St. Isidore of Seville, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Hermenegild, St. Anselm, St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, St. Peter Canisius -- April complete. St. Peter Canisius is the second common-of-a-confessor-doctor saint (after St. John Damascene in March), same benedictusCommon reuse pattern. St. Hugh, Abbot (Apr 1) checked and correctly skipped: his own file is Commemoratio-rank with only a collect, no Lectio content at all to source. npm test (365 tests) and tsc --noEmit both pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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id: st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen
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name: "St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Martyr"
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name: "St. Hermenegild, Martyr"
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name: "St. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church"
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rank: duplex
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name: "St. Peter Canisius, Confessor and Doctor of the Church"
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name: "St. Vincent Ferrer, Confessor"
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"04-02": [st-francis-of-paola]
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"04-04": [st-isidore-of-seville]
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"04-05": [st-vincent-ferrer]
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"04-11": [st-leo-i]
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"04-13": [st-hermenegild]
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"04-14": [ss-tiburtius-valerian-and-maximus]
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"04-17": [st-anicetus]
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"04-23": [st-george]
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id: st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen-collect
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text:
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátum Fidélem, seráphico spíritus ardóre succénsum, in veræ fídei
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propagatióne martýrii palma et gloriósis miráculis decoráre dignátus es: ejus,
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quǽsumus, méritis et intercessióne, ita nos per grátiam tuam in fide et caritáte
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confírma; ut in servítio tuo fidéles usque ad mortem inveníri mereámur.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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God, Who didst vouchsafe to enkindle in blessed Fidelis the fire of thy Seraphim, and
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to glorify his toil to give men a true knowledge of thee by the palm-branch of
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martyrdom and by great signs and wonders, be entreated, we beseech thee, for his sake
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and by his prayers, and so establish us in the knowledge and love of thee, that we
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also, like him, may be found faithful even unto death in serving of thee.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátum Hermenegíldum Mártyrem tuum cælésti regno terrénum postpónere
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docuísti: da quǽsumus nobis; ejus exémplo cadúca despícere, atque ætérna sectári.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who didst teach thy blessed Martyr Hermenegild to choose an heavenly rather
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than an earthly crown, grant, we beseech thee, that we, like him, may so pass through
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things temporal that we finally miss not those which are eternal.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-peter-canisius-collect
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui ad tuéndam cathólicam fidem beátum Petrum Confessórem tuum virtúte et
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doctrína roborásti: concéde propítius; ut ejus exémplis et mónitis errántes ad
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salútem resipíscant, et fidéles in veritátis confessióne persevérent.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, who didst give strength and learning to blessed Peter thy Confessor for the
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defense of the Catholic faith, mercifully grant, that by his example and teaching,
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the erring may be saved and the faithful remain constant in the confession of truth.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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id: st-vincent-ferrer-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui Ecclésiam tuam beáti Vincéntii Confessóris tui méritis et prædicatióne
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illustráre dignátus es: concéde nobis fámulis tuis; ut et ipsíus instruámur exémplis
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et ab ómnibus ejus patrocínio liberémur advérsis.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who wast pleased to enlighten thy Church through the worthy deeds and Gospel
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preaching of thy blessed Confessor Vincent, grant unto us thy servants grace so to
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order our lives after his example, that we, being helped by his protection, may by
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thee be ever delivered from all evil.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
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# of the Church (Apr 21). Sourced directly from
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-21.txt, English/Sancti/04-21.txt.
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# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3
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# cross-reference to the Common of a Confessor Bishop Doctor, not
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# transcribed here.
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id: st-anselm
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la: >-
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Ansélmus, Augustæ Prætoriæ in finibus Itáliæ, Gundulpho et Ermemberga,
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nobílibus et catholicis parentibus natus, a teneris annis assiduo litterarum
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studio, atque perfectióris vitæ desiderio, non obscurum futuræ sanctitatis et
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doctrinæ specimen dedit. Et licet juvenili ardore aliquando ad sæculi illecebras
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traheretur, brevi tamen in pristinam viam revocatus, patria et bonis omnibus
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derelictis, ad monasterium Beccense ordinis sancti Benedicti se contulit: ubi
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emissa regulari professione sub Herluino abbate observantissimo, et Lanfranco
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viro doctissimo, tanto animi fervore, et jugi studio in litteris et virtutibus
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assequendis profecit, ut mirum in modum tamquam sanctitatis et doctrinæ exemplar
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ab omnibus haberetur.
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Abstinentiæ et continentiæ tantæ fuit, ut assiduitate jejunii omnis pene
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ciborum sensus in eo videretur exstinctus. Diurno enim tempore in exercitiis
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monasticis docendo, et respondendo variis de religione quæsitis, emenso, quod
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reliquum erat noctis, somno subtrahebat, ut divinis meditationibus, quas
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perenni lacrimarum imbre fovebat, mentem recrearet. Electus in priorem
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monasterii invidos fratres ita caritate, humilitate, et prudentia lenivit, ut
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quos æmulos acceperat, sibi et Deo amicos, maximo cum regularis observantiæ
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emolumento redderet. Mortuo abbate, et in ejus locum (licet invitus) suffectus,
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tanta doctrinæ et sanctitatis fama ubique refulsit, ut non modo regibus et
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episcopis venerationi esset, sed sancto Gregorio septimo étiam acceptus, qui
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tunc magnis persecutionibus agitatus, litteras amoris plenas ad eum dedit,
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quibus se et Ecclesiam catholicam ejus orationibus commendabat.
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Defuncto Lanfranco archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, ejus olim præceptore, Anselmus,
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urgente Willelmo Angliæ rege, et instantibus clero ac populo, ipso tamen
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repugnante, ad ejusdem ecclesiæ regimen vocatus, statim (ut corruptos populi
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mores reformaret) verbo et exemplo prius, dein scriptis, et conciliis
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celebratis, pristinam pietatem, et ecclesiasticam disciplinam reduxit. Sed cum
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mox idem Willelmus rex vi et minis Ecclesiæ jura usurpare tentasset, ipse
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sacerdotali constantia restitit; bonorumque direptionem, et exsilium passus,
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Romam ad Urbanum secundum se contulit: a quo honorifice exceptus, et summis
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laudibus ornatus est, cum in Barensi concilio Spiritum Sanctum étiam a Filio
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procedentem contra Græcorum errorem innumeris Scripturarum, et sanctorum
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Patrum testimoniis propugnasset. E vivis Willelmo sublato, ab Henrico rege ejus
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fratre in Angliam revocatus, obdormivit in Domino, famam non solum
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miraculorum, et sanctitatis (præcipue ob insignem devotionem erga Domini
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nostri passionem, et beatam Virginem ejus Matrem) assecutus, sed étiam
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doctrinæ, quam ad defensionem christianæ religionis, animarum profectum, et
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omnium theologorum, qui sacras litteras scholastica methodo tradiderunt,
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normam cælitus hausisse ex ejus libris omnibus apparet.
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en: >-
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Anselm was born of noble and Catholic parents, named Gundulph and Hermenberga,
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at Aosta, in Piedmont. From his tenderest years his diligence in study, and his
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aspirations to a more perfect state of life, gave no indistinct foreshadowing of
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the holiness and learning to which he afterwards attained. The heat of youth
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drew him for a while into the snares of the world, but he soon returned to his
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first courses, and, forsaking his country and his goods, betook himself to the
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monastery of Bec, under the rule of St. Benedict. There he made his profession
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as a monk, and under the rigid discipline of Herluin, the Abbot, and the
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learned instruction of the profound Lanfranc, with great zeal of spirit and
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eager obedience to the Rule, he made such progress in learning and godliness,
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that he shone before all others as an example of holiness of life, and power of
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doctrine.
