diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..133b7a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum.yml @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum, +# Martyrs (Jan 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (source confirmed Tridentine, +# not Monastic 1617: no 01-19*.txt under SanctiM at all; see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-19.txt, English/Sancti/01-19.txt. Source +# gives one single lesson (Lectio93, the reduced/simplex-feast form — +# this saint's rank is Simplex, no separate 9-lesson set), a single +# continuous account with no internal source break, transcribed whole. +# No responsory given in the source file. +id: ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Marius Persa, nobili loco natus, cum Martha cónjuge pari nobilitate, et duobus fíliis + Audíface et Abachum, Romam venit Cláudio imperatóre, ut Mártyrum sepúlcra venerarétur. Ibi + Christiános in víncula conjectos fovébant, et ópera ac facultátibus suis sustentábant, et + Sanctórum córpora sepeliebant. Quam ob rem comprehénsi omnes, cum nec impiórum minis nec + terróre commoveréntur, ut diis sacrificarent; primum fustibus debilitati, deínde funibus + attracti, tum admótis candéntibus, láminis combusti, et úngulis férreis excarnificáti sunt. + Postremo præcisis mánibus, et ad collum alligatis, ducti per mediam urbem, via Cornelia ad + tertium décimum ab Urbe milliárium, in eum locum, qui Nymphe dicebátur, necántur: ac primum + Martha, quæ virum ac fílios ad supplícia pro Jesu Christi fide constanter perferenda, + veheménter fuerat cohortáta; mox ceteris in eádem arenaria cervices abscindúntur, eorúmque + córpora conjiciúntur in ignem. Quæ semiusta, Felícitas matrona Romana nobilis, colligenda et + in suo prædio sepelienda curávit. + en: >- + Marius was a Persian of high rank, who came to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Claudius, + with his wife Martha, who was equally noble, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum, to + pray at the graves of the Martyrs. Here they comforted the Christians who were in prison, + and whom they relieved by their ministrations and alms, and buried the bodies of the + Saints. For these acts they were all arrested, but no threats or terrors could move them to + sacrifice to idols. They were accordingly mangled with clubs, and drawn with ropes, after + which they were burnt by applying plates of red-hot metal to their bodies, and their flesh + partly torn off with metal hooks. Lastly their hands were all cut off, and they were + fastened together by the neck, in which state they were driven through the city to the + thirteenth mile-stone on the Cornelian Way, a place now called Santa Ninfa, where they were + to die. Martha addressed a moving exhortation to her husband and sons to hold out bravely + to the last, for the love of Jesus Christ; and was then herself drowned. The other three + martyrs were next beheaded in the same sand-pit. Their bodies were thrown into a fire. The + lady Felicity of Rome collected the half-burnt remains, and caused them to be buried at her + own farm. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes-secunda.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes-secunda.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af4326b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes-secunda.yml @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, Second Feast +# (Jan 28) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-28.txt is a +# different, later saint (St. Peter Nolasco) who displaced this second +# Agnes feast on the general calendar's own Jan 28 slot; her content +# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-28t.txt, English/Sancti/01-28t.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no +# responsory given in the source. +id: st-agnes-secunda +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Beáta Agnes, paréntibus ad ejus sepúlcrum assidue vigilántibus, quadam nocte choro + vírginum comitáta cum apparuísset, sic ad eos locuta dícitur: Ne me, paréntes, mortuam + lugeátis; nam una cum his virgínibus vivo apud illum in cælis, quem in terris tota mente + diléxi. Cum aliquot post annos Constantia, Constantini imperatóris fília, insanábili + úlceri medicinam quærens, nondum christiana ad idem sepúlcrum accessísset; obdórmiscens + sibi audíre visa est vocem hanc Agnetis: Constanter age, Constántia: crede in Jesum + Christum Fílium Dei, qui te sanam fáciet. Quæ sanata, paulo post una cum multis ex família + imperatóris baptismum suscípiens, ibi ecclésiam nómine beátæ Agnétis ædificávit. + en: >- + The night when the parents of the blessed Agnes were watching at her grave, she appeared + to them in company with a band of virgins, and