Author Matins temporal-cycle nocturn readings for Advent through Ascensiontide

Extends the post-Pentecost nocturn-readings sweep to the other 26 temporal
ids spanning the rest of the liturgical year — Advent, Christmastide,
post-Epiphany, Septuagesima through Lent, Passiontide/Holy Week, and
Eastertide — transcribed directly from the reference engine's own
per-season Tempora source files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ME8QNPdEmHSbSx1r6VmDRG
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# Nocturn 2-3, Fourth Sunday of Advent (temporalId advent-4). Sourced from
# Tempora/Adv4-0.txt (Latin) / English/Tempora/Adv4-0.txt. See
# advent-1.yml for the general sweep method. (When Dec 24 itself falls on
# this Sunday, calendar/temporal-id.ts's own Vigil-of-Christmas override
# takes over that specific date's identity - see vigil-of-christmas.yml -
# so this file governs the other six possible dates for Advent 4.)
#
# Nocturn 2 (Lectio4-6): one continuous excerpt from St. Leo the Great's
# 1st Sermon on the December Fast and Almsgiving. Responsory: Lectio4's
# own (Responsory4, "Nascétur nobis párvulus").
#
# Nocturn 3 (Lectio7-9): Lectio7 carries real homily prose after its bare
# Gospel incipit (Luke 3:1-6, "Et réliqua") - Pope St. Gregory the Great's
# Homily 20 on the Gospels begins within Lectio7 itself, same pattern as
# advent-1/-2/-3. Combined Lectio7's homily portion (incipit dropped) with
# Lectio8-9, using Responsory7 ("Jurávi, dicit Dóminus").
id: advent-4
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. Leo the Great, Sermon 1 on the December Fast and Almsgiving"
text:
la: >-
Si fidéliter, dilectíssimi, atque sapiénter creatiónis nostræ intelligámus exórdium, inveniémus
hóminem ideo ad imáginem Dei cónditum, ut imitátor sui esset auctóris: et hanc esse naturálem
nostri géneris dignitátem, si in nobis, quasi in quodam spéculo, divínæ benignitátis forma
respléndeat. Ad quam quotídie nos útique réparat grátia Salvatóris, dum quod cécidit in Adam
primo, erígitur in secúndo.
Causa autem reparatiónis nostræ non est nisi misericórdia Dei: quem non diligerémus, nisi prius
nos ipse dilígeret, et ténebras ignorántiæ nostræ, suæ veritátis luce discúteret. Quod per sanctum
Isaíam Dóminus denúntians, ait: Addúcam cæcos in viam quam ignorábant, et sémitas quas
nesciébant, fáciam illos calcáre: fáciam illis ténebras in lucem, et prava in dirécta. Hæc verba
fáciam illis, et non relínquam eos. Et íterum: Invéntus sum, inquit, a non quæréntibus me, et
palam appárui iis qui me non interrogábant.
Quod quómodo implétum sit, Joánnes Apóstolus docet, dicens: Scimus quóniam Fílius Dei venit, et
dedit nobis sensum, ut cognoscámus verum, et simus in vero Fílio ejus. Et íterum: Nos ergo
diligámus Deum, quóniam ipse prior diléxit nos. Diligéndo ítaque nos Deus, ad imáginem suam nos
réparat: et ut in nobis formam suæ bonitátis invéniat, dat unde ipsi quoque quod operátur
operémur, accéndens scílicet méntium nostrárum lucérnas, et igne nos suæ caritátis inflámmans, ut
non solum ipsum, sed étiam quidquid díligit, diligámus.
en: >-
Dearly beloved brethren, if we study attentively the history of the creation of our race, we
shall find that man was made in the image of God, that his ways also might be an imitation of
the ways of his Maker. This is the natural, real, and highest dignity to which we are capable of
attaining, that the goodness of the Divine nature should have a reflection in us, as in a glass.
As a mean of reaching this dignity, we are daily offered the grace of our Saviour, for as in the
first Adam all men are fallen, so in the Second Adam can all men be raised up again.
Our restoration from the consequences of Adam's fall is sheer mercy of God, and nothing else; we
should not have loved Him unless He had first loved us, and scattered the darkness of our
ignorance by the light of His truth. This the Lord promised by the mouth of Isaiah, where He
saith: I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will lead them in paths that
they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These
things will I do unto them and not forsake them. And again: I was found of them that sought Me
not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after Me.
And we know from the Apostle John how God fulfilled His promise: We know that the Son of God is
come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him That is True, and be in Him That
is True, even in His Son. And again: Let us therefore love God, because He first loved us. For
His great love then wherewith he hath loved us, God reneweth His likeness in us. And, moreover,
in order that He may find in us the reflection of His goodness, He giveth us that whereby to work
along with Himself, (Who worketh all in all,) lighting, as it were, candles in our dark minds,
and kindling in us the fire of His love, to make us love not Himself only, but likewise, in Him,
whatsoever He loveth.
responsory:
la: "R. Nascétur nobis párvulus, et vocábitur Deus, Fortis: * Ipse sedébit super thronum David patris sui, et imperábit: cujus potéstas super húmerum ejus.\nV. In ipso benedicéntur omnes tribus terræ, omnes gentes sérvient ei.\nR. Ipse sedébit super thronum David patris sui, et imperábit: cujus potéstas super húmerum ejus."
en: "R. Unto us shall a Child be born, and His name shall be called the Mighty God. * He shall sit upon the throne of His father David, and shall reign, and the government shall be upon His shoulder.\nV. In Him shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed; all nations shall serve Him.\nR. He shall sit upon the throne of His father David, and shall reign, and the government shall be upon His shoulder."
