Continues the full-year sanctoral import: St. Stephen of Hungary, St. Pius X, St. Lawrence Justinian, Ss. Protus and Hyacinth, the Holy Name of Mary, the Seven Sorrows of the BVM (Duplex II Classis, own full proper content except Nocturn 2, a real cross-reference to Passion Friday's own temporal content), the Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis, St. Joseph of Cupertino, Our Lady of Ransom, and St. Wenceslaus. Ss. Protus and Hyacinth (Sep 11) were previously excluded under a stale "real secondary saint blocked by the Nativity's own octave, same as St. Clare in August" note -- wrong, same class of error already corrected for St. Tiburtius/Susanna in August: the octave-window exclusion was never a real rule. Sep 15 (day 8 of the Nativity's own octave) is now also the Seven Sorrows' own fixed day (Duplex II Classis), which wins outright with the octave still commemorated alongside her -- updated september-sanctoral.test.ts's own "excluded secondary saints" case accordingly, splitting it into the still-valid Sep 9 (Gorgonius) half and a new Sep 15 case reflecting the real winner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-12.txt's own
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# untagged [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper
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# antiphon of this feast, not a Common substitution. (Verbatim text
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# shared with our-lady-of-mount-carmel-antiphon.yml -- a coincidental
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# reuse of the same formulaic BVM-commemoration wording already present
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# in the reference source itself.)
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id: holy-name-of-mary-antiphon
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text:
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la: "Sancta María, * succúrre míseris, juva pusillánimes, réfove flébiles, ora pro pópulo, intérveni pro clero, intercéde pro devóto femineo sexu: séntiant omnes tuum juvámen, quicúmque célebrant tui sancti nóminis commemoratiónem."
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en: "O Holy Mary, * be thou an help to the helpless, a strength to the fearful, a comfort to the sorrowful; pray for the people, plead for the clergy, make intercession for all women vowed to God; may all that are keeping this Commemoration of thine holy Name feel the might of thine assistance."
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-12.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: holy-name-of-mary-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut fidéles tui, qui sub sanctíssimæ
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Vírginis Maríæ Nómine et protectióne lætántur; ejus pia intercessióne,
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a cunctis malis liberéntur in terris, et ad gáudia ætérna perveníre
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mereántur in cælis.
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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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Grant we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that thy faithful people, who
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rejoice in the Name and keeping of the most holy Virgin Mary, may by
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her Motherly prayers be freed from all ills upon earth, and worthily
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attain unto thine everlasting joy in heaven.
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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: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-24.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: our-lady-of-ransom-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui per gloriosíssimam Fílii tui Matrem, ad liberándos Christi
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fidéles a potestáte paganórum nova Ecclésiam tuam prole amplificáre
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dignátus es: præsta, quǽsumus; ut, quam pie venerámur tanti operis
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institutrícem, ejus páriter méritis et intercessióne, a peccátis
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ómnibus et captivitáte dǽmonis liberémur.
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Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat
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in unitáte 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 use the glorious Mother of thy Son as a mean to
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ransom Christ's faithful people out of the hands of the unbelievers,
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by enriching thy Church with yet another family, grant, we beseech
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thee, that we who reverently honour her as the Foundress of that
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great work, may for her sake and by her prayers, be redeemed from
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all sin and all bondage unto the evil one.
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Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth
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with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-15.txt's own
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# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
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# this feast, not a Common substitution.
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id: seven-sorrows-of-the-bvm-antiphon
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text:
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la: "Nolíte me consideráre * quod fusca sim, quia decolorávit me sol: fílii matris meæ pugnavérunt contra me."
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en: "Look not upon me * because I am black, because the sun hath tanned me. My mother's children were angry with me."
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-15.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
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# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
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id: seven-sorrows-of-the-bvm-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, in cujus passióne, secúndum Simeónis prophetíam, dulcíssimam
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ánimam gloriósæ Vírginis et Matris Maríæ dolóris gládius pertransívit:
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concéde propítius; ut, qui dolóres ejus venerándo recólimus, passiónis
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tuæ efféctum felícem consequámur.
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Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
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sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, at Whose suffering the prophecy of Simeon was fulfilled, and a
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sword of sorrow pierced through the gentle soul of the glorious Virgin
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and Mother Mary, mercifully grant that we who speak worshipfully of
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her woes, may obtain the saving purchase of thy suffering.
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Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
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world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-11.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: ss-protus-and-hyacinth-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Beatórum Mártyrum tuórum Proti et Hyacínthi nos, Dómine, fóveat pretiósa
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conféssio: et pia júgiter intercéssio tueátur.
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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 Lord, we beseech thee, that the feast of thy blessed Martyrs and
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Bishops Protus and Hyacinth may keep us, and their worshipful prayers
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commend us.
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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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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-18.txt's own
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# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
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# this feast, not a Common substitution.
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id: st-joseph-of-cupertino-antiphon
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text:
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la: "Mortuus sum, * et vita mea est abscóndita cum Christo in Deo."
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en: "I am dead * and my life is hid with Christ in God."
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-18.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui tecum" spelled
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# out per the "Qui vivis" convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
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id: st-joseph-of-cupertino-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui ad unigénitum Fílium tuum exaltátum a terra ómnia tráhere
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disposuísti: pérfice propítius; ut, méritis et exémplo seráphici
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Confessóris tui Joséphi, supra terrénas omnes cupiditátes eleváti, ad
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eum perveníre mereámur.
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Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
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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 art pleased that thine Only-begotten Son being lifted up
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from the earth should draw all things unto Him, be entreated for the
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sake of thy servant Joseph, whom Thou didst make like unto one of the
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Seraphim, and so effectually work in us, that even as he, we also may
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be drawn up above all earthly lusts, and worthily attain unto Him.
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Who livest and reignest with him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
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world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-03.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-pius-x-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui ad tuéndam cathólicam fidem, et univérsa in Christo instauránda
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sanctum Pium, Summum Pontíficem, cælésti sapiéntia et apostólica
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fortitúdine replevísti: concéde propítius; ut, ejus institúta et
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exémpla sectántes, prǽmia consequámur ætérna.
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Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat
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in unitáte 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 to safeguard Catholic faith and to restore all things in
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Christ, didst fill the Supreme Pontiff, Saint Pius, with heavenly wisdom
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and apostolic fortitude: grant in thy mercy: that by striving to fulfill
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his ordinances and to follow his example, we may reap eternal rewards.
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Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth
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with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-02.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-stephen-of-hungary-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Concéde, quǽsumus, Ecclésiæ tuæ, omnípotens Deus: ut beátum Stéphanum
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Confessórem tuum, quem regnántem in terris propagatórem hábuit,
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propugnatórem habére mereátur gloriósum in cælis.
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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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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that even as thy
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blessed Confessor Stephen, while he was a King upon earth, was her
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forwarder, so, now that he is a glorious Saint in heaven, he may be her
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defender.
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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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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-28.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-wenceslaus-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátum Wencesláum per martýrii palmam a terréno principátu ad
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cæléstem glóriam transtulísti: ejus précibus nos ab omni adversitáte
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custódi; et ejúsdem tríbue gaudére consórtio.
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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 make thy blessed servant Wenceslaus to pass by the
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palm of martyrdom from dominion on earth to glory in heaven, keep us,
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at his prayers, from all hurt here, and grant unto us the joy of
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fellowship with him hereafter.
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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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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-17.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
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# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
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id: stigmata-of-st-francis-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Dómine Jesu Christe, qui, frigescénte mundo, ad inflammándum corda
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nostra tui amóris igne, in carne beatíssimi Francísci passiónis tuæ
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sacra Stígmata renovásti: concéde propítius; ut ejus méritis et
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précibus crucem júgiter ferámus, et dignos fructus pæniténtiæ
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faciámus.
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Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
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sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O Lord Jesus Christ, Who, when the love of many was waxing cold, didst
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manifest once more the holy marks of thine own Suffering in the flesh
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of thy most blessed servant Francis, to the end that our hearts might
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kindle again with the fire of the love of thyself, be Thou entreated
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for thy servant's sake, and grant to his and our prayers that we may
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effectually carry thy Cross and bring forth fruits meet for
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repentance.
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Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
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world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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status:
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la: verified
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en: verified
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin
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# Mary (Sep 12). Sourced directly from
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-12.txt, English/Sancti/09-12.txt.
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# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, St. Bernard's own homily on the name of Mary
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# ("Star of the Sea"), combined into one reading. Nocturn 3: the
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# Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope
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# given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9,
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# St. Peter Chrysologus) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation
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# field.
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id: holy-name-of-mary
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 2nd Homily on Luke 1:26 (Missus Est)"
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text:
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la: >-
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Et nomen, inquit, Vírginis Maria. Loquámur pauca, et super hoc
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nómine, quod interpretátum maris stella dícitur, et Matri Vírgini
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valde conveniénter aptátur. Ipsa namque aptíssime síderi
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comparátur, quia sicut sine sui corruptióne sidus suum emíttit
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rádium, sic absque sui læsióne Virgo parturívit Fílium. Nec
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síderi rádius suam mínuit claritátem, nec Vírgini Fílius suam
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integritátem. Ipsa est ígitur nóbilis illa stella ex Jacob orta,
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cujus rádius univérsum orbem illúminat, cujus splendor et
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præfúlget in supérnis, et ínferos pénetrat; terras étiam
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perlústrans, et calefáciens magis mentes quam córpora, fovet
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virtútes, éxcoquit vítia. Ipsa, inquam, est præclára et exímia
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stella super hoc mare magnum et spatiósum necessário subleváta,
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micans méritis, illústrans exémplis.
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O quisquis te intélligis in hujus sǽculi proflúvio magis inter
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procéllas et tempestátes fluctuáre, quam per terram ambuláre; ne
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avértas óculos a fulgóre hujus síderis, si non vis óbrui
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procéllis. Si insúrgant venti tentatiónum, si incúrras scópulos
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tribulatiónum, réspice stellam, voca Maríam. Si jactáris
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supérbiæ undis, si ambitiónis, si detractiónis, si æmulatiónis,
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réspice stellam, voca Maríam. Si iracúndia aut avarítia aut
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carnis illécebra navículam concússerit mentis, réspice ad
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Maríam. Si críminum immanitáte turbátus, consciéntiæ fœditáte
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confúsus, judícii horróre pertérritus, bárathro incípias
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absorbéri tristítiæ, desperatiónis abýsso, cógita Maríam.
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In perículis, in angústiis, in rebus dúbiis Maríam cógita,
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Maríam ínvoca. Non recédat ab ore, non recédat a corde; et, ut
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ímpetres ejus oratiónis suffrágium, non déseras conversatiónis
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exémplum. Ipsam sequens, non dévias; ipsam rogans, non despéras;
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ipsam cógitans, non erras; ipsa tenénte, non córruis; ipsa
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protegénte, non métuis; ipsa duce, non fatigáris; ipsa propítia,
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pérvenis: et sic in temetípso experíris quam mérito dictum sit:
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Et nomen Vírginis María. - Quod quidem venerábile nomen,
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jamprídem in quibúsdam christiáni orbis pártibus speciáli ritu
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cultum, Innocéntius undécimus Románus Póntifex, ob insígnem
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victóriam sub ejusdem Vírginis Maríæ præsídio de immaníssimo
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Turcárum tyránno, cervícibus pópuli christiáni insultánti,
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Viénnæ in Austria partam, et in perenne tanti benefícii
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monuméntum, in Ecclésia universáli síngulis annis celebrári
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præcépit.
