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Continues the full-year sanctoral import: the Guardian Angels (Duplex
majus, full proper content), St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Bruno, St.
Bridget of Sweden, St. Francis Borgia, the Maternity of the BVM (Duplex
II Classis, instituted 1931 for the 1500th anniversary of the Council
of Ephesus, full proper content), St. Edward the Confessor, St. Teresa
of Avila (distinct from St. Thérèse of Lisieux -- two different
Carmelite saints sharing a name), St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, St. Peter
of Alcantara, St. John Cantius, and St. Raphael the Archangel (own
full proper content, matching st-gabriel-archangel.yml's established
pattern for a Sancti file that redirects wholesale to another date's
file but still carries its own real content).

St. Raphael's new fixed day (Oct 24, Duplex majus) collided with the
"clean, empty Saturday" fixture used by three tests for Marian
Saturday/Lauds-psalmody-override behavior; moved all three to 2026-07-04,
verified genuinely free of any sanctoral entry (not even a commemorated
Simplex).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-02.txt` -- "Duplex majus;;4;;
# vide C4" (Common of a Confessor Bishop -- structural category only;
# the feast's own content is fully proper throughout). Own real
# [Oratio] and own [Ant 1]. Own Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 2: St.
# Bernard's own homily on Psalm 90 "Qui habitat"; Nocturn 3: St.
# Hilary's own homily, Gospel bare incipit). Nocturn 1 (Lectio1-3,
# scripture) not modeled per this app's established convention.
id: guardian-angels
name: "The Guardian Angels"
rank: duplex-majus
common: common-of-an-angel
propers: "guardian-angels"
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-11.txt` -- "Maternitatis
# Beatæ Mariæ Virginis;;Duplex 2 classis;;5.1;;ex C11". Own real
# [Oratio] and own [Ant 1]. Own Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 2: two
# excerpts from Pope St. Leo the Great's own Nativity sermons; Nocturn
# 3: St. Bernard's own homily, Gospel bare incipit). Instituted 1931 by
# Pius XI for the 1500th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus (see the
# feast's own Lectio6, quoted in nocturn-readings).
id: maternity-of-the-bvm
name: "The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary"
rank: duplex-2-classis
common: common-of-the-bvm
propers: "maternity-of-the-bvm"
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-08.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C7a" (Commune non Virginum non Martyrum). Own real proper [Oratio].
# benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the Common of a
# Virgin, same C-number-family fallback already established for
# st-monica.yml/st-jane-frances-de-chantal.yml (no benedictus-antiphon-
# common-of-a-widow.yml exists). No Lectio7-9 in her own file --
# defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-bridget-of-sweden
name: "St. Bridget, Widow"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-widow
propers: "st-bridget-of-sweden"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-06.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio].
# No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back
# to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his own file --
# defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-bruno
name: "St. Bruno, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-bruno"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-13.txt` -- "Semiduplex;;2.2;;
# vide C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper
# [Oratio]. No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon
# fall back to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his own
# file -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-edward-king
name: "St. Edward the Confessor, King"
rank: semiduplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-edward-king"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-10.txt` -- "Semiduplex;;2.2;;
# vide C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper
# [Oratio]. No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon
# fall back to the plain Common of a Confessor. Nocturn 3 is a direct
# `@Commune/C1:LectioN` cross-reference (Common of Apostles), not this
# saint's own content -- not transcribed, per the bare-cross-reference
# convention.
id: st-francis-borgia
name: "St. Francis Borgia, Confessor"
rank: semiduplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-francis-borgia"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-20.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio].
# No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back
# to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his own file --
# defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-john-cantius
name: "St. John Cantius, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-john-cantius"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-17.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C6a" (Common of Virgins only). Own real proper [Oratio] and own
# Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is St. Francis de Sales's own homily,
# not a cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of her own -- benedictusCommon/
# minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common of a Virgin.
id: st-margaret-mary-alacoque
name: "St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-virgin
propers: "st-margaret-mary-alacoque"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-19.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5-1" (a variant Oratio of the Common of a Confessor, C5 -- not a
# distinct Common category, same non-distinct-category reasoning as
# st-vincent-de-paul.yml's own C5-1). Own real proper [Oratio]. No
# [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to
# the plain Common of a Confessor. Nocturn 3 is a direct
# `@Commune/C5:LectioN in 2 loco` cross-reference, not this saint's own
# content -- not transcribed, per the bare-cross-reference convention.
id: st-peter-of-alcantara
name: "St. Peter of Alcantara, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-peter-of-alcantara"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-24.txt` -- "ex Sancti/05-08;;
# Duplex majus;;4;;" (his own file redirects wholesale to the
# Apparition of St. Michael's own date, per its own [Rule] -- same
# non-distinct-category cross-reference reasoning as
# st-gabriel-archangel.yml -- but this saint's real Officium/Oratio/
# Ant1/Matins content is proper to Raphael specifically, not shared).
# Real, unique collect/antiphon/Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 2: St.
# Bonaventure's own sermon on Raphael; Nocturn 3: the Gospel citation
# ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily, St. John Chrysostom, is
# authored). Nocturn 1 (Lectio1-3, the book of Tobias) not modeled per
# this app's established convention.
id: st-raphael-archangel
name: "St. Raphael the Archangel"
rank: duplex-majus
common: common-of-an-angel
propers: "st-raphael-archangel"
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-15.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C6a" (Common of Virgins only). Own real proper [Oratio]. No [Ant 1]
# of her own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the
# plain Common of a Virgin. No Lectio7-9 in her own file -- defers to
# the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here. Distinct saint/id
# from st-therese-of-lisieux.yml (Oct 3) -- two different Carmelite
# saints who happen to share the name Teresa.
id: st-teresa-of-avila
name: "St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-virgin
propers: "st-teresa-of-avila"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-03.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C6a" (Common of Virgins only). Own real proper [Oratio] and own
# Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is Pope St. Leo the Great's own
# homily, not a cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of her own -- benedictus
# Common/minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common of a Virgin.
id: st-therese-of-lisieux
name: "St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-virgin
propers: "st-therese-of-lisieux"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# st-marcus.yml), and St. Gall (Oct 16, founder of St. Gallen). No # st-marcus.yml), and St. Gall (Oct 16, founder of St. Gallen). No
# octave-gap exclusions this month. # octave-gap exclusions this month.
"10-01": [st-remigius] "10-01": [st-remigius]
"10-02": [guardian-angels]
"10-03": [st-therese-of-lisieux]
"10-04": [st-francis] "10-04": [st-francis]
"10-05": [ss-placid-and-companions] "10-05": [ss-placid-and-companions]
"10-06": [st-bruno]
"10-07": [st-justina, st-marcus] "10-07": [st-justina, st-marcus]
"10-08": [st-bridget-of-sweden]
"10-09": [ss-dionysius-and-companions] "10-09": [ss-dionysius-and-companions]
"10-10": [st-francis-borgia]
"10-11": [maternity-of-the-bvm]
"10-13": [st-edward-king]
"10-14": [st-callistus] "10-14": [st-callistus]
"10-15": [st-teresa-of-avila]
"10-16": [st-gall] "10-16": [st-gall]
"10-17": [st-margaret-mary-alacoque]
"10-18": [st-luke] "10-18": [st-luke]
"10-19": [st-peter-of-alcantara]
"10-20": [st-john-cantius]
"10-21": [st-hilarion, ss-ursula-and-companions] "10-21": [st-hilarion, ss-ursula-and-companions]
"10-24": [st-raphael-archangel]
"10-25": [ss-chrysanthus-and-daria] "10-25": [ss-chrysanthus-and-daria]
"10-26": [st-evaristus] "10-26": [st-evaristus]
"10-27": [vigil-of-ss-simon-and-jude] "10-27": [vigil-of-ss-simon-and-jude]
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-02.txt's own
# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
# this feast, not a Common substitution.
id: guardian-angels-antiphon
text:
la: "Omnes sunt administratórii * Spíritus, in ministérium missi propter eos, qui hereditátem capiunt salútis."
en: "Are they not all * ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-02.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: guardian-angels-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui ineffábili providéntia sanctos Angelos tuos ad nostram custódiam
míttere dignáris: largíre supplícibus tuis; et eórum semper protectióne
deféndi, et ætérna societáte gaudére.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who in thine unspeakable Providence hast been pleased to give
thine holy Angels charge over us, to keep us, mercifully grant unto our
prayers, that we be both ever fenced by their wardship here, and
everlastingly blessed by their fellowship hereafter.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-11.txt's own
# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
# this feast, not a Common substitution.
id: maternity-of-the-bvm-antiphon
text:
la: "Cum jucunditáte * Maternitátem beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis celebrémus."
en: "Let us celebrate * with joy the Maternity of blessed Mary ever Virgin."
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-11.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: maternity-of-the-bvm-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui de beátæ Maríæ Vírginis útero Verbum tuum, Angelo nuntiánte,
carnem suscípere voluísti: præsta supplícibus tuis: ut qui vere eam
Genetrícem Dei crédimus, ejus apud te intercessiónibus adjuvémur.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat
in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, who didst will that, at the announcement of an Angel, thy Word
should take flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant to us
thy suppliants, that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God
may be helped by her intercession with thee.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth
with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-08.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-bridget-of-sweden-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Dómine, Deus noster, qui beátæ Birgíttæ per Fílium tuum unigénitum
secréta cæléstia revelásti: ipsíus pia intercessióne da nobis fámulis
tuis; in revelatióne sempitérnæ glóriæ tuæ gaudére lætántes.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat
in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Lord our God, Who, through thine Only-begotten Son, didst cause thy
blessed hand-maid Bridget to see certain things which are naturally
known not on earth but in heaven, grant unto us thy servants at her
motherly prayers, to be one day blessed for ever in the vision of
thine eternal glory.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth
with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-06.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-bruno-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Sancti Brunónis Confessóris tui, quǽsumus, Dómine, intercessiónibus
adjuvémur: ut, qui majestátem tuam gráviter delinquéndo offéndimus,
ejus méritis et précibus, nostrórum delictórum véniam consequámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
May we be aided by the intercession of St. Bruno, thy Confessor, we
beseech thee, O Lord; that we, who have grievously offended thy
Majesty by sin, may, by his merits and prayers, obtain forgiveness for
our offenses.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-13.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-edward-king-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum regem Eduárdum Confessórem tuum æternitátis glória
coronásti: fac nos, quǽsumus; ita eum venerári in terris, ut cum eo
regnáre possímus in cælis.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who hast set upon the head of thy blessed Confessor King
Edward a crown of everlasting glory, grant unto us, we beseech thee,
so to use our reverence for him here upon earth, as to make the same
a mean whereby to come to reign with him hereafter in heaven.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-10.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
id: st-francis-borgia-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Dómine Jesu Christe, veræ humilitátis et exémplar et prǽmium: quǽsumus;
ut, sicut beátum Francíscum in terréni honóris contémptu imitatórem
tui gloriósum effecísti, ita nos ejúsdem imitatiónis et glóriæ
tríbuas esse consórtes.
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, model of true humility and its reward, we
beseech Thee, that as Thou made blessed Francis one of Thy glorious
imitators by his contempt for earthly honors, grant us to follow his
example and to share in his glory.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-20.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-john-cantius-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Da, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, sancti Joánnis Confessóris exémplo
in sciéntia Sanctórum proficiéntes, atque áliis misericórdiam
exhibéntes; ejus méritis, indulgéntiam apud te consequámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we may so follow after
the example of thy blessed Confessor John in learning ever more and
more the knowledge which maketh thy Saints, and in showing mercy to
our neighbour, that Thou for the same thy servant's sake mayest
forgive us our trespasses.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-17.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
id: st-margaret-mary-alacoque-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Dómine Jesu Christe, qui investigábiles divítias Cordis tui beátæ
Margarítæ Maríæ Vírgini mirabíliter revelásti; da nobis ejus méritis
et imitatióne; ut te in ómnibus et super ómnia diligéntes, jugem in
eódem Corde tuo mansiónem habére mereámur.
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, who unto the holy virgin Margaret Mary didst in
wondrous manner reveal the unsearchable riches of thy Heart, grant
us, by her merits and example, that loving thee in all things and
above all things, we may obtain an abode in thy Heart for evermore.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-19.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-peter-of-alcantara-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Petrum Confessórem tuum admirábilis pœniténtiæ et
altíssimæ contemplatiónis múnere illustráre dignátus es: da nobis,
quǽsumus; ut, ejus suffragántibus méritis, carne mortificáti,
facílius cæléstia capiámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who hast been pleased to set before us in thy blessed
Confessor Peter a wondrous example of penance and of a mind
unfathomably rapt in thee, let, we beseech thee, the same thy
servant pray for us, and him do Thou accept, that we may so die unto
earthly things, as to take lively hold on heavenly things.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-24.txt's own
# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
# this feast, not a Common substitution.
id: st-raphael-archangel-antiphon
text:
la: "Ego sum Ráphaël Angelus, * qui asto ante Dóminum: vos autem benedícite Deum, et narráte ómnia mirabília ejus, allelúja."
en: "I am the Angel Raphael * who stand before the Lord; but bless ye God, and tell of all His wondrous works, alleluia."
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-24.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-raphael-archangel-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Raphaélem Archángelum Tobíæ fámulo tuo cómitem
dedísti in via: concéde nobis fámulis tuis; ut ejúsdem semper
protegámur custódia et muniámur auxílio.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst give thy blessed Archangel Raphael unto thy servant
Tobias to be his fellow wayfarer, grant unto us, thy servants, that
the same may ever keep and shield us, help and defend us.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-15.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-teresa-of-avila-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Exáudi nos, Deus, salutáris noster: ut sicut de beátæ Terésiæ Vírginis
tuæ festivitáte gaudémus; ita cæléstis ejus doctrínæ pábulo
nutriámur, et piæ devotiónis erudiámur afféctu.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
Hear us, O God, our Savior, that as we rejoice in the feast of
Blessed Teresa, thy Virgin, so we may be fed with the food of her
heavenly teaching and be instructed in the affection of pious
devotion.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-03.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
id: st-therese-of-lisieux-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Dómine, qui dixísti: Nisi efficiámini sicut párvuli, non intrábitis in
regnum cælórum: da nobis, quǽsumus: ita sanctæ Terésiæ Vírginis in
humilitáte et simplicitáte cordis vestígia sectári, ut prǽmia
consequámur ætérna.