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Certification and purity were his marked characteristics, and by constant
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fasting all taste for food seemed to have died in him. He spent the day in the
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monastic work, in teaching, and in answering hard questions upon religion, and
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he took away from sleep during what remained to him of the night, that he might
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refresh his soul by thoughts of God, wherein he was alway comforted by an
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unceasing flow of tears. When he was chosen Prior of the monastery, he so won
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over, by his charity, lowliness, and wisdom, some brethren who looked ill upon
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him, that from enviers, as he had found them, he turned them into lovers of God
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and of himself likewise, with exceeding gain to the strictness of observance in
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that Abbey. After the death of the Abbot, Anselm, though against his own will,
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was chosen to succeed him. In this high place the light of his learning and
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holiness so shone all round about, that he was reverenced not only by Kings and
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Bishops, but was taken up by the holy Pope Gregory VII., who, amid the great
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persecutions which were then trying him, wrote with words of great love to
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Anselm to recommend himself and the Catholic Church to his prayers.
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After the death of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm, whose teacher
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Lanfranc had formerly been, was driven by William II., King of England,
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supported by the entreaties of the clergy and people, though sorely against his
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own wishes to take upon him the government of that Church. Raised to that See,
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he straightway set himself to reform the corrupt manners of the people, and,
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first by his word and example, and then by his writings and the Councils which
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he held, succeeded in restoring the ancient godliness and discipline of the
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Church. But when the aforesaid King William tried by force and threats to
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seize on the rights of the Church, Anselm withstood him as beseemed a Priest,
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and after that he had suffered the plundering of all his goods and been sent
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into banishment, he betook himself to Rome to Urban II. There he was received
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with great worship, and won high praise for that in the Council of Bari, he
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maintained by countless proofs from Scripture and the holy Fathers, against the
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error of the Greeks, that the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Son also. When
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William lived no more, his brother Henry I., King of England, called back
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Anselm thither, and there he fell asleep in the Lord. His is a name illustrious
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not for miracles only, nor for holiness, and indeed he had a wondrous love for
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his Lord Who had suffered for him, and for the blessed Maiden Mother of the
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Same our Lord, but also for the deep learning which he used for the defence of
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the Christian Religion and the good of souls. That wonderful knowledge of
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theology which he had, and which is shown in all the books which he wrote,
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seemeth to have been given him from heaven for the teaching of all writers on
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the same subject, who have used what is called the Scholastic method.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Martyr
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# (Apr 24). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-24.txt,
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# English/Sancti/04-24.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
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# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in the source (6-lesson office).
|
||||
id: st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Fidélis, in oppido Sueviæ Sigmaringa ex honesta Reyórum família natus, ab
|
||||
ineunte ætate singularibus natúræ et gratiæ donis ornatus præfulsit. Egregiam
|
||||
quippe sortitus índolem, morúmque optima imbutus disciplína, dum Friburgi
|
||||
philosophíæ et juris utriusque lauream emeruit, in schola étiam Christi ad
|
||||
perfectiónis ápicem sedulo virtútum exercítio conténdere cœpit. Nobílium
|
||||
exínde virórum varias Europæ provincias lustrántium comes ascitus, eos ad
|
||||
christianam pietátem sectandam, tam verbis quam opéribus, excitare non
|
||||
déstitit. Quinimmo in eodem itinere crebris austeritátibus desidéria carnis
|
||||
mortificare, ac ita seípsum regere studuit, ut in tanta rerum vicissitúdine
|
||||
nullo umquam visus fúerit iræ motu perturbari. Juris præterea et justítiæ
|
||||
strenuus propugnator, post réditum in Germaniam celebre sibi nomen acquisívit
|
||||
in advocáti munere; in quo tamen cum fori pericula esset expertus, tutiórem
|
||||
ætérnæ salútis viam íngredi deliberávit, et superna vocatióne illustratus,
|
||||
paulo post ordini Seraphico inter fratres Minores Capuccinos adscribi pétiit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Piæ petitiónes compos redditus, mundi suique contemptor insígnis, in ipso
|
||||
statim tirocinio, magisque cum solemnis professióne vota in gáudio spíritus
|
||||
Dómino nuncupasset, in regulari observántia ómnibus admiratióni fuit et
|
||||
exemplo. Oratióni maxime et sacris litteris vacans, in verbi quoque ministerio
|
||||
singulari grátia excellens, nedum Catholicos ad meliórem frugem, verum étiam
|
||||
heterodoxos ad veritátis cognitiónem attraxit. Plúribus in locis cœnobii
|
||||
præfectus constitútus, prudéntia, justítia, mansuetúdine, discretióne et
|
||||
humilitátis laude, munus sibi demandátum exercuit. Arctíssimæ paupertátis
|
||||
zelator egregius, quidquid vel minus necessárium viderétur, e cœnobio
|
||||
pénitus eliminávit. Inter austera jejunia, vigílias et flagélla salutári
|
||||
seípsum prósequens ódio, in alios amórem, quasi mater in fílios, osténdit. Cum
|
||||
pestífera febris Austríacas militares copias dire affligeret, ipse in extremis
|
||||
infirmórum indigentiis ad assidua caritátis offícia toto spíritu incúbuit. In
|
||||
componéndis étiam animórum dissidiis, aliisque próximi necessitátibus
|
||||
sublevandis consílio et opere adeo præcláre se gessit, ut pater pátriæ
|
||||
merúerit appellari.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Deíparæ Vírginis et rosarii cultor exímius, illíus præcipue aliorúmque
|
||||
Sanctórum patrocinio a Deo postulávit, ut in catholicæ fidei obsequium vitam
|
||||
sibi et sánguinem fúndere licéret. Cumque ardens hoc desidérium in quotidiana
|
||||
Sacri devota celebratióne magis accenderétur, mira Dei providéntia factum est,
|
||||
ut fortis Christi athleta præses eligerétur illárum missiónum, quas
|
||||
Congregátio de Propaganda Fide pro Rhætia tunc témporis institúerat. Quod
|
||||
