14 of November's 16 SanctiM-track saints authored, including All Saints of the Benedictine Order -- a genuinely Monastic-only feast with both rich content and (unusually for this pass) an available English translation. St. Martin I is another off-date case like St. Paul the Hermit, and two more saints (St. Emilian, St. Odo) turn out Monastic-only-but-Common-only, extending October's wrinkle.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for All Saints of the Benedictine Order
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# (Nov 13) — a genuine Monastic-only feast: no `Sancti/11-13*.txt`
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# names it at all (the general Tridentine calendar's own Nov 13 is a
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# different, later saint, St. Didacus); its own content exists only at
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# web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/11-13M.txt (a rare case where an
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# English/SanctiM translation also exists, unlike most of this pass's
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# genuinely Monastic-only saints — see memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# Nocturn 1 (Lectio1-4) falls back to Common of Several Confessors, not
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# proper text, so not authored here.
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#
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# Nocturn 2: Lectio5-8 (St. John Damascene's excerpt from the Life of
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# Barlaam and Josaphat, praising the saints generally) combined into
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# one reading, one continuous excerpt. One garbled character in the
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# Latin source ("exsultࢱtio") silently corrected to "exsultátio" in
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# transcription.
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# Nocturn 3: Lectio9's Gospel citation (Matt 19:27-29) is a bare
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# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
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# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
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# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
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# with Lectio10-12 as one continuous excerpt of St. Bernard's own
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# sermon on St. Benedict. No responsory given for either reading.
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id: all-saints-of-the-benedictine-order
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. John Damascene, Life of Barlaam and Josaphat, ch. 2"
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text:
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Beáti isti ac ter beáti, ut qui Dei amóre flagrárunt, atque ob ipsíus caritátem
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ómnia pro níhilo duxérunt. Síquidem lácrimas profudérunt, diéque ac nocte in luctu
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versáti sunt, ut perpétuam consolatiónem adisceréntur: seípsos ultro depressérunt, ut
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illic in altum attolleréntur. Carnes suas fame ac siti et vigíllis confecérunt, ut
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illic paradísis delíciæ et exsultátio ipsos excíperent.
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Spíritus Sancti tabernáculum per cordis puritátem exstitérunt, quemádmodum scriptum
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est: Inhabitábo in ipsis et inambulábo. Seípsis mundo crucifixérunt, ut ad Christi
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déxteram starent: lumbos suos in veritáte succinxérunt, atque in promptu semper
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lámpades habuérunt, immortális Sponsi advéntum expectántes. Nam, cum mentis óculis
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prǽditi essent, hórrendum illum diem semper prospiciébant, atque tum futurórum
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bonórum, tum futúri supplícii contemplatiónem ita in corde defíxam gerébant, ut ab
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ipsa nunquam divelleréntur. Atque hic laboráre studuérunt, ut sempitérnæ glóriæ
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cómpotes essent: perturbatiónum expértes, non secus atque Angeli fuérunt, ac nunc cum
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illis, quorum vitam imitáti sunt, choréas agunt.
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Beáti illi ac ter beáti, quóniam firmis mentis óculis præséntium rerum vanitátem,
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atque humánæ prosperitátis incertitúdinem et inconstántiam perspexérunt, eáque
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reíecta, sempitérna bona sibi ipsis condidérunt, ac vitam eam, quæ nunquam occídit,
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nec morte interrúmpitur, arripuérunt.
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Hos ígitur admirándos et sanctos viros nos quoque indígni ac despicábiles imitári
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studémus. Verum eórum vitæ cæléstis fastígium mínime asséqimur, sed pro
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infirmitátis nostræ ac míseræ facultátis módulo eórum vitam exprímus; atque
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ipsórum hábitum gérimus, étiam sui ópera non assequámur. Etenim, divínam hanc
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professiónem, peccátum propulsáre, atque incorruptiónis per divínum baptísma nobis
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concéssæ sóciam et opitulatrícem esse, perspéctum habémus.
