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St. John Capistrano -- March complete

Finishes March's sweep of previously-never-added sanctoral content.
The Annunciation (Mar 25) was one of the two feasts literally named in
this app's original stale "fixed BVM feast, excluded per the usual
convention" note (alongside Purification, already fixed).

St. John Damascene is the first common-of-a-confessor-doctor saint;
his own Commune/C5a points its own Benedictus antiphon back at C4a's,
so he reuses the already-authored
benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor-bishop.yml directly rather
than duplicating it.

npm test (365 tests) and tsc --noEmit both pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. John Damascene, Confessor,
# Doctor of the Church (Mar 27). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-27.txt, English/Sancti/03-27.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 6:6-11) is a bare incipit
# ("Et réliqua"), so only the homily is authored (not marked isGospel),
# St. Peter Chrysologus's homily (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9
# combined).
id: st-john-damascene
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Joánnes, a pátrio loco Damascenus dictus, nobili genere natus, humanis divinisque
litteris a Cosma monacho Constantinopoli fuit excultus; cumque ea tempestáte
imperátor Leo Isáuricus nefario bello sacrárum imaginum cultum insectarétur,
Joánnes, hortatu Gregórii tertii Romani Pontificis, et sermóne et scriptis
sanctitátem illíus cultus sédulo propugnávit. Quo facto tantam Leónis advérsum se
invidiam concitávit, ut hic confictis litteris ipsum tamquam proditórem accusarit
apud Damasci calípham, qui Joánne consiliario et administro utebátur. Credulus
fraudi princeps Joánni nequidquam calumniam ejuranti præcídi déxteram jussit.
Verum innocéntiæ vindex ádfuit cliénti suo sanctíssima Virgo, cujus opem
precibus enixe imploraverat, ejusque beneficio trunca manus restituta ita
brácchio coáluit, ac si divisa numquam fuísset. Quo maxime miraculo permotus
Joánnes, quod pridem animo conceperat, éxsequi státuit. Itaque ægre a calípha
impetrato secessu, suas omnes facultates in egénos distríbuit, et servos
libertáte donávit; tum sacra Palæstinæ loca peregrínus lustrávit, ac demum una
cum Cosma institutore suo in lauram sancti Sabbæ prope Hierosolymam concessit,
ibique présbyter initiátus est.
In religióne vitæ palæstra præclarióra virtútum exempla monachis præbuit,
demissiónis potíssimum et obediéntiæ. Abjectíssima quæque cœnobii munia véluti
sibi propria deposcebat, ac sédulo obíbat. Contextas a se spórtulas venditare
Damasci jussus, in ea nimirum civitáte ubi olim summis honóribus perfunctus
fuerat, irrisiónes ac ludíbria vulgi ávide captábat. Obediéntiam ádeo cóluit, ut
non modo ad quémlibet præsidum nutum præsto esset; sed ne causam quidem eórum
quæ præcipiebántur, quamvis ardua essent et insolita, quæréndam sibi umquam
putarit. Inter has virtútum exercitatiónes, catholicum dogma de sanctárum
imaginum cultu impense tueri numquam déstitit. Quare ut ante Leónis Isáurici, ita
postmodum Constantini Coprónymi advérsum se odia vexatiónesque provocávit; eo
vel magis quod líbere arrogantiam imperatórum retúnderet, qui fidei negotia
pertractare, deque his senténtiam arbitratu suo ferre audebant.
Mirum sane est quam multa tum ad fidem tutandam, tum ad pietátem fovéndam, et
soluta et adstricta numeris oratióne, Joánnes elucubráverit; dignus sane qui ab
áltera Nicæna synodo amplíssimis laudibus celebrarétur, et ob aureum oratiónis
flumen Chrysórrhoas appellarétur. Neque solum contra Iconómachos orthodoxam fidem
deféndit; sed omnes ferme hæreticos, præsertim Acéphalos, Monothelitas,
Theopaschitas strenue impugnávit. Ecclésiæ jura potestátemque egregie vindicávit.
Primátum Principis Apostolórum disertíssimis verbis asseruit; ipsumque
ecclesiárum cólumen, infractam petram, orbis terrárum magistrum et moderatórem
sæpius nóminat. Universa autem ejus scripta non modo eruditióne et doctrina
præstant, sed étiam quemdam ingenuæ pietátis sensum præférunt, præcipue cum
Genitrícis Dei laudes prædicat, quam singulari cultu et amóre prosequebátur.