arduum munus prompto hilaríque animo suscípiens, tanto fervore exsecutus est,
|
||||
ut, plúribus hæreticis ad orthodoxam fidem conversis, spes non modica
|
||||
effulserit totius illíus gentis Ecclésiæ et Christo reconciliandæ. Prophetíæ
|
||||
dono præditus, futuras Rhætiæ calamitátes, suique necem ab hæreticis
|
||||
inferéndam sæpius prædixit. Postquam vero insidiárum probe cónscius impendénti
|
||||
agoni se præparasset, die vigesima quarta Aprilis anno millesimo
|
||||
sexcentésimo vigesimo secundo, ad ecclésiam loci, Sevisium nuncupati, se
|
||||
cóntulit; ubi ab hæreticis, qui pridie conversiónem simulántes, eum dolóse ad
|
||||
prædicándum invitáverant, concióne tumultuárie interrupta, per verbera ac
|
||||
vulnera eídem crudeliter inflicta gloriósam mortem magno et álacri corde
|
||||
perpéssus, primítias Mártyrum memorátæ Congregatiónis proprio sánguine
|
||||
consecrávit; plúribus signis et miraculis exínde clarus, præsertim Curiæ et
|
||||
Feldkírchii, ubi summa pópuli veneratióne illíus relíquiæ asservántur.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Fidelis was born of the respectable family of Rey in the town of Sigmaringen in
|
||||
Swabia. From his childhood he was adorned with many bright gifts of nature and
|
||||
grace. Intellectually distinguished, and assisted by all the advantages of
|
||||
education, he took at Fribourg the degrees of Philosophy and of Civil and Canon
|
||||
Law, and it was while engaged in these studies, that he began to strive after
|
||||
the height of perfection in the school of Christ, to which end he earnestly
|
||||
trained himself in all the exercises of godliness. He ceased not to exhort to
|
||||
Christian godliness, both by his words and works, the noblemen who made him
|
||||
their companion, and who were drawn from the chief families of diverse parts of
|
||||
Europe. While on his travels, he was careful to mortify the lusts of the flesh
|
||||
by frequent austerities, and so to get the command of himself, that he was
|
||||
never seen under any circumstances to be moved to anger. He was a zealous
|
||||
champion of law and justice, and when he returned into Germany, he won a most
|
||||
distinguished name in his profession as an advocate. After a while, however, in
|
||||
view of the dangers which beset him at the Bar, he determined to enter on a
|
||||
path safer as regarded his eternal salvation, and, in obedience to an inward
|
||||
call from above, he sought admission into the Seraphic Order, among the
|
||||
Capuchin Friars Minor.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
After he had obtained his holy wish, he showed himself even in his noviceship a
|
||||
singular despiser of the world and of himself, and still more so when with
|
||||
great spiritual joy he had made his solemn profession to the Lord. By his
|
||||
observance of the Rule, he became the wonder and the example of all. He gave
|
||||
himself chiefly to prayer and sacred learning, but he excelled, by a remarkable
|
||||
grace, in the ministry of the Word, and thereby not only stirred up the
|
||||
Catholics to bring forth more fruit, but also drew misbelievers to the
|
||||
knowledge of the truth. He was set at the head of communities of Friars in
|
||||
diverse places, and discharged the duty so laid upon him with great praise for
|
||||
prudence, justice, meekness, wisdom, and lowliness. He was animated by a
|
||||
vehement love of the strictest poverty, and cleansed the convent of whatever
|
||||
was not altogether needful. While he pursued himself with an healthy hatred,
|
||||
and most stern fastings, watchings, and scourgings, he showed to all others a
|
||||
love like the love of a mother for her sons. When a contagious fever made
|
||||
horrid ravages among the Austrian soldiers, he gave himself up with his whole
|
||||
soul to unwearied offices of tenderness toward the helpless sick. In allaying
|
||||
quarrels and relieving the temporal distress of his neighbour, he bore himself
|
||||
with such wisdom and zeal as to earn the name of Father of his country.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He tenderly and warmly loved the maiden Mother of God and her Rosary, and he
|
||||
besought God under the patronage of many of His holy servants, but especially
|
||||
under that of the same blessed Mother, to vouchsafe to let him offer his life
|
||||
and his blood together for the sake of the Catholic faith. This burning desire
|
||||
came upon him more and more, day by day, and by the unexpected Providence of
|
||||
God it came to pass that this brave soldier of Christ was chosen President of
|
||||
the Missions which the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith had at
|
||||
that time just founded for the Grisons. He accepted this hard task with a
|
||||
willing and joyful heart, and discharged it with such zeal, that many heretics
|
||||
were turned to the orthodox faith, and great hope was engendered that the
|
||||
whole of that people would return to the peace of Christ and His Church.
|
||||
Fidelis, who was gifted with the spirit of Prophecy, often foretold the great
|
||||
woes which afterwards came upon the Grisons, and that he himself would be
|
||||
murdered by the heretics. At last, some of the heretics, who pretended to be
|
||||
converted, entreated him to come and preach at the Church of a place which is
|
||||
called Sevis. On the 24th day of April, in the year 1622, he went to Sevis, and
|
||||
began to preach, but his discourse was interrupted by a riot, and he was
|
||||
brutally murdered. By this glorious death, which he suffered with a willing
|
||||
and cheerful heart, he offered to God in his own blood the first-fruits of
|
||||
martyrdom from the abovementioned Congregation. God hath since glorified him by
|
||||
many signs and wonders, especially at Chur and Feldkirch, where his relics are
|
||||
kept with much popular veneration.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Hermenegild, Martyr (Apr 13).
|
||||
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-13.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/04-13.txt (Pope St. Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Book
|
||||
# III, ch. 31). Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous
|
||||
# account. Nocturn 3 (Lectio7-9) is a direct `@Commune/C2:LectioN`
|
||||
# cross-reference to the Common of a Martyr, not transcribed here.
|
||||
id: st-hermenegild
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Book III, ch. 31"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Hermenegildus rex, Leovigildi regis Visigothorum filius, ab Ariana hæresi ad
|
||||
fidem catholicam viro reverendissimo Leandro Hispalensi episcopo, dudum mihi in
|
||||
amicitiis familiariter juncto, prædicante, conversus est. Quem pater Arianus, ut
|
||||
ad eamdem hæresim rediret, et præmiis suadere, et minis terrere conatus est.
|
||||
Cumque ille constantissime responderet, numquam se veram fidem posse relinquere,
|
||||
quam semel agnovisset: iratus pater eum privavit regno, rebusque exspoliavit
|
||||
omnibus. Cumque nec sic virtutem mentis illius emollire valuisset, in arcta
|
||||
illum custodia concludens, collum manusque illius ferro ligavit. Cœpit ítaque
|
||||
Hermenegildus rex juvenis terrenum regnum despicere, et forti desiderio
|
||||
cæleste quærens, in ciliciis vinculatus jacens, omnipotenti Deo ad confortandum
|
||||
se, preces effundere; tantoque sublimius gloriam transeuntis mundi despicere,
|
||||
quanto et religatus agnoverat nihil fuísse, quod potuerit auferri.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Superveniente autem Paschalis festivitatis die, intempestæ noctis silentio, ad
|
||||
eum perfidus pater Arianum episcopum misit, ut ex ejus manu sacrilegæ
|
||||
consecrationis communionem perciperet, atque per hoc ad patris gratiam redire
|
||||
mereretur. Sed vir Deo deditus, Ariano episcopo venienti exprobravit, ut debuit,
|
||||
ejusque a se perfidiam dignis increpationibus repulit: quia etsi exterius
|
||||
jacebat ligatus, apud se tamen in magno mentis culmine stabat securus. Ad se
|
||||
ítaque reverso episcopo, Arianus pater infremuit, statimque suos apparitores
|
||||
misit, qui constantissimum Confessorem Dei illic ubi jacebat, occiderent; quod
|
||||
et factum est. Nam mox ut ingressi sunt, securim cerebro ejus infigentes, vitam
|
||||
corporis abstulerunt: hocque in eo valuerunt perimere, quod ipsum quoque, qui
|
||||
