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Continuing the sweep of previously-never-added sanctoral content. New
shared Common templates: collect-c7b.yml and
benedictus-antiphon-common-of-several-women-martyrs.yml (Commune/C7b,
"several women Martyrs, not Virgins" -- Perpetua and Felicity's own
Common category, not authored before now).

St. Gabriel Archangel (Mar 24), the Annunciation (Mar 25), St. John
Damascene (Mar 27), and St. John Capistrano (Mar 28) are still open --
substantial feasts left for a follow-up pass.

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-06.txt` -- "vide C7b;;Duplex;;3;;".
# No [Oratio]/[Ant 1] of her own -- both fall back to Common of several
# women Martyrs (C7b), newly authored here (collect-c7b.yml,
# benedictus-antiphon-common-of-several-women-martyrs.yml).
id: ss-perpetua-and-felicity
name: "Ss. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-several-women-martyrs
propers: null
collectCommon: collect-c7b
collectName:
la: ["Perpétuæ", "Felicitátis"]
en: ["Perpetua", "Felicitas"]
benedictusCommon: common-of-several-women-martyrs
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-18.txt` -- "vide C4a;;Duplex;;3;;".
# Own proper [Oratio]; no [Ant 1] of its own, so the Benedictus antiphon
# falls back to Common of a Confessor Bishop who is a Doctor (C4a),
# matching st-ambrose.yml. Nocturn 3's Lectio8-9 cross-reference
# `@Sancti/05-02` (St. Athanasius's own feast) for the homily's
# continuation, not fetched here -- only Lectio7's own homily portion
# (a complete paragraph, not a fragment) is authored.
id: st-cyril-of-jerusalem
name: "St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Confessor and Doctor of the Church"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
propers: "st-cyril-of-jerusalem"
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-08.txt` -- "vide C5;;Duplex;;3;;".
# Own proper [Oratio]; no [Ant 1] of its own, so the Benedictus antiphon
# falls back to Common of a Confessor (C5), matching st-alexius.yml/
# st-john-bosco.yml/st-gabriel-of-our-lady-of-sorrows.yml. Nocturn 3
# (Lectio7-9) is his own proper text (Matt 22:34-46 + Chrysostom), not a
# Common cross-reference.
id: st-john-of-god
name: "St. John of God, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-john-of-god"
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-17.txt` -- "vide C4;;Duplex;;3;;".
# Own proper [Oratio]; no [Ant 1] of its own, so the Benedictus antiphon
# falls back to Common of a Confessor Bishop (C4), matching
# st-andrew-corsini.yml. No Lectio7-9 in the source (6-lesson office).
id: st-patrick
name: "St. Patrick, Bishop and Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
propers: "st-patrick"
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Duplex I. classis, the highest rank in this set so far) has no # Duplex I. classis, the highest rank in this set so far) has no
# unique propers in the source at all — see st-benedict.yml. # unique propers in the source at all — see st-benedict.yml.
"03-04": [st-lucius-i] "03-04": [st-lucius-i]
"03-06": [ss-perpetua-and-felicity]
"03-07": [st-thomas-aquinas] "03-07": [st-thomas-aquinas]
"03-08": [st-john-of-god]
"03-09": [st-frances-of-rome] "03-09": [st-frances-of-rome]
"03-10": [forty-holy-martyrs] "03-10": [forty-holy-martyrs]
"03-12": [st-gregory-the-great] "03-12": [st-gregory-the-great]
"03-17": [st-patrick]
"03-18": [st-cyril-of-jerusalem]
"03-19": [st-joseph] "03-19": [st-joseph]
"03-21": [st-benedict] "03-21": [st-benedict]
# April — 4/12 of the pre-1955 pull. St. Robert/St. Catherine of Siena # April — 4/12 of the pre-1955 pull. St. Robert/St. Catherine of Siena
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# Read directly from the reference engine's own source data files:
# web/www/horas/Latin/Commune/C7b.txt ("Commune plurimarum non Virginum
# Martyrum") own [Ant 1] and its English counterpart.
id: benedictus-antiphon-common-of-several-women-martyrs
text:
la: "Istárum est enim * regnum cælórum, quæ contempsérunt vitam mundi, et pervenérunt ad prǽmia regni, et lavérunt stolas suas in sánguine Agni."
en: "For theirs is * the Kingdom of heaven who love not their lives in this world, and have attained unto the reward of the Kingdom, and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb."