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en: >-
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Blessed, yea, thrice blessed, are they that have them loved God, and, for his love's
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sake, have counted their suffering as nothing worth. For they wept and here mourned,
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day and night, that they might gain glory and everlasting comfort: they humbled
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themselves after willingly, that there they might be exalted: they afflicted the flesh
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with hunger and thirst and vigil, that there they might come to the pleasures and joys
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of Paradise.
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By their purity of heart they became a tabernacle of the Holy Ghost, as it is
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written, I will dwell in them and walk in them. They crucified themselves unto the
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world, that they might stand at the right hand of the Crucified: they girt their loins
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with truth, and alway had their lamps ready, looking for the coming of the immortal
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bridegroom. The eye of their mind being enlightened, they continually looked forward
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to that awful hour, and kept the contemplation of future happiness and everlasting
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punishment immovable from their hearts, and pained themselves to labour, that they
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might not lose eternal glory. They became passionless as the Angels, and now they
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weave the dance in their fellowship, whose lives also they imitated.
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Blessed, yea, thrice blessed are they, because with sure spiritual vision they
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discerned the vanity of this present world and the uncertainty and inconstancy of
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mortal fortune, and cast it aside, and laid up for themselves everlasting blessings,
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and laid hold of that life which never faileth, nor is broken by death.
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These then are the marvellous holy men whose examples we, that are poor and vile,
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strive to imitate, but cannot attain to the high level of the life of these heavenly
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citizens. Nevertheless, so far as is possible for our weakness and feeble power, we
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take this assurance, that this holy profession is a means to perfection and an aid to
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the incorruption given us by holy baptism.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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- nocturn: 3
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Sermon on St. Benedict (on Matt 19:27-29)"
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text:
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Modo útique, fratres, audístis in Evangélio promitténtem Dóminum et dicéntem
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discípulis: Sedébitis super sedes, judicántes duódecim tribus Israël. Ecce quies
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sessiónis et honor judícii. Nam et ipse Dóminus ad hæc nóluit perveníre, nisi per
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humilitátem et labórem. Unde et morte turpíssima condemnátus est, interrogátus
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torméntis, et oppróbriis saturátus: útique ut inimícus induátur confusióne, ipse
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páriter et omnes, qui imitántur eum, et prætergrediúntur viam. Ipse est, o iníque,
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ipse est, qui sessúrus est in sede majestátis suæ símilis Altíssimo, et coaltíssimus
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ei. Hoc útique cogitavérunt Angeli sancti, qui, cadénte malígno, apostasíæ illíus
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non consensérunt, nobis relinquéntes exémplum, ut, quemádmodum ipsi elegérunt
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ministráre, sic et nos faciámus.
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Qui enim labórem fúgiunt et honórem captant, illum se nóverint imitári, qui
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sessiónem altitudinémque quæsívit: et si non satis terret eos illíus culpa, térreat
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vel vindícta. Ad hæc vitánda prudéntiam nobis reliquérunt Sancti Dei, qui profécto
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sedébunt; ipsi, inquam, vermículi terræ judicántes sedébunt. Nescítis, ait
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Apóstolus, quia et Angelos judicábimus? Ipsi útique, qui ibant et flebant, mitténtes
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sémina sua, veniéntes autem vénient cum exsultatióne, portántes manípulos suos. Qui
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seminavérunt labórem et vilitátem, metent honórem páriter et quiétem. Pro
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confusiónem enim sua dúplici et labóre, in terra sua duplícia possidébunt. Unde et
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dicébat quidam: Vide humilitátem meam et labórem meum.
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Non solum autem ipsa vita, sed et promíssio vitæ ætérnæ et expectátio justórum,
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lætítia est, et tanta lætítia, ut omne, quod concupíscitur, ei non váleat
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comparári. Hanc quoque prudéntiam nobis Apóstoli sancti seminavérunt, quando,
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recedéntibus his, qui sapiéntiam hujus mundi sequebántur, quæ stultítia est apud
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Deum, et prudéntiam carnis, quæ mortem operátur et inimíca est Deo; ipsi Dómino
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adhæsérunt. Mártyres vero maniféstum est fortitúdinem seminásse. Porro Confessóres
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sectáti sunt justítiam in omni vita sua.