Illud vero maxime in laudem Joánnis cedit, quod primus universam theologíam recto
ordine comprehénderit et sancti Thomæ viam complanáverit ad sacram doctrinam tam
præclára méthodo tractandam. Tandem vir sanctíssimus meritis plenus devexáque jam
ætate, in pace Christi quiévit anno circiter septingentésimo quinquagesimo
quarto. Ejus Offícium et Missam Leo décimus tertius Pontifex maximus, áddito
Doctoris título, univérsæ Ecclésiæ concessit.
en: >-
This John is called John of Damascus, from his native place. He was of noble
birth, and studied sacred and profane letters at Constantinople, under the monk
Cosmas. At what time the Emperor Leo the Isaurian was making a wicked attack upon
the honouring of holy images, John, at the desire of the Roman Pontiff, Gregory
III., earnestly defended both by his words and his writings, the holiness of this
honour. By this he roused against him so great a hatred on the part of Leo, that
that Prince, by forged letters, accused John as a traitor to the Caliph of
Damascus, whom he was serving as a councillor and minister. John denied the
charge, but the Caliph was deceived by it, and caused his right hand to be cut
off. He called earnestly for the help of the most holy Virgin, and she manifested
the innocency of her servant by reuniting his hand to his arm, as though it had
never been cut off. This miracle moved John to carry out a design which he had
long had in mind. He obtained from the Caliph, albeit with difficulty, leave to go
away, distributed all his goods to feed the poor, and freed all his slaves, then
visited as a pilgrim the holy places in Palestine, and at length withdrew, along
with his teacher Cosmas, to the monastery of St. Saba, between Jerusalem and the
Dead Sea. There he was ordained priest.
As a monk John set a bright example to all the others, especially as regarded
lowliness and obedience. He sought for the lowest offices in the community, as
though they were in a peculiar sense his own, and fulfilled them with the
greatest care. When he was sent to Damascus to sell baskets made by himself, he
welcomed the mockery and jests of the lowest classes in that city where he had
before time been charged with the most honourable offices. He was so devoted to
obedience that he not only started up to obey every nod of his superiors, but
also never thought it right to ask the reason of any duty laid upon him, however
difficult or however strange it might be. While thus living he never ceased
earnestly to defend the Catholic doctrine as to the honouring of holy images. For
this reason he drew upon himself the hatred and persecution of the Emperor
Constantine Copronymus, as he had first done that of the Emperor Leo the Isaurian,
and this all the more because he freely rebuked the arrogance of these Emperors,
who must needs take in hand matters concerning the faith, and pronounce sentence
upon them according to their own judgment.
It is a marvel how many things John devised both for the protection of the faith,
and for the encouragement of godliness, and expressed in his writings both in
prose and verse. He was worthy of the high praise which was given him by the
Second Council of Nicea. On account of the golden streams of his eloquence, he
was surnamed Chrysorrhoas, or John of the golden streams. It was not against the
enemies of holy images alone that he defended the orthodox faith. He fought
stoutly against the Acephali, the Monothelites, and the Theopaschites. He
maintained the laws and the power of the Church. He taught with great learning
the Primacy of the Prince of the Apostles, and many times calleth him the Pillar
of the Churches, the unbroken rock, and the Teacher and Ruler of the world. The
whole of his writings are not only steeped in learning and teaching, but have a
certain savour of simple piety, especially when he is praising the Mother of God,
toward whom he was filled with a special reverence and love. But the greatest
praise of John is that he was the first who arranged in order a complete course
of theology, and prepared the way in which holy Thomas of Aquino has so clearly
dealt with the whole body of sacred doctrine. This truly holy man, full of days
and good works, fell asleep in the peace of Christ about the year of salvation
754. The supreme Pontiff, Leo XIII., established his office and Mass throughout
the universal church, whereof he also gave him the title of doctor.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 32 (on Luke 6:6-11)"
text:
la: >-
In hoc hómine ómnium hóminum imago figurátur, in hoc geritur cura cunctórum, in
hoc universórum sánitas diu exspectáta reparátur. Arúerat enim manus hóminis
magis stupore fidei quam siccitate nervórum, et plus culpa consciéntiæ quam
debilitate carnali. Antíqua ista nimis erat, et quæ in ipso mundi principio
contígerat ægritúdo; nec arte hóminis aut beneficio póterat hæc curari, quæ Dei
fuerat indignatióne contracta. Tetigerat vétita, inconcessa præsumpserat, cum se
ad árborem sciéndi bonum malumque porrexerat: Auctore indigebat, non qui malagma
impóneret, sed qui posset illatam relaxare senténtiam, et ignoscéndo resólvere
quod religáverat indignando.