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from the reference engine's own source data files:
# web/www/horas/Latin/Commune/C7b.txt ("Commune plurimarum non Virginum
# Martyrum") -- its own [Oratio] is itself a cross-reference to C6b
# ("Commune plurium Virginum et Martyrum") with "Vírginum et "/"Virgins
# and " removed, computed by hand here. `{N}` (used twice) stands for
# the two saints' own names, substituted by getDayCollect via
# SaintRecord.collectCommon/collectName.
id: collect-c7b
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Da nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine Deus noster, sanctárum Mártyrum tuárum {N} et {N} palmas
incessábili devotióne venerári: ut quas digna mente non póssumus celebráre, humílibus
saltem frequentémus obséquiis.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
Grant unto us, we beseech thee, O Lord, our God, that we may ever call to mind, with all
worship and thanksgiving, the victory of thy holy Martyrs {N} and {N}, and although we
know that our mind cannot comprehend thee who art this day their exceeding great
reward, give us always the grace humbly to worship thee.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-18.txt's own [Oratio]
# and its English counterpart.
id: st-cyril-of-jerusalem-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Da nobis, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus, beato Cyríllo Pontífice intercedénte: te solum
verum Deum, et quem misísti Jesum Christum ita cognóscere; ut inter oves, quæ vocem
ejus áudiunt, perpétuo connumerári mereámur.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in
unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Almighty God, grant unto us, we beseech thee, at the prayers of thy blessed Bishop
Cyril, so to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou hast sent, that
we may hear His Voice, and He may give unto us eternal life.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in
the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-08.txt's own [Oratio]
# and its English counterpart.
id: st-john-of-god-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Joánnem, tuo amóre succénsum, inter flammas innóxium incédere
fecísti, et per eum Ecclésiam tuam nova prole fecundásti: præsta, ipsíus suffragántibus
méritis; ut igne caritátis tuæ vítia nostra curéntur, et remédia nobis ætérna
provéniant.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst so enkindle in thy servant John the fire of thy Divine love, that when
he walked in the midst of earthly fire the flame thereof had on his body no power, and
Who didst choose him for a means whereby Thou hast given unto thy Church a new family of
sons, mercifully grant unto us, for his sake, that the fire of thy love may burn up in
us all things that displease thee, and make us meet for thy heavenly kingdom.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-17.txt's own [Oratio]
# and its English counterpart.
id: st-patrick-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui ad prædicándam géntibus glóriam tuam beátum Patrícium Confessórem atque
Pontíficem míttere dignátus es: ejus méritis et intercessióne concéde; ut, quæ nobis
agénda prǽcipis, te miseránte adimplére possímus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst send forth thy Blessed Confessor and Bishop Patrick to preach thy
glory among the Gentiles, mercifully grant unto us, for his sake and at his petition,
whatsoever Thou commandest us to do, to have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the
same.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs
# (Mar 6). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-06.txt,
# English/Sancti/03-06.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous account. No Lectio7-9 in the source (6-lesson office).
id: ss-perpetua-and-felicity
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Perpetua et Felicitas, in persecutione Severi imperatoris, in Africa, una cum
Revocato, Saturnino et Secundulo comprehensæ sunt et in tenebricosum carcerem
detrusæ; quibus ultra adjunctus est Satyrus. Erant adhuc catechumenæ, sed paulo
post baptizatæ sunt. Paucis diebus interjectis, e carcere ad forum deductæ cum
sociis, post gloriosam confessionem, ab Hilarione procuratore damnantur ad bestias.
Inde hilares descendunt ad carcerem, ubi variis visionibus recreantur et ad
martyrii palmam accenduntur. Perpetuam, nec patris senio confecti iteratæ preces et
lacrimæ, nec erga filium infantem pendentem ad ubera maternus amor, nec supplicii
atrocitas, a Christi fide dimovere umquam potuerunt.
Felicitas vero instante spectaculo die, cum octo jam menses prægnans esset, in
magno erat luctu, ne differretur; leges quippe vetabant prægnantes supplicio
affici. At precibus commartyrum accelerato partu, enixa est filiam. Cumque in
partu laborans doleret, ait illi quidam de custodibus: Quæ sic modo doles, quid
facies objecta bestiis? Cui illa: Modo ego patior; illic autem alius erit in me,
qui patietur pro me, quia et ego pro illo passura sum.