peremptus est, in se constiterat despexisse. Sed pro ostendenda vera ejus
|
||||
gloria, superna quoque non defuere miracula. Nam cœpit in nocturno silentio
|
||||
psalmodiæ cantus ad corpus ejusdem Regis et Martyris audiri: atque ideo
|
||||
veraciter Regis, quia et Martyris.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Quidam étiam ferunt, quod illic nocturno tempore accensæ lampades apparebant;
|
||||
unde et factum est, quatenus corpus illius, ut videlicet Martyris, jure a
|
||||
cunctis fidelibus venerari debuisset. Pater vero perfidus et parricida, commotus
|
||||
pœnitentia, hoc fecisse se doluit, nec tamen usque ad obtinendam salutem
|
||||
pœnituit. Nam quia vera esset catholica fides agnovit, sed gentis suæ timore
|
||||
perterritus, ad hanc pervenire non meruit. Qui, oborta ægritudine, ad extrema
|
||||
perductus est, et Leandro episcopo, quem prius vehementer afflixerat,
|
||||
Reccaredum regem filium suum, quem in sua hæresi relinquebat, commendare
|
||||
curavit, ut in ipso quoque talia faceret, qualia et in fratre suis
|
||||
exhortationibus fecisset. Qua commendatione expleta, defunctus est. Post cujus
|
||||
mortem Reccaredus rex non patrem perfidum, sed fratrem Martyrem sequens, ab
|
||||
Arianæ hæreseos pravitate conversus est, totamque Visigothorum gentem ita ad
|
||||
veram perduxit fidem, ut nullum in suo regno militare permitteret, qui regni Dei
|
||||
hostis exsistere per hæreticam pravitatem non timeret.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Hermenegild, the son of Leovigild, King of the Visigoths, was turned from the
|
||||
Arian heresy to the Catholic Faith by the preaching of that most worshipful man
|
||||
Leander, Bishop of Seville, the same who was for a long season mine own familiar
|
||||
friend. Then his father, being himself an Arian, strove to bring him back to
|
||||
that heresy, first by offering him gifts, and then seeking to awe him by
|
||||
threatening. And when he answered alway that, having once had knowledge of the
|
||||
true faith, he never could forsake it, his father was wroth, and took away his
|
||||
kingdom from him, and plundered him of all his goods. And when not even so could
|
||||
he sap the manliness of his soul, he cast him into a most strait prison, having
|
||||
his neck and his hands in fetters of iron. And so that young King Hermenegild
|
||||
began to hold in little esteem an earthly kingdom, and to long exceedingly for
|
||||
an heavenly. Yea, he clothed himself in sackcloths in the prison, and as he lay
|
||||
bound therein, he poured forth supplications to Almighty God to give him
|
||||
strength. There he lay bound, having suffered the loss of all things, but his
|
||||
suffering made him but to esteem more worthless the glory of this world, which
|
||||
passeth away so easily.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
But when the day of the glad Passover came, at dead of night, the unbelieving
|
||||
father sent to his son the Arian Bishop, to offer him, as the price of his
|
||||
favour, to receive at the hands of the said Bishop the Communion which was the
|
||||
result of a sacrilegious consecration. But when the Arian Bishop came into the
|
||||
prison, the servant of God, remembering that he was not his own but God's man,
|
||||
rebuked the unbeliever as he deserved, and drave him from his presence with just
|
||||
reproaches for though he was weak and bound as touching this outer body, yet was
|
||||
he strong in the mighty castle of his soul. The Bishop, therefore, went away
|
||||
again to that Arian father. And when he came to Leovigild, he waxed exceeding
|
||||
wroth, and sent his servants to kill God's faithful witness where he lay. Which
|
||||
thing was done for as soon as they came to him into the prison, they clave his
|
||||
head with an axe, and freed him from the dying life of this house of our
|
||||
tabernacle. And so they did to him all that which they that kill the body are
|
||||
able to do, and it was a thing which now of a long season he feared not, seeing
|
||||
that when they have done that, they have no more that they can do, but fearing
|
||||
rather Him Who, when He hath killed, hath power to cast both body and soul into
|
||||
hell. But God, to make manifest the glory of His servant, was pleased to work
|
||||
signs from heaven, for of a sudden the solemn swell of singing of Psalms was
|
||||
heard at that dead hour of night from round about the place where lay the body
|
||||
of the kingly martyr, kingly now in an higher and truer sense than the sense of
|
||||
earthly kingship, since he had witnessed a good confession for the truth,
|
||||
sealing it with his blood.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Come say, too, that lights were seen there that night. Wherefore it came to pass
|
||||
that the body of the martyr became the rightful object of reverence to all God's
|
||||
faithful people. The unbelieving father, murderer of his own child, was seized
|
||||
with remorse, and repented him of what he had done, but he sorrowed not unto
|
||||
salvation. For though he knew that the Catholic faith was true, he stood in fear
|
||||
of his people, and deserved not to attain unto it. He fell sick, and, when he
|
||||
was at the point of death, he made it his duty to recommend King Reccared his
|
||||
surviving son to the care of the Bishop Leander, whom aforetime he had grievously
|
||||
persecuted, that though Reccared was now left in heresy, the Bishop might work
|
||||
in him by his exhortations the same change that he had worked in his brother,
|
||||
which when Leovigild had said, he died. After his death, King Reccared took for
|
||||
his example not his unbelieving father but his martyred brother. He forsook the
|
||||
Arian heresy, and brought the whole nation of the Visigoths to believe in the
|
||||
true faith, so that he allowed no man in his kingdom to be an officer, who dared
|
||||
any longer range himself through heresy as an enemy of the Kingdom of God.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Isidore of Seville, Bishop,
|
||||
# Confessor, Doctor of the Church (Apr 4). Sourced directly from
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-04.txt, English/Sancti/04-04.txt.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
|
||||
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 5:13-19) is a bare incipit
|
||||
# ("Et réliqua"), so only the homily is authored (not marked isGospel),
|
||||
# St. Isidore's own homily (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined).
|
||||
id: st-isidore-of-seville
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Isidorus, natione Hispanus, Doctor egregius, ex nova Carthagine Severiano patre
|
||||
provinciæ duce natus, a sanctis episcopis Leandro Hispalensi, et Fulgentio
|
||||
Carthaginiensi fratribus suis pie et liberaliter educatus, Latinis, Græcis, et
|
||||
Hebraicis litteris, divinisque et humanis legibus instructus, omni scientiarum,
|
||||
atque christianarum virtutum genere præstantissimus evasit. Adhuc adolescens
|
||||
hæresim Arianam, quæ gentem Gotharum Hispaniæ latissime dominantem jampridem
|
||||
invaserat, tanta constantia palam oppugnavit, ut parum abfuerit, quin ab hæreticis
|
||||
necaretur. Leandro vita functo ad Hispalensem cathedram invitus quidem, sed
|
||||
urgente in primis Reccaredo rege, magnoque étiam cleri populique consensu
|
||||
assumitur, ejtisque electionem sanctus Gregorius Magnus, nedum auctoritate
|
||||
apostolica confirmasse, sed et electum transmisso de more pallio decorasse, quin
|
||||
étiam suum et apostolicæ Sedis in universa Hispania Vicarium constituisse
|
||||
perhibetur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In episcopatu quantum fuerit constans, humilis, patiens, misericors, in christiana
|
||||
et ecclesiastica disciplina instauranda sollicitus, edque verbo et scriptis
|
||||
stabilienda indefessus, atque omni demum virtutum ornamento insignitus, nullius
|
||||
lingua enarrare sufficeret. Monastici quoque instituti per Hispaniam promotor et
|
||||
amplificator eximius plura construxit monasteria, collegia itidem ædificavit, ubi
|
||||
studiis sacris et lectionibus vacans, plurimos discipulos, qui ad eum
|
||||
confluebant, erudivit, quos inter sancti Ildefonsus Toletanus, et Brauho
|
||||
Cæsaraugustanus episcopi emicuerunt. Coacto Hispali concilio, Acephalorum hæresim
|
||||
Hispaniæ jam minitantem, acri et eloquenti disputatidne fregit atque contrivit.