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||||
en: >-
|
||||
It is said: And the virgin's name was Mary. Let us speak a few
|
||||
words upon this name, which signifieth, being interpreted, Star
|
||||
of the Sea, and suiteth very well the Maiden Mother, who may very
|
||||
meetly be likened unto a star. A star giveth forth her rays
|
||||
without any harm to herself, and the Virgin brought forth her
|
||||
Son without any hurt to her virginity. The light of a star
|
||||
taketh nothing away from the star itself, and the birth of her
|
||||
offspring took nothing away from the Virginity of Mary. She is
|
||||
that noble star which was to come out of Jacob, whose brightness
|
||||
still sheddeth lustre upon all the earth, whose rays are most
|
||||
brilliant in heaven, and shine even unto hell, lighting up earth
|
||||
midway, and warming souls rather than bodies, fostering good and
|
||||
scaring away evil. She, I say, is a clear and shining star,
|
||||
twinkling with excellencies, and resplendent with example,
|
||||
needfully set to look down upon the surface of this great and
|
||||
wide sea.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Thou, whosoever thou art, that knowest thyself to be here not so
|
||||
much walking upon firm ground, as battered to and fro by the
|
||||
gales and storms of this life's ocean, if thou wouldest not be
|
||||
overwhelmed by the tempest, keep thine eyes fixed upon this
|
||||
star's clear shining. If the hurricanes of temptation rise
|
||||
against thee, or thou art running upon the rocks of trouble, look
|
||||
to the star, call on Mary. If the waves of pride, or ambition, or
|
||||
slander, or envy toss thee, look to the star, call on Mary. If
|
||||
the billows of anger or avarice, or the enticements of the flesh
|
||||
beat against thy soul's bark, look to Mary. If the enormity of
|
||||
thy sins trouble thee, if the foulness of thy conscience confound
|
||||
thee, if the dread of judgment appall thee, if thou begin to slip
|
||||
into the deep of despondency, into the pit of despair, think of
|
||||
Mary.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In danger, in difficulty, or in doubt, think on Mary, call on
|
||||
Mary. Let her not be away from thy mouth or from thine heart, and
|
||||
that thou mayest not lack the succour of her prayers, turn not
|
||||
aside from the example of her conversation. If thou follow her,
|
||||
thou wilt never go astray. If thou pray to her, thou wilt never
|
||||
have need to despair. If thou keep her in mind, thou wilt never
|
||||
wander. If she hold thee, thou wilt never fall. If she lead
|
||||
thee, thou wilt never be weary. If she help thee, thou wilt reach
|
||||
home safe at the last; and so thou wilt prove in thyself how
|
||||
meetly it is said: And the virgin's name was Mary. Particular
|
||||
honours were already paid to this worshipful name in diverse
|
||||
parts of the Christian world, but the Bishop of Rome, Innocent
|
||||
XI, ordered this Feast in honour of it to be held every year
|
||||
throughout the whole Church, as an everlasting thanksgiving for
|
||||
the great blessing that, under her protection, the brutal Sultan
|
||||
of the Turks, who was trampling upon the necks of the Christian
|
||||
population, was thoroughly beaten before the walls of Vienna.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 142, on the Annunciation"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Audístis hódie, fratres caríssimi, Angelum cum muliere de hóminis
|
||||
reparatióne tractántem. Audístis agi, ut homo cursibus eisdem,
|
||||
quibus delapsus fuerat ad mortem, rediret ad vitam. Agit, agit
|
||||
cum Maria Angelus de salúte, quia cum Heva angelus egerat de
|
||||
ruína. Audístis Angelum de carnis nostræ limo templum divinæ
|
||||
majestátis arte ineffábili construentem. Audístis in terris Deum
|
||||
in cælis hóminem sacraménto incomprehensibili collocari. Audístis
|
||||
inaudíta ratióne in uno corpore Deum hominémque misceri. Audístis
|
||||
frágilem nostræ carnis natúram ad portandam totam Deitátis
|
||||
glóriam angelica exhortatióne roborari.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Denique, ne tanto pónderi cæléstis fabricæ in Maria subtilis
|
||||
nostri corporis arena succumberet, et in Vírgine totius generis
|
||||
humani portatúra fructum, virga ténuis frangerétur; fugatúra
|
||||
metum vox Angeli mox præcessit, dicens: Ne timeas, Maria. Ante
|
||||
causam dignitas Vírginis annuntiátur ex nómine; nam Maria Hebræo
|
||||
sermóne, Latine Domina nuncupátur. Vocat ergo Angelus Dominam, ut
|
||||
Dominatoris Genitricem trepidátio déserat servitutis, quam nasci
|
||||
et vocari Dominam ipsa sui Gérminis fecit et impetrávit
|
||||
auctoritas. Ne timeas, Maria, invenísti enim grátiam. Verum est,
|
||||
quia, qui invénit grátiam, nescit timére: Invenísti grátiam.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Beata, quæ inter hómines audíre sola méruit præ ómnibus:
|
||||
Invenísti grátiam. Quantam? Quantam supérius díxerat: plenam. Et
|
||||
vere plenam, quæ largo imbre totam fúnderet et infúnderet
|
||||
creatúram: Invenísti enim grátiam apud Deum. Hæc cum dicit, et
|
||||
ipse Angelus mirátur, aut féminam tantum, aut omnes hómines vitam
|
||||
meruísse per féminam: stupet Angelus totum Deum veníre intra
|
||||
virginális úteri angústias, cui tota simul angústa est creatúra.
|
||||
Hinc est quod remorátur Angelus, hinc est quod vírginem vocat de
|
||||
mérito, de grátia compéllat, vix causam prodit audiénti, sane ut
|
||||
sensum promóveat, vix longa trepidatióne compónit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Dearly beloved brethren, ye have this day heard how an Angel
|
||||
treated with a woman touching the regeneration of mankind. Ye
|
||||
have heard how it was arranged that man should return to life by
|
||||
the same mean whereby he had fallen into death. The Angel
|
||||
treateth, treateth with Mary concerning salvation, because an
|
||||
angel had treated with Eve concerning destruction. Ye have heard
|
||||
how an Angel set about to raise with unspeakable building a
|
||||
temple of the Divine Majesty out of the dust of the earth. Ye
|
||||
have heard how by a mystery which cannot be understood, God got a
|
||||
place on earth and man a place in heaven. Ye have heard how by a
|
||||
working hitherto unheard of, God and man are joined together in
|
||||
one Body. Ye have heard how at the message of an angel, the weak
|
||||
nature whereof our flesh is sharer, became strong to bear the
|
||||
whole glory of the Godhead.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Then, lest the frail clay of humanity should break down under
|
||||
the weight of God's work, and in Mary the tender stem should
|
||||
snap, which was about to bear the fruit of all mankind, the
|
||||
Angel's first words were a preventive against fear. And the
|
||||
Angel said unto her: Fear not, Mary. Even before the matter is
|
||||
revealed, the exalted station of this Virgin is made clear by
|
||||
her very name, for the name Mary is an Hebrew word, and
|
||||
signifieth Lady. The Angel therefore greeteth her as Lady, that
|
||||
the Mother of the Lord may lay aside the fearfulness of His
|
||||
handmaiden, whom the will of her own Offspring had made to be
|
||||
born and to be called a Lady. Fear not, Mary, for thou hast
|
||||
found grace. He that hath found grace, need fear no more. Thou
|
||||
hast found grace.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Blessed is she who alone among mankind, and first among mankind
|
||||
deserved to hear: Thou hast found grace. And how much grace?
|
||||
Even as the Angel had said: Full! Full of grace. Full indeed!
|
||||
Grace like a bountiful shower drenched and soaked her whole
|
||||
being. For thou hast found grace with God. As he saith this,
|
||||
even the Angel doth marvel. He marvelleth that a woman should
|
||||
merit eternal life, that all men should merit it through her.
|
||||
The Angel marvelleth that the whole Godhead, he to whom the
|
||||
entire universe is small, should enter the narrow womb of a
|
||||
virgin. So he delayeth. He calleth her virgin. That was her
|
||||
right. He haileth her as full of grace.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Our Lady of Ransom (Sep 24). Sourced
|
||||
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-24.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-24.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous account of the founding of the Order of Our Lady of
|
||||
# Ransom. No Lectio7-9 in her own file -- defers to the Common's own
|
||||
# Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
|
||||
id: our-lady-of-ransom
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Quo témpore major feliciorque Hispaniárum pars diro Saracenórum
|
||||
opprimebátur jugo, innumerique fidéles sub immani servitute,
|
||||
maximo cum periculo christianæ fidei abjurandæ, amittendæque
|
||||
salútis ætérnæ, infeliciter detinebántur, beatíssima cælórum
|
||||
Regína, tot tantisque benigniter occurrens malis, nimiam
|
||||
caritátem suam in iis rediméndis osténdit. Nam sancto Petro
|
||||
Nolasco, pietáte et opibus florenti, qui, sanctis vacans
|
||||
meditatiónibus, jugiter animo recogitábat qua ratióne tot
|
||||
Christianórum ærumnis sub Maurórum captivitáte degéntium
|
||||
succurri posset, ípsamet beatíssima Virgo, serena fronte, se
|
||||
conspiciéndam dedit; et acceptíssimum sibi ac unigenito suo
|
||||
Fílio fore dixit, si suum in honórem institueréntur ordo
|
||||
religiosórum, quibus cura incumberet captivos e Turcárum
|
||||
tyrannide liberandi. Qua cælésti visióne vir Dei recreatus,
|
||||
mirum est quo caritátis ardore flagrare cœperit, hoc unum
|
||||
servans in corde suo, ut ipse ac instituénda ab eo religio
|
||||
maximam illam caritátem sedulo exercerent, ut quisque ánimam
|
||||
suam póneret pro amicis et próximis suis.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ea ipsa nocte éadem Virgo sanctíssima beato Raymundo de
|
||||
Péñafort et Jacobo Aragoniæ regi appáruit, idípsum de religiosis
|
||||
instituéndis ádmonens, suadensque ut opem pro constructióne
|
||||
tanti operis ferrent. Petrus autem statim ad Raymundi pedes, qui
|
||||
ipsi erat a sacris confessiónibus, ádvolans, ei rem omnem
|
||||
apéruit; quem étiam cælitus instructum réperit, ejusque
|
||||
directióni se humillime subjécit. At, superveniens Jacobus rex,
|
||||
quam et ipse acceperat a beatíssima Vírgine, revelatiónem
|
||||
éxsequi státuit. Unde, collátis inter se consíliis, et
|
||||
consentiéntibus ánimis, in honórem ejusdem Vírginis Matris
|
||||
ordinem institúere aggressi sunt, sub invocatióne sanctæ Maríæ
|
||||
de Mercede redemptiónis captivórum.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Die ígitur décima Augusti anno Dómini millesimo ducentésimo
|
||||
décimo octavo, rex idem Jacobus eam institutiónem, jamprídem ab
|
||||
iisdem sanctis viris conceptam, éxsequi státuit, sodálibus
|
||||
quarto voto adstrictis manéndi in pignus sub paganórum potestate,
|
||||
si pro Christianórum liberatióne opus fúerit. Quibus rex ipsa
|
||||
arma sua regia in péctore deferre concessit, et a Gregório nono
|
||||
illud tam præcellentis erga próximum caritátis institutum et
|
||||
religiónem confírmari curávit. Sed et ipse Deus per Vírginem
|
||||
Matrem increméntum dedit, ut talis institútio celerius ac
|
||||
felicius totum per orbem divulgarétur, sanctisque viris florúerit
|
||||
caritate ac pietáte insígnibus, qui eleemósynas a Christi
|
||||
fidelibus collectas in prétium redemptiónis suórum proximórum
|
||||
expénderent, seque ipsos intérdum darent in redemptiónem
|
||||
multórum.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
In the early part of the thirteenth century of the era of our
|
||||
Lord, the greatest and fairest part of Spain lay crushed under
|
||||
the yoke of the Saracens, and countless numbers of the faithful
|
||||
were held in brutal slavery, with the most lively danger of
|
||||
being made to deny the Christian faith and of losing everlasting
|
||||
salvation. Amid such sorrows the most Blessed Queen of heaven
|
||||
came mercifully to the rescue, and showed how the greatness of
|
||||
her motherly love was fain for their redemption. Holy Peter
|
||||
Nolasco, in the full bloom of the treasures of godliness as well
|
||||
as rich in earthly wealth, was earnestly pondering with himself
|
||||
how he could succour so many suffering Christians dwelling in
|
||||
bondage to the Moors. To him appeared with gracious visage the
|
||||
Most Blessed Virgin, and bade him know that it would be well
|
||||
pleasing in her own sight, and in the sight of her Only-begotten
|
||||
Son, that an Order of Religious men should be founded in her
|
||||
honour, whose work it should be to redeem prisoners from
|
||||
Mohammedan slavery. Strengthened by this heavenly vision, the man
|
||||
of God began to burn with wonderful charity, nursing in his
|
||||
heart the one desire that he himself and the Order which he
|
||||
should found might exercise that love, greater than which hath
|
||||
no man, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Upon the same night the same most holy Virgin appeared to the
|
||||
Blessed Raymund de Penafuerte, and to James, King of Aragon,
|
||||
charging them concerning the founding of the Order, and desiring
|
||||
them to help in raising up so great a work. Peter betook himself
|
||||
forthwith to the feet of Raymund, who was his confessor, and
|
||||
laid the matter before him, whom also he found taught from
|
||||
heaven, and to whose governance he right humbly submitted
|
||||
himself. Then came King James, who appointed to carry out this
|
||||
revelation, which himself also had received from the Most
|
||||
Blessed Virgin. The three took counsel together, and all with
|
||||
one consent entered upon the institution of an Order in honour
|
||||
of the said Virgin Mother, to be placed under the invocation of
|
||||
St. Mary of Ransom, for the redemption of captives.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Upon the 10th of August, in the year of our Lord 1218, the
|
||||
above-named King James decreed the establishment of this Order,
|
||||
thus already conceived by these holy men. The brethren take, in
|
||||
addition to the vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, a
|
||||
fourth vow, whereby they bind themselves to remain in pawn with
|
||||
the unbelievers, if need so require, for the liberation of
|
||||
Christians. The King granted them the right to bear on their
|
||||
breasts his own Royal blazon, and obtained from Gregory IX. the
|
||||
confirmation of this Institute and Order so nobly marked by
|
||||
brotherly charity. God Himself, through the Virgin Mother, gave
|
||||
the increase, causing this Institute speedily and prosperously
|
||||
to spread through all the world, and to blossom with holy men,
|
||||
great in love and godliness, to spend in the redemption of their
|
||||
neighbours the alms which are committed to them by Christ's
|
||||
faithful people, to that end, and some whiles to give themselves
|
||||
up for the ransom of many.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 3 reading for the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin
|
||||
# Mary (Sep 15). Sourced directly from
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-15.txt, English/Sancti/09-15.txt --