In amphitheatrum, toto inspectante populo, producuntur tandem generosæ mulieres,
Nonis Martii, ac primum flagellis cæduntur. Tunc a ferocissima vacca aliquamdiu
jactatæ, plagis concisæ et in terram elisæ sunt. Demum cum sociis, qui a variis
bestiis vexati fuerant, gladiorum ictibus conficiuntur. Harum sanctarum Mártyrum
festum Pius decimus Pontifex maximus ad ritum duplicem pro universa Ecclesia evexit
ac diei sextæ Martii adsignari mandavit.
en: >-
Perpetua and Felicity were arrested during the persecution of the emperor Severus in
Africa, together with Revocatus, Saturninus and Secundulus, and were cast into a dark
dungeon, where Satyrus was added to their company. They were as yet catechumens but
shortly afterwards they were baptized. After a few days they and their companions
were led forth from prison to the court, and, after a glorious profession of faith,
were condemned by the procurator Hilarion to the beasts. Thereupon they went down to
the prison rejoicing, and there they were refreshed with many visions, and fired
with longing for the martyr's palm. Neither the repeated prayers and tears of
Perpetua's father, a man of extreme old age, nor her motherly love for her baby son
still at the breast, nor the atrocity of the torture, could shake her faith in
Christ.
As the day of the spectacle came close, Felicity was afflicted with great sorrow
lest it should be put off, since she was eight months with child; and the law
forbade expectant mothers to be put to the torture. But at the prayers of her
fellow-martyrs her delivery was hastened, and she gave birth to a daughter. While
she was groaning in the pains of childbirth, one of the jailers said to her: What
wilt thou do when thrown to the beasts, if thou groanest thus now? She replied: Now
it is I who suffer; but then Another will be within me, who will suffer on my
behalf, seeing that it is for him that I am to suffer.
At length the noble-hearted women were brought into the amphitheatre, in the sight
of all the people, on the 7th day of March, and were first beaten with scourges.
Then they were tossed for some time by a ferocious cow, beaten with lashes, and
dashed on the ground. Lastly, together with their companions, who had been attacked
by various beasts, they were slain with blows of the sword. Pope Pius X raised the
feast of these holy Martyrs to the rite of a double for the Universal Church, and
ordered it to be kept on March 6th.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Confessor,
# Doctor of the Church (Mar 18). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-18.txt, English/Sancti/03-18.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 10:23-28) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua"), so only the homily is authored (not marked
# isGospel) — just Lectio7's own homily portion (a complete, continuous
# excerpt from St. Athanasius). The source's own Lectio8-9 continue via
# a cross-reference to St. Athanasius's own feast (`@Sancti/05-02`),
# not transcribed here — see this file's own calendar-record comment.
id: st-cyril-of-jerusalem
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus a teneris annis divinarum scripturarum studio summopere
deditus, adeo in earum scientia profecit, ut orthodoxæ fidei strenuus assertor
evaserit. Monasticis institutis imbutus, perpetuæ continentiæ, omnique severiori
vivendi rationi se addictum voluit. Postquam a sancto Maximo Hierosolymæ episcopo
presbyter ordinatus fuit, munus verbi divini fidelibus prædicandi et catechumenos
edocendi summa cum laude implevit, atque illas vere mirandas conscripsit
catecheses, quibus totam ecclesiasticam doctrinam dilucide et copiose complexus,
singula religionis dogmata contra fidei hostes solide propugnavit. Ita vero in his
enucleate et distincte disseruit, ut non solum jam exortas hæreses, sed futuras
étiam quasi præsagiens everterit, quemadmodum præstitit asserendo Corporis et
Sanguinis Christi realem præsentiam in mirabili Eucharistiæ sacramento. Vita autem
functo sancto Maximo, a provinciæ episcopis in illius locum suffectus est.
In episcopatu injurias multas et calamitates, non secus ac beatus Athanasius, cui
cœvus erat, ab Arianorum factionibus fidei causa perpessus fuit. Hi enim ægre
ferentes Cyrillum vehementer hæresibus obsistere, ipsum calumniis aggrediuntur,
et in conciliabulo depositum e sua sede deturbant. Quorum furori ut se subtraheret,
Tarsum Ciliciæ aufugit, et quoad vixit Constantius, exsilii rigorem pertulit. Post
illius mortem, Juliano Apostata ad imperium evecto, Hierosolymam redire potuit, ubi
ardenti zelo gregi suo ab erroribus et a vitiis revocando operam navavit. Sed
iterum, Valente imperatore, exsulare coactus est, donec, reddita Ecclesiæ pace per
Theodosium Magnum, et Arianorum crudelitate audaciaque repressa, ab eodem
imperatore tamquam fortissimus Christi athleta honoribus susceptus suæ sedi
restitutus fuit. Quam strenue et sancte sublimis officii sui munia impleverit,
luculenter apparet ex florenti tunc temporis Hierosolymitanæ ecclesiæ statu, quem
sanctus Basilius loca sancta veneraturus, ibi aliquamdiu commoratus, describit.
