# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop and
# Confessor (June 22) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/06-22*.txt at
# all; the "n"/"t" suffix variants at this date are a modern 20th-c.
# saint and a duplicate of the plain file, not relevant).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-22.txt, English/Sancti/06-22.txt.
#
# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper vita, one continuous account, no
# internal break, combined into a single reading.
#
# Nocturn 3's Lectio7 gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua", Luke
# 12:32-34) with no full pericope text, so the bare Gospel reading isn't
# authored here (deferred, same as elsewhere pending the bulk
# Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio7's own homily portion + Lectio8-9
# is one continuous excerpt from St. Paulinus's own sermon (fittingly,
# on almsgiving to the poor — his own day, his own words), combined into
# a single reading. No responsory given for either reading in the
# source.
id: st-paulinus-of-nola
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Póntius Merópius Anícius Paulínus, a claríssima cívium Romanórum família, Burdígalæ in
        Aquitánia natus, acri fuit ingénio ac móribus suávibus. Ausónio magístro, eloquéntiæ ac
        poéseos laude excélluit. Prænóbilis ac ditíssimus, honórum cursum ingréssus, florénti ætáte,
        senatória dignitáte potítus est. Dein Itáliam pétiit consul, et Campániam provínciam nactus,
        sedem Nolæ státuit. Hic divíno lúmine tactus, ob cæléstia signa, quæ Felícis presbyteri
        Mártyris sepúlcrum illustrábant, veræ Christi fídei, quam jam ánimo cogitábat, impénsius
        adhærére cœpit. Fasces ígitur ac secúrim nulla cæde maculátam depósuit, et revérsus in
        Gálliam, váriis ærúmnis ac magnis terra maríque labóribus jactátus, óculo cápitur; sed a
        beáto Martíno Turonénsi epíscopo sanitáti restitútus, lustrálibus baptísmatis aquis a beáto
        Delphíno Burdigalénsi antístite ablúitur.


        Divítiis quibus abundábat spretis, bona véndidit pretiúmque paupéribus distríbuit, et uxórem
        linquens Therásiam, mutáta pátria et ruptis vínculis carnis, in Hispániam secéssit,
        venerándam secútus ac toto sibi pretiosiórem orbe Christi paupériem. Barcinóne dum Sacris
        devóte astáret, solémni die Domínicæ Nativitátis, repentíno admirátæ plebis tumúltu
        corréptus, ac frustra relúctans, a Lampídio epíscopo présbyter ordinátur. Inde redit in
        Itáliam, et Nolæ, quo sancti Felícis religióne ductus fúerat, penes illíus sepúlcrum
        monastérium cóndidit, et adscítis sóciis cœnobíticam vitam aggréditur. Hic vir, jam senatória
        et consulári dignitáte præclárus, stultítiam crucis ampléxus, toto fere orbe admiránte, vili
        indútus túnica, vigílias inter ac jejúnia, in assídua cæléstium rerum contemplatióne dies
        noctésque defíxus manébat. Sed, percrescénte sanctimóniæ fama, ad Nolánum episcopátum
        evéhitur, atque eódem in pastoráli múnere obeúndo, miránda pietátis, sapiéntiæ ac potíssimum
        caritátis exémpla relíquit.


        Hæc inter, sapiéntia reférta, de religióne ac fide pertractántia edíderat scripta, sæpe étiam
        númeris indúlgens concínnis carmínibus Sanctórum acta concelebráverat, summam christiáni
        poétæ famam adéptus. Quotquot sanctitáte ac doctrína præstantíssimi viri eo témpore erant,
        tot sibi amicítia atque admiratióne devínxit. Quamplúrimi ad eum, ceu ad christiánæ
        perfectiónis magístrum, undequáquam confluébant. Vastáta a Gothis Campánia, facultátem
        omnem, ne relíctis quidem sibi rebus ad vitam necessáriis, in aléndos páuperes et captívos
        rediméndos cóntulit. Póstea vero, Vándalis eásdem regiónes infestántibus, cum ab eo pósceret
        vídua ut fílium sibi redímeret ab hóstibus captum; consúmptis bonis ómnibus, in offício
        pietátis, se ipsum pro illo tradit in servitútem, atque in víncula conjéctus in Africam
        rápitur. Tandem, non sine præsénti Dei ope, libertáte donátus et Nolam revérsus, diléctum
        ovíle bonus pastor revísit; ibíque annum agens septuagésimum octávum ætátis suæ,
        placidíssimo éxitu obdormívit in Dómino. Corpus, prope sancti Felícis sepúlcrum cónditum,
        póstea, Longobardórum témpore, Benevéntum, atque, Ottóne tértio imperatóre, Romam ad
        basílicam sancti Bartholomæi ad ínsulam Tiberínam translátum fuit. Pius vero Papa décimus
        jussit sacras Paulíni exúvias Nolæ restítui, et festum ipsíus ad ritum dúplicem pro univérsa
        Ecclésia evéxit.
      en: >-
        Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was born of a most illustrious family of Roman citizens at
        Bordeaux, in Aquitaine, and was of keen intelligence and graceful manners. With Ausonius as
        his master, he was honourably distinguished for eloquence and poetry. Being of the higher
        nobility, and very wealthy, he began a career of honours in the flower of his youth, and
        attained senatorial dignity. Then he went to Italy as consul, where he obtained the province
        of Campania and fixed his residence at Nola. Here he was struck, as by a ray of the divine
        light, by the heavenly miracles which were making illustrious the tomb of Felix, Priest and
        Martyr, and began to adhere more earnestly to the true faith of Christ, which he had long
        been revolving in his mind. And so he resigned the consular fasces and axe, never defiled by
        blood, and returned to Gaul, and after suffering various hardships and many toils both by
        land and by sea he received an injury to the eye; but being restored to health by the
        blessed Martin, Bishop of Tours, he was washed in the lustral waters of baptism by the
        blessed Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux.


