# Nocturn 3, 24th (and final, when reached) Sunday after Pentecost. Sourced
# from Tempora/Pent24-0.txt. See post-pentecost-02.yml/post-pentecost-12.yml
# for sweep method note (no proper Nocturn 2 in the source). Lectio7 bare
# incipit (Matt 24:15-35, the abomination of desolation) skipped;
# Lectio7-9's homily by St. Jerome is one continuous work, combined. Per
# temporal-id.ts's resolvePostPentecost23Plus, this id is used both for the
# literal 24th week (when the season runs that long) and as the fixed final
# Sunday-of-the-year formulary in overflow years - either way, this is the
# content that slot resolves to.
id: post-pentecost-24
readings:
  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, Book 4, Commentary on Matthew 24"
    text:
      la: >-
        Quando ad intellegéntiam provocámur, mýsticum monstrátur esse quod dictum est. Légimus autem in
        Daniéle hoc modo: Et in dimídio hebdómadis auferétur sacrifícium et libámina; et in templo
        abominátio desolatiónum erit, usque ad consummatiónem témporis, et consummátio dábitur super
        solitúdinem. De hoc et Apóstolus lóquitur, quod homo iniquitátis, et adversárius elevándus sit
        contra omne quod dícitur Deus et cólitur; ita ut áudeat stare in templo Dei, et osténdere quod
        ipse sit Deus: cujus advéntus secúndum operatiónem sátanæ déstruat eos, et ad Dei solitúdinem
        rédigat, qui se suscéperint.


        Potest autem simpliciter aut de Antichristo accipi, aut de imagine Cæsaris, quam Pilátus pósuit
        in templo, aut de Hadriáni equestri státua, quæ in ipso sancto sanctórum loco usque in præséntem
        diem stetit. Abominátio quoque secúndum veterem Scripturam idolum nuncupátur; et idcirco additur,
        desolatiónis, quod in desolato templo atque destructo idolum positum sit.


        Abominátio desolatiónis intelligi potest et omne dogma perversum: quod cum vidérimus stare in
        loco sancto, hoc est in Ecclésia, et se osténdere Deum, debémus fugere de Judæa ad montes, hoc
        est, dimissa occidénte littera, et Judáica pravitáte, appropinquare móntibus ætérnis, de quibus
        illúminat mirabíliter Deus; et esse in tecto et in dómate, quo non possint igníta diaboli jácula
        perveníre, nec descéndere et tóllere aliquid de domo conversatiónis prístinæ, nec quærere quæ
        retrórsum sunt, sed magis sérere in agro spiritualium Scripturárum, ut fructus capiámus ex eo;
        nec tóllere álteram túnicam, quam Apóstoli habére prohibentur.
      en: >-
        This injunction to whoso readeth, to understand, showeth that there is here something mysterious.
        In Daniel we read as followeth: "And in the midst of the week the sacrifice and the oblations
        shall be taken away and in the temple there shall be the abomination of desolation, even until
        the consummation of the time and a consummation shall be given to the desolation" (ix. 27). It is
        of this same thing that the Apostle speaketh, when he saith that a man of iniquity, even an
        adversary, shall be exalted against whatsoever is called God, or is worshipped so that he shall
        even dare to stand in the temple of God, and to show himself as God whose coming shall, according
        to the working of Satan, destroy and banish away from God all who shall receive him.


        This prophecy may be understood either (first) simply of Antichrist, (secondly) of the statue of
        Caesar, which Pilate set up in the Temple, or (thirdly) of the statue of Hadrian on horse-back,
        which hath stood, even until our own day, upon the site of the Holy of Holies. In the Scriptures
        of the Old Testament "abomination" is a word very often used for an idol, and the farther title
        "of desolation" is added to identify an idol erected upon the site of the desolate and ruined
        temple.


        But we may also understand by the abomination of desolation, any bad doctrine and when we see
        such a thing get a standing in the Holy Place, that is, in the Church, and showing itself that it
        is God, that is, pretending that it is His revealed truth, then will be the time when it will be
        our duty to flee from Judea into the mountains, that is to say, to leave the letter, which
        passeth away, and all guise of Jewish superstition, and to hie us unto the everlasting hills,
        from whence God doth right wondrously cause His light to shine forth (Ps. lxxv. 5). Then will it
        be our duty to find ourselves under a roof and in an house, wherethrough the fiery darts of the
        wicked one can never pierce to smite us, and not to come down to take anything out of the house
        of our old conversation, or to have regard unto those things which are behind but rather to sow
        in the field of the spiritual Scriptures, that we may reap thereof a bountiful harvest neither to
        have two coats, that thing forbidden to Apostles (Matth. x. 10).
    responsory:
      la: "R. Duo Séraphim clamábant alter ad álterum: * Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dóminus Deus Sábaoth: * Plena est omnis terra glória ejus.\nV. Tres sunt qui testimónium dant in cælo: Pater, Verbum, et Spíritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt.\nR. Plena est omnis terra glória ejus."
      en: "R. One Seraph cried unto another: * Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of hosts; * The whole earth is full of His glory.\nV. There are Three That bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One.\nR. The whole earth is full of His glory."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
