# Matins reading for the Vigil of the Assumption (Aug 14). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-14.txt,
# English/Sancti/08-14.txt. A Vigil's own office is a single, simpler
# nocturn of just 3 lessons (`Lectio1-3`), pooled into the nocturn: 2
# slot per the established convention (see vigil-of-st-lawrence.yml's
# own note). Lectio1's Gospel citation (Luke 11:27-28) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so only the
# homily portion is authored, isGospel: false. The untagged block's own
# homilist is St. John Chrysostom (Lectio1 + Lectio2-3 combined, one
# continuous piece); a separate `(sed rubrica tridentina)` variant
# swaps in a different homily by St. Augustine on the same Gospel
# verse -- not used here, per the untagged-block convention.
id: vigil-of-the-assumption
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on John, ch. 2 (toward the end)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Cum audíeris mulíerem illam dicéntem: Beátus venter qui te portávit, et
        úbera quæ tu suxísti; deínde Dóminum respondéntem: Quinímmo beáti qui
        áudiunt verbum Dei et custódiunt illud; ea senténtia dictum exístima, non
        quod Matrem neglégeret, sed nihil ei utilitátis matris nomen allatúrum
        osténderet, nisi bonitáte et fide præstáret. Quod si Maríæ nihil, sine
        virtúte, matérna cáritas erat profutúra; longe minus nobis patris,
        fratris, matris, fílii bónitas, nisi áliquid nostrum afferámus.


        In nullo namque álio, nisi in solis sui ipsíus virtútibus, post divínam
        grátiam, de salúte cuípiam sperándum est. Nam, si id profutúrum erat per
        se Maríæ, profuísset étiam Judǽis, quorum consanguíneus Christus secúndum
        carnem; profuísset civitáti, in qua natus est; profuísset frátribus.
        Atqui, dum fratres rerum suárum curam habuérunt, nihil eis propinquitátis
        nomen prófuit, sed cum réliquo mundo damnáti erant.


        Tunc autem admiratióni esse cœpérunt, quando própria claruérunt virtúte.
        Pátria vero nihil inde consecúta cécidit, et incéndio absúmpta est;
        concíves mísere interémpti periére; consanguínei secúndum carnem nil ad
        salútem lucráti sunt, deficiénte virtútis patrocínio. Verum Apóstoli ante
        omnes claríssimi evasérunt, cum se ad veram et expeténdam ejus
        familiaritátem consuetudinémque per obediéntiam contulérunt. Hinc
        intellégimus, fide semper nobis opus esse, et vita quæ virtútibus
        lúceat: hæc dumtáxat salvos nos fácere póterit.
      en: >-
        When you give ear to the saying of that woman: Blessed is the womb that
        bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked: and to the Lord's reply:
        Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it:
        think not that he made this observation as slighting his Mother, but as
        wishing to shew that it would profit her nothing to be called his
        Mother, unless she excelled in goodness and faith. Now, if a mother's
        love would avail Mary nothing without virtue, much less will it avail us
        to be a good father, brother, mother, or son, unless we are good in
        ourselves.


        For indeed, salvation for anyone, apart from the divine grace, is to be
        hoped for in nothing else but his own virtues. For if her kinship in
        itself could have profited Mary, it would also have profited the Jews,
        for Christ was their kinsman according to the flesh; it would have
        profited the city in which he was born; it would have profited his
        brethren. Yet as long as his brethren cared only for their own
        interests, their relationship to Christ profited them nothing, but they
        were condemned with the rest of the world.


        Then only did they begin to be worthy of admiration, when they shone by
        their own virtue. His native land, indeed, having gained nothing from
        its own connection with him, fell and was burnt by fire; his
        fellow-citizens were put to death and perished miserably; his kindred
        according to the flesh gained nothing towards their salvation; insofar
        as all these lacked the protection of virtue. But of them all, the
        Apostles became the most renowned, since by obedience they joined
        themselves to him in a right and desirable friendship and companionship.
        From this we learn, that we always have need of faith, and a life
        shining with virtues; since this alone will have power to save us.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