said to them: Father and Mother, weep not + for me as though I were dead; for now these virgins and I live together in Him Whose love + was my whole life upon earth. Some years afterwards, Constance, the daughter of the Emperor + Constantine, being sick of an incurable ulcer, betook herself to the said grave, although + she was not yet a Christian, and as she lay by it and slept, she seemed to hear the voice + of Agnes, saying to her: Constance, be of good courage, believe in Jesus Christ the Son of + God, and He will make thee whole. The Princess, being healed, was baptized, along with many + others of the Emperor's family and household, and afterwards built over the grave of the + blessed Agnes a Church named in her honour. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-emerentiana.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-emerentiana.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6581e2d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-emerentiana.yml @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Emerentiana, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 23) +# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-23.txt is a different, later +# saint (St. Raymond of Peñafort) who displaced Emerentiana on the +# general calendar's own Jan 23 slot; her own content survives at the +# suffixed sibling file instead (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's +# "critical wrinkle"). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-23o.txt, English/Sancti/01-23o.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no +# responsory given in the source. +id: st-emerentiana +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Emerentiána virgo Romana, collactanea beátæ Agnetis, adhuc catechumena, fide et caritate + flagrans, furéntes in Christiános idolórum cultores cum vehementius accusaret, a concitáta + multitúdine lapidibus óbruta est. Quæ in cruciátibus orans ad sepúlcrum sanctæ Agnetis, + proprio sánguine, quem pro Christo constanter effudit, baptizata, ánimam Deo réddidit. + en: >- + Emerentiana was a Roman maiden, and the foster-sister of the blessed Agnes. While she was + still a Catechumen she was inspired by her faith and love to rebuke the fury of the + idol-worshippers against the Christians, whereupon a mob assembled, and stoned her so + severely that she was only able to drag herself to the grave of holy Agnes, where, while + she prayed, she gave up her soul to God, being baptized, not in water, but in her own + blood, so freely shed for Christ. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-marcellus-i.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-marcellus-i.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9701410 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-marcellus-i.yml @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Marcellus I, Pope and Martyr (Jan 16) — +# the first of the "pre-1955-but-post-1617" saints (source confirmed +# Tridentine, not Monastic 1617: web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM has no +# 01-16*.txt at all; see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-16.txt, English/Sancti/01-16.txt. +# Lectio1-3 and 7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr-Pope ("vide C2b" in [Rule]), +# not proper to this saint, so not authored here per this project's +# existing "no Common fallback authored into this store" pattern. Only +# Lectio4-6 are this saint's own proper text — one continuous vita +# account, no internal source break, so combined into a single reading +# per the project's recombine-don't-reproduce-the-lesson-split rule. +# Responsory: the plain (non-"rubrica tridentina", which is just an alias +# to Commune/C2a) Responsory8 text. +id: st-marcellus-i +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Marcellus Romanus, a Constantio et Galerio usque ad Maxéntium pontificátum gessit. Cujus + hortatu Lucina matrona Romana, bonórum suórum Dei Ecclésiam fecit heredem. Aucto in Urbe + fidelium numero, ad eórum utilitátem, ad baptismum pœnitentiámque dandam eis, qui christianam + religiónem suscíperent, et ad Mártyrum sepultúram, novos Titulos instituit, et quasi álteras + diœcéses distríbuit. Quibus rebus ira incénsus Maxentius, Marcello gravia supplícia minátur, + nisi, depósito pontificatu, idolis immoláret. + + + Qui cum insanas hóminis voces neglígeret, misit eum in catábulum, ut bestiárum, quæ publice + alebántur, curam sustinéret: ubi Marcéllus assiduis jejuniis et precibus novem menses vitam + duxit, parochias, quas præsens non póterat, visitans per epistolas. Inde ereptus a clericis, + hospítio recípitur a beáta Lucina, in cujus ædibus ecclésiam dedicávit, quæ hódie titulo + sancti Marcelli nominátur: in qua et Christiáni