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Lord, who hast said: Unless you become as little children you shall
not enter the kingdom of heaven, grant us, we pray, so to follow, in
humility and simplicity of heart, the footsteps of the virgin blessed
Theresa, that we may attain to an everlasting reward.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Guardian Angels (Oct 2). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-02.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-02.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, St. Bernard of
# Clairvaux's own homily on Psalm 90 ("Qui habitat"), combined into one
# reading. 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, St. Hilary of Poitiers) is authored, isGospel:
# false, no citation field.
id: guardian-angels
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, On Psalm 90 (Qui habitat)"
text:
la: >-
Angelis suis mandávit de te. Mira dignátio, et vere magna diléctio
caritátis. Quis enim? quibus? de quo? quid mandávit? Studióse
considerémus, fratres, diligénter commendémus memóriæ hoc tam
grande mandátum. Quis enim mandávit? cujus sunt Angeli? cujus
mandátis obtémperant? cujus obédiunt voluntáti? Nempe Angelis
suis mandávit de te, ut custódiant te in ómnibus viis tuis. Nec
cunctántur quin étiam in mánibus tollant te. Summa ergo Majéstas
mandávit Angelis, et Angelis suis mandávit. Illis útique
sublímibus, tam beátis quam próximis sibi cohæréntibus et vere
domésticis mandávit de te. Tu quis es? Quid est homo, quod memor
es ejus? aut fílius hóminis, quóniam réputas eum? Quasi vero non
sit homo putrédo, et fílius hóminis vermis! Sed quid putas
mandávit de te? Ut custódiant te.
Quantam tibi debet hoc verbum inférre reveréntiam, afférre
devotiónem, conférre fidúciam! Reveréntiam pro præséntia,
devotiónem pro benevoléntia, fidúciam pro custódia. Caute
ámbula, ut vidélicet cui adsunt Angeli, sicut eis mandátum est,
in ómnibus viis tuis. In quovis diversório, in quovis ángulo,
Angelo tuo reveréntiam habe. Tu ne áudeas illo præsénte, quod
vidénte me non audéres. An præséntem esse dúbitas, quem non
vides? Quid si audíres? quid si tángeres? quid si olfáceres?
Vide, quia non solo visu, rerum præséntia comprobétur.
In ipso ítaque, fratres, affectuóse diligámus Angelos ejus,
tamquam futúros aliquándo coherédes nostros, ínterim vero
actóres et tutóres, a Patre pósitos et præpósitos nobis. Quid
sub tantis custódibus timeámus? Nec superári nec sedúci, minus
autem sedúcere possunt, qui custódiunt nos in ómnibus viis
nostris. Fidéles sunt, prudéntes sunt, poténtes sunt: quid
trepidámus? Tantum sequámur eos, adhæreámus eis, et in
protectióne Dei cæli commorémur. Quóties ergo gravíssima
cérnitur urgére tentátio et tribulátio véhemens imminére, ínvoca
custódem tuum, ductórem tuum, adjutórem tuum in opportunitátibus,
in tribulatióne; incláma eum et dic: Dómine, salva nos,
perímus.
en: >-
He hath given His Angels charge over thee. A wonderful
graciousness, and a wonderful outpouring of love. For who hath
given charge? And what charge? Unto whom? And over whom? Let us
carefully consider, my brethren, let us carefully hold in mind
this great charge. For who hath given this charge? To Whom
belong the Angels? Whose commandments do they obey, and Whose
will do they do? He hath given His Angels charge over thee, to
keep thee in all thy ways, and that not carelessly, for they
shall bear thee up in their hands. The Highest Majesty,
therefore, hath given charge unto Angels, even His Angels. Unto
these beings so excellently exalted, so blessed, so near to
Himself, even as His own household, unto these hath He given
charge over thee. Who art thou? What is man, that Thou art
mindful of him? or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Even
as though man were not rottenness, and the son of man, a worm.
But what charge hath He given them over thee? To keep thee in
all thy ways.
What respect, what thankfulness, what trust, ought this word to
work in thee! Respect for their presence, thankfulness for their
kindness, trust in their safe keeping. Walk carefully, as one
with whom are Angels, as hath been laid in charge upon them, in
all thy ways. In every lodging, in every nook, have reverence
for thine Angel. Dare not to do in his presence what thou
wouldst not dare to do in mine. Or dost thou doubt whether he be
indeed present, because thou seest him not? What if thou
heardest him? What if thou touchedst him? What if thou
smelledst him? Behold, not by sight alone is the presence of
things made manifest.
Let us also, brethren, dearly love His Angels, as them with whom
we are one day to be co-heirs, and who in the meanwhile are
leaders and guardians set over us by the Father. With such
guardians, whereof shall we be afraid? They that keep us in all
our ways, can neither be conquered nor corrupted, far less can
they corrupt. They are trusty, they are wary, they are mighty.
Whereof shall we be afraid? Only let us follow them, only let us
cleave unto them, and we shall abide under the shadow of the God
of heaven. As often then as the gloom of temptation threateneth
thee, or the sharpness of tribulation hangeth over thee, call
upon Him That keepeth thee, thy Shepherd, thy Refuge in times of
trouble, call upon Him, and say: "Lord, save us, we perish."
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on Matthew, ch. 18"
text:
la: >-
Nónnisi revérsos in natúram puerórum introíre regnum cælórum
Dóminus docet: id est, per simplicitátem puerílem vítia
córporum nostrórum animǽque revocánda. Púeros autem, credéntes
omnes per audiéntiæ fidem nuncupávit. Hi enim patrem sequúntur,
matrem amant, próximo velle malum nesciunt, curam opum
négligunt; non insoléscunt, non odérunt, non mentiúntur, dictis
credunt, et quod áudiunt, verum habent. Reverténdum ígitur est
ad simplicitátem infántium; quia, in ea collocáti, spéciem
humilitátis Domínicæ circumferémus.
Væ huic mundo ab scándalis. Humílitas passiónis scándalum mundo
est. In hoc enim máxime ignorántia detinétur humána, quod sub
deformitáte crucis, ætérnæ glóriæ Dóminum nóluit accípere. Et
quid mundo tam periculósum, quam non recepísse Christum? Ideo
vere necésse esse ait veníre scándala; quia, ad sacraméntum
reddéndæ nobis æternitátis, omnis in eo passiónis humílitas
esset explénda.
Vidéte ne contemnátis unum de pusíllis istis, qui credunt in
me. Aptíssimus vínculum mútui amóris impósuit, ad eos præcípue
qui vere in Dómino credidíssent. Pusillórum enim Angeli
quotídie Deum vident: quia Fílius hóminis venit salváre quæ
pérdita sunt. Ergo et Fílius hóminis salvat, et Deum Angeli
vident, et Angeli pusillórum præsunt fidélium oratiónibus.
Præésse Angelos absolúta auctóritas est. Salvatórum ígitur per
Christum oratiónes Angeli quotídie Deo ófferunt. Ergo
periculóse ille contémnitur, cujus desidéria ac postulatiónes
ad ætérnum et invisíbilem Deum, ambitióso Angelórum famulátu ac
ministério, pervehúntur.
en: >-
Unless ye become as little children, saith the Lord, ye shall
not enter into the kingdom of heaven, that is, unless by the
uprooting of bodily and mental depravity, we bring our souls to
the innocency of childhood. But He giveth the name of children
to all such as believe by the hearing of faith. Children follow
their father, love their mother, know not how to wish evil to
their neighbours, are not careful for earthly riches; they
insult not, they hate not, they lie not, they believe what they
are told, and take for truth what they hear. Us then it
behoveth to return to the simpleness of little children, for
when we are well rooted therein, we shall so far bear about in
ourselves an image of the sublime simpleness of the Lord Jesus.
Woe unto the world because of offences! The lowliness of the
Passion is an offence unto the world. Such is the state of
stupidity to which man's ignorance hath reduced itself, that it
turneth away from the Lord of Eternal Glory, because of the
unsightliness of the Cross! And what is so certain to bring woe
unto the world as to turn away from Christ? And therefore He
saith it must needs be that offences come, because his
fulfilling the lowliness of the Passion was the predestined
mean whereby He was to give us eternal life.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones that
believe in Me. He hath laid on us a most meet tie to constrain
us to love one another, especially such as indeed believe in
the Lord. For I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do
always behold the face of My Father Which is in heaven. For the
Son of Man is come to save that which was lost. From these
words we see, first, that the Son of Man saveth; secondly, that
the Angels do see God; and thirdly, that the Angels of these
little ones have the wardship over the prayers of the faithful.
That the Angels have this wardship is taught us absolutely. The
Angels therefore do every day offer to God the prayers, which
they which are saved, do make to Him in the Name of Christ.
Therefore it is dangerous for a man to despise them, seeing
that these are they by whose watchful service and ministry his
wishes and requests are presented before the throne of the
eternal and unseen God.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin
# Mary (Oct 11). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-11.txt, English/Sancti/10-11.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-5 (two excerpts from Pope St. Leo the Great's own
# Nativity sermons) plus Lectio6 (Pius XI's own history of this feast's
# institution, 1931, for the 1500th anniversary of the Council of
# Ephesus), combined into one reading. 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, St. Bernard of
# Clairvaux) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: maternity-of-the-bvm
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermons 1-2 on the Nativity of the Lord; Acts of Pope Pius XI"
text:
la: >-
Virgo régia Davídicæ stirpis elígitur, quæ sacro gravidánda
fetu, divínam humanámque prolem prius concíperet mente quam
córpore: et ne supérni ignára consílii ad inusitátos pavéret
affátus, quod in ea operándum erat a Spíritu Sancto, collóquio
dídicit angélico, nec damnum crédidit pudóris Dei Génetrix mox
futúra. Cur enim de conceptiónis novitáte despéret, cui
efficiéntia de Altíssimi virtúte promíttitur? Confirmátur
credéntis fides étiam præeúntis attestatióne miráculi. Donátur
Elísabeth inopináta fecúnditas, ut qui concéptum déderat
stérili, datúrus non dubitarétur et Vírgini. Verbum ígitur Dei
Fílius, qui in princípio erat apud Deum, per quem facta sunt
ómnia, et sine quo factum est nihil, propter liberándum
hóminem ab ætérna morte, factus est homo.
Ingréditur hæc ínfima Jesus Christus Dóminus noster de cæli
sede descéndens, et a patérna glória non recédens, novo
órdine, nova nativitáte generátus. Novo órdine, quia
invisíbilis in suis, visíbilis factus est in nostris:
incomprehensíbilis vóluit comprehéndi: ante témpora manens,
esse cœpit in témpore. Nova autem nativitáte génitus est:
concéptus a Vírgine, natus ex Vírgine, sine patérnæ carnis
concupiscéntia, sine matérnæ integritátis injúria: quia
futúrum hóminum Salvatórem talis ortus decébat, qui et in se
habéret humánæ substántiæ natúram, et humánæ carnis
inquinaménta nescíret. Orígo dissímilis, sed natúra consímilis;
humáno usu et consuetúdine, quod crédimus, caret: sed divína
potestáte subníxum est, quod Virgo concéperit, Virgo pepérerit,
Virgo permánserit.
Cum anno millésimo nongentésimo trigésimo primo, univérso orbe
cathólico plaudénte, solémnia celebraréntur expléti sǽculi
décimi quinti, postquam in Ephesína sýnodo beáta María Virgo,
de qua natus est Jesus, contra Nestórii hǽresim Mater Dei a
Pátribus, Cælestíno Papa præeúnte, conclamáta est, Summus
Póntifex Pius undécimus faustíssimi evéntus memóriam, perénni
suæ pietátis testimónio perpetuándam vóluit. Itaque quod jam in
Urbe exstábat nóbile Ephesínæ proclamatiónis monuméntum,
triumphálem arcum in Basílica sanctæ Maríæ Majóris in
Exquíliis, a decessóre suo Xysto tértio mirábili ópere musívo
ornátum, témporis injúria fatiscéntem felíciter restituéndum
una cum ala transvérsa Basílicæ munificéntia sua curávit.
Lítteris vero encýclicis, Œcuménici Concílii Ephesíni genuínis
lineaméntis descríptis, ineffábile divínæ Maternitátis beátæ
Maríæ Vírginis privilégium, pie copioséque illustrávit, ut tam
excélsi mystérii doctrína áltius fidélium ánimis insidéret.