|
||||
Tantam apud omnes sanctitatis et doctrinæ famam adeptus est, ut elapso vix ab ejus
|
||||
obitu sextodecimo anno, universa Toletana synodo duorum supra quinquaginta
|
||||
episcoporum plaudente, ipsoque étiam sancto Ildefonso suffragante, Doctor
|
||||
egregius, catholicæ Ecclesiæ novissimum decus, in sæculorum fine doctissimus, et
|
||||
cum reverentia nominandus appellari meruerit; eumque sanctus Braulio non modo
|
||||
Gregorio Magno comparaverit, sed et erudiendæ Hispaniæ loco Jacobi Apostoli
|
||||
cælitus datum esse censuerit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Scripsit Isidorus libros etymologiarum, et de ecclesiasticis officiis, aliosque
|
||||
quam plurimos christianæ, et ecclesiasticæ disciplinæ adeo utiles, ut sanctus Leo
|
||||
Papa quartus ad episcopos Britanniæ scribere non dubitaverit, sicut Hierónymi et
|
||||
Augustíni, ita Isidori dicta retinenda esse, ubi contigerit inusitatum negotium,
|
||||
quod per Canones minime definiri possit. Plures étiam ex ejusdem scriptis
|
||||
sententiæ inter canonicas Ecclesiæ leges relatæ conspiciuntur. Præfuit concilio
|
||||
Toletano quarto, omnium Hispaniæ celeberrimo. Denique cum ab Hispania Arianam
|
||||
hæresim eliminasset, morte sua, et regni vastatione a Saracenorum armis publice
|
||||
prænuntiata, postquam quadraginta circiter annos suam rexisset ecclesiam, Hispali
|
||||
migravit in cælum anno sexcentesimo trigesimo sexto. Ejus corpus inter Leandrum
|
||||
fratrem, et Florentinam sororem, ut ipse mandaverat, primo conditum, Ferdinandus
|
||||
primus Castellæ et Legionis rex, ab Eneto Saraceno Hispali dominante, magno
|
||||
pretio redemptum Legionem transtulit, et in ejus honorem templum ædificatum est,
|
||||
ubi miraculis clarus magna populi devotione colitur.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Isidore, the admirable teacher, was a Spaniard by birth, being the son of
|
||||
Severian, governor of the Province of Carthagena. He was trained up in all
|
||||
godliness and learning by his holy brethren Leander, Archbishop of Seville, and
|
||||
Fulgentius, Bishop of Carthagena. He was well instructed in the Latin, Greek, and
|
||||
Hebrew letters, and he came from his masters a most eminent scholar in all human
|
||||
knowledge, and a pattern of all Christian graces. While yet he was very young, he
|
||||
attacked with such firmness the Arian heresy, which had of former times polluted
|
||||
the Gothic nation, who then were the chief rulers of Spain, that he was near being
|
||||
murdered by the heretics. After that Leander was departed this life, Isidore was
|
||||
chosen to the See of Seville, against his own will, but at the vehement instance
|
||||
of King Reccared, and with the strong assent of the clergy and people. Holy
|
||||
Gregory the Great not only confirmed his election by his own Apostolic authority,
|
||||
and caused him to be adorned, as is the custom, with a Pallium sent from the body
|
||||
of Blessed Peter, but is also stated to have appointed him Vicar of the Apostolic
|
||||
See for all Spain.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
When he was Archbishop no tongue can tell how leal he was, how lowly, and meek,
|
||||
and merciful, how careful to restore the laws of Christianity and the Church, and
|
||||
how unwearied in establishing the same by his word and writings, yea, how
|
||||
brightly he shone in all graces. He was a leading promoter and spreader of
|
||||
monastic institutions throughout Spain. He built many monasteries. He founded
|
||||
colleges in which, when his duty allowed him spare time for sacred study and
|
||||
reading, he taught the many disciples who betook themselves to him from all
|
||||
quarters. Among these, two of the most distinguished were the holy Bishops
|
||||
Ildephonsus of Toledo, and Braulio of Saragossa. He called the Council of
|
||||
Seville, wherein, in a most incisive and eloquent discourse, he shattered and
|
||||
crushed the heresy of the Acephali, by which Spain was then threatened. So great
|
||||
was his fame among all men for the holiness of his life and doctrine, that
|
||||
scarcely sixteen years after his death the whole Council of Toledo, by the
|
||||
acclamation of more than fifty Bishops, among whom was the holy Ildephonsus
|
||||
himself, declared him to be worthy to be called the excellent Teacher, the newest
|
||||
ornament of the Catholic Church, one whose learning would endure to the end of
|
||||
the world, and of worshipful memory. It was the opinion of the holy Braulio that
|
||||
he was not only fit to be compared to Gregory the Great, but also that he was a
|
||||
gift from God to Spain instead of the Apostle James.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Isidore wrote Books of Etymologies and on Church Offices, and likewise many
|
||||
others, so useful in the administration of Christian and Church Law, that the
|
||||
holy Pope Leo IV felt no scruple in writing to the Bishops of Britain, that the
|
||||
sayings of Isidore were worthy to be kept like those of Jerome and Augustine,
|
||||
whenever there is to be done some strange work, wherein the rules of the Canon
|
||||
Law are not enough defined. Many sentences from his writings may also be
|
||||
discovered embedded in the Canon Law of the Church itself. He presided over the
|
||||
Fourth Council of Toledo, the most celebrated that ever met in Spain. Before his
|
||||
death he had purged Spain of the Arian heresy, and publicly foretold his own
|
||||
dissolution and the wasting of the kingdom by the Saracens which was to come. He
|
||||
passed away to heaven, at Seville, where he had ruled his Church for forty years,
|
||||
in the year of our Lord 636. In accordance with his own commands, his body was
|
||||
first buried between his brother Leander and his sister Florentina, but
|
||||
Ferdinand I, King of Castille and Leon, bought it for a great price from Enet,
|
||||
the Saracen, who then ruled at Seville, carried it to Leon, and there built a
|
||||
Church in honour of him, wherein his said body lieth, illustrious through
|
||||
miracles, and reverenced with great worship by the people.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Isidore of Seville, De Officiis Ecclesiasticis, Book II, ch. 5 (on Matt 5:13-19)"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Qui in erudiendis, atque instituendis ad virtutem populis præerit, necesse est,
|
||||
ut in omnibus sanctus sit, et in nullo reprehensibihs habeatur. Qui enim alium de
|
||||
peccatis arguit, ipse a peccato debet esse alienus. Nam qua fronte subjectos
|
||||
arguere poterit, cum illi statim possit correctus ingerere: Ante doce te quæ
|
||||
recta sunt? Primitus quippe semetipsum corrigere debet, qui alios ad bene vivendum
|
||||
admonere studet; ita ut in omnibus semetipsum formam vivendi præbeat, cunctosque
|
||||
ad bonum opus, et doctrina et opere provocet. Cui étiam scientia Scripturarum
|
||||
necessaria est: quia si episcopi tantum sancta sit vita, sibi soli prodest, sic
|
||||
vivens. Porro si et doctrina et sermone fuerit eruditus, potest ceteros quoque
|
||||
instruiere, et docere suos, et adversarios repercutere, qui nisi refutati fuerint
|
||||
atque convicti, facile possunt simplicium corda pervertere.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Hujus sermo debet esse purus, simplex, apertus, plenus gravitatis et honestatis,
|
||||
plenus suavitatis et gratiæ, tractans de mysterio legis, de doctrina fidei, de
|
||||
virtute continentiæ, de disciplina justitiæ: unumquemque admonens diversa
|
||||
exhortatione, juxta professionem, morumque qualitatem: scilicet ut prænoscat
|
||||
quid, cui, quando, vel quomodo proferat. Cujus præ ceteris speciale officium est,
|
||||
Scripturas legere, percurrere Canones, exempla sanctorum imitari, vigiliis,
|
||||
jejuniis, orationibus incumbere, cum fratribus pacem habere, nec quemquam de
|
||||
membris suis discerpere; nullum damnare, nisi comprobatum, nullum excommunicare
|
||||
nisi discussum. Quique ita humilitate pariter, et auctoritate præesse debet, ut
|
||||
neque per nimiam humilitatem suam subditorum vitia convalescere faciat, neque
|
||||
per immoderantiam severitatis potestatem exerceat, sed tanto cautius erga
|
||||
commissos sibi, quanto durius a Christo indagari formidat.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Tenebit quoque illam supereminentem donis omnibus caritatem, sine qua omnis
|
||||
virtus nihil est. Custos enim castitatis, caritas; locus autem hujus custodis
|
||||
humilitas. Habebit étiam inter hæc omnia castitatis eminentiam: ita ut mens
|
||||
Christo dedita, ab omni inquinamento carnis sit munda et libera. Inter hæc
|
||||
oportebit cum sollicita dispensatione curam pauperum gerere, esurientes pascere,
|
||||
vestire nudos, suscipere peregrinos, captivos redimere, viduas ac pupillos
|
||||
tueri, pervigilem in cunctis exhibere curam, providentiam habere distributione
|
||||
discreta. In quo étiam hospitalitas ita erit præcipua, ut omnes cum benignitate
|
||||
et caritate suscipiat. Si enim omnes fideles illud Evangelium audire desiderant:
|
||||
Hospes fui, et suscepistis me; quanto magis episcopus, cujus diversorium
|
||||
cunctorum debet esse receptaculum?