|
||||
# Lectio7-9, St. Ambrose's homily on John 19:25-27 (On Virgins, 7) and
|
||||
# his own Epistle 25 to the Church of Vercelli, combined into one
|
||||
# reading. Nocturn 2 (Lectio4-6) is a direct `@Tempora/Quad5-5`
|
||||
# cross-reference (Friday of Passion Week), not this feast's own
|
||||
# content -- not transcribed here.
|
||||
id: seven-sorrows-of-the-bvm
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Ambrose, On Virgins, Bk. 7; Epistle 25 to the Church of Vercelli"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Stabat juxta crucem Mater, et, fugiéntibus viris, stabat
|
||||
intrépida. Vidéte utrum pudórem mutáre potúerit Mater Jesu, quæ
|
||||
ánimum non mutávit. Spectábat piis óculis Fílii vúlnera, per quæ
|
||||
sciébat ómnibus futúram redemptiónem. Spectábat non degéneri
|
||||
mater spectáculo, quæ non metúerat peremptórem. Pendébat in
|
||||
cruce Fílius, Mater se persecutóribus offerébat.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
María Mater Dómini ante crucem Fílii stabat. Nullus me hoc
|
||||
dócuit, nisi sanctus Joánnes Evangelísta. Mundum álii concússum
|
||||
in passióne Dómini conscripsérunt, cælum ténebris obdúctum,
|
||||
refugísse solem, in paradísum latrónem, sed post piam
|
||||
confessiónem, recéptum. Joánnes dócuit, quod álii non docuérunt,
|
||||
quemádmodum in cruce pósitus Matrem appelláverit. Pluris putátur
|
||||
quod victor suppliciórum pietátis offícia Matri exhibébat, quam
|
||||
quod regnum cæléste donábat. Nam si religiósum est quod latróni
|
||||
donátur vénia, multo uberióris pietátis est quod a Fílio Mater
|
||||
tanto afféctu honorátur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ecce, inquit, fílius tuus: ecce mater tua. Testabátur de cruce
|
||||
Christus, et inter matrem atque discípulum dividébat pietátis
|
||||
offícia. Condébat Dóminus non solum públicum, sed étiam
|
||||
domésticum testaméntum: et hoc ejus testaméntum signábat
|
||||
Joánnes, dignus tanto testatóre testis. Bonum testaméntum, non
|
||||
pecúniæ, sed vitæ ætérnæ; quod non atraménto scriptum est, sed
|
||||
Spíritu Dei vivi, qui ait: Lingua mea cálamus scribæ velóciter
|
||||
scribéntis.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
There stood by the Cross His Mother. Men had forsaken Him, but
|
||||
she stood there fearless. Behold how the Mother of Jesus could
|
||||
break through her shrinking modesty, but could not belie her
|
||||
heart. With the eyes of a mother's love she gazed upon the Wounds
|
||||
of her Son, those Wounds through Which she knew that redemption
|
||||
for all mankind was flowing. The Mother, who feared not the
|
||||
executioners, was able to endure the sight of their work. Her
|
||||
Son was hanging upon the Cross, and she braved His tormentors.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Mary, the Mother of the Lord, stood by the Cross of her Son. My
|
||||
only informant of this fact is the holy Evangelist John. Others
|
||||
have written that when the Lord suffered, the earth quaked, the
|
||||
heavens were veiled in darkness, the sun was hidden, and the
|
||||
thief received, after a good confession, the promise of
|
||||
Paradise. John hath taught us what the others have not taught
|
||||
us. Upon the Cross He called her Mother. It is reckoned a
|
||||
greater thing that in the moment of triumph over agony, He
|
||||
should have discharged the watchful duty of a Son to His Mother,
|
||||
than that He should have made gift of the kingdom of heaven. For
|
||||
if it be a sacred thing to have forgiven the thief, this so
|
||||
great kindness of the Son to the Mother is to be worshipped as
|
||||
the outcome of a tenderer and more touching love.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Behold, saith the Lord, thy son: Behold thy Mother! Christ bore
|
||||
witness from the Cross, and divided the offices of his tender
|
||||
love between his Mother and his disciple. Thus doth the Lord
|
||||
give us a testament, not only of his love for souls, but also of
|
||||
his natural affection. Moreover, the testimony which John doth
|
||||
give us concerning this same testament, is a worthy testimony to
|
||||
the original Testator himself. It is a good testament, not of
|
||||
earthly riches, but of eternal life, written not in ink, but in
|
||||
the Spirit of the living God, who speaketh of such testimony in
|
||||
the Psalms, saying: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
|
||||
# Matins reading for Ss. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs (Sep 11).
|
||||
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-11.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-11.txt. Single simplex-feast lesson (Lectio93),
|
||||
# one continuous account covering both martyrs, pooled into the
|
||||
# nocturn: 2 slot per the established vigil/simplex convention (see
|
||||
# vigil-of-st-lawrence.yml's own note).
|
||||
id: ss-protus-and-hyacinth
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
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text:
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la: >-
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Protus et Hyacinthus fratres, beátæ Eugeniæ Vírginis eunuchi, una
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cum illa ab Héleno episcopo baptizati, ac stúdiis déditi
|
||||
divinárum litterárum, aliquámdiu in Ægypto inter ascetas mira
|
||||
humilitate et vitæ sanctitáte vixérunt. Sed póstea, sanctam
|
||||
Vírginem Eugeniam Romam prosecuti, Gallieno imperatóre, in Urbe
|
||||
propter christianæ fidei professiónem comprehénsi sunt. A quibus
|
||||
cum nullo modo impetrari posset ut, christianam religiónem
|
||||
deseréntes, deos cólerent, acerbis verbéribus cæsi, secúri
|
||||
feriúntur tertio Idus Septembris.
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en: >-
|
||||
Protus and Hyacinth were brethren, eunuchs of the blessed Virgin
|
||||
Eugenia, and were baptized along with her by Bishop Helenus. They
|
||||
gave themselves to the study of God's Word, and dwelt for a while
|
||||
in wonderful lowliness and holiness of life in a monastery in
|
||||
Egypt. However, they afterwards followed the holy Virgin Eugenia
|
||||
to Rome, in the reign of the Emperor Gallienus, and were arrested
|
||||
in that city for professing the Christian faith. By no means
|
||||
could they be brought to leave the Christian religion and to
|
||||
worship the gods, and they were therefore severely scourged and
|
||||
beheaded, upon the 11th day of September.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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|
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor
|
||||
# (Sep 18). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-18.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-18.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
