod currit, tráhitur, amándo tráhitur, sine læsióne córporis tráhitur, cordis vínculo tráhitur. Si ergo ista, quæ inter delícias et voluptátes terrénas revelántur amántibus, trahunt, quóniam verum est, Trahit sua quemque volúptas; non trahit revelátus Christus a Patre? Quid enim fórtius desíderat ánima, quam veritátem?
  en: |
    Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John John 6:44-52 At that time, Jesus said unto the multitudes of the Jews: No man can come to Me, except the Father, Which hath sent me, draw him. And so on. Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo 26th Tract on John Think not that thou art drawn against thy will; the soul is drawn, not willingly only, but lovingly. Neither must we be afraid lest men who are great weighers of words, and very far from understanding the things of God, should catch us up upon this Gospel doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, and should say to us: How can my faith be willing if am drawn? I answer: Thou art not drawn as touching thy will, but by pleasure. And, now, what is being drawn by pleasure? Delight thyself in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Ps. xxxvi. 4. There is pleasure in that heart to which the Bread That came down from heaven is sweet. The poet is allowed to say His special pleasure draweth each, but pleasure, which so draweth, is not a necessity, not a bond, but a delight how much more strongly, may we say that men are drawn to Christ, who delight in truth, who delight in blessedness, who delight in righteousness, who delight in life everlasting, since truth and blessedness, and righteousness and everlasting life are all to be found in Christ? Or have the bodily senses pleasure, and the spiritual senses none? If the spiritual sense have no pleasures, wherefore is it written: And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light shall we see light. Ps. xxxv. 8.

    Give me a lover, and he will catch my meaning; give me one who longs, give me an hungerer, give me a wanderer in this desert, a thirst and gasping for the fountains of the eternal Fatherland; give me such an one, and he will catch my meaning. If I talk to some cold creature, he will not. Such cold creatures were they of whom it is written: The Jews then murmured at Him because He said, I am the Bread Which came down from heaven. And they said: Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and Mother we know? How is it then that He saith: I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said unto them: Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to Me, except the Father, Which hath sent Me, draw him. 41-44. But wherefore speaketh Christ of them whom the Father draweth, since He Himself draweth. Why was it His will to say: No man can come to Me except the Father draw him? If we are to be drawn, let us be drawn by Him to Whom one that loved much said: Draw me, we will run after the savour of thy good ointments. Cant. i. 4. But let us consider, my brethren, what He meant, and understand it as well as we can. The Father draweth to the Son them who believe in the Son, because they are persuaded that He hath God to His Father. God the Father begetteth to Himself a coequal Son; and whosoever is persuaded, and realiseth unto himself by faith, and thinketh, that He in Whom he believeth is equal to the Father, him the Father is drawing unto the Son.

    Arius, who believed that the Son was made, was not one of them whom the Father draweth since whosoever believeth not that the Father is a Father by the begetting of a coequal Son, such an one knoweth not the Father. What sayest thou, O Arius? What sayest thou, O thou heretic? What is thy profession? What is Christ? He is not, saith Arius, Himself Very God. Then, O Arius, the Father hath not drawn thee; thou hast not understood His dignity as a Father, to Whom thou deniest His Son. Thou dost deny the existence of the Son of God, the Father draweth thee not, and thou art not drawn to the Son, since the Son of whom thou speakest is another son, [existing only in thine imagination,] and not the really existent Son. Photinus said: Christ is a mere man, and not God at all. He who uttered those words was not one of them whom the Father draweth. But whom hath the Father drawn? The Father drew him who said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matth. xvi. 16, 17. Show a sheep a green bough, and thou drawest him. Let a boy see some nuts, and he is drawn by them. As they run, they are drawn, drawn by taste, drawn without bodily hurt, drawn by a line bound to their heart. If, then, among earthly things, such as be sweet and pleasant draw such as love them, as soon as they see them, so that it is truth to say, His special pleasure draweth each, doth not that Christ, Whom the Father hath revealed, draw? What stronger object of love can a soul have than the Truth?
responsory:
  la: |
    ℟. Disciplínam et sapiéntiam dócuit eos Dóminus, allelúja: firmávit in illis grátiam Spíritus sui, * Et intelléctu implévit corda eórum, allelúja. ℣. Repentíno namque sónitu Spíritus Sanctus super eos venit. ℟. Et intelléctu implévit corda eórum, allelúja.
  en: |
    ℟. The Lord taught them good judgment and knowledge, Alleluia. He established in them the grace of His Spirit, * And filled their hearts with understanding. Alleluia. ℣. For with a sudden sound the Holy Ghost came upon them. ℟. And filled their hearts with understanding. Alleluia.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