Demum, ut neque litúrgicum deésset monuméntum jussit ut festum
divínæ Maternitátis beátæ Maríæ Vírginis cum Missa et Offício
própriis die undécima octóbris sub ritu dúplici secúndæ classis
quotánnis ab univérsa Ecclésia celebrarétur.
en: >-
His Mother was chosen a Virgin of the kingly lineage of David,
and when she was to grow heavy with the sacred Child, her soul
had already conceived him before her body. She learned the
counsel of God announced to her by the Angel, lest the unwonted
events should alarm her. The future Mother of God knew what was
to be wrought in her by the Holy Ghost, and that her modesty
was absolutely safe. For why should she, unto whom was promised
all sufficient strength through the power of the Highest, have
felt hopeless merely because of the unexampled character of
such a conception? She believeth, and her belief is confirmed
by the attestation of a miracle which hath already been
wrought. The fruitfulness of Elizabeth, before unhoped for, is
brought forward that she might not doubt that he who had given
conception unto her that was barren, would give the same unto
her that was Virgin. And so the Word of God, the Son of God,
who was in the beginning with God, by whom all things were
made, and without whom was not anything made that was made, to
deliver man from eternal death, was made man.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, descending from his throne in heaven,
but leaving not that glory which he hath with the Father,
cometh into this lower world by being born after a new order
and in a new birth. He cometh after a new order, in that he
who is unseen among his own, was seen among us; the
Incomprehensible was fain to be comprehended, and he that is
from everlasting to everlasting began to be in time. He was
the Offspring of a new birth; conceived of a maiden, without
the passion of any fleshly father, without any breach of his
Mother's virginity, since such a birth beseemed the coming
Saviour of mankind, who was to have in him the nature of man's
being, and to be free of any defilement of man's flesh. Though
he sprung not as we spring, yet is his nature as our nature; we
believe that he is free from the use and custom of men; but it
was the power of God which wrought that a maiden should
conceive, that a maiden should bring forth, and yet abide a
maiden still.
In the year 1931, amid the applause of the whole Catholic
world, solemn rites were celebrated to mark the completion of
the fifteen centuries which had elapsed since the Council of
Ephesus, moving against the Nestorian heresy, had acclaimed the
blessed Virgin Mary, of whom Jesus was born, as Mother of God.
This acclamation had been made by the Fathers of the Church
under the leadership of Pope Celestine. Pius XI, as Supreme
Pontiff, wished to commemorate the notable event and to give
lasting proof of his devotion to Mary. Now there had existed
for many years in Rome a grand memorial to the proclamation of
Ephesus, the triumphal arch in the basilica of Saint Mary Major
on the Esquiline Hill. This monument had already been adorned
by a previous pontiff, Sixtus III, with mosaics of marvelous
workmanship, now falling to pieces from the decay of the
passing ages. Pius XI, therefore, out of his own munificence,
caused these to be restored most exquisitely and with them the
transept of the basilica. In an Encyclical Letter Pius set
forth also the true history of the Council of Ephesus, and
expounded fervently and at great length the doctrine of the
prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of God.
Finally, that no liturgical detail be lacking, he decreed that
the feast of the Divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary
be celebrated annually on the 11th day of October by the
universal Church with a proper Mass and Office under the rite
of a double of the second class.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Homily 1 in Praise of the Virgin Mother"
text:
la: >-
Deum et Dóminum Angelórum María suum fílium appéllat, dicens:
Fili, quid fecísti nobis sic? Quis hoc áudeat Angelórum?
Súfficit eis, et pro magno habent, quod cum sint spíritus ex
conditióne, ex grátia facti sint et vocáti Angeli, testánte
David: Qui facit Angelos suos spíritus. María vero matrem se
agnóscens, majestátem illam, cui illi cum reveréntia sérviunt,
cum fidúcia suum núncupat Fílium: nec dedignátur nuncupári
Deus, quod esse dignátus est. Nam paulo post subdit
Evangelísta: Et erat súbditus illis. Quis? Quibus? Deus
homínibus? Deus, inquam, cui Angeli súbditi sunt, cui
Principátus et Potestátes obédiunt, súbditus erat Maríæ.
Miráre utrúmlibet, et élige quod ámplius miréris, sive Fílii
benigníssimam dignatiónem, sive Matris excellentíssimam
dignitátem. Utrímque stupor, utrímque miráculum. Et quod Deus
féminæ obtémperet, humílitas absque exémplo: et quod Deo
fémina principétur, sublímitas sine sócio. In láudibus
Vírginum singuláriter cánitur quod sequúntur Agnum quocúmque
íerit. Quibus ergo láudibus júdicas dignam, quæ étiam præit?
Disce, homo, obedíre: disce, terra, subdi; disce, pulvis,
obtemperáre. De Auctóre tuo loquens Evangelísta: Et erat,
inquit, súbditus illis. Erubésce, supérbe cinis! Deus se
humíliat, et tu te exáltas? Deus se homínibus subdit, et tu,
dominári géstiens homínibus, tuo te præpónis Auctóri?
Felix María, cui nec humílitas défuit, nec virgínitas! Et
quidem singuláris virgínitas, quam non temerávit, sed honorávit
fecúnditas. Et nihilóminus speciális humílitas, quam non
ábstulit, sed éxtulit fecúnda virgínitas: et incomparábilis
prorsus fecúnditas, quam virgínitas simul comitátur et
humílitas. Quid horum non mirábile? quid non incomparábile?
quid non singuláre? Venerámini ergo, cónjuges, in carne
corruptíbili carnis integritátem: vos sacræ vírgines in Vírgine
fecunditátem. Imitámini, omnes hómines, Dei Matris humilitátem.
en: >-
Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Mary called God, the
Lord of Angels, her son. Which of the angels would have dared
to do so? It is enough for them, and they reckon it is a great
thing, that, being naturally spirits, they should receive the
grace of being made and called angels, as witness David: Who
maketh spirits his angels. But Mary, knowing herself to be his
Mother, doth boldly apply the word Son to that Majesty whom the
angels do serve with awe; neither doth God despise to be
called what he hath made himself. For a little after, the
Evangelist saith: And he was subject unto them. Who to whom?
God to men. I say that God, unto whom the angels are subject,
and who is obeyed by the Principalities and Powers, was
subject to Mary.
Marvel thou at both these things, and choose whether to marvel
most at the sublime condescension of the Son, or at the
sublime dignity of Mary. Either is amazing, either marvelous.
That God should obey this woman, is a lowliness without
parallel; that this woman should rule over God, an exaltation
without match. In praise of virgins, and of virgins only, is
it sung that These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. Of what praise then thinkest thou that she must be
worthy who even leadeth the Lamb? O man, learn to obey. O
earth, learn to submit. O dust, learn to keep down. It is of
thy Maker that the Evangelist saith: And he was subject unto
them. Blush, O proud ashes. God humbleth himself; and dost thou
exalt thyself? God is subject unto men; and wilt thou, by
striving to rule over men, set thyself before thy Maker?
O happy Mary, lowly and virgin; and wondrous virginity, which
motherhood destroyed not, but exalted; and wondrous lowliness,
which the fruitful virginity took not away, but ennobled; and
wondrous motherhood, which was both virgin and lowly. Which of
them is not wondrous? which of them is not unexampled? and
which of them doth not stand alone? O ye that be married,
honor this incorruption in corruptible flesh; O holy maidens,
gaze in wonder at motherhood in a maid; O, all mankind, take
pattern by the lowliness of the Mother of God.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bridget, Widow (Oct 8). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-08.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-08.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
# C7a`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-bridget-of-sweden
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Birgitta, in Suecia illustribus et piis paréntibus orta,
sanctíssime vixit. Cum adhuc in útero gestarétur, a naufragio
propter eam mater erepta est. Decennis, post audítum de
passióne Dómini sermónem, sequénti nocte Jesum in cruce, recénti
sánguine perfusum, vidit, et de eadem passióne secum loquentem.
Quo ex témpore in ejusdem meditatióne ita afficiebátur, ut de
ea sine lácrimis cogitare deinceps numquam posset.
Ulfoni, Nericiæ principi, in matrimónium tradita, virum ipsum
ad pietátis officia, tum optimis exemplis, tum efficacibus
verbis, adhortáta est. In filiórum educatióne piíssima;
paupéribus, et maxime infirmis, domo ad id muneris dicata,
inserviébat quam diligentíssime, illórum pedes sólita lavare et
osculari. Cum autem una cum viro suo rediret Compostella, ubi
sancti Jacobi Apóstoli sepúlcrum visitaverant, et Atrébati Ulfo
gráviter ægrotaret, sanctus Dionysius Birgittæ noctu appáruit,
et de mariti salúte aliisque de rebus, quæ futuræ erant,
præmonuit.
Viro Cisterciénsi monacho facto et paulo post defuncto,
Birgitta, audíta Christi voce in somnis, arctiórem vitæ formam
est aggressa. Cui deínde arcana multa fuérunt divínitus
revelata. Monastérium Vastanense sub regula sancti Salvatoris,
ab ipso Dómino accepta, instituit. Romam Dei jussu venit, ubi
plurimos ad amórem divinum veheménter accendit. Inde
Jerosolymam pétiit, et íterum Romam. Qua ex peregrinatióne cum
in febrim incidísset, gravibus per annum integrum afflictáta
morbis, cumuláta meritis, prænuntiáto mortis die, migrávit in
cælum. Corpus ejus ad Vastanense monastérium translátum est; et
miraculis illustrem Bonifatius nonus in Sanctórum númerum
retulit.
en: >-
Bridget was the daughter of princely and godly parents, and was
born in Sweden. Her life was a very holy one. When she was still
in the womb, her mother was for her sake saved from shipwreck.
When she was ten years old, she heard a sermon upon the
sufferings of the Lord, and the following night she saw Jesus on
the Cross, covered with fresh Blood, and heard Him speaking to
her of His same sufferings. From that time forth the thought of
them touched her so keenly, that she could never again call
them to mind without weeping.
When she was sixteen years of age she was given in marriage to
Ulpho, Prince of Nericia. She moved her husband to godly works,
as well by her noble example as by her earnest words. She
expended the most motherly care upon the up-bringing of her
children. She opened an hospital, in which she carefully tended
the poor, especially the sick, and would wash and kiss their
feet. She made a pilgrimage with her husband to Compostella, to
visit the grave of the holy Apostle James. On their way back
Ulpho fell grievously sick at Arras, and St. Denys appeared in
the night to Bridget, to tell her as well that her husband
would be healed, as diverse other things to come.
Her husband died, after having become a Cistercian monk.
Bridget, having heard the voice of Christ in a dream, took upon
herself an harder way of life. During her life God made known
to her many hidden things. She founded the monastery of
Wastein, under the Rule of the Holy Saviour, a Rule which she
had received from the Lord Himself. By the command of God she
went to Rome, where she stirred up many by her example to seek
the love of God. Thence she went to Jerusalem, and then
returned again to Rome. From this pilgrimage she caught a
fever, of which she lay sick an whole year in sharp sufferings,
and then, laden with good works, and after foretelling the day
of her own death, she departed from earth to heaven. Her body
was taken to the monastery of Wastein. She was famous for
miracles, and Boniface IX enrolled her name among those of the
Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bruno, Confessor (Oct 6). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-06.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-06.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-bruno
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Bruno, Carthusianæ religiónis institutor, Coloniæ Agrippinæ
natus est. Ab ipsis incunabulis specimen futuræ sanctitátis
præferens, morum gravitáte, puerília illíus ætátis, divina
favénte grátia, declinans, adeo excelluit, ut jam inde monachórum
pater vitæque anachoreticæ futurus instaurátor agnoscerétur. A
paréntibus, genere ac virtúte claris, Lutétiam Parisiórum missus,
tantum ibi in philosophíæ ac theologíæ stúdiis profecit, ut
doctoris ac magistri munus in utraque facultate sit adeptus; nec
multo post, ob egregias ipsíus virtútes, ecclésiæ Rheménsis
canonicatu potítus.
Elapsis aliquot annis, cum sex aliis familiaribus mundo
renuntians, sanctum Hugónem episcopum Gratianopolitánum adiit.
Qui, causa eórum adventus cógnita, eosdemque intélligens esse
quos eadem nocte véluti septem stellas ad suos pedes corruéntes
in somnis viderat, montes suæ diœcesis asperrimos, quos
Carthusiános appellant, illis concessit. Illuc Bruno cum sociis,
ipso Hugone comitante, secédens, cum per aliquot annos
eremiticam vitam egísset, ab Urbano secundo, qui ejusdem
Brunónis discipulus fuerat, Romam accersitur. Ejus consílio ac
doctrina Pontifex in tot illis Ecclésiæ calamitátibus, per
aliquot annos usus est; donec Bruno, recusato Rhegiénsi
archiepiscopatu, discedéndi facultátem obtinuit.
Igitur, solitúdinis amóre, eremum quamdam apud Squillácum in
Calabriæ fínibus pétiit. Quo in loco, cum ipsum orántem Rogerius
comes Calabriæ inter venándum, latrántibus ad illíus spelúncam
cánibus, reperísset, sanctitáte viri permotus, illum ac socios
fovére et cólere impense cœpit. Nec liberalitas sine præmio
fuit; cum enim idem Rogerius Capuam obsidéret, eumque Sergius
quidam excubiárum magister pródere statuísset, Bruno, adhuc in
dicta erémo vivens, in somnis illi ómnia apériens, ab imminénti
periculo cómitem liberávit. Tandem virtútibus ac meritis plenus,
nec sanctitáte minus quam doctrinæ fama clarus, obdormívit in
Dómino; sepultúsque est in monasterio sancti Stephani, ab ipso
Rogerio constructo, ubi háctenus honorifice cólitur.
en: >-
Bruno, the Founder of the Charterhouse Monks, was born at
Cologne. From his earliest years he was a very grave child,
turning away from childish things, and that so manifestly, that
by the grace of God the tokens of holiness already pointed him
out as a Father of monks, and a restorer of the life of
hermits. His parents, who were eminent for rank and goodness,
sent him to Paris, where he studied so well in Philosophy and
Theology, that he took the degree of Doctor in both faculties;
and a short while after, for his famous graces, he was made a
Canon of Rheims.
After some years, he, and six comrades, forsook the world and
betook themselves to Hew, the holy Bishop of Grenoble, who, when
he learned the reason of their coming, and believing them to
have been figured by seven stars which he had seen that night
in a dream falling at his feet, gave them a grant of land in
some very wild mountains in his Dioecese, which are called the
Chartreuses. Thither Bruno and his companions, together with
Hew, withdrew themselves, and led for some years the life of
hermits. Pope Urban II., who had formerly been his disciple,
commanded him to come to Rome, and amid the afflictions which
then scourged the Church, held him for some time as his
counsellor. But at last Bruno, who had refused the Archbishopric
of Reggio, got his leave to go away.
