# Nocturn 3, 21st Sunday after Pentecost. Sourced from Tempora/Pent21-0.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 18:23-35, the
# unforgiving servant) skipped; Lectio7-9's homily by St. Jerome is one
# continuous work, combined.
id: post-pentecost-21
readings:
  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, Book 3, Commentary on Matthew 18"
    text:
      la: >-
        Familiáre est Syris, et máxime Palæstínis, ad omnem sermónem suum parábolas júngere: ut quod per
        simplex præcéptum tenéri ab auditóribus non potest, per similitúdinem exempláque teneátur.
        Præcépit ítaque Dóminus Petro sub comparatióne regis et dómini, et servi, qui débitor decem
        míllium talentórum a dómino rogans véniam impetráverat, ut ipse quoque dimíttat consérvis suis
        minóra peccántibus. Si enim ille rex et dóminus servo debitóri decem míllia talentórum tam
        fácile dimísit: quanto magis servi consérvis suis debent minóra dimíttere?


        Quod ut maniféstius fiat, dicámus sub exémplo. Si quis nostrum commíserit adultérium,
        homicídium, sacrilégium; majóra crímina decem míllium talentórum rogántibus dimittúntur, si et
        ipsi dimíttant minóra peccántibus. Sin autem ob factam contuméliam simus implacábiles, et
        propter amárum verbum pérpetes habeámus discórdias; nonne nobis vidémur recte redigéndi in
        cárcerem, et sub exémplo óperis nostri hoc ágere, ut majórum nobis delictórum vénia non
        relaxétur?


        Sic et Pater meus cæléstis fáciet vobis, si non remiséritis unusquísque fratri suo de córdibus
        vestris. Formidolósa senténtia, si juxta nostram mentem senténtia Dei fléctitur, atque mutátur:
        si parva frátribus non dimíttimus, magna nobis a Deo non dimitténtur. Et quia potest unusquísque
        dícere: Nihil hábeo contra eum, ipse novit, habet Deum júdicem; non mihi curæ est quid velit
        ágere, ego ignóvi ei: confírmat senténtiam suam, et omnem simulatiónem fictæ pacis evértit,
        dicens: Si non remiséritis unusquísque fratri suo de córdibus vestris.
      en: >-
        It is a way much in use with the Syrians, and especially with the inhabitants of Palestine, to
        illustrate their discourse with parables, that what their hearers may not be able to catch so
        easily when spoken plainly, they may lay hold on by dint of comparisons and examples. Thus it was
        that the Lord, by an allegory about a Royal master and a servant who owed him ten thousand
        talents, and who obtained by entreaty forgiveness of the debt, taught Peter how it was his duty
        to forgive his fellow-servants their comparatively trifling offences. For if that Royal master so
        readily forgave his servant his debt of ten thousand talents, should not his servants much more
        forgive lesser debts unto their fellows?


        Let put this more clearly, let us take a case. If one of us were to commit adultery, or murder,
        or sacrilege, our sin, great like a debt of ten thousand talents, would be forgiven us in answer
        to prayer, if we also from our heart forgive our brethren their trespasses against us. But if we
        refuse to forgive a slight, and keep up unceasing enmity because of an unkind word, how just doth
        it appear that we should be cast into prison, and entail on ourselves, by the example of our own
        deeds, that our great debt should not be forgiven unto us.


        "So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every
        one his brother their trespasses." God's awful purpose can be turned and changed but if we will
        not forgive unto our brethren small things, God will not forgive us great things. And if we
        forgive them, it must be from our hearts. Any one can say: I have nothing against such-an-one he
        knoweth what he hath done, and God will judge him for it I do not care what he doeth I have
        forgiven him. But the Lord maketh His sentence clear, and destroyeth such a mockery of peace as
        this, where He saith: "So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your
        hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."
    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 }