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Whosoever is set over the people to teach them and to catechize them in good
|
||||
works, him it behooveth in all things to be holy, and in nothing to be held
|
||||
blameworthy. For he which rebuketh another for sin, should have no dealings with
|
||||
sin himself. Since with what face can he rebuke them which are under him, if he
|
||||
which is rebuked of him be able to answer him straightway, saying Begin by
|
||||
teaching thyself to do well? Verily, whosoever setteth himself to teach others to
|
||||
live well, him it behooveth first of all to correct his own life, so that in all
|
||||
things he may be able to give the same his own life for an example, and may
|
||||
provoke all to good living by his works as well as by his words. Likewise also he
|
||||
must needs be learned in the Scriptures, since if the life of a Bishop be holy
|
||||
only, then is he profitable to himself only. But if he be learned also in his
|
||||
teaching and discourse, he is able to edify his neighbors, both teaching such as
|
||||
are his own, and confounding the gainsayers, who, unless they be confounded and
|
||||
unmasked, are easily able to lead astray the hearts of the simple.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Such an one it behooveth, that his discourse should be pure, plain, open, very
|
||||
weighty, and seemly, full of sweetness and comeliness, touching often the
|
||||
mystery of Law, the teaching of faith, the manliness of self-control, and the
|
||||
training of righteousness. Such an one it behooveth to exhort all men with
|
||||
varying exhortation, according to the profession and way of life of each, that
|
||||
is to say, such an one must know what, to whom, when, and how to speak. His duty
|
||||
is, before all others, to read the Scriptures, to know the Canons, to copy the
|
||||
examples of the Saints, to be instant in watching, fasting, and prayer, to keep
|
||||
peace with his brethren, to separate himself from none of the members of Christ,
|
||||
to condemn no man untried, and to excommunicate no man unheard. Such an one it
|
||||
behoveth, as he is the first in authority, so also to be the first in lowliness,
|
||||
yet ever so, that, by misplaced lowliness, he suffer not nor encourage the sins
|
||||
of those that are under him, nor use his authority hardly and with violence, but
|
||||
as one that is the more careful of the flock committed unto him, as being mindful
|
||||
of that stricter account which he will have to give at the fearful judgment seat
|
||||
of Christ.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Such an one must have firm hold on charity, that gift which surpassed all
|
||||
others, and without which all others are nothing worth. Charity is the keeper of
|
||||
chastity, and that keeper's home is lowly-mindedness. With all other gifts he
|
||||
must needs be eminent for purity, yea, his must be a mind belonging utterly to
|
||||
Christ, and clean and free from any fleshly defilement. But these are not all
|
||||
his needful gifts. Besides these, it behoveth him to undertake the care of the
|
||||
poor, and to do the same with zeal and likewise with prudence, to feed the
|
||||
hungry, to clothe the naked, to entertain strangers, to ransom prisoners, to be
|
||||
the guardian of the widow and the orphan, to watch over all without ceasing, and
|
||||
to be heedful that his alms be neither foolish nor wasteful. In him hospitality
|
||||
must shine, entertaining all men with courtesy and brotherly love; for if it be
|
||||
the duty of all the faithful to listen to that Gospel which saith: I was a
|
||||
stranger, and ye took Me in, how much more is it the duty of Bishops, whose
|
||||
house it behooveth to be an home for all men?
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Peter Canisius, Confessor,
|
||||
# Doctor of the Church (Apr 27). Sourced directly from
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-27.txt, English/Sancti/04-27.txt.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
|
||||
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 5:13-19) is a bare incipit
|
||||
# ("Et réliqua"), so only the homily is authored (not marked isGospel),
|
||||
# St. Peter Canisius's own homily (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9
|
||||
# combined).
|
||||
id: st-peter-canisius
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Petrus Canisius, Noviomagi in Gelria eo ipso anno natus est, quo Lutherus in
|
||||
Germania aperta rebellione ab Ecclesia descivit, et Ignatius de Loyola, in
|
||||
Hispania, terrestri militia abdicata, ad prælianda prælia Domini se convertit;
|
||||
Deo nimirum portendente, quos ille posthac adversarios, quem sacræ militiæ
|
||||
ducem esset habiturus. Coloniæ Agrippinæ, quo studiorum causa concesserat,
|
||||
perpetuo castitatis voto se Deo obstrinxit, et paulo post Societati Jesu nomen
|
||||
dedit. Sacerdotio auctus, catholicam fidem contra novatorum insidias
|
||||
legationibus, sermonibus, scriptis libris statim defendendam suscepit. Ob
|
||||
præclaram sapientiam et exploratum rerum usum a Cardinali Augustano et a
|
||||
pontificiis Legatis magnopere expetitus, semel atque iterum concilio Tridentino
|
||||
interfuit; cujus étiam decreta ex auctoritate Pii quarti Pontificis maximi rite
|
||||
per Germaniam promulganda et in morem inducenda curavit. A Paulo quarto ad
|
||||
conventum Petricoviensem ire jussus, aliisque a Gregorio decimo tertio
|
||||
legationibus obeundis adhibitus, alacri semper et numquam fracto difficultatibus
|
||||
animo, gravissima, religionis negotia tractávit, ac vel inter præsentia vitæ
|
||||
discrimina ad felicem exitum perduxit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Superno caritátis igne, quem in Basilica Vaticana e penetralibus Cordis Jesu
|
||||
olim copiose hauserat, inflammatus, et divinæ gloriæ amplificandæ unice
|
||||
intentus, dici vix potest, quot per annos amplius quadraginta labores
|
||||
susceperit. ærumnasque pertulerit, ut complures Germaniæ civitates ac
|
||||
provincias vel ab hæreseos contagione defenderet, vel hæresi infectas
|
||||
catholicæ fidei restitueret. In Ratisbonensi et Augustano conventu imperii
|
||||
proceres ad jura Ecclesiæ tuenda et mores populorum emendandos excitavit: in
|
||||
Vormatiensi insolescentes impietatis magistros ad silentium adegit. A sancto
|
||||
Ignatio Germaniæ superioris provinciæ præfectus, domos et collegia multis
|
||||
locis condidit. Collegium Germanicum, Romæ constitutum omni ope provehere
|
||||
atque amplificare studuit; in academiis sacrarum humanarumque disciplinarum
|
||||
studia, miserandum in modum collapsa instauravit; contra Centuriatores
|
||||
Magdeburgenses duo volumina egregie conscripsit: et summam doctrinæ
|
||||
christianæ theologorum judicio et publico trium sæculorum usu ubique
|
||||
probatissimam, alíaque complura ad populorum institutionem valde accommodata
|
||||
in vulgus edidit. Quam ob rem hæreticorum malleus et alter Germaniæ apostolus
|
||||
appellatus, plane dignus habitus est, qui ad tutandam in Germania religionem
|
||||
divinitus electus putaretur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Inter hæc, precatione crebra et assidua rerum supernarum commentatione,
|
||||
lacrimis sæpe perfusus et ánimo interdum a sensibus abducto, Deo se conjungere
|
||||
solitus erat. A viris principibus vel sanctitate clarissimis et a quatuor
|
||||
summis Pontificibus magno in honore habitus, adeo de se demisse sentiebat ut se
|
||||
omnium minimum et diceret et haberet. Vindobonensem episcopatum semel iterum ac
|
||||
tertio recusavit. Moderatoribus suis obsequentissimus paratus erat ad ipsorum
|
||||
nutum omnia relinquere aut aggredi étiam cum valetudinis et vitæ periculo.