In his love of the wilderness, he betook himself to a certain
desert place in the Diocese of Squillaci, in the uttermost
coasts of Calabria. He was praying there one day in a cave,
when the hounds of Roger, Sovereign Earl of Sicily and
Calabria, who was out a-hunting, came and bayed at the door of
it. Thus was he found by this Prince, who was moved by his
holiness, and began to cherish him and his comrades, and treat
them very kindly. The Earl's goodness was rewarded, for when he
was one time laying siege to Capua, and one Sergius, who was
first groom of his bedchamber, had made a plot to betray him,
Bruno, who was still living in the desert above mentioned,
appeared to him in a dream, and delivered him from the danger
which was hanging over him. At length Bruno, full of graces and
good works, and famous for godliness not less than for
learning, fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried in the
monastery of St. Stephen, founded by the same Earl Roger, where
he is still held in great honour.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Edward the Confessor, King (Oct 13).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-13.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-13.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-edward-king
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Eduardus, cognomento Confessor, nepos sancti Eduardi Regis et
Mártyris, Anglo-Sáxonum regum ultimus, quem futurum regem
Brithualdo viro sanctíssimo in mentis excéssu Dóminus
demonstrávit, decennis a Danis Angliam vastántibus quæsítus ad
necem, exsulare cogitur apud avúnculum, Normanniæ ducem. Ubi in
mediis vitiórum illécebris talem se exhibuit integritate vitæ
morúmque innocéntia, ut ómnibus admiratióni esset. Eluxit in eo
vel tum mira pietas in Deum ac res divinas, fuitque ingenio
mitíssimo atque ab omni dominándi cupiditate alieno. Cujus ea
vox fertur, Malle se regno carére, quod sine cæde et sánguine
obtineri non possit.
Exstinctis mox tyrannis, qui frátribus suis vitam et regnum
eripúerant, revocátur in pátriam. Ubi, summis ómnium votis et
gratulatióne, regno potítus, ad hostílium irárum delenda
vestígia totum se convértit, a sacris exorsus ac Divórum
templis, quorum alia a fundamentis eréxit, alia refécit
auxitque redítibus ac privilegiis; in eam curam potíssimum
intentus, ut refloresceret collapsa religio. Ab aulæ procéribus
compulsum ad nuptias, constans est assertio scriptórum, cum
vírgine sponsa virginitátem in matrimonio servasse. Tantus in
eo fuit in Christum amor et fides, ut illum aliquándo inter
Missárum solemnia vidére merúerit, blando vultu et divina luce
fulgentem. Ob profusam caritátem, orphanórum et egenórum pater
passim dicebátur, numquam lætior quam cum regios thesáuros
exhausísset in páuperes.
Prophetíæ dono illustris, de Angliæ futuro statu multa cælitus
prævidit; et illud in primis memorábile, quod Sweyni Danórum
regis, in mare demersi, mortem, dum Angliam invadéndi animo
classem conscenderet, eodem quo accidit momento, divinitus
intelléxit. Joánnem Evangelistam mirifice coluit, nihil
cuiquam, quod ejus nómine peterétur, negare sólitus. Cui olim
sub lácera veste suo nómine stipem roganti, cum nummi deéssent,
detractum ex dígito ánulum porréxit; quem Divus non ita multo
post Eduardo remisit, una cum núntio secuturæ mortis. Quare
rex, indictis pro se precibus, ipso ab Evangelista prædicto
die piíssime obiit, Nonis videlicet Januarii, anno salútis
millesimo sexagesimo sexto, quem sequénti sæculo Alexander
Papa tertius, miraculis clarum, Sanctórum fastis adscripsit.
en: >-
Edward, surnamed the Confessor, was the nephew of the holy King
Edward the Martyr, and himself the last Anglo-Saxon King. That
he should succeed to the Kingdom was shown by the Lord in a
trance to a most holy man named Brithwald. When he was ten
years old the Danes, who were ravaging England, sought him, to
put him to death, and he was driven into exile to dwell with
his mother's brother, Duke of Normandy, at whose Court he lived
among all the allurements of vice a life of such uprightness
and innocency as made all men to marvel. He was a burning and
shining light for love of God and the things of God, very
gentle-hearted, and quite free from any lust for power. Of him
the saying is preserved, That he would liefer not be a King
than win a kingdom through slaughter and blood.
When the Danish tyrants, who had robbed his brothers Edmund and
Alfred of life and kingdom, were passed away, Edward was called
back into his own country and with the hearty good-will and
rejoicing of all, took the kingdom, being then about forty
years old. He set himself to repair the breaches which wars had
made, and began with the things of God. Of the Churches of the
Saints, he built some altogether, and renewed others and
gifted them with incomes and privileges, being chiefly fain
that religion should rise from the low estate whereinto it had
fallen. He was brought by the nobles of his Court to marry, but
it is constantly said by all writers that in matrimony he
remained a virgin with a virgin bride. So great was his love
toward Christ, and so strong his faith, that somewhiles when
the Mass was in saying, he won to see Him, with countenance
full of grace, and glory of God's light. By reason of the
abundance of his charity he was styled everywhere the father of
orphans and of the poor, and he was never happier than when he
had spent upon the needy the whole of his kingly treasures.
He was famous for the gift of prophecy, and foretold by
inspiration from heaven many things that were to befall
England. Of this gift the following is a remarkable instance.
Sweyn, King of the Danes, was embarking on ship-board with the
mind to invade England, when he fell into the sea and was
drowned, and God made known his death to Edward at the very
same moment that it happened. He had a wonderful love toward
John the Evangelist, so that he was used never to refuse
anything for the which he was asked in his name. The
Evangelist appeared to him once while in tattered raiment,
and, in his own name, asked him for an alms. It befell that the
King had no money, wherefore he took a ring from off his finger
and gifted him therewith. Not long afterward, the Evangelist
sent the same ring back to him by a pilgrim, with a message
concerning his death, which was then at hand. The King
therefore commanded that prayers should be made for him, and
then fell blessedly asleep in the Lord, upon the very day
which had been foretold to him by the Evangelist, that is to
say, upon the 5th day of January, in the year of salvation
1066. He was famous for miracles, and in 1161 Pope Alexander
III. numbered him among the Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (Oct 10).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-10.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-10.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 own content (a direct
# `@Commune/C1:LectioN` cross-reference) -- not transcribed, per the
# bare-cross-reference convention.
id: st-francis-borgia
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Franciscus, Gandiæ dux quartus, Joánne Borgia et Joánna Aragónia
Ferdinándi Catholici nepte génitus, post puerílem ætátem inter
domesticos mira innocéntia et pietáte transactam, in aula
primum Cároli quinti Cæsaris, mox in Catalauniæ administratióne,
admirabílior fuit christianæ virtútis et vitæ austerioris
exemplis. Ad Granatense sepúlcrum Isabellam imperatricem cum
detulísset, in ejus vultu, fœde commutato, mortalium ómnium
caducitátem rélegens, voto se adstrinxit, rebus ómnibus, cum
primum licéret, abjectis, regum Regi unice inserviéndi. Inde
tantum virtútis increméntum fecit, ut, inter negotiórum turbas,
religiosæ perfectiónis simillimam imáginem réferens, miraculum
príncipum appellarétur.
Mortua Eleonora de Castro cónjuge ingréssus est societátem
Jesu, ut in ea latéret securius et præcluderet dignitátibus
áditum, interposita voti religióne; dignus, quem et viri
príncipes complures in amplecténdo severiori instituto fúerint
secuti, et Cárolus quintus ipse in abdicando imperio
hortatórem sibi aut ducem exstitisse non diffiterétur. In eo
arctioris vitæ studio Franciscus jejuniis, catenis férreis,
asperrimo cilício, cruentis longisque verberatiónibus, somno
brevíssimo, corpus ad extremam usque maciem redégit, nullis
præterea parcens labóribus ad sui victoriam et ad salútem
animárum. Tot ítaque instructus virtútibus, a sancto Ignátio
primum generalis commissarius in Hispaniis, nec multo post
præpositus generalis tertius a societáte universa, licet
invítus, elígitur. Quo in munere princípibus ac summis
Pontificibus prudéntia ac morum sanctitáte apprime carus,
præter complura vel cóndita vel aucta ubíque domicília, socios
in regnum Poloniæ, in insulas Oceani, in Mexicanam et Peruánam
provincias invéxit; missis quoque in alias regiónes apostolicis
viris, qui prædicatióne, sudóribus, sánguine fidem catholicam
Romanam propagarunt.
De se ita demisse sentiebat, ut peccatóris nomen sibi proprium
fáceret. Romanam purpuram, a summis Pontificibus sæpius
oblatam, invicta humilitátis constántia recusávit. Vérrere
sordes, emendicáre victum ostiatim, ægris ministrare in
nosocomíis, mundi ac sui contemptor, in deliciis hábuit.
Singulis diébus multas continenter horas, frequenter octo,
quandoque decem, dabat cæléstium contemplatióni. Centies
quotídie de genu Deum adorábat. Numquam a sacrificando
abstinuit, prodebatque sese divinus quo æstuábat ardor, ejus
vultu, sacram Hostiam offeréntis aut concionántis, intérdum
radiante. Sanctíssimum Christi corpus in Eucharistia latens ubi
asservarétur, instinctu cælésti sentiebat. Cardinali
Alexandrino, ad conjungendos contra Turcas, christiános
príncipes, legato comes additus a beato Pio quinto, arduum
iter, fractis jam pene viribus, suscépit ex obediéntia; in qua
et vitæ cursum Romæ, ut optarat, feliciter consummávit, anno
ætátis suæ sexagesimo secundo, salútis vero millesimo
quingentésimo septuagesimo secundo.
en: >-
Francis, fourth Duke of Gandia, was the son of John Borgia, Duke
of Gandia, and of Joan of Aragon, daughter of Alphonso, natural
son to Ferdinand V. surnamed the Catholic, King of Aragon. He
passed his boyhood at home in great innocence and godliness, and
was still more remarkable for his Christian graces and the
hardness of his living, at the Court of the Emperor Charles V.,
and as Vice-Roy of Catalonia. The Empress Isabella died, and
Francis, as her master of the horse, was commanded to attend
her body to Granada, where it was to be buried, and the sight
of the awful change which death had made in her countenance so
thrilled him with the thought of our mortality and corruption,
that he bound himself by vow, as soon as he lawfully might, to
give up all things, and to serve the King of kings only. From
that time he so advanced in Christian graces, that his life
might be called the miracle of princes, showing, in the midst
of a vast mass of business, an image of perfection attained in
a cloister.
His wife, Eleanora de Castro, died, and he entered the Society
of Jesus, that therein he might hide himself more safely, and
bar by the obligation of a vow the path to dignities. He was
the worthy leader of many princes who have embraced a life of
hardship, and Charles V. himself when he resigned the Empire
did not deny that he had been moved and shown the way by
Francis. In his struggle after austerity Francis, by fasting,
by iron chains, by the roughest of hair-cloth, by long and
bloody flagellations, and by denying himself any but very
little sleep, reduced his body to the last degree, but would
still spare no toil to overcome himself and to save souls. Thus
full of ghostly strength, he was appointed by holy Ignatius
Commissary-General of the Society in Spain, Portugal, and the
Indies, and, notwithstanding all the precautions he could take
to prevent it, he was chosen by the general Congregation of the
Society to be General, being the third who held that office.
He thought so little of himself that he gave himself the
nickname of Francis the sinner. By the Popes he was oftentimes
offered the dignity of Cardinal of the Roman Church, but the
lowly firmness with which he refused it could never be
overcome. In his cheap esteem of the world and of himself his
chief pleasures were to clean the house, to beg for food from
door to door, and to wait upon the sick in hospitals. He spent
many hours every day, oftentimes eight and sometimes ten, in
prayer and meditation. An hundred times every day he worshipped
God upon his knees. He never missed the opportunity of offering
the Holy Liturgy, and the fire from God which burnt within him
sometimes shone forth in his countenance when he was lifting
the Sacred Host, or preaching. By an inward power given him
from God he could tell where the most Holy Body of Christ,
under the Eucharistic veils, was kept. The blessed Pius V. sent
Francis with the Cardinal Alexandrini on an embassy to unite
the Christian Princes against Turkey. His vital strength was
then nearly worn out, but, through obedience, he undertook the
toil of the journey. He became much worse during the
travelling, and on his return brought to a blessed end at
Rome, as had been his desire, the pilgrimage of this life, in
the sixty-second year of his own life, and that of salvation
1572.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. John Cantius, Confessor (Oct 20).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-20.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-20.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-john-cantius
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Joánnes, in oppido Kenty Cracoviénsis diœcesis, a quo Cantii
cognomen duxit, Stanislao et Anna piis et honestis paréntibus
natus, morum suavitáte, innocéntia, gravitáte, ab ipsa infántia
spem fecit maximæ virtútis. In universitáte Cracoviénsi
philosophíæ ac theologíæ primum auditor, tum, per omnes
academíæ gradus ascendendo, professor ac doctor, sacra, quam
annis multis trádidit, doctrina mentes audiéntium non
illustrábat modo, sed et ad omnem pietátem inflammabat, simul
docens scilicet et fáciens. Sacerdos factus, nihil de
litterárum studio remíttens, studium auxit christianæ
perfectiónis. Utque passim offéndi Deum maxime dolebat, sic eum
sibi et pópulo placare, oblato quotídie non sine multis
lácrimis incruento sacrifício, satagebat. Ilkusiensem
parochiam annis aliquot egregie administrávit; sed animárum
periculo commótus, póstea dimísit, ac, postulante academía, ad
prístinum docéndi offícium rediit.