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Hac doctrína nos étiam ínstruit noster cæléstis pater, dux, magíster et légifer
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Benedíctus, et dírigit gressus nostros in viam pacis. Porro vitæ justítia omníno
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róborat et ánimat nos, ut tanto magis accendámur ad agénda quæ dócuit, quanto certi
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sumus eum non ália docuísse quam fécerit. Sermo quidem vivus et éfficax, exemplum
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óperis est, plúrimum fáciens suadíbile quod dícitur, dum monstrat factíbile quod
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suadétur. In hunc ergo modum sánctitas confórtat, pietátis infórmat, justítia
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confírmat. Quantæ enim pietátis fuit, quod non solum præséntibus prófuit, sed et pro
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futúris sollícitus fuit? Pascit vita, pascit doctrína, pascit intercessióne. Per
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quam incessánter adjúti, fructificáte et vos, caríssimi, quóniam in hoc pósiti
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estis, ut eátis et fructum afferátis. Imitémur et hunc; quóniam ad hoc venit, ut
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formam nobis tráderet, et viam demonstráret.
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en: >-
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Brethren, you have just heard our Lord making a promise to His disciples, saying to
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them: You shall sit on seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Behold, the
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restfulness of being seated and the honour of passing judgment are promised. Now our
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Lord Himself was unwilling to receive these rewards except by humility and labour.
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Wherefore He was condemned to a most shameful death, loaded with torments, filled with
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opprobrium. So has He done, together with all who imitate Him in journeying on the
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way, in order that the enemy might be confounded. He it is, O wicked creature, He it
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is who will be seated on the throne of His Majesty, like to the Most High and equal to
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Him. The angels considered this when, at the fall of the evil one, they did not
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consent to his apostasy, thereby leaving us an example that as they chose to serve, so
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should we.
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Let those who fly labour and seek honour know that they imitate him who sought for
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himself power and majesty; and if the devil's crime does not terrify them, his
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punishment should. The saints of God, who indeed will be seated in judgment, have
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given us an example of prudence in avoiding these vices. They, I say, in their own
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esteem wretched worms of the earth, will sit in judgment. Do you not know, says the
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Apostle, that we shall judge even the angels? They indeed who went forth weeping,
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sowing their seed, will come with joy carrying their sheaves. They who have sown
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labour and humility reap honour and rest. Because for their double confusion and
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shame they will receive double in their land. Wherefore also a certain one has said:
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Behold my lowliness and sorrow.
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Not only that life itself, but also the promise of eternal life and the eager
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anticipation of it, are a joy for the just, and a joy so great that anything to be
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desired cannot be compared with it. This too the holy Apostles sowed for us as
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prudence, when, as those who followed the wisdom of this world (which is indeed
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foolishness in God's sight) and the prudence of the flesh (which worketh death and is
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inimical to God) withdrew from Christ, they themselves clung to our Lord. Manifestly,
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the martyrs sowed fortitude; the confessors followed justice throughout their lives.
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Our heavenly father, guide, master, and lawgiver Benedict, also instructs us in this
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doctrine and directs our steps along the way of peace. Moreover, he strengthens and
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animates us for a life of justice in such a way that we are so much the more impelled
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to practice what he taught as we are certain that he taught not otherwise than he
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acted. The example of works is indeed a living and effective sermon, since it makes
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what is spoken most persuasive, showing that that which is urged is possible. In this
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regard his sanctity comforts us, his piety instructs us, his justice strengthens us.
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With what great piety was he not animated who provided not only for his children
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present, but was also solicitous for those of the future! He nourishes us by his life,
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his teaching, and by his intercession. Being always thus helped, dearly beloved,
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become fruitful; since for this were you appointed, that you should go and bring forth
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fruit. Let us imitate him, because for this end he came, that he might give us the
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example and show us the way.
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