Venerandi hujus præsulis sanctitatem cælestibus signis a Deo fuísse illustratam
memoriæ traditum accepimus. Inter hæc recensetur præclara crucis, solis radiis
fulgentioris, apparitio, quæ episcopatus ejus initia decoravit. Hujusmodi prodigii
ethnici et Christiani testes oculares fuerunt cum ipso Cyrillo qui gratiis primum
in Ecclesia Deo redditis, illud per epistolam Constantio imperatori narravit. Nec
minus admiratione dignum, quod Judæis templum a Tito eversum restaurare ex impio
imperatoris Juliani jussu conantibus, evenit. Vehementi enim terræmotu oborto, et
ingentibus flammarum globis e terra erumpentibus, omnia opera ignis consumpsit, ita
ut Judæi et Julianus deterriti, ab incepto destiterint; prout scilicet
indubitanter futurum Cyrillus prædixerat. Qui demum paulo ante obitum Concilio
œcumenico Constantinopolitano interfuit, in quo Macedonii hæresis, et iterum
Ariana condemnata est. Ac Jerúsalem inde reversus, fere septuagenarius, trigesimo
quinto sui episcopatus anno sancto fine quievit. Ejus Officium ac Missam Leo
decimus tertius Pontifex Maximus ab universa Ecclesia celebrari mandavit.
en: >-
Cyril of Jerusalem was given to the study of the Holy Scriptures from a child, and
so learnt therein that he became an eminent champion of the orthodox faith. He
embraced the monastic institute in perpetual continency, and all hardship of
living. He was ordained Priest by holy Maximus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and
undertook with eminent success the task of preaching the word of God to the
faithful and of instructing the catechumens. Thus did he compose those truly
wonderful Catecheses, wherein he has embraced, clearly and fully, all the teaching
of the Church, and stoutly defended every one of her doctrines against the enemies
of the faith. His treatment of these subjects was such that he has overthrown
therein, not only the heresies which had then come into being, but, by a kind of
foreknowledge, even those which were to arise in later times. Of this an instance
is his contention for the real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the
wondrous Sacrament of the Eucharist. After the death of holy Maximus, the bishops
of the province chose Cyril in his place.
In his office of Bishop he had for the faith's sake, like his blessed contemporary
Athanasius, to endure many wrongs and sufferings at the hands of the Arian sect.
The Arians could not bear that Cyril should steadfastly withstand their heresy.
They assailed him with calumnies, deposed him in a pretended council, and drove him
out of his see. To escape their rage he fled to Tarsus in Cilicia, and as long as
Constantius lived he bore the hardships of exile. After his death and the
accession to the imperial throne of the Apostate Julian, Cyril was able to return
to Jerusalem, where he set himself with burning zeal to deliver his flock from
false doctrine and from sin. He was driven into exile a second time under the
Emperor Valens. But when peace was restored to the Church by Theodosius the Great,
and the cruelty and insolence of the Arians were restrained, Cyril was received
with honour by the Emperor as one of Christ's most eminent soldiers, and was
restored to his see. With what earnestness and holiness he fulfilled the duties of
his exalted office was made manifest by the flourishing state of the church of
Jerusalem at that time, of which a picture hath been left for us by holy Basil, who
dwelt there for a while when he went to worship at the holy places.
