# Verified against the reference engine (Monastic Tridentinum 1617,
# ../divinum-officium-reference) -- read directly from Sancti/12-26.txt's
# own [Octava 3] section (Latin/Sancti/12-26.txt:249-258, English/Sancti/
# 12-26.txt:164-173), the non-Cistercian rubric -- see christmas-day-
# octave-commemoration.yml's own comment for why Octava 3 (Second
# Vespers' own text) was picked as the single shared version this app
# renders regardless of hour. Collect body + doxology reused verbatim
# from the already-authored st-stephen-protomartyr-collect.yml (same
# text, `$Qui tecum` macro), rather than re-translating -- the reference
# engine's own English for this collect is a close paraphrase of that
# file's already-verified wording.
id: st-stephen-protomartyr-octave-commemoration
text:
  la: |
    Ant. Sepeliérunt Stéphanum viri timoráti, et fecérunt planctum magnum super eum.
    V. Stéphanus vidit cælos apértos.
    R. Vidit, et introívit: beátus homo, cui cæli patébant.
    Orémus.
    Da nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine, imitári quod cólimus: ut discámus et inimícos dilígere; quia ejus natalícia celebrámus, qui novit étiam pro persecutóribus exoráre Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum:
    Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
    ℟. Amen.
  en: |
    Ant. Devout men buried Stephen, and made great mourning over him.
    V. Stephen saw the heavens opened:
    R. He saw and entered: blessed man, to whom the heavens were opened.
    Let us pray.
    Grant us, we beseech thee, O Lord, so to imitate what we revere, that we may learn to love even our enemies; for we celebrate the heavenly birthday of him who knew how to pray for his very persecutors to our Lord Jesus Christ:
    Who with thee liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
    ℟. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