|
||||
Voluntaria sui ipsius coërcitione castitatem perpetuo sepsit. Demum Friburgi
|
||||
Helvetiorum, ubi plurimum pro Dei gloria et salute animarum ultimis vitæ suæ
|
||||
annis desudaverat, migravit ad Deum die vigesima prima Decembris anno millesimo
|
||||
quingentesimo nonagesimo septimo, ætatis suæ septimo supra septuagesimum. Hunc
|
||||
vero strenuum catholicæ veritatis propugnatorem Pius Papa nonus cælitum
|
||||
Beatorum honoribus adauxit; novis autem fulgentem signis Pius undecimus
|
||||
Pontifex maximus, anno jubilæi Sanctorum numero accensuit, simulque Doctorem
|
||||
universalis Ecclesiæ declaravit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Peter Canisius was born at Nijmegen in Gelderland, the Netherlands, in the very
|
||||
year in which Luther openly rebelled against the Church in Germany, and in
|
||||
which Ignatius Loyola in Spain gave up earthly warfare to fight the battles of
|
||||
the Lord; God thus shewed what adversaries he was to encounter, and under whose
|
||||
leadership he was to fight. He made his studies at Cologne, where he took a vow
|
||||
to God of perpetual chastity, and shortly afterwards entered the Society of
|
||||
Jesus. After his ordination as priest, he began at once to defend the Catholic
|
||||
faith against the wiles of the innovators by missions, sermons, and writing
|
||||
books. His eminent wisdom and experience caused the Cardinal of Augsburg and
|
||||
the papal legates to invite him to the Council of Trent, and he was present at
|
||||
its sittings more than once. Moreover, by the authority of the Supreme
|
||||
Pontiff, Pius IV, he was entrusted with the charge of making its decrees known
|
||||
in Germany and carrying them into effect. Paul IV sent him to the Diet of
|
||||
Petrikau, and Gregory XIII entrusted him with the carrying out of other
|
||||
missions, all of which he undertook with an eager spirit, never conquered by
|
||||
any difficulties, and carried the most important affairs of religion through
|
||||
all the crises of this present life to a successful end.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Inflamed with the heavenly fire of charity, which he had once received in the
|
||||
Vatican basilica from the sanctuary of the Heart of Jesus, and intent only on
|
||||
increasing the glory of God, it is almost impossible to describe how, for more
|
||||
than forty years, he took upon himself laborious tasks, and endured hardship,
|
||||
that he might defend very many cities and provinces of Germany from the
|
||||
contagion of heresy, or restore to the Catholic faith those that were infected
|
||||
with heresy. At the Diets of Ratisbon and Augsburg, he exhorted the princes of
|
||||
the Empire to defend the rights of the Church and reform the lives of their
|
||||
subjects. At Worms he reduced the insolent teachers of impiety to silence. St.
|
||||
Ignatius made him prefect of the province of Upper Germany, where he founded
|
||||
houses and colleges in many places. He used every effort to advance and
|
||||
enlarge the German College founded at Rome; he restored the study of sacred
|
||||
and profane learning in academies, which had fallen into a wretched condition.
|
||||
He wrote two excellent volumes against the Centuriators of Magdeburg; and he
|
||||
edited a summary of Christian doctrine, which has been thoroughly approved by
|
||||
the judgment of theologians and by common use everywhere for three centuries,
|
||||
as well as very many other works useful for public instruction in the vulgar
|
||||
tongue. For all these reasons he was called the Hammer of the Heretics, and the
|
||||
Second Apostle of Germany, and is rightly thought to have been worthy of having
|
||||
been chosen by God to protect religion in Germany.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In these activities he was accustomed to unite himself to God by frequent
|
||||
prayer and assiduous meditation on heavenly things, often bathed in tears and
|
||||
sometimes with his soul rapt in ecstasy. He was held in great honor by men of
|
||||
rank, or of most distinguished holiness, and by four of the Supreme Pontiffs,
|
||||
but he thought so humbly of himself, that he spoke of and held himself as the
|
||||
least of all. He refused the bishopric of Vienna no less than three times. He
|
||||
was most obedient to his superiors, and ready at their mere nod to stop or to
|
||||
undertake all labors, even at the risk of his health and life. He guarded his
|
||||
chastity with perpetual voluntary self-mortification. At length, at Fribourg in
|
||||
Switzerland, where during the last years of his life he had labored much for
|
||||
the glory of God and the salvation of souls, he passed to God on the 21st day
|
||||
of December, 1597, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. This zealous
|
||||
champion of Catholic truth was adorned with the heavenly honors of the blessed
|
||||
by Pope Pius IX; and, as fresh miracles added to his renown, the Supreme
|
||||
Pontiff Pius XI, in the year of the Jubilee, included him among the Saints, and
|
||||
at the same time declared him a Doctor of the Universal Church.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Peter Canisius, Notes on the Gospels, on the feast of St. Martin (on Matt 5:13-19)"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Amabo et colam missos a Christo Apostolos horumque successores in Evangelii
|
||||
semine spargendo sedulos et indefessos propagandi verbi cooperatores, qui jure
|
||||
testari possunt: Sic nos existimet homo ut ministros Christi et dispensatores
|
||||
mysteriorum Dei. Voluit enim Christus ut vigilantissimus ac fidelissimus
|
||||
paterfamilias per tales ministros ac legatos lucernam evangelicam igne cælitus
|
||||
demisso accendi et accensam non modio supponi, sed super candelabrum
|
||||
constitui, quæ suum splendorem longe lateque diffunderet omnesque tum
|
||||
Judæorum tum gentium vigentes tenebras et errores profligaret.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Etenim evangelico Doctori sat non est, verbo lucere populo, et vocem in
|
||||
deserto clamantem præstare multisque in pietate juvandis lingua operam dare,
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ne alioquin, si verbi ministerium prætermittat, canis mutus non valens
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latrare a propheta dicatur. Sed et ardere illum oportet, ut opere atque
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caritate instructus, munus suum ornet evangelicum, Paulumque ducem sequatur.
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Is quippe non contentus Ephesiorum episcopo demandare: Præcipe hoc et doce:
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labora sicut bonus miles Christi Jesu: constanter étiam apud amicos et
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inimicos evangelizávit, ac episcopis apud Ephesum collectis bona dixit
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conscientia: Vos scitis, quomodo nihil subtraxerim utilium, quominus
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annuntiarem vobis, et docerem vos publice et per domos, testificans Judæis
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atque Gentilibus in Deum pœnitentiam et fidem in Dominum nostrum Jesum
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Christum.
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Talem enim pastorem decet esse in Ecclesia, qui more Pauli, omnibus omnia
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fiat, ut in illo reperiat æger curationem, mæstus lætitiam, desperans
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fiduciam, imperitus doctrinam, dubius consilium, pœnitens veniam atque
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solatium, et quidquid tandem ad salutem est cuique necessarium. Quocirca
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pulchre Christus, cum primarios mundi Ecclesiæque, doctores constituere
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vellet, non sat habuit discipulis dicere: Vos estis lux mundi: sed étiam
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illud subjecit: Non potest civitas abscondi supra montem posita, neque
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accendunt lucernam et ponunt eam sub modio, sed super candelabrum, ut luceat
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omnibus qui in domo sunt. Errant enim opinantes ecclesiastæ, quod muneri suo
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doctrinæ splendore magis quam vitæ integritate et caritatis ardore possint
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satisfacere.