Tradition hath handed down that God Himself crowned with signs from heaven the
holiness of this venerable Patriarch. Among these signs is numbered an apparition
of a cross, more resplendent than the beams of the sun, which appeared at the
beginning of his Patriarchate. Not only Cyril himself, but heathens and Christians
alike were eye-witnesses of this marvel, and Cyril first gave thanks to God
therefore in the church, and then sent news thereof by letter to the Emperor
Constantius. A thing no less wonderful came to pass when the Jews were commanded by
the profane Emperor Julian to attempt the restoration of the temple which had been
destroyed by Titus. A great earthquake arose, and great masses of fire broke forth
from the earth and consumed all the works, so that the Jews and Julian were
dismayed and stayed their hand, all the which it can be proved that Cyril had
foretold. A little while before his death he was present at the second Council of
Constantinople; herein was condemned the heresy of Macedonius, and once more the
Arian heresy. After his return to Jerusalem he died a holy death in the 69th year
of his age and the 35th of his episcopate. The Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII. commanded
that his office and Mass should be celebrated throughout the universal Church.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Athanasius, Defence of his Own Flight (on Matt 10:23-28)"
text:
la: >-
In lege præceptum erat ut constituerentur civitates refugiorum, ut qui
quomodocumque ad necem quærerentur, servari possent. In consummatione porro
sæculorum cum advenisset illud ipsum Verbum Patris, quod Moysi antea locutum
fuerat, rursus hoc præceptum dedit: Cum vos, inquiens, persecuti fuerint in
civitate ista, fugite in aliam. Pauloque post subjicit: Cum videritis illam
abominationem desolationis quæ dicta est per Danielem prophetam, consistentem in
loco sancto (qui legit, intelligat), tunc qui in Judǽa sunt fugiant ad montes et
qui in tecto est, ne descendat tollere aliquid de domo sua: et qui in agro est, non
revertatur tollere tunicam suam.
en: >-
It is written in the Law, Ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for
you, that in these cities they which were pursued to put them to death might enter
and be safe. And in the latter days when He was come, even that very Word of the
Father, Which had spoken aforetime unto Moses, He gave again the same commandment
When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another. And, a while afterward,
He said: "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
Prophet, stand in the Holy Place, whoso readeth, let him understand, then let them
which be in Judaea flee unto the mountains; let him which is on the house-top not
come down to take anything out of his house; neither let him which is in the field
return back to take his clothes."
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. John of God, Confessor (Mar 8).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-08.txt,
# English/Sancti/03-08.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 22:34-46) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua"), so only the homily is authored (not marked
# isGospel), St. John Chrysostom's homily (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9
# combined).
id: st-john-of-god
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Joánnes de Deo, ex catholicis piisque paréntibus in oppido Montis Majoris Junióris,
regni Lusitaniæ, natus, quam sublimiter in sortem Dómini fúerit eléctus, insuetus
splendor super ejus domo refulgens, sonitúsque æris campani sua sponte emissus, ab
ipso nativitátis témpore non obscure prænuntiárunt. A laxiori vivéndi ratióne,
divina operante virtúte, revocatus, magnæ sanctitátis exhibere specimen cœpit, et
ob audítam prædicatiónem verbi Dei sic ad melióra se excitátum sensit, ut jam ab
ipso sanctioris vitæ rudiménto consummátum aliquid perfectumque visus sit
attigisse. Bonis ómnibus in páuperes carcéribus inclusos erogatis, admirábilis
pœniténtiæ suique ipsíus contemptus cuncto pópulo spectaculum factus, a plerisque,
ceu demens, gráviter afflíctus, in carcerem améntibus destinátum conjícitur. At
Joánnes cælésti caritate magis incénsus, gemino atque amplo valetudinario ex
piórum eleemosynis in civitáte Granaténsi exstructo, jactoque novi ordinis
fundaménto, Ecclésiam nova prole fœcundávit fratrum Hospitalitátis, infirmis
præcláro animárum corporúmque profectu inserviéntium, et longe lateque per orbem
diffusórum.
Paupéribus ægrotis, quos propriis quandoque humeris domum deferebat, nulla re ad
ánimæ corporisque salútem profícua déerit. Effusa quoque extra nosocomíum caritate
indigéntibus muliéribus viduis, et præcipue virgínibus periclitántibus clam
aliménta subministrabat, curamque indefessam adhibebat, ut carnis concupiscéntiam
a próximis hujusmodi vítio inquinátis exterminaret. Cum autem maximum in regio
Granaténsi valetudinario excitátum fuísset incendium, Joánnes impávidus prosiliit
in ignem, huc illuc discurrens, quoúsque tum infirmos humeris exportatos, tum
lectulos e fenestris projectos ab igne vindicávit, ac per dimidiam horam inter
flammas, jam in immensum succrescéntes, versatus, exínde divínitus incólumis,
univérsis civibus admirántibus exívit; in schola caritátis édocens, segniórem in
eum fuísse ignem qui foris ússerat, quam qui intus accenderat.