Quotidie témporis ab studio supérerat, partim salúti proximórum
sacris præsertim conciónibus curandæ, partim oratióni dabat, in
qua cæléstibus quandoque visiónibus et colloquiis dignátus
fertur. Christi vero passióne sic afficiebátur, ut in ea
contemplanda totas intérdum noctes dúceret insomnes, ejusque
causa mélius recolendæ Jerosolymam peregrinátus sit; ubi, et
martyrii desidério flagrans, Turcis ipsis Christum crucifixum
prædicáre non dubitávit. Quater étiam ad Apostolórum limina,
pedes atque viaria onustus sárcina, Romam venit, tum ut Sedem
apostolicam, cui maxime addictus fuit, honoraret, tum ut sui
(sic enim ajebat) purgatorii pœnas expósita illic quotídie
peccatórum venia redímeret. Quo in itinere a latrónibus olim
spoliátus et num quid haberet præterea interrogátus, cum
negasset, aureos deínde aliquot suo insutos pallio recordatus,
fugiéntibus hos étiam clamans óbtulit latrónibus; qui, viri
sancti candórem simul et largitátem admirati, étiam ablatos
ultro reddidére. Alienæ famæ ne quis detraheret, descriptis,
beáti Augustíni exemplo, in pariete versiculis, se atque alios
perpetuo vóluit admónitos. Famélicos de suo étiam obsonio
satiábat; nudos autem non emptis modo sed detractis quoque
sibi vestibus et calceis operiebat, demisso ipse interim usque
ad terram pallio, ne domum núdipes redire viderétur.
Brevis illi somnus, atque humi; vestis, quæ nuditátem, cibus,
qui mortem dumtaxat, arcéret. Virginalem pudicítiam, velut
lílium inter spinas, áspero cilício, flagellis atque jejuniis
custodívit. Quin et per annos ante óbitum trigínta circiter et
quinque, ab esu carnium perpetuo abstinuit. Tandem diérum
juxta ac meritórum plenus, cum vicinæ, quam præsensit, morti
se diu diligenterque præparasset, ne qua re ámplius tenerétur,
si quid domi supérerat, id omnino paupéribus distríbuit. Tum
Ecclésiæ sacramentis rite munítus, dissolvi jam cupiens et
esse cum Christo, pridie Nativitátis ejus, in cælum evolávit,
miraculis ante et post mortem clarus. Mortuus ad próximam
academíæ ecclésiam sanctæ Annæ delátus est, ibique honorifice
sepúltus. Auctáque in dies pópuli veneratióne ac frequéntia,
inter primarios Poloniæ ac Lithuaniæ patronos religiosíssime
cólitur.
en: >-
This John was the son of godly and respectable parents named
Stanislaus and Anne, and was born in the town of Kenty, a
place in the diocese of Krakow in Poland, from which he took
the Latin name of Cantius. By his gentleness, innocency, and
seriousness he gave great hopes even from his childhood. He
studied Philosophy and Theology in the University of Krakow,
wherein he rose step by step to be a Professor and teacher of
those sciences wherein he lectured many years, not only
enlightening the minds of his hearers, but stirring up in them
all godliness, instructing them by example as well as by word.
Having taken Priests' orders, he ceased not to busy himself
with letters, but added thereto the striving after Christian
perfection. He grieved exceedingly that God should be offended
on all hands, and offered up to Him, day by day, not without
many tears, the Unbloody Sacrifice for a propitiation for
himself and for his people. He was for some years a faithful
Parish Priest at Ilkusi, but after a while gave it up for fear
of the danger of souls, and accepted the call of the
University to take up again his Professorship.
What time was left him over from his work, he gave up partly
to the profit of his neighbour, more especially in preaching,
and partly in prayer, wherein he is said sometimes to have had
heavenly visions and messages. The sufferings of Christ took
such hold upon him, that he sometimes passed whole nights
without sleep in thinking thereon, and that he might more
keenly realize them, he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. There
he was seized with such a passionate longing to be a martyr,
that he preached Christ crucified even to the Turks. He went
four times to Rome to the thresholds of the Apostles, on foot,
and laden with a wallet, partly to do honour to the Apostolic
See, for which he had a great reverence, and partly to use his
own expression, that he might clear off the pains of his own
purgatory by use of the Pardons for sin which are there daily
offered. In one of these journeys he was set upon by highway
robbers, who plundered him, and having asked him if he had
any more, whereto he answered, Nay, left him and fled. Then he
remembered that he had some gold pieces sewn up in his
clothes. So he ran after the robbers with shouts, and offered
them these also, but they were so amazed at the simplicity
and charity of the holy man, that they gave him back even that
which they had already taken. To hinder scandal-mongering, he
wrote up upon the walls, after the example of holy Augustine,
certain texts, to be an unceasing warning to himself and
others. He gave his own bread to the hungry, and clothed the
naked, not with bought raiment only, but by stripping himself
of his own garments and shoes, himself meanwhile letting down
his own cloak to trail upon the ground, lest any should see
that he returned home barefoot.
He slept very little, and that upon the ground; his clothing
was enough only to clothe his nakedness, and his food to keep
him alive. He kept his virgin purity guarded like a lily
among thorns by rough hair-cloth, scourging, and fasting. For
about thirty-five years before his death he never tasted
flesh-meat. At length, when he was full of days and good
works, he felt that death was near, and made himself ready to
meet it by a long and careful preparation, and to be the
freer, he gave to the poor everything that was left in his
house. Strengthened by the Sacraments of the Church, and
having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, he took
flight to heaven upon the day before his Nativity. He was
famous for miracles both before and after his death. His body
was carried into the University Church of St. Anne, hard by
his dwelling, and there honourably buried. The popular
reverence and the crowds around his sepulchre grew greater day
by day, till he hath come to be held in honour as one of the
chiefest holy defenders of Poland and Lithuania.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
# (Oct 17). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-17.txt, English/Sancti/10-17.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: her own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on, and
# that which followeth" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, three short
# excerpts from sermons of St. Francis de Sales) is authored, isGospel:
# false, no citation field.
id: st-margaret-mary-alacoque
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Margarita Maria Alacóque, in pago diœcesis Augustodunénsis,
honesto genere nata, jam inde a teneris annis futuræ
sanctitátis indícia præbuit. In Deiparam Vírginem et in
augustum Eucharistiæ sacraméntum amóre flagrans, adolescentula
Deo virginitátem devovit, id exoptans unice ut ad christianas
virtútes vitam compóneret. In deliciis habebat prolixas preces
rerumque cæléstium contemplatiónem, sui contemptum, patiéntiam
in adversis, corporis afflictatiónem, caritátem in próximos,
præsertim egénos; summoque studio nitebátur ut sanctíssima
divini Redemptoris exempla pro viribus referret.
Ordinem Visitatiónis ingressa, statim religiosæ vitæ fulgóre
nitére cœpit. Altioris dono oratiónis a Deo est decorata,
aliisque gratiæ munéribus et crebris visiónibus. Harum
celeberrima fuit cum ante Eucharistiam precanti Jesus
semetípsum conspiciéndum obtulit, et divinum Cor in aperto
péctore flammis incensum ac spinis constrictum osténdit,
præcepitque ut, ob talem caritátem et ad ingratórum hóminum
injurias expiandas, illa publicum Cordi suo cultum, magnis
propositis cæléstis thesáuri præmiis, instituéndum curaret.
Cunctanti ex humilitate seque tantæ rei ímparem profiténti
amantíssimus Salvátor addit ánimum, simulque exímia sanctitáte
virum, Claudium de la Colombiere, ducem et adjutórem designat;
eamque spe fovet illíus summæ utilitátis, quæ póstea e divini
Cordis cultu in Ecclésiam dimanávit.
Ut jussa Redemptoris impleret Margarita omni diligéntia
studebat. Nec tamen illi defuére molestiæ plures atque acres
contumeliæ ab iis qui eam vano mentis errori obnoxiam esse
dictitábant. Quæ ómnia æquo animo tulit, immo apponebat lucro,
existimans se per oppróbria et dolóres hóstiam Deo gratam fore,
et majora ad propositum suum auxília consecuturam. Religiosæ
perfectiónis laude florens et per æternárum rerum
contemplatiónem in dies síngulos cælésti sponso conjúnctior, ad
eum evolávit, anno ætátis suæ quadragesimo tertio, reparátæ
salútis millesimo sexcentésimo nonagesimo. Miraculis insignem
Benedíctus décimus quintus Sanctis adscripsit; ejusque offícium
Pius undecimus Pontifex maximus ad universam Ecclésiam
extendit.
en: >-
Margaret Mary Alacoque was born of a respectable family in a
village in the diocese of Autun. From her earliest years she
gave signs of holiness. Filled with a burning love of the
Virgin Mother of God, and of the august mystery of the
Eucharist, while still a young girl she dedicated her
virginity to God. Above all else she strove to realize in her
life the performance of Christian virtues. She delighted to
spend continuous hours in prayers and in meditation upon the
things of heaven. She was humble, and patient in adversity. She
practised bodily penance. She was charitable towards her
neighbours, especially the poor. By every means within her
power she strove diligently to imitate the most holy example
left by our divine Redeemer.
Margaret entered the Order of the Visitation. There her life
became immediately a shining example to others. God endowed
her highly with the gift of prayer. He gave her other favours,
such as frequent visitations. The most famous of these was
that one when Jesus appeared to her as she knelt in prayer
before the Blessed Sacrament. Opening his breast, He revealed
his divine Heart glowing with flames and encircled with a
crown of thorns. He bade her in return for his excessive love
and in atonement for the insults of ungrateful men, to seek to
have established public adoration of his Heart. This devotion
he promised to enrich with treasures of heavenly grace. When,
out of humility, she hesitated to undertake so great a task,
the loving Saviour encouraged her. At the same time he pointed
out Claude de la Colombiere, a man of great holiness, as one
who could guide and help her. Our Lord also comforted her with
the assurance that very great blessings would accrue
afterwards to the Church from the worship of his divine Heart.
Margaret strove ardently to fulfill the Redeemer's command.
Vexations, even bitter insults, were her portion from some who
maintained that she was subject to mental aberrations. She not
only bore these sufferings patiently, she even profited by
them, offering herself in anguish and reproach as a victim
acceptable to God, bearing all things as a more sure means of
accomplishing her purpose. Renowned for her religious
perfection, becoming each day more closely united with her
divine spouse by contemplation of celestial things, she took
flight to him in the forty-third year of her age, and in the
year of restored salvation 1690. She became famous for
miracles. Benedict XV added her to the list of the saints;
Pius XI extended her office to the universal Church.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Francis de Sales, Sermons for Pentecost, the Third Sunday after Pentecost, and Easter Monday"
text:
la: >-
Nulla alia est vera sciéntia, nisi ea quæ a Spíritu Sancto
datur, sed hæc humílibus tantummodo tribúitur. Nonne magnos
vídimus theólogos qui mira dixérunt de virtútibus, sed ut eas
non exercerent? E contra complures vídimus feminas, quæ de
virtútibus dissérere nesciébant, sed virtútum ópera digne
nóverant adimplére. Eas enim Spíritus Sanctus sapiéntes
effécit, quia et timórem Dómini et pietátem et humilitátem
habebant.
Dóminus noster, magnus et præclaríssimus ómnium nostrárum
infirmitátum medicus, antequam in hunc mundum veníret, per
prophétas suos palam nuntiáverat: Quod confractum fúerit
alligábo, et quod infirmum fúerit consolidábo. Et deínde suo
ipse ore clamávit dicens: Veníte ad me omnes qui laborátis et
oneráti estis, et ego reficiam vos. Quid ígitur mirum si ipsum
ab ægrotis, a peccatóribus et publicanis circúmdatum cernimus?
Nonne médici glória est ab ægrotis exquiri?
Fert ille nostras misérias et jas nobilitat, apponit misériam
Cordi suo, osténdit latus. Sed eum redamémus oportet, alioquin
qui præ amóre osténdit vulnera, semel osténdet præ ira et
indignatióne. Fac, o bone Jesu, ut pacem, quam offers,
accipiámus, videamúsque vulnera tua, ut quandóquidem manent
fides, spes, caritas, fide radicati, spe gaudéntes et caritate
fervéntes, exspectémus beátam spem et advéntum tuum, ita ut in
illo Te, Agnum ad déxteram non leónem ad sinistram videámus; ac
pro fide visiónem, pro spe possessiónem et pro caritate
imperfécta perféctam habeámus, in qua gaudébimus in sæcula
sæculórum. Amen.
en: >-
There is no other true knowledge given but that which is given
by the Holy Ghost. And this is granted to the humble only.
Have we not known great theologians who spake marvellously of
the virtues but did not practice them? Have we not seen, on
the contrary, many women who did not know how to discourse on
the virtues, practice the works of virtue worthily? The Holy
Spirit hath made these wise because they had fear of the Lord,
piety and humility.
Our Lord is the great and excellent physician of all our
infirmities. Before he came into the world he announced openly
to his prophets, I will bind up that which was broken, and I
will strengthen that which is weak. Finally with his own lips
he invited us, saying, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are
burdened, and I will give you rest. What wonder is it, then, if
we see him surrounded by the sick, by sinners, and by
publicans. Is it not the glory of the physician to be sought
out by the sick?
The Lord beareth our miseries and ennobleth them. He layeth our
miseries to his Heart; he sheweth his side. It is meet then,
that we should make some return to him, lest he who now
sheweth us his wounds out of love, may one day shew them with
wrath and indignation. Grant, O good Jesu, that we may receive
the peace which thou dost offer and let us see thy wounds.