|
||||
# reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3: his 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.
|
||||
# Gregory the Great) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
|
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id: st-joseph-of-cupertino
|
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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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Josephus a Cupertino, oppido in Salentinis diœcesis Neritonénsis,
|
||||
anno reparátæ salútis millesimo sexcentésimo tertio, piis ibidem
|
||||
paréntibus ortus, Deique amóre præventus, puerítiam atque
|
||||
adolescéntiam summa cum simplicitate morúmque innocéntia
|
||||
molestoque morbo, patientíssime tolerato, Deiparæ Vírginis ope
|
||||
liberatus, se totum pietátis opéribus ac excoléndis virtútibus
|
||||
dedit; utque Deo ad majora vocanti se intimius conjungeret,
|
||||
ordini seraphico nomen dare constítuit. Post varios eventus voti
|
||||
tandem compos factus, apud Minores Conventuales in cœnobio
|
||||
Cryptulæ, inter laicos primum ob litterárum imperítiam, deínde
|
||||
inter clericos divina dispositióne connumerátus est. Sacerdotio
|
||||
post solemnia vota initiatus, perfectius sibi vitæ institutum
|
||||
propósuit. Quam ob rem, mundanis quibuscúmque afféctibus
|
||||
terrenisque rebus pene ad vitam necessariis illico a se
|
||||
abdicatis, ciliciis, flagellis, catenis, omni demum
|
||||
asperitátum ac pœnárum genere corpus afflixit; spíritum vero
|
||||
sanctæ oratiónis altissimǽque contemplatiónis assiduitate
|
||||
dulciter enutrívit. Hinc factum est, ut caritas Dei, quæ jam
|
||||
erat in ejus corde a prima ætate diffúsa, miro planeque
|
||||
singulari modo in dies coruscáverit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Eluxit præcipue ardentíssima ejus caritas in extasibus ad Deum
|
||||
suavíssimis stupendisque raptibus, quibus frequenter
|
||||
afficiebátur. Mirum autem, quod, alienato a sensibus animo,
|
||||
statim ab éxtasi eum revocábat sola obediéntia. Hanc quippe
|
||||
virtútem exímio studio prosequebátur, dicere sólitus, se ab ea
|
||||
véluti cæcum circumduci, et mori potius velle, quam non
|
||||
obedire. Paupertátem vero seraphici Patriárchæ ita æmulátus est,
|
||||
ut, morti próximus, prælato suo assérere vere potúerit se nihil
|
||||
habere, quod more religiosórum resignaret. Itaque, mundo sibique
|
||||
mórtuus, vitam Jesu manifestábat in carne sua, quæ dum in
|
||||
aliquibus ex turpitúdine obscœnum flagitium sentiebat,
|
||||
prodigiósum de se efflábat odórem, indícium nitidíssimæ illíus
|
||||
puritátis, quam, immundo spíritu vehementíssimis tentatiónibus
|
||||
frustra obnubilare diu conante, servávit illæsam, tum arcta
|
||||
sensuum custódia, tum jugi corporis maceratióne, tum denique
|
||||
speciali protectióne puríssimæ Vírginis Maríæ, quam matrem suam
|
||||
appellare consuevit, ac véluti matrem dulcíssimam íntimo cordis
|
||||
afféctu venerabátur, eamque ab aliis venerari exoptabat, ut cum
|
||||
ejusdem patrocinio, sicut ipse ajebat, ómnia bona
|
||||
consequerentur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Hæc beáti Josephi sollicitúdo a sua erga próximos caritate
|
||||
prodíbat; tanto enim animárum zelo exardebat, ut ómnium salútem
|
||||
modis ómnibus instantíssime procuraret. Nec aliéni erant ab ejus
|
||||
caritate, qui objurgatiónibus, probris omnisque generis
|
||||
injuriis ipsum appéterent; nam eadem patiéntia, mansuetúdine,
|
||||
vultusque hilaritate talia excipiebat. At Deus, qui ponit
|
||||
húmiles in sublíme quique servum suum, dum viveret, cælésti
|
||||
sapiéntia, prophetía, cordium perscrutatióne, curatiónum grátia
|
||||
ceterisque donis cumulatíssime exornaverat, ejus quoque mortem
|
||||
iis, quibus ipse antea prædixerat, loco ac témpore, anno ætátis
|
||||
suæ sexagesimo primo, Auxími in Piceno pretiósam réddidit
|
||||
sepulcrúmque gloriosum. Illum denique, étiam post óbitum
|
||||
miraculis coruscántem, Benedíctus quartus décimus Beatórum,
|
||||
Clemens tertius décimus Sanctórum fastis adscripsit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This Joseph was born, of godly parents, at Cupertino, a small
|
||||
village of the diocese of Nardo, between Brindisi and Otranto, in
|
||||
the year of Redemption 1603. The love of God came to him early,
|
||||
and he passed his childhood and youth in great guilelessness and
|
||||
harmlessness. After recovering by the help of the Virgin Mother
|
||||
of God from a long and painful sickness which he bore very
|
||||
quietly, he gave himself altogether to godliness and
|
||||
self-improvement. God called him inwardly to higher things, and
|
||||
to give himself more utterly to His service, he determined in
|
||||
himself to join the "Seraphic" Order. After diverse failures and
|
||||
changes, he obtained his wish among the Friars of the convent of
|
||||
"La Grotella." He went first as a lay-brother, on account of his
|
||||
ignorance of letters, but God was pleased to allow him afterwards
|
||||
to be taken among the choir brethren. After taking his solemn
|
||||
vows he was ordained Priest, and then set before him to aim at a
|
||||
more perfect life. To this end (as far as in him lay) he thrust
|
||||
from him all earthly affections and all carnal things, even to
|
||||
such as seem almost needful for life. He tormented his body with
|
||||
haircloth, scourging, spiked chains, and every kind of hardship
|
||||
and affliction. He fed his spirit sweetly upon the constant
|
||||
exercise of holy prayer, and gazing upon the highest matters. And
|
||||
so it came to pass that the love of God, which had been
|
||||
enkindled in his heart from his earliest years, burnt forth day
|
||||
by day more strangely and openly.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The chief outcome of this love of God was the strong and
|
||||
marvellous trances whereinto he oftentimes fell. It was,
|
||||
nevertheless, strange to observe that after he had entirely lost
|
||||
his senses he could be called out of the trance by the mere
|
||||
order of his superiors. To be utterly obedient was one of his
|
||||
chief aims, and he was used to say that those who ruled him
|
||||
could lead him about like a blind man, and that it was better to
|
||||
die than not to obey. He so imitated the poverty of the Seraphic
|
||||
Patriarch, that when he was at the point of death, he was able
|
||||
to tell his Superior that he had absolutely nothing. Thus
|
||||
bearing about in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus, the life
|
||||
also of Jesus was made manifest in his body. When he saw that
|
||||
certain persons had committed a foul sin of uncleanness, there
|
||||
came from him a strong savour, a proof of that snowy and
|
||||
glorious purity which, in spite of the most hideous temptations
|
||||
whereby the unclean spirit wrestled long to darken it, he kept
|
||||
undefiled, partly by an iron bridling of his senses, partly by
|
||||
the stern punishments he inflicted upon his own body, and partly
|
||||
by the extraordinary protection of the pure Virgin Mary, whom he
|
||||
was used to call his own Mother.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
This eagerness on the part of the blessed Joseph was but one
|
||||
outcome from his love for his neighbours. So great was his zeal
|
||||
for souls, that he vehemently sought in all ways for the
|
||||
salvation of all. They who reviled, and slandered, and insulted
|
||||
himself were not cut off from his love. He was used to welcome
|
||||
such with great long-suffering, meekness, and cheerfulness of
|
||||
countenance. But God, Who exalteth them of low degree, glorified
|
||||
His servant during life with the gifts of heavenly wisdom, of
|
||||
prophecy, of discerning the hidden thoughts of the heart, of
|
||||
healing, and of other spiritual gifts in marvellous abundance,
|
||||
gave him a precious death, and made the place of his rest
|
||||
glorious. He fell asleep in Jesus upon the very day and at the
|
||||
very place foretold by himself, that is, at Osimo, in the 61st
|
||||
year of his own age. He was famous for miracles even after his
|
||||
death, and Benedict XIV. enrolled his name among those of the
|
||||
Blessed, and Clement XIII. among those of the Saints.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Bk. II, Homily 38 on the Gospels"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Quia jam, largiénte Dómino, nuptiárum domum, id est, sanctam
|
||||
Ecclésiam intrastis, solerter, fratres, aspicite, ne aliquid de
|
||||
mentis vestræ habitu rex ingrédiens reprehéndat. Cum magno enim
|
||||
cordis timóre pensándum est quod prótinus subditur: Intrávit
|
||||
autem rex, ut vidéret discumbéntes, et vidit ibi hóminem non
|
||||
vestítum veste nuptiali. Quid, fratres caríssimi, éxprimi per
|
||||
nuptialem vestem putamus? Si enim vestem nuptialem baptisma vel
|
||||
fidem dicimus, quis sine baptismate et fide has nuptias
|
||||
intrávit? Eo enim ipso foris est, qui necdum credidit. Quid ergo
|
||||
debémus intellígere per nuptialem vestem, nisi caritátem? Intrat
|
||||
enim ad nuptias, sed cum nuptiali veste non intrat, qui, in
|
||||
sancta Ecclésia assistens, fidem habet, sed caritátem non habet.
|
||||
Recte enim caritas, nuptialis vestis vocátur, quia hanc in se
|
||||
conditor noster hábuit, dum ad sociandæ sibi Ecclésiæ nuptias
|
||||
venit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Sola quippe dilectióne Dei actum est, ut ejus Unigénitus mentes
|
||||
sibi electórum hóminum uníret. Unde et Joánnes dicit: Sic enim
|
||||
diléxit Deus mundum, ut Fílium suum unigénitum daret pro nobis.
|
||||
Qui ergo per caritátem venit ad hómines, eamdem caritátem
|
||||
innotuit vestem esse nuptialem. Omnis ergo vestrum, qui in
|
||||
Ecclésia positus Deo credidit, jam ad nuptias intrávit; sed cum
|
||||
nuptiali veste non venit, si caritátis grátiam non custódit. Et
|
||||
certe, fratres, si quis ad carnales nuptias esset invitatus,
|
||||
vestem mutaret, congaudere se sponso et sponsæ ex ipso sui
|
||||
habitus decore osténderet, inter gaudéntes et festa celebrántes
|
||||
despectis vestibus apparére erubésceret. Nos ad Dei nuptias
|
||||
venímus, et cordis vestem mutare dissimulamus.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Sciéndum vero est quia, sicut in duobus lignis, superiore
|
||||
vidélicet et inferióre, vestis téxitur: ita in duobus
|
||||
præceptis caritas habétur, in dilectióne scilicet Dei et
|
||||
próximi. Scriptum quippe est: Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum ex toto
|
||||
corde tuo et ex tota ánima tua, et próximum tuum sicut teípsum.
|
||||
Qua in re notándum est, quia in dilectióne próximi mensúra
|
||||
amóris pónitur, cum dícitur: Diliges próximum tuum sicut
|
||||
teípsum. Dei autem diléctio nulla mensúra constringitur, cum
|
||||
dícitur: Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, ex tota
|
||||
ánima tua, ex tota virtúte tua. Non enim jubétur quisque quantum
|
||||
diligat, sed ex quanto, cum dícitur, Ex toto; quia ille
|
||||
veraciter Deum díligit, qui sibi de se nihil relinquit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Dearly beloved brethren, ye have already entered, at the Lord's
|
||||
bidding, into the house where the marriage feast is being held,
|
||||
that is to say, into the Holy Church, and look ye well to it,
|
||||
that when the King cometh in to see the guests, he see nothing
|
||||
amiss in your soul's wedding-garment. For indeed it is with
|
||||
great searchings of heart that we are behoven to consider that
|
||||
which so soon cometh. "And when the King came in to see the
|
||||
guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment."
|
||||
Dearly beloved brethren, what are we to think is signified by
|
||||
this wedding garment? Is it baptism or is it faith? But without
|
||||
baptism, or without faith, who could be seated at the
|
||||
marriage-feast? He that believeth not would still be without
|
||||
the house. What then, except love, must we understand by the
|
||||
wedding-garment? He who hath faith and is in the Holy Church,
|
||||
but hath not charity, cometh in unto the wedding indeed, but
|
||||
hath not a wedding-garment. And charity is well called the
|
||||
wedding-garment, for it is the garment wherewithal our Maker
|
||||
decked Himself when He came to wed the Church unto Himself.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
It was the work of God's love alone that His Only-begotten Son
|
||||
should wed Himself unto the souls of the elect. Whence indeed
|
||||
John saith: "God so loved the world, that He gave His
|
||||
Only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
|
||||
perish, but have everlasting life." He therefore Whom love
|
||||
brought among men, showeth that the same love is His
|
||||
wedding-garment. Each one therefore of you who is in the Church
|
||||
and believeth in God, hath already come in unto the
|
||||
marriage-feast, but if he keep not the grace of charity, he is
|
||||
come in thither not having a wedding-garment. In sooth, my
|
||||
brethren, if one be asked to an earthly marriage, he changeth
|
||||
his attire, to show even by his garments that he rejoiceth in
|
||||
the joy of the Bride and Bridegroom. We are come unto God's
|
||||
marriage-feast, and we make pretence to change the vesture of
|
||||
our hearts.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
We must know that as every garment is woven upon two beams, an
|
||||
upper and a lower, so love is bound unto two commandments, the
|
||||
one bidding us to love God, and the other to love our neighbour.
|
||||
For thus is it written: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
|
||||
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
|
||||
And the second is like unto it: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour
|
||||
as thyself." In the which we are to see that bounds are set to
|
||||
that love wherewith we are to love our neighbour, for it is
|
||||
said: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." But to the
|
||||
love wherewith we are to love God are set no bounds, for it is
|
||||
said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
|
||||
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." A man is not
|
||||
commanded to what point he is to love God, but from what point,
|
||||
even as it is said, "with all"; for he only truly loveth God,
|
||||
who leaveth nothing for himself.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and
|
||||
# Confessor (Sep 5). Sourced directly from
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-05.txt, English/Sancti/09-05.txt.