In hoc hómine nostræ tantum géritur umbra sanitátis; perfécta autem salus nobis
reservátur in Christo: quia tunc aríditas nostræ manus miseranda dissolvitur, cum
cruore perfunditur Dominicæ passiónis, cum in illo vitali ligno crucis exténditur,
cum carpit fructuosam de dolóre virtútem, cum totam árborem salútis amplectitur,
cum clavis Dómini corpus affígitur, quo numquam ad árborem concupiscéntiæ et
áridæ redeat voluptátis. Et ait hómini habénti manum áridam: Surge in médium,
professor debilitátis própriæ, supernæ pietátis exactor, testis divinæ virtútis,
Judáicæ incredulitátis assertor: surge in médium; ut quos non compungit virtus
tanta signórum, quos non ópera tantæ salútis inclínant, vel debilitátis tantæ
miserátio constringat et mítiget.
Dixit homini: Extende manum tuam; et extendit, et restituta est manus illius.
Extende manum tuam: jussione solvitur, qua fuerat jussione convincta. Extende
manum tuam: agnovit pœna judicem, opus Deum, indulgentia prodidit conditorem.
Orate, fratres, ut sola synagoga tali debilitate fuscetur, nec sit in Ecclesia
cujus manum arefaciat cupiditas, contrahat avaritia, rapina debilitet, tenacitas
ægrotam constringat; sed si acciderit id ipsum, audiat Dominum et cito eam in
opere pietatis extendat, relaxet et in misericordia, in eleemosynis porrigat.
Sanari nescit, qui nescit pauperi fœnerari.
en: >-
This man is a figure of all men. His healing is a type of their healing, and his
soundness is a pledge of that soundness for which all have looked so long. The
hand of man hath withered through the deadness of faith rather than through the
drying up of the sinews, and by the fault of the conscience rather than by the
weakness of the flesh. The withering up of man's hand hath been of old time, and
a sickness which smote him at the very beginning of the world, and no art or
benefit of man could heal that which had been blasted by the wrath of God. That
hand had touched the forbidden thing, it had sought that which was unlawful when
it had been stretched out to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It had
need of Him who had made it, not to lay a plaster upon it, but to cancel the
sentence which He had uttered, and to loosen by pardon that which He had bound by
judgment.
This man's healing is a type of the healing of all men, our perfect health is to
be found in Christ, then shall our miserable hand be withered no more when there
droppeth thereon the Blood of the Suffering Lord, when it is stretched forth to
the Tree of Life, which is the Cross. When it gathereth the mighty fruit of His
suffering, when it layeth hold upon the Tree of Salvation, when the body is so
nailed thereto with the nails of the Lord that it can never return again to the
tree of lust and barren enjoyment. And He said to the man which had the withered
hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. Rise up and stand forth in the
midst, O Thou that dost confess thine own weakness, thou that dost call for pity
from on high, thou that canst witness to the power of God; rise up and stand
forth in the midst, thou that tellest of the unbelief of the Jews; the power of
so many signs hath not pierced them, so many works of healing hath not beset
them; let the pity shown to such misery constrain them and soften them.
He said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand, and he did so; and his hand was
restored whole as the other. Stretch forth thine hand the hand which had been
blasted by a commandment is by a commandment loosed. Stretch forth thine hand the
punishment which had been the work of God was a sufficient testimony of Who had
been the Judge Who had inflicted it, and the pardon was a proof that the Pardoner
was the same. Brethren, pray that upon the synagogue only may the shadow of such
an affliction fall, and that there may be in the Church no hand which is withered
by greed, shrunken by avarice, paralyzed by theft, stricken by selfishness; but if
such there be, let him who is so afflicted give his ear unto the Lord, and
stretch forth his hand in works of godliness, let him exercise it in mercy, and
set it to almsgiving. He that knoweth not how to lend unto the Lord by giving unto
the poor, knoweth not how to be healed by the Lord.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }