Add February Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints
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8 of February's 10 SanctiM-track saints authored (2 left unsourced —
Common-only, no proper text in the source). Two more turned out to be
missed pre-1955-pool candidates rather than genuine SanctiM cases
(their date's SanctiM file belongs to a different saint sharing the
date). Also settles a convention for bare Gospel incipits followed by
a real homily: author the homily alone as isGospel:false rather than
including the incipit line under isGospel:true.
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saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see
"Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a
Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins
readings" below — January done (11/13), ~140 candidates remain (February onward). readings" below — January and February done (19/23), ~130 candidates remain (March onward).
- The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
`src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands. citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
@@ -1407,8 +1407,30 @@ project's own translation, marked `draft`), `st-anthony-abbot`, `chair-of-st-pet
`st-hyginus` (octave-absorbed, see above). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass; none of these `st-hyginus` (octave-absorbed, see above). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass; none of these
are in a test table yet, same as the pre-1955 pass. are in a test table yet, same as the pre-1955 pass.
**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~140 SanctiM-track candidates (February onward) — **February done (8 saints, 1 left unauthored as Common-only, 1 vigil left unauthored as
same authoring shape, continue month by month. Common-only)**: `st-ignatius-of-antioch` (Nocturn 2 patristic vita + Nocturn 3 homily-only,
bare Gospel incipit not transcribed per convention), `st-agatha`, `st-dorothea` (turned out to
be a missed pre-1955-pool candidate, not a real SanctiM case — the SanctiM file for this date
belongs to St. Titus, who shares Feb 6 and isn't on vu's own calendar), `st-romuald`,
`st-scholastica`, `st-simeon` (also a missed pre-1955-pool candidate — the SanctiM file at this
date is unrelated content for St. Bernadette Soubirous, not Simeon),
`chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch` (Nocturn 2 patristic + Nocturn 3 homily-only), `st-matthias`
(Nocturn 3 homily-only; Nocturn 2's own Lectio4-6 falls back to Common of an Apostle, not
proper text). Left unauthored: `st-valentine` (Lectio93 itself is `@Commune/C2:Lectio4`
Common-only, no proper text in the source at all) and `vigil-of-st-matthias` (Vigilia rank,
`ex C1v`, no Lectio content at all — Common-only). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
**A fourth SanctiM-pass finding, from this month**: a bare Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua") with
a genuine patristic homily following it (`st-ignatius-of-antioch`'s Nocturn 3,
`chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch`'s Nocturn 3, `st-matthias`'s Nocturn 3) is now authored as the
homily alone, `isGospel: false`, not combined with the bare incipit line and not marked
`isGospel: true` — cleaner than `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome`'s January file, which included the
incipit line under `isGospel: true` despite not having the full pericope text. That January
file is left as-is (not wrong, just an earlier, less clean judgment call) — this convention
applies going forward.
**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~130 SanctiM-track candidates (March onward) — same
authoring shape, continue month by month.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch
# (Feb 22) — SanctiM/02-22.txt's own Lectio5-12 all resolve back to
# `@Sancti/02-22:LectioN` (resliced for the Monastic 12-lesson
# structure; its `[Rule]`/hymn lines separately borrow structure from
# `SanctiM/01-18`, the Roman Chair's own Monastic file, but the actual
# proper vita/homily text is this feast's own, from `Sancti/02-22.txt`)
# — sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint
# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-22.txt, English/Sancti/02-22.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (St. Augustine's sermon on the feast) combined
# into one reading, one continuous excerpt.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 16:13-19) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per the
# pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined with
# Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of Pope St. Leo's sermon. No
# responsory given for either.
id: chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 15 on the Saints"
text:
la: >-
Institútio solemnitátis hodiérnæ a senióribus nostris Cáthedræ nomen accépit, ídeo quod
primus Apostolórum Petrus hódie episcopátus cáthedram suscepísse referátur. Recte ergo
ecclésiæ natálem sedis illíus colunt, quam Apóstolus pro ecclesiárum salúte suscépit,
dicénte Dómino: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam.
Petrum ítaque fundaméntum Ecclésiæ Dóminus nominávit: et ídeo digne fundaméntum hoc
Ecclésia colit, supra quod ecclesiástici ædifícii altitúdo consúrgit. Unde conveniénter
psalmus, qui lectus est, dicit: Exáltent eum in ecclésia plebis, et in cáthedra seniórum
laudent eum. Benedíctus Deus, qui beátum Petrum Apóstolum in Ecclésia exaltári præcépit:
quia dignum est ut fundaméntum hoc in Ecclésia honorétur, per quod ad cælum conscénditur.