|
||||
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita. No
|
||||
# Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide C4`) -- defers to
|
||||
# the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
|
||||
id: st-lawrence-justinian
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Laurentius, ex illustri Justinianorum familia Venetiis natus,
|
||||
eximiam vel puer morum gravitatem præ se tulit. Exacta inter
|
||||
pietatis officia adolescentia, ad castum verbi et animæ connubium
|
||||
a divina sapientia invitatus, de religiosæ vitæ instituto
|
||||
capessendo deliberare cœpit. Novæ ítaque militiæ clam proludens,
|
||||
præter alias corporis affuctationes, super nudos cubabat asseres,
|
||||
sedensque velut arbiter hinc inter sæculi blandimenta, paratasque
|
||||
a matre nuptias, illinc claustrales inter austeritates oculis in
|
||||
Christi patientis crucem conversis: Tu, inquit, es Domine spes
|
||||
mea: ibi posuisti certissimum refugium tuum; ad canonicorum
|
||||
sancti Georgii in Alga congregationem convolavit: ubi novis
|
||||
excogitatis cruciatibus acrius in seipsum, veluti in hostem
|
||||
infensissimum, instaurans bellum, nullam adeo sibi oblectationem
|
||||
indulgebat, ut ne in domesticum umquam hortum, nec in paternam
|
||||
quidem domum, nisi cum morienti matri extrema pietatis officia
|
||||
siccis oculis persolvit, exinde intraverit. Par erat obedientiæ,
|
||||
mansuetudinis, ac præcipue humilitatis studium, cum abjectissima
|
||||
quæque cœnobii munia sibi ultro desumeret, celeberrima per urbis
|
||||
loca, non tam victum quam ludibria emendicaret, illatasque
|
||||
contumelias ac calumnias immotus ac silens perferret; assiduæ
|
||||
præsertim orationis subsidio, qua sæpe per mentis excessum
|
||||
rapiebatur in Deum; tantoque cor ejus æstuabat ardore, ut
|
||||
nutantes étiam sodales ad perseverantiam ac Jesu Christi amórem
|
||||
inflammaret.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ab Eugenio quarto patriæ episcopus designatus quem magna
|
||||
contentione honorem detrectaverat, majori gessit cum laude. Nam
|
||||
consueta vivendi ratione nihil admodum immutata, paupertatem,
|
||||
quam semper coluerat, in mensa, supellectili ac lecto perpetuo
|
||||
retinuit. Modicam domi alebat familiam, quod grandem alteram
|
||||
sibi esse diceret, pauperes Christi significans. Quacumque
|
||||
adiretur hora, præsto omnibus erat, paterna omnes caritate
|
||||
allevabat, non renuens vel ære se alieno gravare, illorum ne
|
||||
inopiæ deesset. Rogatus qua spe id faceret? Domini mei, qui pro
|
||||
me dissolvere facile poterit, respondebat. Spem autem non
|
||||
confundere divina providentia submissis inopinato subsidiis
|
||||
jugiter declarabat. Plura virginum monasteria construxit, quas
|
||||
étiam ad perfectioris vitæ rationem sua vigilantia composuit.
|
||||
Matronis a sæculi pompis et ornatus vanitate revocandis,
|
||||
ecclesiasticæ disciplinæ ac moribus reformandis maximopere
|
||||
studuit; dignus sane qui ab eodem Eugenio gloria et decus
|
||||
præsulum coram cardinalibus vocaretur, et qui a Nicolao quinto
|
||||
ejus successore, translato e Gradensi civitate titulo, primus
|
||||
Venetiarum patriarcha renuntiaretur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Lacrimarum dono insignitus, omnipotenti Deo placationis hostiam
|
||||
quotidie offerebat. Quod cum aliquando nocte Dominicæ Nativitatis
|
||||
peragéret, Christum Jesum sub pulcherrimi infantis specie videre
|
||||
promeruit; tantumque in eo erat commissi gregis præsidium, ut
|
||||
cælitus aliquando acceptum fuerit, pontificis sui intercessione
|
||||
ac meritis stetisse rempublicam. Prophetiæ spiritu afflatus,
|
||||
plura humanæ cognitioni prorsus impervia prædixit: morbos ac
|
||||
dæmones suis precibus sæpe fugavit: libros étiam cælestem
|
||||
doctrinam ac pietatem spirantes, grammaticæ pene rudis,
|
||||
conscripsit. Denique cum lethalem incidisset in morbum, et
|
||||
commodiorem domestici lectum seni atque ægro pararent, aversatus
|
||||
ejusmodi delicias, tamquam a durissima morientis Domini sui cruce
|
||||
plus nimio abhorrentes, consueto in stramine se jussit deponi, et
|
||||
finem vitæ suæ adventare prænoscens, sublatis in cælum oculis:
|
||||
Venio, inquit, ad te, o bone Jesu; ac die octava Januarii
|
||||
obdormivit in Domino.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This Lawrence was born at Venice, of the noble family of the
|
||||
Giustiniani, and was an exceedingly sober lad even from his
|
||||
childhood. He passed a godly boyhood, and feeling the Divine
|
||||
Wisdom calling him to a pure marriage between his own soul and the
|
||||
Word of God, he began to think of becoming a monk. He therefore
|
||||
tried in private some of the exercises of this new warfare, and,
|
||||
among other afflictions of his body, used to sleep upon the bare
|
||||
boards. As he thus sat weighing on the one hand the pleasures of
|
||||
the world, and a marriage which his mother wished to bring about
|
||||
for him, and, on the other, the hardness of the cloister, he
|
||||
turned his eyes upon the Cross of the suffering Christ, and said:
|
||||
"Thou, O Lord, art my trust; there hast Thou made my surest
|
||||
refuge." He entered among the Canons of St-George's-in-the-sea-
|
||||
weed, where he devised new tortures and declared war against
|
||||
himself as his own worst enemy. He allowed himself no enjoyment,
|
||||
so that he would not even go into the private garden of the
|
||||
house, neither did he ever go thenceforth into the house of his
|
||||
own father, except when his mother was dying, and he went there
|
||||
with dry eyes to pay her the last offices of a son's duty and
|
||||
affection. His obedience, gentleness, and especially his lowliness
|
||||
were very great. He went out of his way to take the meanest
|
||||
pieces of work about the house. He used to go to the most public
|
||||
places of the city, seeking, not so much for food as for mockery,
|
||||
and bore unmoved and in silence the insults and slanders which
|
||||
were cast upon him. He found his ever-present help in prayer,
|
||||
wherein he became often beside himself and rapt in God, and such
|
||||
was the warmth that burned in his heart, that he stirred up
|
||||
failing comrades to hold bravely on and to love Jesus Christ.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Eugene IV named him Bishop of Venice, an office which he very
|
||||
earnestly struggled to avoid, and which he discharged with great
|
||||
honour. He changed in no wise way of living, but kept always to
|
||||
his beloved poverty in his table, his furniture, and his bed. He
|
||||
kept but a small household, saying that he had another very
|
||||
large one, in Christ's poor. At what hour soever any one came to
|
||||
see him, he was always ready to receive them, he helped all with
|
||||
the tenderness of a father, not refusing to charge himself with
|
||||
debts, that he might have wherewith to relieve misery. When he was
|
||||
asked with what hope he incurred these liabilities, he answered:
|
||||
"With hope in my Master, Who can easily meet them for me." And the
|
||||
Providence of God put not his hope to shame, but helped him
|
||||
amply with unexpected funds. He built several Convents of nuns,
|
||||
for whom his watchful care ordered a more perfect way of living.
|
||||
He laboured much to wean married women from worldly folly and
|
||||
display, and to reform the discipline of the Church and the lives
|
||||
of all. He was indeed worthy that Eugene should call him in the
|
||||
presence of the Cardinals "the glory and ornament of the
|
||||
Episcopate," and that his successor Nicholas V should transfer
|
||||
the title of Patriarch from Grado, and create him the first
|
||||
Patriarch of Venice.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He was eminent for the gift of tears, in which he offered up to
|
||||
God every day the Sacrifice of atonement. When he was so doing
|
||||
one Christmas Midnight, he won to see Christ Jesus in the form of
|
||||
a little Child exceeding fair to look upon. Such was his care of
|
||||
the flock committed to his charge, that it was sometime revealed
|
||||
from heaven that the Commonwealth had been saved by the prayers
|
||||
of her Bishop. He was inspired with the spirit of prophecy, and
|
||||
fore-told many things which no wit of man could have perceived.
|
||||
By his prayers he often put diseases and devils to flight. Though
|
||||
very ignorant of letters, he wrote books which breathe heavenly
|
||||
teaching and godliness. When he fell into his last deadly
|
||||
sickness, his servants got ready a more comfortable bed for the
|
||||
suffering old man, but he turned away from such ease as so
|
||||
different from the hardness of the Cross upon which his Master
|
||||
had died. He ordered himself to be laid upon the planks to which
|
||||
he was accustomed, and when he knew that the end of his life was
|
||||
come, he looked up to heaven and said: "O good Jesus, I am coming
|
||||
to thee," and so fell asleep in the Lord on the 8th day of
|
||||
January.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Pius X, Pope and Confessor
|
||||
# (Sep 3). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-03.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-03.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
|
||||
# reading, one continuous vita. 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. Augustine of
|
||||
# Hippo) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
|
||||
id: st-pius-x
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Pius Papa décimus, cui nomen ántea Joséphus Sarto, in Venetórum
|
||||
pago natus est, quem Riése vocant, paréntibus quidem humílibus,
|
||||
sed probitáte ac pietáte conspícuus. Inter Seminárii Patavíni
|
||||
alúmnos adscríptus, ita pietáte ac doctrína profécit, ut
|
||||
condiscípulis exémplo, moderatóribus admiratióni esset. Sacerdótio
|
||||
initiátus, in óppido Tómbolo primum, qua vicárius cooperátor,
|
||||
dein Salatiáni qua párochus, per plures annos adlaborávit; quibus
|
||||
in obeúndis munéribus, tanta caritátis effusióne, tanto
|
||||
sacerdotáli zelo et sanctitáte vitæ excélluit, ut Epíscopus
|
||||
Tarvisínus inter canónicos cathedrális ecclésiæ eum cooptáret,
|
||||
eúmque Cúriæ episcopális cancellárium simúlque Seminárii
|
||||
diœcesáni spirituálem moderatórem renuntiáret. Hæc offícia tam
|
||||
egrégie persecútus, a Leóne tértio décimo, cui erat probatíssimus,
|
||||
Mantuánæ ecclésiæ Antístes fuit renuntiátus.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Boni pastóris nullam partem déserens, eo máxime conténdit, ut
|
||||
juvéntus in sortem Dómini vocáta rite ad sacra instituerétur, piæ
|
||||
consociatiónes novis augéscerent increméntis, rítibus divíni
|
||||
cultus plus decóris ac pietátis accéderet. Præcépta quibus cívitas
|
||||
christiána nítitur, áltius proclamáre non désiit, et qui vitam
|
||||
ínopem ipse ducébat, paupéribus numquam omísit afférre levámen.