Since there remain faith, hope and charity, grant that, rooted
in faith, rejoicing in hope, glowing in charity, we may await
thy coming in the blessed expectation that we may see thee as
the Lamb upon the right, and not as the lion on the left; and,
for faith, may we have vision, and for hope, possession, and
for imperfect charity, perfect charity, in which we may
rejoice for ever and ever. Amen.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Peter of Alcantara, Confessor
# (Oct 19). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-19.txt, English/Sancti/10-19.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita. No
# Lectio7-9 own content (a direct `@Commune/C5:LectioN in 2 loco`
# cross-reference) -- not transcribed, per the bare-cross-reference
# convention.
id: st-peter-of-alcantara
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Petrus, Alcántaræ in Hispánia nobílibus paréntibus natus, a
teneris annis futuræ sanctitátis indícia prǽbuit. Décimo sexto
ætátis anno ordinem Minórum ingréssus, se ómnium virtutum
exemplar exhibuit. Tum munus concionatoris ex obediéntia
exercens, innumeros a vitiis ad veram pœniténtiam traduxit.
Primævum sancti Francisci institutum exactíssime reparáre
cupiens, ope divina fretus et apostolica munítus auctoritate,
angustíssimum et pauperrimum cœnobium juxta Pedrósum fundávit;
quod vitæ genus asperrimum, ibi feliciter cœptum, per diversas
Hispaniæ provincias usque ad Indias mirifice propagátum fuit.
Sanctæ Teresiæ, cujus probaverat spíritum, in promovenda
Carmelitárum reformatióne adjútor fuit. Ipsa autem, a Deo
edocta quod Petri nómine nihil quisquam péteret quin prótinus
exaudirétur, ejus precibus se commendare et ipsum, adhuc
viventem, sanctum appellare consuevit.
Principium obsequia, qui ipsum velut oraculum consulébant,
summa humilitate declinans, Cárolo quinto imperatóri a
confessiónibus esse recusávit. Paupertátis rigidíssimus custos,
una tunia, qua nulla deterior esset, contentus erat. Puritátem
ita coluit, ut a fratre in extremo morbo sibi inserviénte ne
leviter quidem tangi passus sit. Corpus suum perpetuis
vigiliis, jejuniis, flagellis, frigore, nuditate atque omni
genere asperitátum in servitútem redégit; cum quo pactum
iníerat ne ullam in hoc sæculo ei requiem præbéret. Caritas
Dei et próximi, in ejus corde diffúsa, tantum quandoque
excitábat incendium, ut e cellæ angustiis in apertum campum
prosilire, aërisque refrigerio conceptum ardórem temperare
cogerétur.
Gratia contemplatiónis admirábilis in eo fuit: qua cum
assidue spíritus reficerétur, intérdum áccidit ut ab omni
cibo et potu plúribus diébus abstinúerit. In áëra frequenter
sublatus, miro fulgóre coruscare visus est. Rápidos flúvios
sicco pede trajecit. Fratres in extrema penuria, cælitus
deláta alimónia, cibávit. Báculus, ab ipso terræ defixus, mox
in viridem ficulneam excrevit. Cum noctu iter ágeret, densa
nive cadente, dírutam domum sine tecto ingréssus est, eique
nix in áëre péndula pro tecto fuit, ne illíus copia
suffocarétur. Dono prophetíæ ac discretiónis spirituum
imbutum fuísse sancta Teresia testátur. Denique, annum agens
sexagesimum tertium, hora qua prædixerat, migrávit ad
Dóminum, mirábili visióne Sanctorúmque præséntia confortatus.
Quem eodem momento in cælum ferri beáta Teresia procul distans
vidit; cui póstea appárens dixit: O felix pœniténtia, quæ
tantam mihi promeruit glóriam!
en: >-
Peter was born at Alcantara, a small town in the Province of
Estramadura, in Spain. His father was a lawyer and Governor of
the town, and his mother was of good extraction. The holiness
of his life was foreshadowed from his earliest years. In the
sixteenth year of his age he entered the Order of Friars Minor,
wherein he showed himself a pattern to all. He undertook the
work of preaching in obedience to his Superiors, and thereby
brought many to turn away from sin to true repentance. He
conceived a great desire to bring back the observance of the
Rule of St. Francis to the uttermost straitness of old times,
and to that end, supported by God's help, and armed with the
approval of the Apostolic See, he founded a new stern and poor
house near Pedraso, from which the harder way of life, therein
happily begun, spread marvellously through diverse Provinces
of Spain even to the Indies. He was an helper to holy Theresa,
with whom he was like-minded, in bringing about the
Reformation of the Carmelites. She was taught of God that no
one should ask anything in the name of Peter without being
heard, and was used to ask him to pray for her, and to call
him a Saint while as he was yet alive.
He humbly excused himself from accepting the courtesies of
princes, by whom his advice was sought as that of an oracle,
and declined to become the Confessor of the Emperor Charles V.
He was a very careful keeper to poverty, and contented himself
with a single tunic than which none was worse. Purity he
carried to such a point that when he was lying sick of his
last illness, he would not allow the brother who ministered to
him to touch him, how lightly soever. He brought his body into
bondage by unceasing watching, fasting, scourging, cold,
nakedness, and all manner of hardships, having made it a
promise never to allow it any rest in this world. The love of
God and his neighbour, which was shed abroad in his heart,
somewhiles burnt so that he was fain to run from his cell into
the open air to cool himself.
He was marvellous how his thoughts became altogether rapt in
God, so that somewhiles it befell that he neither ate nor
drank for the space of several days. He was oftentimes seen to
rise into the air, shining with an unearthly glory. He passed
dry-shod over torrents. When his brethren were in the last
state of need, he fed them with food from heaven. A staff
which he fixed in the earth grew presently into a green
fig-tree. Once while he was travelling by night in the midst
of an heavy snow-storm, and took refuge in a ruined and
roofless house, then the falling snow made a roof over him
lest he should be overwhelmed. Holy Theresa beareth witness
that he had the gift of prophecy and of the discerning of
spirits. At length, in the 63rd year of his own age, at the
hour which he had himself foretold, he passed away to be for
ever with the Lord, cheered in his last moments by a
wonderful vision and by the presence of Saints. At the instant
of his death, blessed Theresa, then afar off, saw him carried
to heaven. He appeared to her afterwards, and said: O what
happy penance, to have won for me such glory!
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Raphael the Archangel (Oct 24).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-24.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-24.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, St. Bonaventure's own
# sermon on the Holy Angels (no. 5, on St. Raphael), combined into one
# reading. 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, St. John Chrysostom) is authored, isGospel:
# false, no citation field.
id: st-raphael-archangel
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. Bonaventure, Sermon 5 on the Holy Angels"
text:
la: >-
Ráphaël interpretátur medicina Dei. Et debémus notare quod
eductio a malo est per tria beneficia, a Raphaéle nobis
colláta medicante nos. Educit ergo nos Ráphaël médicus ab
infirmitáte animi, inducéndo nos ad amaritúdinem contritiónis;
unde in Tobía dicit Ráphaël: Ubi introíeris domum tuam, lini
super óculos ejus ex felle. Sic fecit, et vidit. Quare Ráphaël
non pótuit ipse fácere? Quia Angelus non dat compunctiónem,
sed osténdit viam. Per fel intellígitur amaritúdo
contritiónis, quæ sanat óculos interioris mentis; Psalmus: Qui
sanat contritos corde. Hoc est optimum collyrium. In Júdicum
secundo dícitur quod Angelus ascéndit ad locum fléntium, et
dixit pópulo: Eduxi vos de terra Ægypti, feci vobis tot et
tanta bona; et flevit omnis pópulus, ita ut locus ille
appellarétur locus fléntium. Caríssimi, Angeli tota die
narrant nobis benefícia Dei, et reducunt ea nobis ad memóriam:
Quis est qui te creávit, qui te redémit? Quid fecísti, quem
offendísti? Hoc si consideráveris, nullum habes remédium nisi
flere.
Secundo Ráphaël edúcit de servitute diaboli, persuadéndo nobis
memóriam passiónis Christi; in cujus figuram dictum est
Tobíæ sexto: Cordis ejus particulam si super carbónes ponas,
fumus ejus éxtricat omne genus dæmoniórum. Dícitur Tobíæ
octavo quod pósuit Tobías particulam cordis super carbónes,
et Ráphaël religávit dæmónium in desérto superioris Ægypti.
Quid est hoc? Non poterat Ráphaël religare dæmónium nisi
ponerétur cor super carbónes? Numquid cor piscis dabat Angelo
tantam virtútem? Nequaquam! Nihil posset, nisi ibi mystérium
esset. In hoc enim nobis datur intelligi quod nihil est quod
ita nos líberet hódie a servitute diaboli sicut passio
Christi, quæ processit ex radíce cordis sive caritátis. Cor
enim fons est caloris cunctæ vitæ. Si ergo Cor Christi, hoc
est passiónem quam sustinuit, procedéntem ex radíce caritátis
et fonte caloris, ponas super carbónes, hoc est super
inflammatam memóriam; statim dæmon religábitur, ut tibi
nocére non possit.
Tertio liberat nos a contrarietáte Dei, quam incurrimus per
offensam Dei, et hoc inducéndo nos ad instantiam oratiónis; et
hoc est quod dixit angelus Ráphaël Tobíæ duodecimo: Quando
orabas cum lácrimis, ego óbtuli oratiónem tuam Dómino. Ipsi
enim Angeli reconciliant nos Deo, quantum possunt. Accusatores
nostri coram Deo sunt dæmones. Angeli autem excusant nos,
quando ófferunt oratiónes nostras, ad quas devote faciendas
nos inducunt; Apocalypsis octavo: Ascéndit fumus arómatum in
conspéctu Dómini de manu Angeli. Arómata ista suáviter
redoléntia sunt oratiónes Sanctórum. Vis placare Deum, quem
offendísti? Ora devote. Offérunt Deo oratiónem tuam, ut te Deo
reconcilient. Dícitur in Luca quod Christus, factus in
agonía, prolixius orabat, et appáruit Angelus Dómini
confortans eum. Et hoc totum factum est propter nos, quia non
indiguit confortatióne sua, sed ut ostenderétur quod libenter
assistunt devote orántibus, et libenter juvant eos et ipsos
confortant, et oratiónes eórum Deo ófferunt.
en: >-
Raphael means God's healing, and we should observe that the way
out of evil lies through three blessings bestowed on us through
Raphael's healing. For Raphael the Healer leads us forth from
weakness of soul and brings us into the bitterness of
contrition; whence in the book of Tobit Raphael says: When
thou enterest into thy house, anoint his eyes with gall. He did
so, and he saw. Why could not Raphael do this himself? Because
an Angel does not bestow compunction, but he shows the way to
it. By gall, the bitterness of contrition is to be understood,
for it heals the inner eyes of the mind. The Psalmist says: He
healeth those that are broken in heart. This is the best eye
salve. In the second chapter of the Book of Judges it is
written that an angel came up to the place of the weepers, and
said to the people: I made you to go up out of Egypt; I have
done all of these good things for you: and all the people
wept, so that the place was called the Place of the Weepers.
Dearly beloved, all day long the Angels are telling us of
God's blessings, and recalling them to our minds: Who hath
created thee? Who hath redeemed thee? What hast thou done?
Whom hast thou offended? When thou considerest this, thine
only remedy is to weep.
Secondly, Raphael brings us forth from our slavery to the
devil, by recalling Christ's Passion to our mind. There is a
figure of the Passion in the sixth chapter of Tobit, where it
is said that if a piece of the heart is put on the embers, its
smoke will drive out all kinds of devils. It is said in the
eighth chapter of Tobit that Tobias put a piece of the heart on
the embers, and Raphael bound the devil in the utmost parts of
Egypt. What does this mean? Was Raphael unable to bind the
devil unless the heart was put on the embers? Surely a fish's
heart could not give such strength to an Angel? By no means!
It would be impossible unless there was a mystery in this. We
are to understand that nothing so frees us from the devil's
slavery as the Passion of Christ, which issued from the root
of his heart, or of his love. For the heart is the fountain,
or hot centre, of all life. Therefore if thou puttest the heart
of Christ, that is the Passion, that he underwent, issuing
from the root of charity and the fountain of heat, on the
embers, that is, on the flame of memory: then immediately the
devil will be bound, and he will be unable to hurt thee.
Thirdly Raphael delivers us from God's displeasure, which we
incur by transgressing against God; he does this by leading us
to instant prayer: and this is what Raphael said to Tobit in
the twelfth chapter: When thou didst pray with tears, I did
bring your prayers before the Lord. For the Angels reconcile us
to God, as far as they are able. The devils are accusers
before God, but the angels excuse us, when they offer our
prayers, and when they urge us to pray devoutly. In the eighth
chapter of the Revelation of St. John it is said: The smoke of
the incense ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
This sweet smelling incense is the prayer of the saints. Dost
thou wish to appease God, whom thou hast offended? Then pray
devoutly. They offer thy prayer, so that they may reconcile
thee to God. It is said in the Gospel of St. Luke, that Christ
being in an agony, prayed more earnestly, and there appeared
an Angel of the Lord strengthening him. And all of this was
done for our sake: for he had no need of strengthening, but it
was to show that the Angels willingly assist those who pray
devoutly, and help and strengthen them, and bring their
prayers before God.
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- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 35 (or 36) on John"
text:
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Quis hic curatiónis modus? quale mystérium subindicátur?
Neque enim sine causa hæc scripta sunt; sed futura nobis quasi
in figura et imagine describit, ne, si res stupenda accideret
inexspéctata, auditórum multórum fidem aliquátenus
labefactáret. Quænam ígitur hæc descriptio? Futurum baptisma
dandum erat, plenum virtúte et grátia maxima, baptisma, quod
peccáta ómnia ablúeret, quod ex mórtuis vivos redderet. Hæc
ergo ut in imagine depingúntur in piscina et in aliis multis.
