# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
# (Dec 27) — SanctiM/12-27.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-27`)
# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is
# sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint
# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/12-27.txt, English/Sancti/12-27.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading — St. Jerome's account
# from De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis (Lectio4-5) followed by his
# Commentary on Galatians anecdote of "Little children, love one
# another" (Lectio6) — genuinely continuous biographical material, no
# source break worth preserving as a split.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 21:19-24) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. Augustine's
# homily on the two lives (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined, one
# continuous piece).
id: st-john-apostle
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Jerome, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 9; Commentary on Galatians, Book 3, ch. 6"
    text:
      la: >-
        Joánnes Apóstolus, quem Jesus amávit plúrimum, fílius Zebedǽi, frater Jacóbi
        Apóstoli, quem Heródes post passiónem Dómini decollávit, novíssimus ómnium scripsit
        Evangélium, rogátus ab Asiæ epíscopis, advérsus Cerínthum, aliósque hæréticos, et
        máxime tunc Ebionitárum dogma consúrgens, qui ásserunt Christum ante Maríam non
        fuísse: unde et compúlsus est divínam ejus nativitátem edícere.


        Quarto décimo ígitur anno, secúndam post Nerónem persecutiónem movénte Domitiáno, in
        Patmos ínsulam relegátus, scripsit Apocalýpsim, quam interpretátur Justínus Martyr et
        Irenǽus. Interfécto autem Domitiáno, et actis ejus ob nímiam crudelitátem a senátu
        rescíssis, sub Nerva príncipe rédiit Ephesum: ibíque usque ad Trajánum príncipem
        persevérans, totas Asiæ fundávit rexítque ecclésias: et conféctus sénio, sexagésimo
        octávo post passiónem Dómini anno mórtuus, juxta eándem urbem sepúltus est.


        Beátus Joánnes Evangelísta, cum Ephesi morarétur usque ad últimam senectútem, et vix
        inter discipulórum manus ad ecclésiam deferrétur, nec posset in plura vocem verba
        contéxere; nihil áliud per síngulas solébat proférre colléctas, nisi hoc: Filíoli,
        dilígite altérutrum. Tandem discípuli et fratres, qui áderant, tǽdio affécti quod
        éadem semper audírent, dixérunt: Magíster, quare semper hoc lóqueris? Qui respóndit
        dignam Joánne senténtiam: Quia præcéptum Dómini est; et, si solum fiat, súfficit.
      en: >-
        The Apostle John whom Jesus loved was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle
        James, who was beheaded by Herod soon after our Lord suffered. He was the last of the
        Evangelists to write his Gospel, which he published at the request of the Bishops of
        Asia, against Cerinthus and other heretics, and particularly against the then
        spreading doctrine of the Ebionites, who asserted that Christ had had no existence
        before Mary. It was therefore needful for the Evangelist to declare His Eternal and
        Divine Generation.


        In the fourteenth year after Nero, Domitian stirred up the second persecution, and
        John was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote his Apocalypse, which hath
        been explained by Justin the Martyr and Irenaeus. When Domitian was killed, the Senate
        annulled all his acts, on account of his savage cruelty, and the Apostle returned to
        Ephesus, during the reign of Nerva. He remained at Ephesus until the time of Trajan,
        and founded and governed all the Churches of Asia. There, in an extreme old age, he
        died, in the sixty-eighth year after the Lord's passion, and was buried near the city.


        The Blessed Evangelist John lived at Ephesus down to an extreme old age, and, at
        length, when he was with difficulty carried to the Church, and was not able to exhort
        the congregation at length, he was used simply to say at each meeting, My little
        children, love one another. At last the disciples and brethren were weary with hearing
        these words continually, and asked him, Master, wherefore ever sayest thou this only?
        Whereto he replied to them, (worthy of John,) It is the commandment of the Lord, and
        if this only be done, it is enough.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Tractate 124 on John (on John 21:19-24)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Duas vitas sibi divínitus prædicátas, et commendátas novit Ecclésia: quarum est una
        in fide, áltera in spécie; una in témpore peregrinatiónis, áltera in æternitáte
        mansiónis; una in labóre, áltera in réquie; una in via, áltera in pátria; una in ópere
        actiónis, áltera in mercéde contemplatiónis. Una declínat a malo, et facit bonum:
        áltera nullum habet, a quo declínet, malum; et magnum habet, quo fruátur, bonum. Una
        cum hoste pugnat; áltera sine hoste regnat.


        Una súbvenit indigénti; áltera ibi est, ubi nullum ínvenit indigéntem. Una aliéna
        peccáta, ut sua sibi ignoscántur, ignóscit; áltera nec pátitur quod ignóscat, nec
        facit quod sibi poscat ignósci. Una flagellátur malis, ne extollátur in bonis; áltera
        tanta plenitúdine grátiæ caret omni malo, ut sine ulla tentatióne supérbiæ cohǽreat
        summo bono.


        Ergo una bona est, sed adhuc mísera; áltera mélior, et beáta. Ista significáta est per
        Apóstolum Petrum, illa per Joánnem. Tota hic ágitur ista usque in hujus sǽculi finem,
        et illic ínvenit finem; différtur illa complénda post hujus sǽculi finem, sed in
        futúro sǽculo non habet finem. Ideo dícitur huic: Séquere me. De illo autem: Sic eum
        volo manére, donec véniam: quid ad te? tu me séquere. Quid enim est hoc? Quantum sápio,
        quantum cápio, quid est hoc? nisi tu me séquere per imitatiónem perferéndi temporália
        mala: ille máneat, donec sempitérna vénio redditúrus bona.
      en: >-
        The Church knoweth of two different lives, which God hath revealed and blessed: one
        is the life of faith, the other the life of knowledge; one the life of this
        pilgrimage, the other the life of the eternal mansions; one the life of work, the
        other the life of rest; one the life of the journey, the other the life of home; one
        the life of action, the other the life of contemplation. The one escheweth evil and
        doeth good; the other hath no evil to eschew, and only an exceeding good to enjoy. The
        one striveth with the enemy, the other hath no enemies, and reigneth.


        The one succoureth the needy; the other is where there are no needy to succour. The
        one forgiveth them that trespass against it, that its own trespasses may be forgiven;
        the other neither hath trespasses to forgive nor to be forgiven. The one is chastened
        with evil, lest it be exalted above measure by good; the other enjoyeth such a fulness
        of grace that it feeleth no evil, and cleaveth so firmly unto the Highest Good, that it
        hath no temptation to pride.


        Therefore the one is good, but still sorrowful; the other is better and perfectly
        blessed. And of these two lives there are types, of the one in the Apostle Peter, of
        the other in John. The one laboureth here even unto the end, and findeth its end
        hereafter; the other stretcheth out into the hereafter, and in eternity findeth no
        end. Therefore is it said unto the one, Follow Me; but of the other, If I will that he
        tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou Me. What is the meaning of these
        words? who can know? who can understand? what is it? is it Follow thou Me, imitating
        Me in the bearing of earthly sorrow; let him tarry till I come again, bringing the
        everlasting reward?
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