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en: >-
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I shall always love and reverence the Apostles sent by Christ, and their
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successors as well, in their work of sowing the Gospel seed. For all such may
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justly say of themselves: Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of
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Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. It was Christ himself, like a
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watchful and most faithful householder, who wished that the Gospel-lamp should
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be lighted by his ministers and stewards with fire sent down from heaven; and
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once lighted, that it should not be put under a bushel, but set upon a
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candlestick, so as to spread its brightness far and wide, and put to flight all
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darkness and error rife among both Jews and Gentiles.
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It is not enough for the Gospel-teacher to please the people with his
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speaking. He must also be the voice of one crying in the wilderness, and so by
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his eloquence call many to the good life. He must not be a dumb dog, not even
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able to bark, as spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah. Yea, he should also burn in
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such a way that, equipped with good works and love, he may adorn his
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evangelical office, and follow the leadership of Paul. He indeed was not
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satisfied with bidding the bishop of the Ephesians: This command and teach:
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conduct thyself in work as a good soldier of Christ Jesus; but he unflaggingly
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preached the Gospel to friend and foe alike, and said with a good conscience to
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the bishops gathered at Ephesus: Ye know how I kept back nothing that was
|
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profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and
|
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from house to house, urging Jews and Gentiles to turn unto God in repentance
|
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and to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Such should be the shepherd in the Church who, like Paul, becometh all things
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to all men, so that the sick may find healing in him; the sad, joy; the
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desperate, hope; the ignorant, instruction; those in doubt, advice; the
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penitent, forgiveness and comfort, and finally, every one whatever is
|
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necessary unto salvation. And so Christ, when he wished to appoint the chief
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teachers of the world and of the Church, did not limit himself to saying to his
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disciples: Ye are the light of the world: but also added: A city that is set on
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an hill cannot be hid; neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
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bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the
|
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house. Those churchmen err who imagine that it is by brilliant preaching that
|
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they fulfill their office; rather, it is by holiness of life and an
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all-embracing love.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Vincent Ferrer, Confessor (Apr 5).
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# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-05.txt,
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# English/Sancti/04-05.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
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# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in the source (6-lesson office).
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id: st-vincent-ferrer
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Vincentius, honesta stirpe Valentiæ in Hispania natus, ab ineunte ætate cor
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||||
gessit senile. Qui dum caliginosi hujus sæculi labilem cursum pro ingenii sui
|
||||
modulo consideraret, religionis habitum in ordine Prædicatorum decimo octavo
|
||||
ætatis suæ anno suscepit; et emissa solemni professione, sacris litteris sedulo
|
||||
incumbens, theologiæ lauream summa cum laude consecutus est. Mox obtenta a
|
||||
superioribus licentia, verbum Dei prædicare, Judæorum perfidiam arguere,
|
||||
Saracenorum errores confutare tanta virtute et efficacia cœpit, ut ingentem
|
||||
ipsorum infiddlium multitudinem ad Christi fidem perduxerit, et multa
|
||||
Christianorum millia a peccatis ad pœnitentiam, a vitus ad virtutem revocarit.
|
||||
Electus enim a Deo, ut monita salutis in omnes gentes, tribus et linguas
|
||||
difunderet, et extremi tremendique judicii diem appropinquare ostenderet, omnium
|
||||
auditorum animos terrore concussos, atque a terrenis affectibus avulsos, ad Dei
|
||||
amórem excitabat.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In hoc autem apostolico munere hic vitæ ejus tenor perpetuus fuit quotidie
|
||||
Missam summo mane cum cantu celebravit. Quotidie ad populum concionem habuit;
|
||||
inviolabile semper jejunium, nisi urgens adesset necessitas, servavit; sancta et
|
||||
recta consilia nulli denegavit, carnes numquam comedit, nec vestem lineam
|
||||
induit: populorum jurgia sedavit, dissidentia regna pace composuit: et cum
|
||||
vestis inconsutilis Ecclesiæ diro schismate scinderetur, ut uniretur, et unita
|
||||
servaretur, plurimum laboravit. Virtutibus omnibus claruit, suosque detractores
|
||||
et persecutores, in simplicitate et humilitate ambulans, cum mansuetudine
|
||||
recepit, et amplexus est.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Per ipsum divina virtus, in confirmationem vitæ et prædicationis ejus, multa
|
||||
signa et miracula fecit. Nam frequentissime super ægros manus imposuit, et
|
||||
sanitatem adepti sunt: spiritus immundos e corporibus expulit: surdis auditum,
|
||||
mutis loquelam, cæcis visum restituit, leprosos mundavit, mortuos suscitavit.
|
||||
Senio tandem et morbo confectus infatigabilis Evangelii præco, plurimis Europæ
|
||||
provinciis cum ingenti animarum fructu peragratis, Venetiæ in Britannia minori
|
||||
prædicationis et vitæ cursum feliciter consummavit, anno salutis millesimo
|
||||
quadringentesimo decimo nono: quem Callistus tertius sanctorum numero ascripsit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This Vincent was born of respectable parents, at Valencia in Spain. Even as a
|
||||
child he had an heart like the heart of an old man. Considering, to the utmost of
|
||||
his young understanding, how fleeting is the course of this dark world, he, in
|
||||
the eighteenth year of his age, took the habit of a Friar in the Order of
|
||||
Preachers. After he had made his solemn profession, he devoted himself to sacred
|
||||
learning, and took the degree of Master in Divinity with much distinction. He
|
||||
soon after received permission from his superiors to preach the word of God, on
|
||||
which duty he entered with such power and success, striving against the
|
||||
unbelief of the Jews, and overthrowing the errors of the Saracens, that he
|
||||
brought an exceeding great multitude of unbelievers to believe in Christ, and
|
||||
turned many thousands of Christians from sin to sorrow, and from vice to virtue.
|
||||
He was a chosen vessel unto God to proclaim the tidings of salvation among all
|
||||
nations, and tribes, and tongues, crying out that the last day, that awful day of
|
||||
judgment, is at hand, smiting consternation into the minds of all, as many as
|
||||
heard him, weaning their love from a perishing world, and turning it to God.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
While Vincent wrought the Apostolic work of preaching committed to him, he lived
|
||||
ever as follows: Every morning he sang a solemn Mass, and every day he preached
|
||||
in public. He fasted every day, unless prevented by some absolute necessity. He
|
||||
refused to no one his holy and just advice. He never ate meat, nor wore linen. He
|
||||
quieted public disturbances, and negotiated the peace of kingdoms. When the
|
||||
seamless garment of the Church was rent by an horrid schism, he worked his every
|
||||
nerve to unite it again, and keep it one. He was a burning and a shining light of
|
||||
all virtues, walking always in lowliness and simpleness, so that he meekly
|
||||
welcomed and embraced them which spake evil against him and persecuted him.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The Power of God confirmed his life and doctrine with many great signs and
|
||||
wonders. He often laid his hands upon the sick and they recovered. He cast out
|
||||
unclean spirits, and made the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, and the blind to
|
||||
see. He cleansed the lepers, and raised the dead. After passing through many
|
||||
countries of Europe with exceeding profit to souls, worn out with age and
|
||||
disease, but still ever the same unwearied herald of the Gospel, he brought his
|
||||
life and his preaching together to an happy end, at Vannes in Brittany, in the
|
||||
year of salvation 1419. Pope Callistus III. numbered him with the Saints.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
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