|
||||
Tot ígitur suffragántibus méritis, inter purpurátos Patres
|
||||
adléctus et Venetiárum Patriárcha creátus est. Dénique post Leónis
|
||||
décimi tértii óbitum, cum Patrum Cardinálium suffrágia in eum
|
||||
coaléscerent, cumque ipse supplicatiónibus et lácrimis tantum
|
||||
munus a se avértere frustra conátus esset, suasiónibus tandem
|
||||
cedens, « accépto in crucem », inquit, et Summi Pontificátus
|
||||
ápicem ut crucem a Deo sibi oblátam, demísso sed forti ánimo
|
||||
suscépit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In Petri cáthedra constitútus, nihil de prístina vitæ ratióne
|
||||
remísit. Humilitáte præsértim, simplicitáte ac paupertáte
|
||||
refúlsit, ita ut in suo testaménto scríbere potúerit: « Pauper
|
||||
natus sum, pauper vixi, pauper mori cúpio ». Humílitas vero ánimi
|
||||
fortitúdinem in eo alébat, cum de Dei glória, Ecclésiæ libertáte,
|
||||
animarúmque salúte agerétur. Vir acérrimi ingénii et propósiti
|
||||
tenax, inter vicésimi ineúntis sæculi procéllas, Ecclésiam
|
||||
fírmiter rexit, et præclaríssimis ornávit institútis. Músicam
|
||||
sacram ad prístinum splendórem ac dignitátem revocávit; sacrórum
|
||||
Bibliórum stúdiis príncipem sedem Romæ constítuit; Románam Cúriam
|
||||
sapiénter reformávit; leges de fidélibus per catechísmum
|
||||
instituéndis restítuit; Eucharísticæ mensæ crebriórem, imo et
|
||||
cotidiánam consuetúdinem indúxit, ejúsque accéssum púeris quoque
|
||||
a primo ratiónis usu apéruit; actiónis cathólicæ increménta
|
||||
sédulo promóvit; sólidæ cleri institutióni provídit, ádditis
|
||||
quoque semináriis per regiónes dispósitis; sacerdótes omnes ad
|
||||
interiórem vitam coléndam alléxit; leges Ecclésiæ in unum corpus
|
||||
redégit; erróres perniciosíssimos, modernísmi appellatióne
|
||||
comprehénsos, damnávit atque evéllit; civíle vétitum, quod dicunt,
|
||||
in Pontíficis Máximi electióne rejécit. Tandem labóribus fractus
|
||||
ac mæróre conféctus ob bellum Europæum tunc exórtum, die vicésima
|
||||
mensis Augústi anni millésimi nongentésimi décimi quarti, ad
|
||||
cæléste præmium evolávit. Eum ubíque terrárum sanctitátis fama
|
||||
clarum miraculísque fulgéntem, Pius Papa duodécimus, cuncto
|
||||
plaudénte orbe, in Sanctórum númerum rétulit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Pope Pius X, whose name previously was Joseph Sarto, was born in
|
||||
the village of Riese in the Venetian province, to humble parents
|
||||
remarkable for their godliness and piety. He enrolled among the
|
||||
students in the seminary of Padua, where he exhibited such piety
|
||||
and learning that he was both an example to his fellow students and
|
||||
the admiration of his teachers. Upon his ordination to the
|
||||
priesthood, he labored for several years first as curate in the
|
||||
town of Tombolo, then as pastor at Salzano. He applied himself to
|
||||
his duties with such a constant flow of charity and such priestly
|
||||
zeal, and was so distinguished by the holiness of his life, that
|
||||
the Bishop of Treviso appointed him as a canon of the cathedral
|
||||
church and made him the chancellor of the bishop's curia, as well
|
||||
as spiritual director of the diocesan seminary. His performance in
|
||||
these duties was so outstanding and so highly impressed Leo XIII,
|
||||
that he made him bishop of the Church of Mantua.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Lacking in nothing that makes a good pastor, he labored
|
||||
particularly to teach young men called to the priesthood, as well
|
||||
as fostering the growth of devout associations and the beauty and
|
||||
dignity of divine worship. He would ever affirm and promote the
|
||||
laws upon which Christian civilization depend, and while leading
|
||||
himself a life of poverty, never missed the opportunity to
|
||||
alleviate the burden of poverty in others. Because of his great
|
||||
merits, he was made a cardinal and created Patriarch of Venice.
|
||||
After the death of Pope Leo XIII, when the votes of the College of
|
||||
Cardinals began to increase in his favor, he tried in vain with
|
||||
supplications and tears to be relieved of so heavy a burden.
|
||||
Finally he ceded to their persuasions, saying: I accept the cross.
|
||||
Thus he accepted the crown of the supreme pontificate as a cross,
|
||||
offering himself to God, with a resigned but stedfast spirit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Placed upon the chair of Peter, he gave up nothing of his former
|
||||
way of life. He shone especially in humility, simplicity and
|
||||
poverty, so that he was able to write in his last testament: I was
|
||||
born in poverty, I lived in poverty, and I wish to die in poverty.
|
||||
His humility, however, nourished his soul with strength, when it
|
||||
concerned the glory of God, the liberty of Holy Church, and the
|
||||
salvation of souls. A man of passionate temperament and of firm
|
||||
purpose, he ruled the Church firmly as it entered into the
|
||||
twentieth century, and adorned it with brilliant teachings. He
|
||||
restored the sacred music to its pristine glory and dignity; he
|
||||
established Rome as the principal centre for the study of the Holy
|
||||
Bible; he ordered the reform of the Roman Curia with great wisdom;
|
||||
he restored the laws concerning the faithful for the instruction of
|
||||
the catechism; he introduced the custom of more frequent and even
|
||||
daily reception of the Holy Eucharist, as well as permitting its
|
||||
reception by children as soon as they reach the age of reason; he
|
||||
zealously promoted the growth of Catholic action; he provided for
|
||||
the sound education of clerics and increased the number of
|
||||
seminaries in their diverse regions; he encouraged every priest in
|
||||
the practice of the interior life; he brought the laws of the
|
||||
Church together into one body; he condemned and suppressed those
|
||||
most pernicious errors known collectively as Modernism; he
|
||||
suppressed the custom of civil veto at the election of a Supreme
|
||||
Pontiff. Finally worn out with his labors and overcome with grief
|
||||
at the European war which had just begun, he went to his heavenly
|
||||
reward on the twentieth day of August in the year 1914. Renowned
|
||||
throughout all the world for the fame of his holiness and miracles,
|
||||
Pope Pius XII, with the approbation of the whole world, numbered
|
||||
him among the Saints.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Tractatus 123 on John (in medio)"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Rédditur negatióni trinæ trina conféssio, ne minus amóri lingua
|
||||
sérviat, quam timóri: et plus vocis elicuísse videátur mors
|
||||
ímminens, quam vita præsens. Sit amóris offícium páscere Domínicum
|
||||
gregem, si fuit timóris indícium negáre pastórem. Qui hoc ánimo
|
||||
pascunt oves Christi, ut suas velint esse, non Christi, se
|
||||
convincúntur amáre, non Christum: vel gloriándi vel dominándi,
|
||||
vel acquiréndi cupiditáte; non obediéndi, et subveniéndi, et Deo
|
||||
placéndi caritáte.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Contra hos ergo vígilat tótidem inculcáta ista vox Christi, quos
|
||||
Apóstolos gemit sua quærere, non quæ Jesu Christi. Nam quid est
|
||||
áliud, si díligis me, pasce oves meas; quam si dicerétur, si me
|
||||
díligis, non te páscere cógita? Sed oves meas, et sicut meas
|
||||
pasce, non sicut tuas; glóriam meam in eis quære, non tuam;
|
||||
domínium meum, non tuum; lucra mea, non tua; ne sis in eórum
|
||||
societáte qui pértinent ad témpora periculósa, seípsos amántes,
|
||||
et cétera quæ huic malórum inítio connectúntur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Mérito dícitur Petro: díligis me, et respóndet, amo te, eíque
|
||||
refértur, pasce agnos meos, et hoc íterum, hoc tértio. Ubi étiam
|
||||
demonstrátur unum atque idem esse amórem et dilectiónem; nam
|
||||
étiam Dóminus novíssime non ait, díligis me, sed amas me. Non
|
||||
ergo nos, sed ipsum amémus, et in pascéndis óvibus ejus ea quæ
|
||||
sunt ejus, non ea quæ sunt nostra, quærámus. Néscio enim quo
|
||||
inexplicábili modo, quisquis seípsum, non Deum amat, non se amat:
|
||||
et quisquis Deum, non seípsum, amat, ipse se amat. Qui enim non
|
||||
potest vívere de se, móritur útique amándo se: non ergo se amat,
|
||||
qui ne vivat se amat.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
To the threefold denial there is now appended a threefold
|
||||
confession, that his tongue may not yield a feebler service to
|
||||
love than to fear, and imminent death may not appear to have
|
||||
elicited more from his lips than present life. Let it be the
|
||||
office of love to feed the Lord's flock, if it was the signal of
|
||||
fear to deny the Shepherd. Those who have this purpose in feeding
|
||||
the flock of Christ, that they may have them as their own, and not
|
||||
as Christ's, are convicted of loving themselves, and not Christ,
|
||||
from the desire either of boasting, or wielding power, or
|
||||
acquiring gain, and not from the love of obeying, serving and
|
||||
pleasing God.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Against such, therefore, there standeth as a wakeful sentinel this
|
||||
thrice inculcated utterance of Christ, of whom the Apostle
|
||||
complaineth that they seek their own, not the things that are of
|
||||
Christ Jesus. For what else signifieth the words: Lovest thou me?
|
||||
Feed my sheep: than if it were said: If thou lovest me, think not
|
||||
of feeding thyself, but feed my sheep as mine, and not as thine
|
||||
own; seek my glory in them, and not thine own; my dominion, and
|
||||
not thine; my gain, and not thine; lest thou be found in the
|
||||
fellowship of them that belong to the perilous times, lovers of
|
||||
their own selves, and all else that is joined on to this beginning
|
||||
of evils.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
With great propriety, therefore, is Peter addressed: Lovest thou
|
||||
me? and found replying: I love thee; and the command applied to
|
||||
him: Feed my lambs, and this a second and a third time. We have it
|
||||
also demonstrated here that love and liking are one and the same
|
||||
thing; for the Lord also in the last question said not: Dost thou
|
||||
like me? but: Dost thou love me? Let us, then, love not ourselves
|
||||
but him; and in feeding his sheep, let us be seeking the things
|
||||
which are his, not the things which are our own. For in some
|
||||
inexplicable way, I know not what, every one that loveth himself,
|
||||
and not God, loveth not himself; and whoever loveth God, and not
|
||||
himself, he it is that loveth himself.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Stephen, King of Hungary, Confessor
|
||||
# (Sep 2). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-02.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-02.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (a direct
|
||||
# `@Commune/C5:LectioN in 3 loco` cross-reference) -- not transcribed,
|
||||
# per the bare-cross-reference convention.
|
||||
id: st-stephen-of-hungary
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Stephanus in Hungariam Christi fidem et regium nomen invéxit. Regia
|
||||
coróna a Romano Pontifice impetrata, ejusque jussu in regem
|
||||
inunctus, regnum Sedi apostolicæ obtulit. Varia pietátis domicília
|
||||
Romæ, Jerosolymis, Constantinopoli: in Hungaria archiepiscopátum
|
||||
Strigoniensem, episcopátus decem admirábili religióne et
|
||||
munificéntia fundavit. Par in páuperes amor et liberalitas, quos
|
||||
véluti Christum ipsum complectens, neminem a se mærentem ac vacuum
|
||||
umquam dismisit; quin ad eórum inópiam sublevandam, amplíssimis
|
||||
facultátibus erogatis, domesticam quoque supellectilem exímia
|
||||
benignitate frequenter distríbuit. Suis ínsuper mánibus lavare
|
||||
páuperum pedes, noctu solus et ignotus nosocomía frequentare,
|
||||
decumbéntibus inservire ac cetera caritátis offícia exhibere
|
||||
consuevit. Quarum virtútum merito, illíus déxtera, resoluto cetero
|
||||
corpore, incorrupta permansit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Orándi studio noctes pene totas ducebat insomnes; atque in
|
||||
cæléstium rerum contemplatióne defixus, interdum extra sensus
|
||||
raptus, sublimis in áëra ferri visus fuit. Perduellium
|
||||
conspiratiónes ac validiórum hostium ímpetus, miro prorsus modo,
|
||||
non semel oratiónis præsidio evitavit. Susceptum ex Ghisella
|
||||
Bavárica, sancti Henrici imperatóris sorore, quam sibi matrimonio
|
||||
junxerat, Emerícum fílium tanta morum disciplína talíque pietáte
|
||||
enutrívit, quantum ejus póstea sanctitas declaravit. Regni vero
|
||||
negotia ita dispósuit, ut, accitis undique prudentíssimis et
|
||||
sanctíssimis viris, nihil umquam sine illórum consílio molirétur;
|
||||
humillimis interim precibus in cínere et cilício Deum déprecans,
|
||||
ut univérsum Hungariæ regnum, antequam e vita migraret, catholicum
|
||||
vidére mererétur; vere, propter ingens dilatandæ fidei studium,
|
||||
illíus gentis Apóstolus nuncupatus, facta a Romano Pontifice ipsi
|
||||
posterisque régibus præferendæ crucis potestate.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Dei Genitricem, quam ardentíssime venerabátur, amplíssimo in ejus
|
||||
honórem constructo templo, Hungariæ patrónam instítuit; ab eádem
|
||||
vicíssim Vírgine recéptus in cælum ipso suæ Assumptiónis die, quem
|
||||
Húngari e sancti regis instituto Magnæ Dominæ diem appellant.