Multiplici asperitátum genere, demissíssima obediéntia, extrema paupertáte,
orándi studio, rerum divinárum contemplatióne, ac in beátam Vírginem pietáte
mirifice excelluit, et lacrimárum dono enituit. Denique gravi morbo correptus,
ómnibus Ecclésiæ sacramentis rite sancteque refectus, viribus licet destitútus,
propriis indútus vestibus, e léctulo surgens ac provolutus in genua, manu et corde
Christum Dóminum e cruce pendentem perstringens, octavo Idus Martii anno millesimo
quingentésimo quinquagesimo obiit in osculo Dómini; quem étiam mórtuus ténuit, nec
dimísit, et in eádem corporis constitutióne sex circiter horas, quoúsque inde
dimotus fuísset, tota civitáte inspectante, mirabíliter permansit, odórem mire
fragrántem diffúndens. Quem ante et post óbitum plurimis miraculis clarum,
Alexander octavus Pontifex maximus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit; et Leo décimus
tertius, ex Sacrórum catholici orbis antístitum voto ac Rituum Congregatiónis
consulto, cælestem ómnium hospitalium et infirmórum ubíque degéntium patronum
declarávit, ipsiúsque nomen in agonizántium litaníis invocari præcepit.
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John of God was born of Catholic and godly parents in the town of Montemor in
Portugal. The lot to which God had elected him was foreshown at his birth by a light
shining over the house, and by the ringing of a bell untouched by human hands. He
fell at one time into a loose habit of life, but was recalled by the grace of God,
and began to show tokens of true reformation. By hearing the Word of God, he so felt
himself stirred up to strive after nobler things, that he considered not that to
which he had already attained, and yearned to be perfect, as our Father in heaven is
perfect. He gave away all his property to the poor and prisoners, and became a
gazing-stock to all that knew him, by the strength of his repentance, and the depth
of his self-contempt. On this account he was commonly supposed to be mad, and was
once shut up in a lunatic asylum. He was only the more filled with schemes of
charity, and collected, by begging, funds sufficient to build a large double
Hospital in the town of Granada. Here he founded the new Order of Hospital Brethren
with which he enriched the Church. These Brethren are now spread throughout all
parts of the world, and engaged in ministering to the souls and bodies of the sick.
He strove to get for the sick poor, whom he sometimes brought to the Hospital on his
own shoulders, whatever was needful for their souls or bodies. His charity was
extended to the poor outside of his institution, and he used to supply food
privately to necessitous widows, and more so to young women whose virtue was
tempted on account of their poverty. He was most careful in encouraging the virtue
of purity in all whom he knew. On one occasion when there was a great fire in the
hospital at Granada, John bravely entered the burning house, ran from one part of
it to another, carried out the sick on his shoulders, and threw the beds out of the
windows, and finally, after passing half-an-hour in the midst of the flames, which
were now raging with great violence, by the mercy of God left the building
uninjured, to the great wonder of all the citizens; thereby to teach all them that
love God that the fire which burnt in his heart gave him strength to risk the fire
which threatened him from without.
He was a marked example of every kind of austerity, of the most lowly obedience, of
the deepest voluntary poverty, of the most constant prayer, of ghostly
contemplation, and of love towards the Blessed Virgin. He was distinguished for the
gift of tears. Being at last seized by deadly sickness, he duly received, with
saintly affection, all the Sacraments of the Church. After all strength seemed to
have left him, he got out of his bed, put on his own clothes, and knelt down before
an image of the Lord Christ hanging on the Cross. Round it he threw his arms and
pressed it against his heart, and in this position, as it were in the kiss of the
Lord, he died, on the 8th day of March 1550. After his death his body did not leave
its grip of the crucifix until it was forcibly taken away, six hours after. During
these six hours all the inhabitants of the city came to see it, and noticed a
savour of strange sweetness proceeding from it. His name was illustrious as a
worker of miracles both before and after his death, and the Supreme Pontiff
Alexander VIII added it to those of the Saints, and Leo XIII, at the desire of the
Bishops of the Catholic world, and in accordance with a vote of the Congregation of
Rites, declared him the patron in heaven of all the sick and those who nurse them,
wheresoever dwelling, and ordered that his name should be called upon in the Litany
for the dying.