Quod natális ergo Cáthedræ hódie cólitur, sacerdotále honorátur offícium. Sibi hoc
Ecclésiæ ínvicem præstant, quia tanto necésse plus habet Ecclésia dignitatis, quanto
sacerdotále offícium plus honóris. Cum solemnitátem hanc Ecclésiis mérito religiósa
observátio introdúxerit, miror, cur apud quosdam infidéles hódie tam perniciósus error
incréverit, ut super túmulos defunctórum cibos et vina conférant, quasi egréssæ de
corpóribus ánimæ carnáles cibos requírant.
en: >-
The solemn Feast of today received from our forefathers the name of that of St. Peter's
Chair, because there is a tradition that it was on this day that Peter, first of the
Apostles, was enthroned in a Bishop's Chair. Rightly, therefore, do the Churches observe
the anniversary of that Chair, the right to which the Apostle received for the salvation of
the Churches from the Lord of the Churches Himself, with the words: Thou art Peter, and
upon this rock I will build My Church.
It was the Lord Himself Who called Peter the foundation of the Church, and therefore it is
right that the Church should reverence this foundation whereon her mighty structure riseth.
Justly is it written in the Psalm which we have just heard: Let them exalt him in the
congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. Blessed be God,
Who hath commanded that the Blessed Apostle Peter should be exalted in the congregation!
Worthy to be honoured by the Church is that foundation from which her goodly towers rise,
pointing to heaven!
In the honour which is this day paid to the inauguration of the first Bishop's throne, an
honour is paid to the office of all Bishops. The Churches testify one to another, that, the
greater the Church's dignity, the greater the reverence due to her priests. While I confess
how rightly godly custom hath exalted this Feast in the estimation of all the Churches, the
more do I wonder at the growth of that unhealthy error which at this day causeth some
unbelievers to lay food and wine upon the graves of the dead, as if souls once rid of the
body had any longer any need of bodily refreshment.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 3, on the Anniversary of his own Election (on Matt 16:13-19)"
text:
la: >-
Apóstolos Dóminus, quid de se hómines opinéntur, intérrogat: et tamdiu sermo
respondéntium commúnis est, quámdiu humánæ intellegéntiæ ambigúitas explicátur. At ubi
quid hábeat sensus discipulórum exígitur, primus est in Dómini confessióne, qui primus est
in apostólica dignitáte. Qui cum dixísset: Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi: respóndit ei
Jesus: Beátus es Simon Bar-Jona, quia caro et sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus,
qui in cælis est. Id est, Ideo beátus es, quia Pater meus te dócuit: nec terréna opínio te
feféllit, sed inspirátio cæléstis instrúxit: et non caro et sanguis, sed ille me tibi,
cujus sum unigénitus Fílius, indicávit.
Et ego, inquit, dico tibi: hoc est, sicut Pater meus tibi manifestávit divinitátem meam,
ita et ego tibi notam fácio excelléntiam tuam, quia tu es Petrus: id est, cum ego sim
inviolábilis petra, ego lapis anguláris, qui fácio útraque unum, ego fundaméntum præter
quod nemo potest áliud pónere: tamen tu quoque petra es, quia mea virtúte solidáris, ut
quæ mihi potestáte sunt própria, sint tibi mecum participatióne commúnia. Et super hanc
petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam. Super hanc,
inquit, fortitúdinem ætérnum éxstruam templum: et Ecclésiæ meæ cælo inserénda sublímitas,
in hujus fídei firmitáte consúrget.
Hanc confessiónem portæ ínferi non tenébunt, mortis víncula non ligábunt: vox enim ista
vox vitæ est. Et sicut confessóres suos in cæléstia próvehit, ita negatóres ad inférna
demérgit. Propter quod dicit beatíssimo Petro: Tibi dabo claves regni cælórum: Et
quæcúmque ligáveris super terram, erunt ligáta et in cælis: et quæcúmque sólveris super
terram, erunt solúta et in cælis. Transívit quidem étiam in álios Apóstolos vis
potestátis istíus, et ad omnes Ecclésiæ príncipes decréti hujus constitútio commeávit:
sed non frustra uni commendátur, quod ómnibus intimátur. Petro enim ídeo hoc singuláriter
créditur, quia cunctis Ecclésiæ rectóribus Petri forma præpónitur. Manet ergo Petri
privilégium, ubicúmque ex ipsíus fertur æquitáte judícium. Nec nímia est vel sevéritas vel
remíssio, ubi nihil erit ligátum, nihil solútum, nisi quod beátus Petrus aut sólverit, aut
ligáverit.
en: >-
The Lord asked His disciples Who men said that He was, and their answers were human as
long as they were the answers of human reason, unilluminated by Divine light. At last, when
the glimmerings of earthly conjecture were spoken, he whose Apostleship is the first in
dignity, was the first to confess his Lord. And Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him: Blessed art thou,
Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father Which is
in heaven. That is to say, For this cause art thou blessed, because My Father Himself hath
taught thee; the opinions of men have not beguiled thee, the voices of angels have not
taught thee, not flesh and blood, but He, Whose Only begotten Son I am, hath revealed Me
unto thee.
Thus saith the Lord unto Simon Peter: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter. That
is to say, Even as My Father hath revealed unto thee concerning Me that I am God, even so
now will I also reveal unto thee that thou art Peter; I am the sure Rock of defence, the
Corner Stone, Who make both one, I am the Foundation, beside Which other can no man lay,
and thou also art a rock, in My Strength made hard, and those things whereof I by right am
Lord, into thy hand do I give them, that thou mayst bear rule over them, for Me, and with
Me. And upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. Upon this strength of thine, whereof I am the Strength, I will build My eternal
temple, and upon the truth of thy confession of Me I will make to rise My glorious Church
whose spires shall pierce to heaven.