Et primo quidem aquam dedit, quæ córporum máculas ablúeret,
sordesque non veras, sed tales existimátas, ex funere nempe,
ex lepra, et similes; multaque vidére est eádem de causa in
veteri lege per aquam mundata.
Sed ad propositum jam redeamus. Primo ítaque, ut diximus,
córporum maculas, deínde varias infirmitátes per aquam solvi
curat. Ut enim nos Deus ad baptismi grátiam propius reduceret,
non jam maculas solum, sed et morbos sanat. Imagines enim quæ
propius ad veritátem accedunt, et in baptismate, et in
passióne, et in aliis magis conspicuæ sunt quam vetustiores.
Quemádmodum enim qui prope regem sunt satéllites,
remotióribus sunt honoratiores; ita et in figuris factum est.
Et Angelus descéndens turbábat aquam, et sanándi vim indebat
ipsi, ut discerent Judæi, Angelórum Dóminum multo magis posse
ánimæ morbos omnes curare. Sed, quemádmodum hic aquárum
natúra non simpliciter curábat (alioquin enim semper id
fáceret), sed Angeli operatióne id fiebat; sic in nobis non
aqua simpliciter operátur, sed, postquam Spíritus grátiam
accéperit, tunc ómnia solvit peccáta.
Circa hanc piscinam jacebat multitúdo magna infirmórum,
cæcórum, claudórum, aridórum, aquæ motum exspectántium. Sed
tunc infirmitas impediménto erat quóminus is qui vellet,
sanarétur; nunc autem unusquísque potestátem accedéndi
habet. Non enim Angelus est qui aquam movet, sed Angelórum
Dóminus ómnia éfficit. Nec dicere póssumus: Dum ego accedo,
alius ante me descéndit. Sed, si totus orbis venerit, grátia
non consúmitur, neque vis vel operátio déficit, sed semper
éadem manet. Ac, quemádmodum solares radii quotídie
illúminant, nec absumúntur, neque, quod multis
subministréntur, lucis quídpiam amittunt; sic, immo multo
minus, Spíritus operátio minúitur a multitúdine accipiéntium.
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What manner of mystery is this? What does it reveal? for it is
not written without a purpose: but the future is foretold in
figure and similitude lest the unexpected occurrence of a
wondrous event should in any way disturb the faith of the
hearers. What, then, is here described? In the future a
baptism was to be given, full of power and of the greatest
grace, a baptism that would wash away all sin, that would
restore life to dead men. These facts then are depicted
figuratively, in the pool and in all the other circumstances.
And first in this figure the water is set forth, which washes
away stains of the body, and those things that are not
actually dirty, though they were thought to be so, such as
coming in contact with a corpse, or a leper, and such like: it
is to be seen that many things under the old law are cleansed
by water, in accordance with this idea.
But let us now return to the subject. First defilements of the
body are washed out, and then God heals various infirmities by
means of water. For because God would bring us nearer to the
grace of baptism, he not only cleanses defilements but heals
diseases. For those figures which come nearest to the
reality, in baptism, the Passion, and others are seen more
clearly than the older ones. For it is the same with those
who form a king's bodyguard: they are more splendidly
apparelled than those at the other end of his equipage. And
the angel came down and troubled the water, and imbued it
with healing power; so that the Jews might learn that the Lord
of Angels had far more power to heal all the diseases of the
soul. But just as here it was not simply the natural property
of the water that healed, but it happened through the work of
the Angel: so it is not simply water that works on us, but
after the water has received the grace of the Spirit, then it
looses us from all sin.
Around this pool lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. But
then those who wished for healing were prevented by infirmity
from receiving it, while now everyone is able to come forward.
For the Angel does not trouble the water, but the Lord of
Angels brings all things to come to pass. We may no longer
say, While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. But
even should the whole world come, the grace would not be used
up, neither would its power nor effectual working come to an
end. For as the sun's rays shine forth each day without
burning out, and as they spread abroad without losing any of
their light: far less is the operation of the Spirit
diminished by the multitudes who receive it.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin (Oct 15).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-15.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-15.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
# C6a`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-teresa-of-avila
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
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Teresia Virgo, nata est Abulæ in Hispánia paréntibus tum genere
tum pietáte præcláris. Ab iis divini timoris lacte educata,
admirándum futuræ sanctitátis in tenerrima adhuc ætate specimen
dedit. Nam, cum sanctórum Mártyrum acta perlegeret, adeo in
ejus meditatióne Sancti Spíritus ignis exársit, ut, domo
aufúgiens, in Africam trajiceret, ubi vitam pro glória Jesu
Christi et animárum salúte profúnderet. A patruo revocata,
ardens martyrii desidérium eleemosynis aliisque piis opéribus
compensávit, jugibus lácrimis deplorans optimam sibi sortem
fuísse præreptam. Mortua matre, cum a beatíssima Vírgine
peteret ut se matrem esse monstraret, pii voti compos effecta
est; semper perinde ac fília patrocinio Deiparæ pérfruens.
Vigesimum ætátis annum agens, ad moniáles sanctæ Maríæ de Monte
Carmelo se cóntulit. Ibi, per duodeviginti annos gravíssimis
morbis et variis tentatiónibus vexata, constantíssime meruit in
castris christianæ pœniténtiæ, nullo refecta pabulo cæléstium
eárum consolatiónum quibus solet étiam in terris sanctitas
abundare.
Angelicis ditáta virtútibus, non modo propriam, sed publicam
étiam salútem sollicita caritate curávit. Quare severiórem
veterum Carmelitárum regulam, Deo afflante et Pio quarto
approbante, primum muliéribus, deínde viris observandam
propósuit. Efflóruit in eo consílio omnípotens miserentis
Dómini benedíctio; nam duo supra trigínta monasteria inops
virgo pótuit ædificare, ómnibus humanis destituta auxíliis,
quinimmo adversántibus plerumque sæculi princípibus. Infidelium
et hæreticórum ténebras perpetuis deflebat lácrimis, atque, ad
placandam divinæ ultiónis iram, voluntarios proprii corporis
cruciátus Deo pro eórum salúte dicábat. Tanto autem divini
amoris incendio cor ejus conflagrávit, ut mérito víderit
Angelum igníto jáculo sibi præcordia transverberántem, et
audíerit Christum, data déxtera, dicéntem sibi: Deinceps, ut
vera sponsa, meum zelábis honórem. Eo consiliante, maxime
arduum votum emisit efficiéndi semper quidquid perfectius esse
intellígeret. Multa cæléstis sapiéntiæ documénta conscripsit,
quibus fidelium mentes ad supernæ pátriæ desidérium maxime
excitántur.
Cum autem assidua ederet exempla virtútum, tam anxio castigándi
corporis desidério æstuabat, ut, quamvis secus suadérent
morbi quibus afflictabátur, corpus ciliciis, catenis, urticárum
manípulis aliisque asperrimis flagellis sæpe cruciaret, et
aliquándo inter spinas volutaret, sic Deum álloqui sólita:
Dómine, aut pati aut mori; se semper miserrima morte pereuntem
existimans, quámdiu a cælésti ætérnæ vitæ fonte abesset.
Prophetíæ dono excelluit, eamque divinis charismátibus tam
liberáliter locupletábat Dóminus, ut sæpius exclámans péterent
beneficiis in se divinis modum imponi. Intolerábili ígitur
divini amoris incendio potius quam vi morbi, Albæ cum
decúmberet, prænuntiáto suæ mortis die, ecclesiásticis
sacramentis muníta, alumnos ad pacem, caritátem et regularem
observantiam adhortata, sub colúmbæ specie puríssimam ánimam
Deo réddidit, annos nata sexagínta septem annos millesimo
quingentésimo octogesimo secundo, Idibus Octobris, juxta
Kalendarii Romani emendatiónem. Ei moriénti adesse visus est
inter Angelórum ágmina Christus Jesus; et arbor árida, cellæ
próxima, statim efflóruit. Ejus corpus, usque ad hanc diem
incorruptum, odorato liquore circumfusum, pia veneratióne
cólitur. Miraculis cláruit ante et post óbitum, eamque
Gregórius décimus quintus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit.
en: >-
The virgin Theresa was the daughter of a father and mother,
equally honourable on account of their birth and of their
godliness, and was born at Avila in Spain. She was brought up
from the dawn of her life in the fear of God, and when still
only seven years old she gave a startling fore-cast of the
holy earnestness of her later years. The reading of the acts of
the holy martyrs so inflamed and excited her imagination, that
she ran away from her father's house, with the design of going
to Morocco and the hope there to lay down her life for the
glory of Christ Jesus and the salvation of souls. She was met
by an uncle and brought back to her mother, and was fain to
slake her thirst for martyrdom by giving to the poor all the
alms she could, and by other godly exercises, though still ever
bewailing with tears that the highest prize had been snatched
from her. Her mother died, and she besought the Most Blessed
Virgin to be a mother to her in her stead. This she gained;
thenceforth she lived always as a daughter under the shelter of
the Mother of God. In the twentieth year of her age she
withdrew herself among the nuns of St. Mary of Mount Carmel.
There she dwelt for two-and-twenty years, tormented by grievous
sicknesses and diverse temptations, and so bravely served her
time in the hardest ranks of Christ's army, starved even of
that comforting knowledge of God's reconciled love, wherein His
holy children are so commonly used even upon earth to rejoice.
Strengthened in the graces of an angel, the wideness of her
love embraced in its tender care the salvation of other souls
as well as of her own. To this end, under the blessing of God,
and the approbation of Pius IV., she set, first before women
and then before men, the observance of the stern Rule of the
Old Carmelites. The blessing of the Almighty and merciful Lord
did indeed rest most evidently upon this design. This penniless
virgin, helped by no man, and in the teeth of many that were
great in this world, was enabled to build two-and-thirty
houses. The darkness of unbelievers and misbelievers drew from
her unceasing tears, and she willingly gave up her own body to
God to be tortured, to soften the fury of His indignation
against them. His own love so blazed in her heart that she
attained to see an Angel run her through with a fiery spear,
and Christ Himself take her by the hand, and to hear Him say
Henceforth thou shalt love Mine honour as a wife indeed. At His
inspiration she took the extremely difficult vow to do always
that which should seem to her to be most perfect. She wrote
much, full of heavenly wisdom, whereby the minds of the
faithful are enkindled to long for the Fatherland above.
Earnest as were the examples of graces which she had shown,
and grievous as was the state of her body, afflicted by
disease, she still burnt with the desire of tormenting it. She
tortured it with sackcloth, chains of spikes, handfuls of
nettles, and heavy scourging. She rolled herself sometimes
among thorns, and was used to cry to God "Lord! to suffer or
to die." As long as she remained exiled from the heavenly
Fountain of eternal life, her life was to her a lingering
death. She was eminent for the gift of prophecy, and God did
indeed so pour forth His bounties upon her, that she often
cried to Him in entreaty not to bless her so as to make her
forget her sins. It was worn out rather by the fever of her
love than by the wasting of disease that she sank upon her
deathbed at Alba. She foretold the day of her own death,
received the Sacraments of the Church, and exhorted her
disciples to peace, love, and strictness in observing the
Rule, and then her soul, like a pure dove, winged its flight
to rest with God, being then 67 years of age. At her death she
had a vision of Christ Jesus surrounded by Angels. A dead tree
hard by the cell instantly broke into foliage. Her body is
untouched by corruption even unto this day, and lieth in a
sort of perfumed oil, regarded with godly reverence. She was
famous for miracles both before and after her death, and was
numbered by Gregory XV. among the Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
# Virgin (Oct 3). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-03.txt, English/Sancti/10-03.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: her own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with
# no full pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only the
# homily (Lectio7-9, Pope St. Leo the Great) is authored, isGospel:
# false, no citation field.
id: st-therese-of-lisieux
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
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Terésia a Jesu Infante, Alensonii in Gállia, honestis paréntibus,
singulari et assidua erga Deum pietáte conspicuis, orta est. Inde
a prima ætate, divino Spíritu prævénta, religiosam vitam ágere
cupiebat. Serio autem promisit, se nihil Deo denegatúram, quod
ipse ab ea petere viderétur: quam promissiónem fideliter usque
ad mortem servare satégit. Quinto ætátis anno, matre amissa, Dei
providéntiæ se totam commisit sub vigilanti custódia amantíssimi
patris, sororúmque natu majórum: quibus magistris, Teresia ad
curréndam perfectiónis viam ut gigas exsultávit. Novennis
virgínibus ex Ordine sancti Benedicti Lexoviis excolenda
traditur, ibique in rerum divinárum cognitióne excellere visa
est. Décimo ætátis anno, arcanus et gravis morbus eam diu
cruciávit, a quo prout ipsa enárrat, ope Beatíssimæ Vírginis,
quæ eídem subrídens appáruit, et quam, sub titulo Dominæ nostræ
a Victoria, per novendialia invocare studuit, divinitus fuit
liberata. Tunc, angelico fervore repléta, ad sacrum convivium,
in quo Christus sumitur, se diligentíssime præparáre curávit.
Ut prímitus eucharistico pane fuit refecta, insatiábilem
cæléstis hujus cibi famem haurire visa est: unde velut
inspirata, Jesum rogabat, ut omnem mundanam consolatiónem in
amaritúdinem sibi verteret. Inde tenerrimo in Christum Dóminum
et in Ecclésiam amóre exæstuans, nihil antiquius hábuit, quam
Carmelitárum Excalceatórum Ordinem íngredi, ut sui abnegatióne,
suisque sacrifíciis, sacerdótibus, missionariis, totique
Ecclésiæ opem afferret, et innumeras ánimas Jesu Christo
lucrifáceret: quod jam morti próxima, apud Deum se factúram
pollícita est. Propter ætátis defectum, multas ad religiosam
vitam amplecténdam nacta est difficultates, quibus tamen
incredibili animi fortitúdine superatis, quindecim annos nata,
Lexoviensem Carmelum feliciter ingressa est. Ibi mirábiles Deus
in Teresiæ corde ascensiónes dispósuit, quæ, Maríæ Vírginis
vitam abscónditam imitata, quasi hortus irriguus, flores ómnium
virtútum germinávit, præcipue vero exímiæ in Deum et in
próximum caritátis.