        He despised his abundant wealth, sold his property, and gave the money to the poor, and left
        his wife Therasia, changed his country, broke all natural ties, and retired to Spain,
        conforming to the more precious poverty of Christ, which he valued more than the whole
        world. While he was devoutly assisting at Mass in Barcelona on the feast of the Lord's
        Nativity, he was suddenly seized by force by an admiring crowd, and in spite of his
        reluctance, ordained priest by the Bishop Lampidius. Then he returned to Italy, and at Nola,
        where he had been drawn by devotion to St. Felix, he built a monastery near his tomb, and
        entered upon the monastic life with some companions. This man, already notable for his
        senatorial and consular dignity, embraced the folly of the cross to the admiration of almost
        the whole world, and, clothed in a mean garment, in vigils and in fastings, remained for days
        and nights fixed in constant contemplation of heavenly things. But, as the fame of his
        sanctity spread, he was elevated to the see of Nola, and entering upon that pastoral office,
        he gave a wonderful example of piety, wisdom, and above all, of charity.


        Meanwhile he had produced writings full of wisdom, treating of religion and faith, and often
        also as a recreation, he had celebrated the deeds of the Saints in numerous elegant poems,
        attaining the highest fame as a Christian poet. All the men living at that time who were
        pre-eminent for holiness and learning, he attached to himself with the bonds of friendship
        and admiration. Very many flocked to him from all parts of the country, as if to a master of
        Christian perfection. When Campania was laid waste by the Goths, he devoted all his
        resources to feeding the poor, and ransoming captives, without even leaving for himself the
        necessities of life. And after that, when the Vandals invaded the same region, a widow
        begged him to ransom her son who had been captured by the enemy; and as he had spent all his
        resources in works of piety, he sold himself into slavery in the young man's place, and was
        taken in chains to Africa. At length he was set at liberty, not without the evident
        assistance of God, and, returning to Nola, the good shepherd once more saw his beloved
        flock. There, in a most peaceful end, he fell asleep in the Lord in the seventy-eighth year
        of his age. His body was buried near the tomb of St. Felix, and later, in the time of the
        Lombards, was translated to Benevento and, under the Emperor Otto III, to Rome, where it was
        laid in the basilica of St. Bartholomew on an island in the Tiber. But Pope Pius X ordered
        the sacred relics of Paulinus to be restored to Nola, and he raised his feast to the rite of
        a double for the universal Church.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, Sermon (Epistle 34), \"De Gazophylacio\""
    text:
      la: >-
        Potúerat, dilectíssimi, Dóminus omnípotens æque univérsos dívites fácere, ut nemo indigéret
        áltero; sed infinítæ bonitátis consílio sic parávit miséricors et miserátor Dóminus, ut tuam
        in illis mentem probet. Fecit míserum, ut agnósceret misericórdem; fecit ínopem, ut exercéret
        opuléntum. Matéria divitiárum tibi est fratérna paupértas, si intélligas super egénum et
        páuperem, nec tibi tantum hábeas quod accepísti; quia ídeo et illíus partem tibi in hoc
        sæculo cóntulit Deus, ut tibi debéret quidquid de suis donis tuo voluntário afféctu
        indigéntibus obtulísses, ac te vicíssim in ætérna die de illíus parte ditáret. Per ipsos enim
        nunc áccipit Christus, et tunc pro ipsis repéndet.


