# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Jan 2).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Tempora/Nat2-0.txt,
# English/Tempora/Nat2-0.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, a sermon of St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the
# Song of Songs, combined into one reading per this project's own
# condensed-Matins convention (see nearby circumcision.yml/
# immaculate-heart-of-mary.yml). Nocturn 3: the Gospel citation ends
# "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, also St.
# Bernard, on the Circumcision) is authored, isGospel: false, no
# citation field.
id: holy-name-of-jesus
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon 15 on the Song of Songs"
    text:
      la: >-
        Non otióse Spíritus Sanctus nomen Sponsi óleo cómparat, cum ita
        dóceat sponsam ad Sponsum clamáre: Oleum effúsum nomen tuum. Oleum
        enim lucet, pascit et ungit. Fovet ignem, nutrit carnem, lenit
        dolórem: lux, cibus, medicína. Vide idem nunc et de Sponsi nómine:
        Lucet prædicátum, pascit recogitátum, invocátum lenit et ungit. Et
        percurrámus síngula. Unde putas in toto orbe tanta et tam súbita
        fídei lux, nisi de prædicáto nómine Jesu? Nonne in hujus nóminis
        luce Deus nos vocávit in admirábile lumen suum; quibus illuminátis,
        et in lúmine isto vidéntibus lumen, dicat mérito Paulus: Fuístis
        aliquándo ténebræ, nunc autem lux in Dómino?


        Hoc dénique nomen coram régibus, et géntibus, et fíliis Israël
        portáre jussus est idem Apóstolus; et portábat nomen tamquam lumen,
        et illuminábat pátriam, et clamábat ubíque: Nox præcéssit, dies
        autem appropinquávit. Abiciámus ergo ópera tenebrárum, et induámur
        arma lucis, sicut in die honéste ambulémus. Et monstrábat ómnibus
        lucérnam super candelábrum, annúntians in omni loco Jesum, et hunc
        crucifíxum. Quómodo lux ista resplénduit ac perstrínxit cunctórum
        intuéntium óculos, quando de ore Petri, tamquam fulgur egrédiens,
        claudi uníus corporáles plantas solidávit et bases, multósque
        spirituáliter cæcos illuminávit? Numquid non ignem sparsit, cum
        ait: In nómine Jesu Christi Nazaréni surge et ámbula?


        Nec tantum lux est nomen Jesu, sed est et cibus. An non tóties
        confortáris, quóties recordáris? Quid æque mentem cogitántis
        impínguat? Quid ita exercitátos réparat sensus, virtútes róborat,
        végetat mores bonos atque honéstos, castas fovet affectiónes?
        Aridus est omnis ánimæ cibus, si non óleo isto infúnditur;
        insípidus est, si non hoc sale condítur. Si scribas, non sapit
        mihi, nisi légero ibi Jesum. Si dísputes aut cónferas, non sapit
        mihi, nisi sonúerit ibi Jesus. Jesus mel in ore, in aure melos, in
        corde júbilus. Sed est et medicína. Tristátur áliquis nostrum?
        Véniat in cor ejus Jesus, et inde sáliat in os. Et ecce ad exórtum
        nóminis lumen, núbilum omne díffugit, redit serénum. Lábitur quis
        in crimen? currit ínsuper ad láqueum mortis desperándo? Nonne, si
        ínvocet nomen vitæ, conféstim respirábit ad vitam?
      en: >-
        It is not idly that the Holy Ghost likeneth the Name of the
        Bridegroom to oil, when he maketh the Bride say to the Bridegroom:
        thy Name is as oil poured forth. Oil indeed giveth light, meat, and
        unction. It feedeth fire, it nourisheth the flesh, it sootheth
        pain; it is light, food, and healing. Behold, thus also is the
        Name of the Bridegroom. To preach it is to give light; to think of
        it is to feed the soul; to call on it is to win grace and unction.
        Let us take it point by point. What, thinkest thou, hath made the
        light of faith so suddenly and so brightly to shine in the whole
        world but the preaching of the Name of Jesus? Is it not in the
        light of this Name that God hath called us into his marvellous
        light, even that light wherewith we, being enlightened, and in his
        light seeing light, Paul saith truly of us: Ye were sometimes
        darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord?


        This is the Name which the Apostle was commanded to bear before
        Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel, the Name which he
        bore as a light to enlighten his people, crying everywhere: The
        night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off
        the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light, let
        us walk honestly as in the daylight. He pointed out to all that
        candle set upon a candlestick, preaching in every place Jesus and
        him crucified. How did that Name shine forth and dazzle every eye
        that beheld it, when it came like lightning out of the mouth of
        Peter to give bodily strength to the feet of the lame man, and to
        clear the sight of many a blind soul? Cast he not fire when he
        said: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk?