|
||||
Sacrum ejus corpus, suavíssimo fragrans odore, liquore cælésti
|
||||
scatens, inter multa et varia miracula, Romani Pontificis jussu,
|
||||
nobiliórem in locum translátum est atque honorificentius cónditum.
|
||||
Ejus autem festum Innocentius undecimus Pontifex maximus, quarto
|
||||
Nonas Septembris, ob insignem victoriam ab exercitu Leopoldi
|
||||
primi, Romanórum elécti imperatóris et Hungariæ regis, eádem die
|
||||
in Budæ expugnatióne, ope divina, e Turcis reportatam, celebrándum
|
||||
instituit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This Stephen was the son of Geysa, fourth Duke of the Hungarians.
|
||||
He it was who first gave to Hungary the faith of Christ and the
|
||||
name of a kingdom. He obtained the Kingly crown from the Bishop of
|
||||
Rome, and being by command of the same anointed King, he made an
|
||||
offering of his kingdom to the Apostolic See. With wonderful
|
||||
devotion and bounty he founded diverse godly houses at Rome,
|
||||
Jerusalem, and Constantinople, and in Hungary the Archbishopric of
|
||||
Gran and ten other Sees. Toward the poor he had the same love and
|
||||
bounty. He greeted them as though they were Christ Himself, and
|
||||
never sent any one away sorrowing and empty. He spent vast sums in
|
||||
relieving their poverty, and also often parted among them with
|
||||
exceeding tenderness even the furniture of his house. Moreover it
|
||||
was his use to wash the feet of the poor with his own hands, and to
|
||||
go in the night, alone and unknown, to the hospitals, and to wait
|
||||
on them that lay there, and show them other deeds of kindness. It
|
||||
was the reward of these good works that, when the rest of his body
|
||||
decayed, his right hand remained uncorrupt.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He passed almost whole nights in earnest prayer, and when totally
|
||||
rapt in the thought of heavenly things, he sometimes became beside
|
||||
himself, and was seen to rise off the ground into the air. In more
|
||||
than one instance he strangely escaped through the power of prayer
|
||||
from rebellion, treason, and the onslaughts of mighty foes. He
|
||||
married Gisela of Bavaria, sister to the holy Emperor Henry, and
|
||||
begat on her Emeric, whom he trained up in such manners and
|
||||
godliness, as are shown by his also becoming a Saint. To carry on
|
||||
the business of his kingdom, he gathered together from all quarters
|
||||
the most learned and godly men, and took nothing in hand without
|
||||
their advice. Meanwhile he entreated of God by the most lowly
|
||||
supplications, offered up in sack-cloth and ashes, that, before he
|
||||
departed this life, he might see all Hungary Catholic. On account
|
||||
of his excellent zeal for the spread of the Faith he is called the
|
||||
Apostle of that nation, and the Bishop of Rome gave to him and to
|
||||
his successors the right to have a Cross carried before them.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He had a burning zeal to honour the Mother of God. He built a very
|
||||
great Church in her honour, and made her Patroness of Hungary. In
|
||||
return, the same Virgin received him into heaven, upon the day of
|
||||
her own Assumption, which the Hungarians, by the example of the
|
||||
holy King, call "the Great Lady's Day." His hallowed body yielded
|
||||
the sweetest savour, and reeked with an heavenly liquid, and amid
|
||||
many and diverse wonders it was removed by command of the Bishop of
|
||||
Rome into a more noble place, and more honourably buried. Pope
|
||||
Innocent XI. ordered his Feast to be held upon the 2nd day of
|
||||
September, on account of the famous victory over the Turks which
|
||||
was gained upon this day, when the army of Leopold I., Emperor
|
||||
(elect) of the Romans, and King of Hungary, wrested from them, by
|
||||
the help of God, the city of Buda.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr
|
||||
# (Sep 28). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-28.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/09-28.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
|
||||
# reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3: the 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, St. Hilary of Poitiers) is authored, isGospel: false, no
|
||||
# citation field.
|
||||
id: st-wenceslaus
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Wencesláus Bohémiæ dux, Wratisláo patre christiáno, Drahomíra
|
||||
matre gentíli natus, ab ávia Ludmílla fémina sanctíssima pie
|
||||
educátus, omni virtútum génere insígnis, summo stúdio
|
||||
virginitátem per omnem vitam servávit illibátam. Mater, per
|
||||
nefáriam Ludmíllæ necem regni administratiónem assecúta, ímpie
|
||||
cum junióre fílio Bolesláo vivens, concitávit in se prócerum
|
||||
indignatiónem; quare, tyránnici et ímpii regíminis pertæsi,
|
||||
utriúsque excússo jugo, Wencesláum in urbe Pragénsi regem
|
||||
salutárunt.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ille, regnum pietáte magis quam império regens, órphanis,
|
||||
víduis, egénis tanta caritáte subvénit, ut própriis húmeris
|
||||
aliquándo ligna indigéntibus noctu comportárit, paupéribus
|
||||
humándis frequénter affúerit, captívos liberárit, carcéribus
|
||||
deténtos nocte intempésta visitárit, pecúniis et consílio
|
||||
sæpíssime consolátus. Miti ánimo princeps veheménter dolébat
|
||||
quémpiam, etsi reum, morti adjudicári. Summa religióne
|
||||
sacerdótes venerátus, suis mánibus tríticum serébat et vinum
|
||||
exprimébat, quibus in Missæ sacrifício uteréntur. Nocte nudis
|
||||
pédibus super nivem et glaciem circuíbat ecclésias, sanguínea
|
||||
et terram calefaciéntia post se relínquens vestígia.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Angelos hábuit sui córporis custódes. Cum enim ad singuláre
|
||||
certámen advérsus Radisláum, ducem Curiménsem, eo fine
|
||||
accéderet, ut suórum salúti prospíceret, visi sunt Angeli arma
|
||||
ministrásse et dixísse adversário: Ne férias. Pertérritus
|
||||
hostis, venerabúndus prócidens véniam exorávit. Cum in
|
||||
Germániam proféctus esset, imperátor, conspéctis duóbus Angelis
|
||||
áurea cruce ad se accedéntem ornántibus, e sólio prosíliens
|
||||
brácchiis excépit, régiis insígnibus decorávit, eíque sancti
|
||||
Viti brácchium donávit. Nihilóminus ímpius frater, matre
|
||||
hortánte, convívio excéptum et póstea in ecclésia orántem,
|
||||
parátæ sibi mortis præscium, adhíbitis scéleris comítibus,
|
||||
interfécit. Sanguis per paríetes aspérsus adhuc conspícitur, et,
|
||||
Deo víndice, matrem inhumánam terra absórbuit, interfectóres
|
||||
váriis modis mísere periérunt.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, was the son of a Christian father,
|
||||
Duke Wratislaus I., and an heathen mother named Drahomira. He had
|
||||
for his grandmother a most holy woman, named Ludmilla, who
|
||||
trained him up in godliness. He was a man eminent in all graces,
|
||||
and one who carefully held his virginity unsullied throughout the
|
||||
whole course of his life. His mother seized the supreme power by
|
||||
the foul murder of Ludmilla, and lived foully with her younger
|
||||
son Boleslaus, and the nobles roused thereby to indignation, and
|
||||
wearied with her tyranny and wicked government, cast off the
|
||||
yoke of both of them, and hailed Wenceslaus in the city of Prague
|
||||
as their King.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He ruled his kingdom by his virtues rather than by force. To the
|
||||
orphaned, the widowed, and the destitute he was very charitable,
|
||||
so that some whiles in the winter he carried firewood to the
|
||||
needy on his own shoulders. He helped oftentimes to bury the
|
||||
poor, he set captives free, and went many times to the prisons
|
||||
at the dead of night to comfort with money and advice them that
|
||||
were detained therein. To a Prince of so tender an heart it was
|
||||
a great grief to be behoven to condemn any to death, however
|
||||
guilty. For Priests he had a most earnest respect, and with his
|
||||
own hands sowed the corn and pressed the grapes for the bread
|
||||
and wine which they were to use for the Sacrifice. He would walk
|
||||
round the Church by night with bare feet upon the snow and ice,
|
||||
leaving behind him bloody footprints that warmed the ground.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
As his Body-guard he had angels. For when Radislaus, Prince of
|
||||
Gurinna, invaded Bohemia, and Wenceslaus, to save the effusion
|
||||
of his people's blood, went out to meet him in single combat,
|
||||
angels were seen serving him with arms, and heard to say to the
|
||||
adversary: Strike not. Therefore, his enemy was stricken with
|
||||
terror, fell down in reverence before him, and begged his
|
||||
forgiveness. When he went to Germany, the Emperor saw two angels
|
||||
carrying a golden Cross before him as he drew nigh him, and
|
||||
arose from his throne, embraced him in his arms, created him a
|
||||
King, and gifted him with the arm of the holy Martyr Vitus.
|
||||
Nevertheless, his godless brother, at the exhortation of their
|
||||
mother, bade him to a feast, and when Wenceslaus, with a
|
||||
foreboding of the death prepared for him, went afterwards into
|
||||
the Church, and was praying there, together with some
|
||||
accomplices of his crime, despatched him, running him through
|
||||
the body with a lance. The stains of his blood may still be seen
|
||||
upon the walls. By the judgment of God, his unnatural mother was
|
||||
swallowed up by the earth, and his murderers, in diverse ways,
|
||||
perished miserably.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on Matthew, ch. 10"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Quæ ista divísio est? inter prima enim legis præcépta accépimus:
|
||||
Honóra patrem tuum et matrem tuam; et ipse Dóminus ait: Pacem
|
||||
meam do vobis, pacem meam relínquo vobis. Quid sibi vult missus
|
||||
pótius gládius in terram, et separátus a patre fílius, et fília
|
||||
a matre, et nurus advérsus socrum, et hóminis doméstici ejus
|
||||
inimíci? Igitur exínde pública auctóritas impietáti proferétur.
|
||||
Ubíque ódia, ubíque bella, et gládius Dómini inter patrem et
|
||||
fílium, et inter filiam matrémque desæviens.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Gládius telórum ómnium telum acutíssimum est, in quo sit jus
|
||||
potestátis, et judícii sevéritas, et animadvérsio peccatórum.
|
||||
Et, hujus quidem teli nómine, novi Evangélii prædicatiónem
|
||||
appellátam frequens in prophétis auctóritas est. Dei ígitur
|
||||
verbum nuncupátum meminérimus in gládio; qui gládius missus in
|
||||
terram est, idest, prædicátio ejus hóminum córdibus infúsa.