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source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 72 on Matthew (on Matt 22:34-46)"
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Sadducæis confúsis, pharisæi rursus aggrediúntur; cumque quiéscere oporteret,
decertare voluérunt: et legis perítiam profitentem præmittunt, non discere, sed
tentare cupiéntes; ac ita intérrogant: Quodnam primum mandátum in lege sit. Nam cum
primum illud sit, Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum: putántes causas sibi allatúrum ad
mandátum hoc corrigéndum, aliquid addendo, quóniam Deum se faciebat, hoc modo
intérrogant. Quid ígitur Christus? Ut ostendat idcirco ad hæc eos devenisse, quia
nulla in eis esset caritas, sed invidiæ livore tabéscerent: Diliges, inquit,
Dóminum Deum tuum: hoc primum et magnum mandátum est. Secúndum autem simile huic:
Diliges próximum tuum sicut teípsum.
Quam ob rem simile est huic? Quóniam hoc illud inducit, et ab illo rursus munítur.
Quicúmque enim male agit, ódio habet lucem, et non venit ad lucem. Et rursus: Dixit
insípiens in corde suo, Non est Deus. Deínde sequitur: Corrúpti sunt, et
abominábiles facti sunt in stúdiis suis. Et íterum: Radix ómnium malórum avarítia
est; quam quidam appeténtes, erravérunt a fide. Et, Qui díligit me, mandáta mea
servábit: quorum caput et radix est: Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum, et próximum tuum
sicut teípsum.
Si ergo diligere Deum, diligere proximum est (nam si diligis me, o Petre, inquit,
pasce oves meas): si étiam dilectio proximi facit ut mandata custodias: merito ait
in his totam legem et prophetas pendere. Et quemadmodum in superioribus, cum de
resurrectione interrogaretur, plus docuit quam tentantes petebant: sic in hoc loco
de primo interrogatus mandato, secundum étiam non valde quam primum inferius,
sponte attulit: secundum enim est primo simile. Ita occulte insinuavit, odio illos
ad quærendum incitari. Caritas enim, inquit, non gemulatur.
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When the Pharisees had heard that Christ had put the Sadducees to silence, they
gathered themselves together for a fresh attack; just when it behoved them to be
quiet, they willed to contend; and so they put forward one of themselves, who
professed skill in the law, not wishing to learn, but to lay a snare. This person
therefore proposed the question Which is the great commandment in the law? The
first and great commandment is Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, but they expected
that He would make some exception or addition to this in His Own case, since He
made Himself God. With this expectation they asked Him the question: But what said
Christ? To show that they had adopted this course, because they were loveless, and
sick with envy, He answered Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mighty is this second commandment like unto the first? Because the first is the
second's source and sanction. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light. And again The fool hath said in his heart There is no
God and there followeth They are corrupt, and become abominable in their works. And
yet again: The love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith. And yet once more: If ye love Me, keep My
commandments, of which commandments the head and root is Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God; and thy neighbour as thyself.
If therefore, to love God is to love our neighbour also, as it appeareth where it
is written Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? And he said unto Him Lord, Thou
knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him Feed My
sheep, and if love is the fulfilling of the law, justly doth the Lord say that on
these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets. And even as when, before
this, being interrogated about the Resurrection, He answered them more than they
asked, so, now, being interrogated concerning the first and great commandment, He
answereth them, of His own accord, touching that second one also, which is little
lower than the first, for the second is like unto it. Herein He would have them
understand that it was hatred stirred them up to question Him. For Charity, saith
the Apostle, envieth not.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Patrick, Bishop, Confessor (Mar 17).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-17.txt,
# English/Sancti/03-17.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in the source (6-lesson office).
id: st-patrick
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
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Patricius, Hiberniæ dictus Apostolus, Calphurnio patre, matre Conchessa sancti
Martini Turonensis episcopi, ut perhibent, consanguinea, majori in Britannia
natus, puer in barbarorum sæpius incidit captivitatem. Eo in statu, pascendis
gregibus præpositus jam tum futuræ sanctitatis specimen præbuit: fidei namque,
divinique timoris et amoris spiritu repletus, antelucano tempore per nives, gelu
ac pluvias ad preces Deo fundendas, impiger consurgebat; solitus centies interdiu,
centiesque noctu Deum orare. A servitute tertio exemptus, et inter clericos
relatus, in divinis lectionibus longo se tempore exercuit. Galliis, Italia,
insulisque Tyrrheni maris labore summo peragratis, divino tandem monitu ad
Hibernorum salutem advocatur; et facta a beato Cælestino Papa Evangelii
nuntiandi potestate, consecratusque episcopus, in Hiberniam perrexit.