orábant, et ipse beátus Marcellus + prædicabat. + + + Quibus cógnitis, Maxéntius in eam ecclésiam catábuli bestias transférri, et a Marcello + custodiri jubet: ubi loci fœditate, multisque ærumnis afflíctus obdormívit in Dómino. Cujus + corpus in cœmeterio Priscillæ via Salaria a beáta Lucina sepúltum est décimo septimo Kalendas + Februarii. Sedit annos quinque, mensem unum, dies viginti quinque. Scripsit epistolam ad + episcopos Antiochenæ provinciæ de primatu Romanæ Ecclésiæ, quam caput ecclesiárum + appellandam demonstrat; ubi étiam illud scriptum est, nullum concílium jure celebrari, nisi + ex auctoritáte Romani Pontificis. Ordinávit mense Decembri Romæ presbyteros viginti quinque, + diaconos duos, episcopos per diversa loca viginti unum. + en: >- + This Marcellus was a Roman, and held the supreme Pontificate from (the year of our Lord 304, + in) the reign of Constantius and Galerius, till (310, in) that of Maxentius. It was through + his persuasion that the Roman lady Lucina left the whole of her property to the Church of + God. As the believers increased, he instituted new titles in the City, which he divided + after the manner of dioceses for their convenience, and for the baptism and penance of + heathens converted to Christianity, and for the burial of the martyrs. These proceedings + excited the wrath of Maxentius, who threatened Marcellus with the heaviest punishment, + unless he would lay down the Popedom and sacrifice to idols. + + + The servant of God treated with contempt the mad cries of this man, who accordingly took him + and sent him to a menagerie, to take care of the beasts which were fed at the public cost. + Marcellus remained at this place for nine months, which he spent in continual fasting and + prayer, and, as he could not visit the parishes in person, he wrote letters to them. Some + clerks rescued him, and the blessed Lucina hospitably received him into her house, in which + he dedicated a Church, which is now called St. Marcellus'. Here the Christians met to pray, + and the blessed Marcellus himself preached. + + + These proceedings came to the knowledge of Maxentius, who thereupon had the wild beasts + brought from the menagerie and located in the church, where Marcellus was made to feed them. + The noisomeness of the place and the filthiness of his occupation broke down a constitution + already enfeebled by many ailments, and he fell asleep in the Lord. The blessed Lucina + buried his body in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Salarian Way, on the 16th of January. + He sat on the throne of Peter for five years, one month, and twenty-five days. He wrote an + epistle to the Bishops of the Patriarchate of Antioch on the primacy of the Roman Church, + wherein he proveth the right of the same Church to be called the head of all the Churches. + In this letter he likewise saith that no Council can be lawfully gathered together except by + the authority of the Roman Pontiff. He ordained at Rome in the month of December + twenty-five Priests, two Deacons, and twenty-one Bishops for diverse Sees. + responsory: + la: "Dómine, prævenísti eum in benedictiónibus dulcédinis: * Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso.\nV. Vitam pétiit a te, et tribuísti ei longitúdinem diérum in sæculum sæculi.\nR. Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso." + en: "O Lord, thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: * Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.\nV. He asked life of thee, and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.\nR. Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones." + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-paul-the-hermit.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-paul-the-hermit.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4aa9fc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-paul-the-hermit.yml @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paul the First Hermit (vu's calendar: +# Jan 19, displaced from the general calendar's Jan 15 to make room for +# St. Maurus there per Monastic practice — see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). Source is therefore +# off-date: web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-15.txt and +# English/Sancti/01-15.txt (NOT 01-19.txt, which is a different saint in +# the general calendar — Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum, sourced +# separately). +# +# Lectio4-6 is one continuous narrative (the encounter with St. Anthony), +# no internal source break, so combined into a single reading per the +# project's recombine rule. Lectio94 (the reduced-office alternate +# summary) is skipped, same as Marcellus. +# +# Not authored here: Nocturn 3. The source