|
||||
Fitque gravis in domo una dissénsio, et doméstica novo hómini
|
||||
erunt inimíca; quia ille, per verbum Dei divísus ab illis,
|
||||
manére et intérior et extérior, id est, et corpus et anima, in
|
||||
spíritus novitáte gaudébit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Pergit deínde eódem præceptórum et intelligéntiæ decúrsu. Nam,
|
||||
posteáquam relinquénda ómnia, quæ in sæculo caríssima sunt,
|
||||
imperáverat, adjécit: Qui non áccipit crucem suam, et séquitur
|
||||
me, non est me dignus; quia Qui Christi sunt, crucifixérunt
|
||||
corpus cum vítiis et concupiscéntia. Et indígnus est Christo,
|
||||
qui non crucem suam, in qua compátimur, commórimur,
|
||||
consepelímur, conresúrgimus, accípiens, Dóminum sit secúrus, in
|
||||
hoc sacraménto fídei, spíritus novitáte victúrus.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
What meaneth such division in the earth, by reason of the Lord's
|
||||
coming? Amongst the foremost commandments of the Law we have
|
||||
received this: Honour thy father and thy mother. And the Lord
|
||||
himself said: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.
|
||||
What meaneth this sword sent upon the earth? Why is father set
|
||||
at variance against son, and daughter against mother, and
|
||||
daughter-in-law against mother-in-law? Why shall a man's foes be
|
||||
they of his own household? From all this it might seem that
|
||||
open sanction is given to the neglect of natural duties—hatred
|
||||
everywhere, warfare everywhere, the sword of the Lord furiously
|
||||
raging between father and son, mother and daughter.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The sharpest weapon of all weapons is the sword, whereby is
|
||||
enforced the law of might, the severity of judgment, the
|
||||
punishment of sinners. Furthermore, the word Sword is in common
|
||||
use amongst the Prophets as a figure of the preaching of the new
|
||||
Gospel. Ye are to understand, then, that the word of God is
|
||||
often called a sword; and that this sword is sent upon the earth
|
||||
when the preaching of God's word entereth into the hearts of
|
||||
men. For then at once cometh grave dissension in the new man's
|
||||
old home, and thus a man's foes are they of his own household.
|
||||
For he is set at variance against them by the word of God,
|
||||
whereby he joyously abideth in newness of spirit both within and
|
||||
without, that is, in soul and body.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The Lord continueth in the same strain of exhortation and
|
||||
discernment. For after bidding us leave whatever we hold
|
||||
dearest in the world, he addeth: He that taketh not up his
|
||||
cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me; because
|
||||
they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
|
||||
affections and lusts. And hence he is unworthy of Christ who
|
||||
taketh not up his cross, because thereon we suffer, and so
|
||||
thereon we die with the Lord; yea, thereby are we buried with
|
||||
him, and do rise again with him; thereby we follow the Lord to
|
||||
victory, in newness of spirit and in the mystery of faith.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Impression of the Sacred Stigmata
|
||||
# of St. Francis (Sep 17). Sourced directly from
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-17.txt, English/Sancti/09-17.txt --
|
||||
# Lectio4-6, St. Bonaventure's own Legenda of St. Francis (ch. 13),
|
||||
# combined into one reading. No Lectio7-9 own content (a direct
|
||||
# `@Commune/C2:LectioN in 2 loco` cross-reference) -- not transcribed,
|
||||
# per the bare-cross-reference convention.
|
||||
id: stigmata-of-st-francis
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Bonaventure, Legenda of St. Francis, ch. 13"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Fidelis revera famulus et minister Christi, Franciscus, biennio
|
||||
antequam spíritum redderet cælo, cum in loco excélso seorsum, qui
|
||||
mons Alverniæ dícitur, quadragenárium ad honórem Archangeli
|
||||
Michaélis jejunium inchoasset, supernæ contemplatiónis dulcédine
|
||||
abundantius sólito superfusus ac cæléstium desideriórum ardentiori
|
||||
flamma succénsus, supernárum cœpit immissiónum cumulatius dona
|
||||
sentire. Dum ígitur seráphicis desideriórum ardóribus sursum
|
||||
agerétur in Deum, et afféctus compassiva teneritúdine in eum
|
||||
transformarétur, cui ex caritate nimia crucifigi complácuit;
|
||||
quodam mane circa festum Exaltatiónis sanctæ Crucis, in látere
|
||||
montis orans, vidit quasi spéciem uníus Séraphim, sex alas tam
|
||||
fúlgidas quam ignítas habentem, de cælórum sublimitate
|
||||
descendere. Qui, volatu celerrimo ad áëris locum viro Dei
|
||||
propinquum perveniens, non solum alatus, sed et crucifixus
|
||||
appáruit; manus quidem et pedes habens extensos et cruci affixos,
|
||||
alas vero sic miro modo hinc inde dispositas, ut duas supra caput
|
||||
erigeret, duas ad volándum extenderet, duabus vero réliquis totum
|
||||
corpus circumplecténdo velaret. Hoc videns veheménter obstupuit,
|
||||
mixtumque dolori gáudium mens ejus incurrit, dum et in gratióso
|
||||
ejus aspectu, sibi tam mirabíliter quam familiáriter apparentis,
|
||||
excessivam quamdam concipiebat lætítiam, et dira conspecta crucis
|
||||
affixio ipsíus ánimam compassívi dolóris gládio pertransívit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Intelléxit quidem, illo docénte interius qui et apparebat
|
||||
exterius, quod, licet passiónis infirmitas cum immortalitate
|
||||
spíritus seráphici nullátenus conveníret, ideo tamen hujusmodi
|
||||
visio suis fuerat præsentáta conspéctibus, ut amícus ipse Christi
|
||||
prænosceret, se, non per martyrium carnis sed per incendium
|
||||
mentis, totum in Christi Jesu crucifixi expressam similitúdinem
|
||||
transformándum. Dispárens ítaque visio, post arcanum ac
|
||||
familiare collóquium, mentem ipsíus seráphico interius inflammávit
|
||||
ardore; carnem vero Crucifixo conformi exterius insignívit
|
||||
effigie, tamquam si ad ignis liquefactivam virtútem præámbulam
|
||||
sigillativa quædam esset impréssio subsecuta. Statim namque in
|
||||
mánibus et pédibus ejus apparere cœpérunt signa clavórum, ipsórum
|
||||
capítibus in inferióri parte mánuum et superiori pedum
|
||||
apparéntibus, et eórum acumínibus exsisténtibus ex adverso.
|
||||
Dextrum quoque latus, quasi lancea transfixum, rubra cicatrice
|
||||
obductum erat, quod sæpe, sánguinem sacrum effúndens, túnicam et
|
||||
femoralia respergebat.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Postquam ígitur novus homo Franciscus novo et stupéndo miraculo
|
||||
cláruit, cum singulari privilegio retroactis sæculis non
|
||||
concesso insignítus appáruit, sacris vidélicet Stigmátibus
|
||||
decoratus, descéndit de monte secum ferens Crucifixi effigiem,
|
||||
non in tábulis lapídeis vel ligneis manu figuratam artíficis, sed
|
||||
in carneis membris descriptam digito Dei vivi. Quóniam
|
||||
sacraméntum regis seráphicus vir abscóndere bonum esse optime
|
||||
norat, secreti regalis cónscius, signácula illa sacra pro
|
||||
víribus occultábat. Verum, quia Dei est ad glóriam suam magna
|
||||
revelare quæ facit, Dóminus ipse, qui signácula illa secrete
|
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impresserat, miracula quædam aperte per ipsa monstrávit; ut
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illórum occúlta et mira vis Stígmatum manifesta patéret
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claritáte signórum. Rem admirábilem ac tantopere testatam atque
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in pontificiis diplomátibus præcipuis laudibus et favóribus
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exáltatam, Benedíctus Papa undecimus anniversaria solemnitate
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celebrari vóluit; quam póstea Paulus quintus Pontifex maximus, ut
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corda fidelium in Christi crucifixi accenderéntur amórem, ad
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universam Ecclésiam propagávit.
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en: >-
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Francis being indeed a faithful servant and minister of Christ,
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about the space of two years before he gave back his spirit to
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heaven, withdrew himself into an high mountain apart, even that
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mountain which is called Mount Alverno, and began to fast for
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forty days to the honour of the Archangel Michael. To think of
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the things above gave him sweeter comfort than beforetime he was
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wont, and the hot longing for heaven was kindled in him, so that
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he began to feel that the gifts from above were poured forth
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upon him in such fulness as he had never felt before. The
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burning of his desire made his heart rise towards God like the
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heart of a seraph, and his tender answering love yearned to be
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changed into the likeness of Him Who hath so loved us that He
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was content to bear the Cross. And it was so that one morning
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early, about the time of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy
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Cross, he was praying upon the side of the mountain, and there
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appeared unto him as it had been one of the Seraphim, having six
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wings, glorious and fiery, flying to him from heaven. It came
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therefore very swiftly, and stood in the air, hard by the man of
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God. He beheld then the appearance thereof that it was not
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winged only, but crucified also. His hands and feet were
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stretched forth and nailed to a Cross. Twain of his wings were
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lifted up and joined one to the other over his head, and twain
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were stretched forth to fly withal, and with twain he wrapped
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around his body. When Francis saw it, he was sore amazed, and
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his soul was filled with sorrow and gladness, for the eyes of
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him that appeared were full of strange love and tenderness, so
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that he conceived great rejoicing thereat, but the nailing to
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the Cross was so exceedingly dreadful, that as he saw it, a
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sword of sorrow pierced his soul.
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Then He Whom he beheld with his bodily eyes, began to speak
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silently unto him in his heart, and he understood that albeit
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the deathless Seraphim cannot suffer or faint, this vision was
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nevertheless therefore set before him, that he might know that
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as a friend of Christ he was to be all changed into the likeness
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of Christ Jesus crucified, not by the martyrdom of the body, but
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by the fervour of the soul. Then they held together some sweet
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converse, as of a man with his friend, and the vision passed
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from him, but his heart was kindled inwardly with the fire of
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the Seraphim, and his body was outwardly changed into the
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likeness of Him Who was crucified, even as wax is softened by
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the fire and taketh the impression of the seal. From thenceforth
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there were in his hands and feet the marks of the nails. The
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heads of the nails were seen in the palms of his hands and on
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the insteps of his feet, and the points came out on the backs
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of his hands and the soles of his feet. In his right side also
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was a long raw wound, as though he had been pierced with a
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spear, from which wound his holy blood oftentimes ran and
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stained his shirt and breeches.
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Thereafter Francis was a new creature, famous for a new and
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awful sign. The holy marks of the Lord Jesus, whereon living man
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for twelve centuries had not been allowed to look, were his
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adornment. He came down from the mount bearing in himself the
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form of Jesus Crucified, not portrayed upon tables of stone or
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wood by the hand of any earthly craftsman, but drawn upon his
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flesh by the finger of the living God. The dying Seraph knew
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well that it is good to keep close the secret of a king, and
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knowing the secret of his King, he strove as far as in him lay
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to keep the sacred marks hidden from men. Nevertheless, forasmuch
|
||||
as it is the will of the Lord God for His Own glory to make
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manifest the greatness of His Own works, He openly showed forth
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||||
diverse wonders through these wounds which He had Himself made
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||||
in secret, so that the hidden and wondrous power of the marks
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||||
might become known by the fame of the miracles. The foregoing
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marvellous but thoroughly witnessed facts, which were already
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||||
spoken of in Papal documents with especial praise and joy, were
|
||||
made, by the pleasure of Pope Benedict XI, the subject of a
|
||||
yearly memorial, which was afterwards extended by Paul V. to the
|
||||
whole Church, in the hope of fanning in the hearts of the
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faithful the love of Christ Crucified.
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