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 20 on the Gospels"
text:
la: >-
Dicébat Joánnes ad turbas, quæ éxibant ut baptizaréntur ab eo: Genímina viperárum, quis osténdit
vobis fúgere a ventúra ira? Ventúra enim ira est animadvérsio ultiónis extrémæ: quam tunc fúgere
peccátor non valet, qui nunc ad laménta pœniténtiæ non recúrrit. Et notándum, quod malæ sóboles,
malórum paréntum actiónem imitántes, genímina viperárum vocántur: quia per hoc quod bonis
ínvident, eósque persequúntur, quod quibúsdam mala retríbuunt, quod læsiónes próximis exquírunt:
quóniam in his ómnibus patrum suórum carnálium vias sequúntur, quasi venenáti fílii de venenátis
paréntibus nati sunt.
Sed quia jam peccávimus, quia usu malæ consuetúdinis involúti sumus: dicat quid nobis faciéndum
sit, ut fúgere a ventúra ira valeámus. Séquitur: Fácite ergo fructus dignos pœniténtiæ. In
quibus verbis notándum est, quod amícus Sponsi non solum fructus pœniténtiæ, sed dignos
pœniténtiæ ádmonet esse faciéndos. Aliud namque est fructum fácere pœniténtiæ, aliud, dignum
pœniténtiæ fructum fácere. Ut enim secúndum dignos pœniténtiæ fructus loquámur, sciéndum est,
quia quisquis illícita nulla commísit, huic jure concéditur, ut lícitis utátur: sicque pietátis
ópera fáciat, ut tamen si volúerit, ea quæ mundi sunt, non relínquat.
At si quis in fornicatiónis culpam, vel fortasse, quod est grávius, in adultérium lapsus est:
tanto a se lícita debet abscíndere, quanto se méminit et illícita perpetrásse. Neque enim par
fructus boni óperis esse debet, ejus qui minus, et ejus qui ámplius delíquit: aut ejus qui in
nullis, et ejus qui in quibúsdam facinóribus cécidit, et ejus qui in multis est lapsus. Per hoc
ergo quod dícitur: Fácite fructus dignos pœniténtiæ: uniuscujúsque consciéntia convenítur, ut
tanto majóra acquírat bonórum óperum lucra per pœniténtiam, quanto gravióra sibi íntulit damna
per culpam.
en: >-
John said unto the multitude, that came forth to be baptised of him: O generation of vipers, who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? The wrath to come in one sense signifieth the
great vengeance of the Latter Day: the sinner that repenteth not of his sin now, will have no
mean whereby to flee from punishment then. Let us remark that addressing evil children copying
the example of evil parents, the Baptist calleth them a generation of vipers in that they were
envious at the righteous, and persecuted them; that they repaid evil for evil; that they hunted
out ways of harming their neighbours, in all these things following the pattern of carnal
parents, the prophet likeneth them to a venomous brood hatched from a venomous stock.
We also have sinned, we have fallen into wicked habits. What must we do, if we would flee from
the wrath to come? Let us hear John. Bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. In which words let
us remark that the Friend of the Bridegroom demandeth not only fruits of repentance, but fruits
worthy of repentance. The former are one thing, and the latter another. In considering then what
are fruits worthy of repentance, we may remark that if we had done nothing unlawful we might have
had free use of things which are lawful, and been able to sanctify ourselves without abstaining
from indulgence in the things of the world.
But if any one, for example, hath fallen into fornication, or perhaps, into what is much worse,
adultery, he ought to make up for his lawless pleasure by abstaining in some degree from lawful
enjoyments. He that hath sinned less is not bound to mortify himself as much as he that hath
sinned more, nor he that is innocent like him that is guilty. Let every one hearing these words
bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, proceed to judge himself by his own conscience, and the
more he perceiveth that he hath sinned, the greater penance let him do.
responsory:
la: "R. Jurávi, dicit Dóminus, ut ultra jam non iráscar super terram: montes enim et colles suscípient justítiam meam, * Et testaméntum pacis erit in Jerúsalem.\nV. Juxta est salus mea, ut véniat: et justítia mea, ut revelétur.\nR. Et testaméntum pacis erit in Jerúsalem."
en: "R. I have sworn, saith the Lord, that I will not be wroth any more with the earth; for the mountains and the hills shall receive My righteousness. * And the covenant of My peace shall be in Jerusalem.\nV. My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.\nR. And the covenant of My peace shall be in Jerusalem."
status: { la: verified, en: verified }