Quo magis Altíssimo placéret, quum in Sacris Scripturis mónitum
illud legísset: Si quis est párvulus véniat ad me; párvula in
spíritu esse vóluit, et inde filiali fiducia Deo, tamquam Patri
amantíssimo, se perpetuo trádidit. Hanc, spiritualis infantiæ
viam, secúndum Evangélii doctrinam, alios docuit, speciatim
novítias, quas ex obediéntia ad religiosárum virtútum studium
informandas suscépit, atque ita apostolico zelo repléta, mundo,
supérbia inflato et vanitátes diligenti, evangelicæ simplicitátis
iter patefécit. Sponsus autem Jesus eam patiéndi desidério, tam
in anima, quam in corpore, pénitus inflammávit. Insuper Dei
caritátem undequáque neglectam animadvertens, summo dolóre
affecta, duobus ante óbitum annis, Dei miserentis amori se
víctimam óbtulit. Tunc, ut ipsa refert, cæléstis ignis flamma
vulneráta est: unde caritate consumpta, in écstasim rapta,
ferventíssime ingéminans: Deus meus, te diligo; viginti quatuor
annos nata, die trigesima Septembris, anno millesimo
octingentésimo nonagesimo septimo, ad Sponsum evolávit. Quod
autem móriens promiserat, se perennem rosárum plúviam in terram
demissuram, hoc in cælum recepta, innumeris miraculis reapse
adimplévit et in dies adimplet. Quam Pius undecimus, Pontifex
maximus, Beátis Virgínibus adscriptam, et biennio post, jubilæo
máximo recurrente, inter Sanctas relatam, peculiarem ómnium
Missiónum Patronam constítuit ac declarávit.
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Theresa of the Child Jesus was born in Alencon in France. Her
parents were estimable people, well known for their piety and
their love of God. From her earliest childhood, endowed by a
special grace of the Holy Ghost, she yearned to enter the
religious life. She promised God with the utmost sincerity that
she would deny him nothing he might ask of her. She kept this
promise faithfully to the end of her life, although she had to
suffer a great deal to keep it. Her mother died when Theresa was
but five years old. From then on the child committed herself to
the providence of God, under the vigilant care of a most tender
father and her elder sisters. Under their teaching Theresa raced
as gayly strong as a young giant along the way of perfection. At
the age of nine she was sent to school at Lisieux to the
Benedictine nuns, where she made remarkable progress in her
knowledge of divine things. In her tenth year she was ill for a
long time of a serious and mysterious malady. From this, as she
herself relateth, she was delivered only by the power of God
himself, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
who appeared to her with a smiling countenance, and to whom
under the title of our Lady of Victories, she was constantly
making novenas. Filled with angelic fervour she prepared herself
at this time with the utmost care to receive Christ in the
sacred banquet of her first Holy Communion.
After being refreshed for the first time with the Eucharistic
Bread Theresa seemed to develop an insatiable hunger for the
celestial food. Then, as if by inspiration, she asked Jesus to
turn all her earthly consolation into bitterness. After that she
burned with a most tender love for Christ the Lord and for his
Church. More than anything in the world she wanted to enter the
Order of the Discalced Carmelites, where by self-sacrifice she
might assist priests, missionaries and the whole Church, and so
gain innumerable souls for Christ Jesus. All this, she promised
God would do for her, even when apparently she lay at the point
of death. Her extreme youth was an obstacle which hindered her
entrance upon the religious life. Even this she overcame by her
incredible courage of soul. She entered Carmel at Lisieux
happily at the age of fifteen. There God fashioned the heart of
Theresa in a marvellous way, teaching her to ascend to him step
by step. Imitating the hidden life of the Virgin Mary like a
well-watered garden she bore flowers of every virtue, especially
an abiding love of God and neighbour.
That she might please the most high God to greater degree, when
she read in Sacred Scriptures the warning, Whoever is a little
one, let him come unto me, she determined to be a little one in
spirit. As such she consecrated herself forever with childlike
confidence to God, her most loving Father. The way of spiritual
childhood, following the teachings of the Gospel, she taught to
others, especially to the novices whose training in the pursuit
of religious virtues she undertook in obedience to her
superiors. Overflowing with apostolic zeal she pointed out to a
world filled with pride and a love of vanities, the simple way
of the Gospels. Meanwhile Jesus, her spouse, inflamed her with a
desire to suffer both in soul and in body. Moreover, perceiving
that the love of God was everywhere rejected, she became filled
with grief and two years before her death, offered herself as a
victim of love to the merciful God. She writeth that she was
then wounded by a flame of fire from heaven, whereupon she
became consumed by love, rapt as it were in ecstasy. Repeating
over and over again the fervent words, My God, I love thee, she
passed on to her Spouse on the 30th day of September, in the
year 1897, at the age of twenty-four years. As she was dying she
promised that she would let fall upon earth a ceaseless shower
of roses. This promise she hath indeed fulfilled in heaven, and
her shower of roses hath continued to this very day. The
Sovereign Pontiff Pius XI added her name to the Virgins declared
Blessed and two years later, at the time of the great Jubilee,
listed her among the Saints. He also appointed and declared her
Patroness of all the missions.
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- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 37, on Epiphany, ch. 3-4"
text:
la: >-
Tota, dilectíssimi, christianæ sapiéntiæ disciplína, non in
abundántia verbi, non in astutia disputándi, neque in appetitu
laudis et glóriæ, sed in vera et voluntária humilitate consistit,
quam Dóminus Jesus Christus ab útero Matris usque ad supplícium
Crucis pro omni fortitúdine et elégit et docuit. Nam, cum
discípuli ejus inter se, ut ait Evangelista, disquírerent quis
eórum major esset in regno cælórum, vocávit párvulum, et státuit
eum in médio eórum, et dixit: Amen, dico vobis, nisi convérsi
fuéritis et efficiámini sicut párvuli, non intrabitis in regnum
cælórum. Quicúmque ergo humiliaverit se sicut puer iste, hic
major erit in regno cælórum. Amat Christus infantiam, quam
primum et animo suscépit et corpore. Amat Christus infantiam,
humilitátis magistram, innocéntiæ regulam, mansuetúdinis
formam. Amat Christus infantiam, ad quam majórum dirigit mores,
ad quam senum redúcit ætates; et eos ad suum inclínat exemplum,
quos ad regnum sublimat ætérnum.
Ut autem plene valeámus agnóscere quómodo apprehéndi possit tam
mira conversio et in puerílem gradum qua nobis mutatióne
redeundum sit, doceat nos beátus Paulus et dicat: Nolíte púeri
effici sensibus, sed malítia párvuli estote. Non ergo ad
lúdicra infantiæ et imperfécta nobis primordia reverténdum est,
sed aliquid, quod étiam graves annos déceat, inde suméndum, ut
velox sit commótium tránsitus, citus ad pacem recursus: nulla
sit memória offensiónis, nulla cupiditas dignitátis; amor
sociæ communiónis, æqualitas naturalis. Magnum enim bonum est
nocére non nosse et maligna non sápere; quia inférre ac referre
injúriam, mundi hujus prudéntia est; némini autem malum pro
malo reddere, christianæ est æquanimitátis infantia.
Ad hanc vos, dilectíssimi, similtúdinem parvulórum mystérium
hodiérnæ festivitátis invitat; et hanc vobis humilitátis formam
adorátus a Magis puer Salvátor insinuat: qui, ut imitatóribus
suis quid glóriæ paráret, osténderet, ortus sui témpore éditos
martyrio consecrávit; ut in Bethlehem, ubi Christus natus est,
geniti, per communiónem ætátis consortes fíerent passiónis.
Amétur ígitur humilitas, et omnis a fidelibus vitétur elátio.
Alter álterum sibi præferat, et nemo quod suum est quærat, sed
quod alterius; ut, cum in ómnibus abundaverit afféctus
benevoléntiæ, in nullo virus inveniátur invidiæ: quóniam qui se
exáltat humiliábitur, et qui se humíliat exaltábitur.
en: >-
The whole teaching of Christian wisdom consisteth, dearly
beloved, not in an abundance of words, not in skill in
disputation, not surely in seeking after praise or glory, but
rather in seeking after true and voluntary humility. This was
the way which the Lord Jesus Christ chose and taught with all
his strength from his Mother's womb to his death on the Cross.
When the Lord's disciples, as the Evangelist saith, discussed
among themselves which should be the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven, he called a little child and set him in the midst of
them, and said: Verily, I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as
this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. Christ loveth childhood, which state at first he took
upon himself, both in his soul and in his body. Christ loveth
childhood, for it is the teacher of humility, the rule of
innocence, and the type of meekness. Christ loveth childhood,
for he formeth the character of the grown man on this model,
and bringeth back the latter years of the old to this very
state; and he shapeth on this wise those whom he would raise to
the kingdom of heaven.
But, that we may be fully able to understand how this marvellous
transformation can be accomplished, and by what change we are
to return to the state of childhood, let us follow the teaching
of the blessed Paul, who saith: Be not children in
understanding; howbeit, in malice be ye children, but in
understanding be men. Hence we are not to return to the
pastimes and imperfect beginnings of childhood, but thence are
rather to take whatever is suitable to the full-grown: such as
the swift passing of excitement; the speedy restoration of
peace; the forgetfulness of injuries; the indifference to
dignity; the love of the companionship of their comrades; and
the natural evenness of temper. It is indeed a great good not to
know and not to have a taste for harm; for to do and to return
injuries is the wisdom of this world, but to render no man evil
for evil is to possess the childhood of Christian goodwill.
The mystery of this day's festival, dearly beloved, calleth you
to this imitation of little children. And the Saviour, who was
adored by the Magi as a child, recommendeth to you this pattern
of humility. To shew what glory he prepareth for them that
would imitate him, he consecrated by martyrdom those born at
the same time as himself. And thus the children born in
Bethlehem, where Christ was born, became sharers of his passion
by virtue of sharing the age of his infancy. Let the faithful
then love lowliness, and shun all arrogance. Let each one
prefer his brother to himself. Let him seek not even what is
his own, but only that which will profit his brother. The
feeling of charity will abound in all; the poison of envy will
be found in none. For he that exalteth himself shall be
humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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// day), still wins outright and Marian Saturday doesn't apply at all. // day), still wins outright and Marian Saturday doesn't apply at all.
describe('Marian Saturday (applyMarianSaturday)', () => { describe('Marian Saturday (applyMarianSaturday)', () => {
it('wins outright, with no commemoration, on a Saturday with nothing else at all going on', () => { it('wins outright, with no commemoration, on a Saturday with nothing else at all going on', () => {
const day = resolveDay('2026-10-24'); // Not 2026-10-24: that date is now St. Raphael the Archangel's own
// fixed day (Duplex majus, added per the full-year sanctoral
// import), which wins outright. 2026-07-04 is a genuinely clean
// Saturday with no sanctoral entry at all (not even a commemorated
// Simplex).
const day = resolveDay('2026-07-04');
expect(day.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'marian-saturday' }); expect(day.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'marian-saturday' });
expect(day.commemorations).toEqual([]); expect(day.commemorations).toEqual([]);
expect(getDayLabel(day)).toBe("Our Lady's Saturday"); expect(getDayLabel(day)).toBe("Our Lady's Saturday");
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@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ describe('Lauds psalmody override (duplex-majus+ sanctoral, and Marian Saturday)
}); });
it("substitutes Our Lady's Saturday own proper psalmody, unconditionally, whenever it wins", () => { it("substitutes Our Lady's Saturday own proper psalmody, unconditionally, whenever it wins", () => {
const ordo = resolveOrdo('lauds', '2026-10-24'); // a clean, otherwise-empty Marian Saturday // Not 2026-10-24: that date is now St. Raphael the Archangel's own
// fixed day (Duplex majus, added per the full-year sanctoral
// import), which wins outright. 2026-07-04 is a clean, otherwise-
// empty Marian Saturday (see tests/calendar/marian-saturday.test.ts).
const ordo = resolveOrdo('lauds', '2026-07-04');
const psalmNumbers = ordo.parts const psalmNumbers = ordo.parts
.filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm') .filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm')
.map((p) => (p.kind === 'psalm' ? p.psalmNumber : undefined)); .map((p) => (p.kind === 'psalm' ? p.psalmNumber : undefined));
@@ -63,7 +67,7 @@ describe('Lauds psalmody override (duplex-majus+ sanctoral, and Marian Saturday)
}); });
it("drops the Holy Cross and Blessed Virgin Mary suffrages on Our Lady's Saturday (the latter redundant with the day's already-Marian office; the former because Marian Saturday isn't a bare ferial office either), keeping Joseph, Apostles, and Peace", () => { it("drops the Holy Cross and Blessed Virgin Mary suffrages on Our Lady's Saturday (the latter redundant with the day's already-Marian office; the former because Marian Saturday isn't a bare ferial office either), keeping Joseph, Apostles, and Peace", () => {
const ordo = resolveOrdo('lauds', '2026-10-24'); const ordo = resolveOrdo('lauds', '2026-07-04');
const labels = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'preces' && p.label).map((p) => (p.kind === 'preces' ? p.label : undefined)); const labels = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'preces' && p.label).map((p) => (p.kind === 'preces' ? p.label : undefined));
expect(labels).toEqual(['Of St. Joseph', 'Of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul', 'For Peace', 'Salve Regina']); expect(labels).toEqual(['Of St. Joseph', 'Of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul', 'For Peace', 'Salve Regina']);
}); });