        The Name of Jesus is not a Name of light only, but it is meat
        also. Dost thou ever call it to mind, and remain unstrengthened?
        Is there anything like it to enrich the soul of him that thinketh
        of it? What is there like it to restore the weakened senses, to
        fortify strength, to give birth to good lives and pure affections?
        The soul is fed on husks if that whereon it feedeth lack
        seasoning with this salt. If thou writest, thou hast no meaning
        for me if I read not of Jesus there. If thou preach, or dispute,
        thou hast no meaning for me if I hear not of Jesus there. The
        mention of Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, and
        gladness in the heart. It is our healing too. Is any sorrowful
        among us? Let the thought of Jesus come into his heart, and spring
        to his mouth. Behold, when the day of that Name beginneth to
        break, every cloud will flee away, and there will be a great calm.
        Doth any fall into sin? Doth any draw nigh to a hopeless death?
        And if he but call on the life-giving Name of Jesus, will he not
        draw the breath of a new life again?
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon 1 on the Circumcision"
    text:
      la: >-
        Magnum et mirábile sacraméntum! Circumcíditur Puer, et vocátur
        Jesus. Quid sibi vult ista connéxio? Circumcísio nempe magis
        salvándi, quam Salvatóris esse vidétur; et Salvatórem circumcídere
        pótius decet, quam circumcídi. Sed agnósce mediatórem Dei et
        hóminum, qui ab ipso nativitátis suæ exórdio divínis humána
        sóciat, ima summis. Náscitur ex mulíere, sed cui fecunditátis
        fructus sic accédat, ut non décidat flos virginitátis. Pannis
        invólvitur; sed panni ipsi angélicis láudibus honorántur.
        Abscónditur in præsépio; sed próditur radiánte stella de cælo. Sic
        et circumcísio veritátem suscéptæ probat humanitátis; et nomen,
        quod est super omne nomen, glóriam índicat majestátis.
        Circumcíditur tamquam verus Abrahæ fílius; Jesus vocátur tamquam
        verus Fílius Dei.


        Mérito sane, dum circumcíditur puer, qui natus est nobis, Salvátor
        vocátur; quod vidélicet ex hoc jam cœperit operári salútem
        nostram, immaculátum illum pro nobis sánguinem fundens. Neque enim
        jam quǽrere est Christiánis, cur volúerit Dóminus Christus
        circumcídi. Propter hoc síquidem circumcísus est, propter quod
        natus, propter quod passus. Nihil horum propter se, sed ómnia
        propter eléctos. Nec in peccáto génitus, nec a peccáto
        circumcísus, nec mórtuus est pro peccáto suo; magis autem propter
        delícta nostra. Quod vocátum est, inquit, ab Angelo, priúsquam in
        útero conciperétur. Vocátum plane, non impósitum: nempe hoc ei
        nomen est ab ætérno. A natúra própria habet, ut sit Salvátor:
        innátum est ei nomen hoc, non índitum ab humána vel angélica
        creatúra.
      en: >-
        Behold a mystery, great and full of wonder! The Child is
        circumcised, and his Name is called Jesus. Why are these two
        things thus mentioned together? It would seem that circumcision
        should rather be for the saved than for the Saviour; that the
        Saviour ought rather to be Circumciser than circumcised. But
        behold here the Mediator between God and men, how even from his
        childhood he joineth the things of the Highest to the things of
        the lowest, the things of God to the things of men. He is born of
        a woman, but her womb is made fruitful without the loss of the
        flower of her virginity. He is wrapped in swaddling-bands, but
        these swaddling-bands are a theme for the jubilation of angels. He
        is laid in a manger, but a bright star standeth in heaven over the
        place. So also in his circumcision, the ceremony gave proof of the
        reality of the Manhood which he had taken, and that Name which is
        above every name proclaimed the glory of his blessed Majesty. As
        very son of Abraham he underwent circumcision; he assumed the Name
        of Jesus as very Son of God.


        It is no wonder that it should be at his circumcision that the
        Name of Jesus, being interpreted Saviour, is given to the Child
        who is born unto us, for it was then that he for the first time
        shed that sinless Blood which is the means whereby he hath chosen
        to work out our salvation. It is no matter for the speculation of
        Christians why the Lord Christ was pleased to be circumcised. He
        was circumcised for the same reason for which he was born, and for
        which he suffered. Neither one nor the other was for himself, but
        all for the sake of the elect. He was not born in sin; he was not
        circumcised to separate him from sin; neither did he die for sins
        of his own, but for ours. His Name, it is written, was called
        Jesus, which was so named of the Angel before he was conceived in
        the womb. The Angel gave him that title, but not for the first
        time: Saviour is his Name from everlasting; he hath it of his own
        proper nature to save.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