        Réfice esuriéntem ánimam, et non timébis in die malo ab ira superventúra. Beátus enim
        (inquit), qui intélligit super egénum et páuperem, in die malo liberábit eum Dóminus. Operáre
        ígitur et éxcole hanc regiónem terræ tuæ, frater, ut gérminet tibi frugem fértilem, plenam
        ádipe fruménti, magno cum fœnore centésimum tibi fructum multiplicáti séminis afferéntem. In
        hujus vel possessiónis vel negotiatiónis appetítum et stúdium sancta et salutáris est
        avarítia; nam talis cupíditas, quæ regnum cæléste merétur et bonum perénne desíderat, radix
        bonórum est. Tales ígitur divítias concupíscite, et hujúsmodi possidéte patrimónium, quod in
        centénos fructus vobis créditor pénsitet, ut vestros quoque vobíscum bonis perénnibus
        augeátis herédes. Posséssio enim hæc vere magna et pretiósa est, quæ possessórem suum non
        cúmulo sæculári ónerat, sed réditu ditat ætérno.


        Verum, dilectíssimi, non solum ut bona ætérna quærátis, sed ut mala innúmera vitáre
        mereámini, præsénti sollicitúdine et sédula operatióne justítiæ providéte. Magno enim
        adjutório atque præsídio nobis opus est, et multárum atque indeficiéntium oratiónum
        patrocíniis indigémus. Adversárius enim noster non quiéscit, et in nostrum pérvigil hostis
        intéritum óbsidet omnes vias nostras. Multæ prætérea nobis in hoc sæculo cruces, innúmera
        discrímina, morbórum labes, fébrium ignes et dolórum tela grassántur in ánimas, cupiditátum
        faces accendúntur; ubíque præténti latent láquei, úndique stricti horrent gládii, inter
        insídias et pugnas vita transígitur, et per ignes dolóso cíneri suppósitos ambulámus. Igitur,
        priúsquam in áliquam tantárum ægritúdinum labem casu vel mérito actus incúrras, festína
        médico suscéptus et carus fíeri, ut in témpore necessitátis parátum hábeas remédium salútis.
        Aliud est, quando tu solus oras pro te; et áliud, quando multitúdo pro te apud Deum
        trépidat.
      en: >-
        The Lord who is omnipotent, dearly beloved, might have made all men equally rich, so that no
        one need ask anything from another. In his infinite goodness, however, the merciful and
        gracious Lord hath planned otherwise, in order to prove your disposition in these matters.
        He hath made misery, that he might discern mercy; he hath made the needy, that he might make
        use of the rich. For your brother's poverty is your material of riches, if ye do not
        understand concerning the needy and the poor, and do not consider as your own what wealth ye
        have received. For God hath bestowed upon you your brother's portion in this world, in order
        that ye should offer of your own willing affection something of his gifts to those in need,
        and that he may enrich you in your turn with that portion in eternity. For now Christ
        receiveth through them, and hereafter he will repay for them.


        Refresh the hungry soul, and ye will not fear the wrath to come in the evil day. For, saith
        he, Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and poor; the Lord will deliver
        him in the evil day. Therefore, brother, work and cultivate this parcel of thy land, that it
        may bear for you a rich crop, full of the fatness of wheat, bringing to you with great
        interest the fruit of the seed an hundred times multiplied. In the desire and pursuit of
        this business or this possession there is a holy and salutary avarice; for such desire which
        doth merit the kingdom of heaven, and doth long for eternal goods, is the root of all good.
        Therefore covet such riches, and take possession of this kind of patrimony, that the
        creditor may weigh out to you the fruit increased an hundredfold, and ye and your heirs may
        abound in everlasting good things. For this possession is great and precious, which doth not
        burden the owner with earthly wealth, but enricheth him with an eternal reward.


        Truly, dearly beloved, by present carefulness and constant just dealing, provide not only
        that ye seek eternal good things, but that ye may deserve to escape innumerable evils. For we
        require strong helps and protection, and stand in need of many and unceasing prayers for our
        defence. For our adversary does not rest, and the ever-watchful enemy besetteth all our ways
        in order to work our ruin. Moreover, in this world we have many crosses, very numerous
        struggles, pestilent diseases, fires of fever and stabs of pain do violence to our souls. The
        flames of lust are kindled; hidden snares are set everywhere, on all sides there bristle
        drawn swords, life is passed in the midst of ambushes and combats, and we walk through fires
        craftily buried under ashes. Therefore before ye should by your misfortune or your fault rush
        into any one of such great calamities, hasten to become acceptable and dear to the physician,
        so that in time of need ye may have ready the remedy of salvation. It is one thing when ye
        alone pray for yourself; and quite another when a multitude entreateth for you before God.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