Eo in munere mirum quot vir apostolicus mala, quot ærumnas et labores, quot
pertulerit adversarios. Verum Dei afflante benignitate, terra illa, idolorum
antea cultrix, eum mox prædicante Patricio fructum dedit, ut sanctorum insula
deínde fuerit appellata. Frequentissimi ab eo populi sacro sunt regenerati
lavacro: episcopi, clericique plurimi ordinati; virgines ac viduæ ad continentiæ
leges institutæ. Armachanam sedem, Romani Pontificis auctoritate, totius insulæ
principem metropolim constituit, sanctorumque reliquiis ab Urbe relatis
decoravit. Supernis visionibus, prophetiæ dono, ingentibusque signis et
prodigiis a Deo exornatus adeo refulsit, ut longe lateque celebrior Patricii se
fama diffuderit.
Præter quotidianam ecclesiarum sollicitudinem, invictum ab oratione spiritum
numquam relaxabat. Ajunt enim, integrum quotidie Psalterium, una cum Canticis et
Hymnis, ducentisque orationibus, consuevisse recitare, tercenties per dies
singulos flexis genibus Deum adorare, ac in qualibet hora diei canonica centies
se crucis signo munire. Noctem tria in spatia distribuens, primum in centum
Psalmis percurrendis et bis centies genuflectendo alterum in reliquis
quinquaginta Psalmis, algidis aquis immersus, ac corde, oculis manibusque ad
cælum erectus, absolvendis insumebat: tertium vero super nudum lapidem stratus
tenui dabat quieti. Humilitatis eximius cultor, apostolico more a manuum suarum
labore non abstinuit. Assiduis tandem curis pro Ecclesia consumptus, verbo et
opere clarus, in extrema senectute divinis mysteriis refectus, obdormivit in
Domino, sepultusque est apud Dunum in Ultonia, a christiana salute sæculo quinto.
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Patrick, called the Apostle of Ireland, was born in Great Britain. The name of his
father was Calphurnius, and that of his mother Conchessa. She is said to have been
a relation of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours. When Patrick was a lad, he was several
times taken prisoner by savages, and while being in their hands he was employed as
a shepherd, he already showed marks of his saintliness to come. His spirit was
filled with faith, and love, and fear of God, so that he would rise before the
light, in snow, and frost, and rain, to make his prayers to God, being accustomed
to address God in prayer an hundred times every day, and an hundred times every
night. After being rescued from his third captivity, he was placed among the
clergy, and for a long time exercised himself in sacred learning. To this end he
travelled with much labour, through Gaul, Italy, and the islands of the Tyrrhenian
Sea, but at last being called of God to work for the salvation of the Irish, and,
having received from the Blessed Pope Celestine a commission to preach the gospel,
and likewise being consecrated a Bishop, he betook himself to Ireland.
In the discharge of his calling it is a marvel with how many evils, with how many
sufferings and labours, and with how many adversaries the Apostolic Patrick had to
bear. Nevertheless, by the goodness of God, that island, which had up to that time
been given over to the serving of idols, was, through the preaching of Patrick, so
wrought on that she soon brought forth the fruit which won her the name of the
Island of Saints. Patrick caused many of her people to be born again by the washing
of regeneration; he ordained many Bishops and clerks; he decreed rules for virgins
and widows living in continency. By the authority of the Bishop of Rome he
established the See of Armagh as the Primatial See of all Ireland, and enriched
the Church with relics of the Saints brought from Rome. Patrick, moreover, was so
eminently adorned with heavenly visions, with the gift of prophecy, and with great
signs and wonders from God, that the fame of him spread itself abroad more and
more, day by day.
Besides that which came upon him daily, the care of all the Churches of Ireland, he
never suffered his spirit to weary in constant prayer. They say that it was his
custom to repeat every day the whole Book of Psalms, together with Songs and
Hymns, and two hundred Prayers; that he bent his knees to God in worship three
hundred times every day, and that he made on himself the sign of the Cross an
hundred times at each of the Seven Hours of the Church Service. He divided the
night into three portions; during the first he repeated the first hundred Psalms,
and bent his knees two hundred times; during the second he remained plunged in cold
water, with heart, eyes, and hands lifted up to heaven, and in that state repeated
the remaining fifty Psalms; during the third he took his short rest, lying upon a
bare stone. He was a great practicer of lowliness, and, after the pattern of the
Apostle, he always continued to work with his own hands. At last he fell asleep in
the Lord in extreme old age, refreshed with the Divine Mysteries, worn out with
unceasing care for the Churches, and glorious both in word and work. His body is
buried in Down in Ulster. He passed away in the fifth century after the giving of
salvation by Christ.
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