file's own Lectio7-9 are +# themselves a cross-reference (`@Sancti/02-24:Lectio7` etc.) to St. +# Matthias's Gospel+homily (Matt 11:25-30 + St. Augustine, Sermon 10 on +# the Words of the Lord) — genuinely part of Paul's day, but that source +# file gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), no full pericope +# text and no responsory of its own to transcribe from. Deferred rather +# than fabricated; the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import (see TODO.md) +# would resolve the Gospel side of this gap directly. +id: st-paul-the-hermit +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Paulus, eremitárum auctor et magister, apud inferiórem Thebáidem natus, cum quindecim esset + annórum, orbátus paréntibus est. Qui postea declinandæ causa persecutiónis Decii et + Valeriáni, et Deo liberius inserviéndi, in eremi spelúncam se cóntulit: ubi, palma ei + victum et vestítum præbente, vixit ad centésimum et décimum tertium annum, quo témpore ab + Antonio nonagenario Dei admónitu invísitur. Quibus inter se, cum ántea non nossent, proprio + nómine consalutántibus, et multa de regno Dei colloquéntibus, corvus, qui ántea semper + Paulo dimidiátum panem attulerat, integrum détulit. + + + Post corvi discessum, Eja, inquit Paulus, Dóminus nobis prandium misit, vere pius, vere + miséricors. Sexagínta jam anni sunt, cum accipio quotídie dimidii panis fragméntum, nunc ad + advéntum tuum milítibus suis Christus duplicávit annonam. Quare cum gratiárum actióne ad + fontem capiéntes cibum, ubi tantisper recreáti sunt, íterum gratiis de more Deo actis, + noctem in divinis laudibus consumpsérunt. Dilúculo Paulus de morte, quæ sibi instaret, + ádmonens Antónium, hortátur, ut pallium, quod ab Athanasio acceperat, ad involvéndum suum + corpus afferret. Quo ex itinere rédiens ille, vidit inter Angelórum choros, inter + Prophetárum et Apostolórum cœtus Pauli ánimam in cælum ascendere. + + + Cumque ad ejus cellam pervenísset, invénit genibus complicatis, erecta cervice, exténsisque + in altum mánibus corpus exanime: quod pallio obvolvens, hymnosque et psalmos ex christiana + traditióne decantans, cum sárculum, quo terram fóderet, non haberet, duo leones ex + interiore erémo rápido cursu ad beáti senis corpus ferúntur; ut facile intelligerétur, eos, + quo modo póterant, plorátum édere: qui certatim terram pédibus effodiéntes, fóveam, quæ + hóminem commode cáperet, effecérunt. Qui cum abiísent, Antonius sanctum corpus in eum locum + íntulit; et injecta humo, tumulum ex christiáno more compósuit: túnicam vero Pauli, quam in + sportæ modum ex palmæ foliis ille sibi contexúerat, secum áuferens, eo vestítu diébus + solemnibus Paschæ et Pentecostes, quoad vixit, usus est. + en: >- + Paul the first hermit, and model of all others, was a native of the lower Thebaid in Egypt. + At the age of fifteen years he lost both his parents. In order to escape from the + persecution of Decius and Valerian, and to serve God in quietness, he betook himself to a + cave in the desert. Here there was a palm-tree, on the fruit of which he lived, and of + whose leaves he made his raiment until he attained the age of 113 years. At that time + Anthony, being now himself aged 90 years, received a command from God to go and see him. + They met without knowing one another's names, and saluted one another, after which they + fell straightway into a long discourse concerning the kingdom of God. Now it so happened + that a raven had of a long time brought Paul every day half a loaf, but on this day while + they spake together he brought a whole one. + + + When the raven had flown away, Well, quoth Paul, the Lord hath sent us our dinner. Truly He + is gracious; truly He is merciful. It is now sixty years that I have had half a loaf of + bread every day, but now that thou art come, Christ giveth His soldiers double rations. + Then they asked a blessing, and ate together, sitting by a spring. When they were + refreshed, they returned thanks, as is the custom, and afterwards spent the whole night + praising God. At break of day Paul felt the approach of death, and desired Anthony to bring + the cloak which Athanasius had given him, to use for his winding-sheet. While Anthony was + on his way back from this journey, he saw in a vision the soul of Paul ascending to heaven, + surrounded by choirs of angels, and accompanied by the Prophets and Apostles. + + + When Anthony reached the cell of Paul, he found the dead body of the Saint in a kneeling + posture, with the head thrown up and the hands stretched out towards heaven. He immediately + began to chant the psalms and hymns ordained by Christian tradition, while he wrapped the + body in the cloak of Athanasius. He had no spade to dig a grave, but two lions came roaring + from the desert, as though to attend the burying, and scratched a hole big enough to hold a + man's body, with their paws, showing meanwhile such signs of grief as their nature alloweth. + When they were gone away, Anthony put the holy body in this hole, covered it with earth, + and arranged it like a Christian's grave. He took away for himself Paul's tunic, which he + had woven out of the palm-leaves somewhat after the manner of basket-work, and this tunic + Anthony was in the habit of wearing on the great days of the Passover and Pentecost as long + as he lived. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-polycarp.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-polycarp.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bffc5c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-polycarp.yml @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 26) +# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-26*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-26.txt, English/Sancti/01-26.txt. +# Lectio4 (St. Jerome's biographical note, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis +# cap. 17) is a genuinely distinct source from Lectio5-6 (a cross-ref, +# `@Sancti/07-13:Lectio5/6` — St. Ambrose's Exposition on Psalm 118, +# borrowed from St. Anacletus's own file but proper to this day too) — +# kept as two separate readings. Lectio5-6 combined into one (continuous, +# no internal break). Lectio7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr (skipped, not +# proper). No responsory given in either source file. +id: st-polycarp +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 17" + text: + la: >- + Polycárpus, Joánnis Apóstoli discípulus et ab eo Smyrnæ epíscopus ordinátus, totíus Asiæ + princeps fuit, quippe qui nonnúllos Apostolórum et eórum qui víderant Dóminum, magístros + habúerit et víderit. Hic propter quasdam super die Paschæ quæstiónes, sub imperatóre + Antoníno Pio, Ecclésiam in Urbe regénte Anicéto, Romam venit; ubi plúrimos credéntium, + Marciónis et Valentíni persuasióne decéptos, redúxit ad fidem. Cumque ei fortúito óbviam + fuísset Márcion et díceret: Cognóscis nos? respóndit: Cognósco primogénitum diáboli. Póstea + vero, regnánte Marco Antoníno et Lúcio Aurélio Cómmodo, quarta post Nerónem persecutióne, + Smyrnæ, sedénte procónsule et univérso pópulo in amphitheátro advérsus eum personánte, igni + tráditus est. Scripsit ad Philippénses valde útilem epístolam, quæ usque hódie in Asiæ + convéntu légitur. + en: >- + Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John, and was consecrated by him Bishop of Smyrna. He + was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia, because he had been taught by several + of the Apostles, and other persons who had seen the Lord. During the reign of the Emperor + Antoninus Pius, and while Anicetus presided over the Church of Rome, Polycarp came thither + to discuss some questions regarding the time for observing Easter. He found some heretics + at Rome, who had been led astray by the doctrine of Marcion and Valentine, and brought back + many of them to the faith. One day Marcion met him by accident, and said to him: Do you + recognise me? whereto he replied: I recognise the devil's eldest son. Some time after, in + the reign of Mark Antonine and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, during the fourth persecution + since Nero, when the Pro-consul was ruling in Smyrna, the whole population being assembled + in the theatre, clamoured against Polycarp, and to please them he was burnt. He wrote an + extremely useful Epistle to the Philippians, which is publicly read in the Churches of Asia + even to this day. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Exposition on Psalm 118, Sermon 21" + text: + la: >- + Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum. Bene hoc Martyr + dicit, quod injuste persecutionum tormenta sustineat: qui nihil rapuerit, nullum violentus + oppresserit, nullius sanguinem fuderit, nullius torum putaverit esse violandum: qui nihil + legibus debeat, et graviora latronum sustinere cogatur supplicia: qui loquatur juste, et non + audiatur: qui loquatur plena salutis, et impugnetur: ut possit dicere, Cum loquebar illis, + impugnabant me gratis. Gratis igitur persecutionem patitur, qui impugnatur sine crimine + impugnatur ut noxius, cum sit in tali confessione laudabilis: impugnatur quasi veneficus, + qui in nomine Domini gloriatur, cum pietas virtutum omnium fundamentum sit. + + + Vere frustra impugnatur, qui apud impios et infidos impietatis arcessitur, cum fidei sit + magister. Verum qui gratis impugnatur, fortis debet esse et constans, quomodo ergo + subtexuit: Et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum? Trepidare infirmitatis est, timoris atque + formidinis. Sed est étiam infirmitas ad salutem, est étiam timor sanctorum. Timete Dominum + omnes sancti ejus: et, Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum. Qua ratione beatus? Quia in mandatis + ejus cupit nimis. + en: >- + Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. These + are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments of the persecutors, + who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man, who hath shed the blood of no + man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man, who is debtor to the laws in nothing, + and who is punished more grievously than if he were a robber: who speaketh righteousness, + and there is none that will hear: who speaketh salvation, and all men fight against him: who + is able to say: "When I spoke unto them, they fought against me without a cause." (Ps. + cxix. 7.) They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin to his charge; they + fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own acknowledgment righteous: they fight + against him as a warlock, who glorieth in the name of the Lord, and who doeth all things + well because he doeth all things for God's sake. + + + Verily, him that is fought against without a cause it behoveth to be strong and patient. + Wherefore then saith he: My heart standeth in awe of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak, + the timid, and the fearful. But there is also a weakness unto salvation, there is a fear + which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all ye His Saints. (Ps. xxxiii. 10.) And again: + Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. (Ps. cxi. 1.) And wherefore is he blessed? because + he delighteth greatly in His commandments. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-timothy.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-timothy.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db55f46 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-timothy.yml @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Timothy, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 24) — +# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-24*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-24.txt, English/Sancti/01-24.txt. +# Lectio4-5 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous account, no +# internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio6 is a bare +# `@Commune/C2:Lectio4` reference (not proper), skipped per this +# project's existing "no Common fallback authored into this store" +# pattern. No responsory given in the source. +id: st-timothy +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Timótheus, Lystris in Lycaónia natus ex patre Gentíli et matre Judǽa, christiánam colébat + religiónem, cum in ea loca venit Paulus Apóstolus. Qui fama commótus, quæ de Timóthei + sanctitáte percrebúerat, ipsum adhíbuit sócium suæ peregrinatiónis: sed propter Judǽos qui + se ad Christum convérterant, sciéntes Timóthei patrem esse Gentílem, eum circumcídit. Cum + ígitur ambo Ephesum veníssent, ibi ordinátus est epíscopus ab Apóstolo, ut eam ecclésiam + gubernáret. + + + Ad quem Apóstolus duas epístolas scripsit, álteram Laodicéa, álteram Roma. Quibus in + pastorális offícii cura confirmátus, cum sacrifícium, quod uni Deo debétur fíeri dǽmonum + simulácris, ferre non posset; pópulum Ephesínum, Diánæ in ejus celebritáte immolántem, ab + illa impietáte removére conátus, lapídibus óbrutus est; ac pene mórtuus, a Christiánis + eréptus et in montem óppido vicínum delátus, nono Kaléndas Februárii obdormívit in Dómino. + en: >- + Timothy was a native of Lystra in Lycaonia, born of a Gentile father and a Jewish mother. + He embraced the Christian religion when the Apostle Paul came into those parts. The holy + Apostle was so struck with the fame of Timothy's sanctity, that he chose him to be the + companion of his journeys, and caused him to be circumcised, in order to remove a + stumbling-block from the way of those Jews who felt drawn to Christianity. When they came + together to Ephesus, the Apostle consecrated him Bishop of that Church. + + + Two of the Apostle Paul's Epistles are addressed to this Saint, of which one was written + from Laodicea, and the other from Rome. These sacred writings so stirred him up to the + zealous discharge of his duties as a spiritual shepherd, that he strove to prevent the + people of Ephesus from sacrificing to Artemis on her feastday, knowing that sacrifice is + due to God alone. The heathens thereupon stoned him till he was well-nigh dead, and + although he was rescued by the Christians, and carried to a mountain near the city, he then + fell asleep in the Lord, on the 24th day of January. + status: { la: verified, en: verified }