Against this confession the gates of hell shall never prevail, neither shall the bonds of
death take hold upon it. Thus saith He That is faithful and true. And as this confession
hath power to lift up to heaven them that make it, so is it able to thrust down to hell them
that gainsay it. Wherefore it is said unto the most blessed Peter: And I will give unto thee
the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound
in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. This power
passed indeed to the other Apostles also; this the Lord's will had effect in them; but it
is not in vain that it is written that that was given to one which passed from him to all.
To Peter alone were the keys given, and Peter is set as the pattern for all them that bear
rule in the Church to follow. There remaineth therefore the right of Peter, wheresoever his
judgment decreeth justice. Neither is there anything too hard, or too lax, where there is
nothing bound and nothing loosed, save when Peter bindeth or looseth.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (Feb 5) —
# SanctiM/02-05.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/02-05`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-05.txt, English/Sancti/02-05.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source for these lessons.
id: st-agatha
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Agatha virgo, in Sicília nobílibus paréntibus nata, quam Panormitáni et Catanénses civem
suam esse dicunt, in persecutióne Decii imperatóris Cátanæ gloriósi martyrii corónam
consecúta est. Nam cum pari pulchritúdinis et castitátis laude commendarétur, Quintiánus
Sicíliæ prætor ejus amóre captus est. Sed cum, tentáta modis ómnibus ejus pudicítia,
Agatham in suam senténtiam perdúcere non posset, christiánæ superstitiónis nómine
comprehénsam, Aphrodísiæ cuidam mulíeri depravándam tradit. Quæ Aphrodísiæ consuetúdine
cum de constántia coléndæ christiánæ fídei et servándæ virginitátis removéri non posset,
núntiat illa Quintiáno se in Agatha óperam pérdere. Quare ille ad se Vírginem addúci
jubet; et, Nonne, inquit, te pudet nóbili génere natam, húmilem et servílem
Christianórum vitam ágere? Cui Agatha: Multo præstántior est christiána humílitas et
sérvitus, regum ópibus ac supérbia.
Quam ob rem irátus prætor hanc ei optiónem dat, velítne pótius venerári deos, an vim
tormentórum subíre. At illa constans in fide, primum cólaphis cæsa míttitur in cárcerem;
unde postrídie edúcta, cum in senténtia permanéret, admótis candéntibus láminis in
equúleo torquétur. Tum ei mamílla abscínditur; quo in vúlnere Quintiánum appéllans Virgo,
Crudélis, inquit, tyránne, non te pudet amputáre in fémina, quod ipse in matre suxísti?
Mox conjécta in víncula, sequénti nocte a sene quodam, qui se Christi Apóstolum esse
dicébat, sanáta est. Rursum evocáta a prætóre, et in Christi confessióne persevérans, in
acutis téstulis et candéntibus carbónibus ei subjéctis volutátur.
Quo témpore, ingénti terræmótu urbs tota contrémuit, ac duo paríetes, corruéntes,
Silvínum et Falcónium íntimos prætóris familiáres oppressérunt. Quare veheméntius commóta
civitáte, véritus pópuli tumúltum Quintiánus, Agatham semimórtuam clam redúci ímperat in
cárcerem. Quæ sic Deum precáta: Dómine, qui me custodísti ab infántia, qui abstulísti a
me amórem sæculi, qui me carníficum torméntis superiórem præstitísti, áccipe ánimam
meam. Ea in oratióne migrávit in cælum, Nonis Februárii: cujus corpus a Christiánis
sepelítur.
en: >-
The Maiden Agatha was a Sicilian of noble birth. The citizens of Palermo and Catania
dispute as to which city had the honour of being her birthplace. It was at Catania that,
during the persecution under the Emperor Decius, she won the crown of a glorious
martyrdom. She was equally celebrated for her beauty and her chastity, and Quintianus,
Praetor of Sicily, conceived a passion for her. He tried every sort of device to overcome
her modesty, and when he found it impossible to make her consent to his wishes, he caused
her to be arrested on a charge of Christian superstition, and handed over to a woman named
Aphrodisia to be corrupted. The company, however, of this woman had no effect in shaking
her constancy in the Christian worship, nor her settled determination to preserve her
purity. Aphrodisia therefore reported to Quintianus that she was only throwing away her
pains on Agatha. He ordered her to be brought before him. Thou, said he, art the daughter
of a noble family; dost thou feel no shame in living the degraded and slavish life of a
Christian? Agatha answered him, The lowliness and bondage of a Christian are far nobler
than the estate and pride of a king.
Then the Praetor, being incensed against her, gave her the alternative of either
sacrificing to the gods, or being submitted to the torture; and as she remained firm in
the faith, she was buffeted and sent back to prison. The next day she was brought forth,
and, because her resolution was still unshaken, she was stretched on the rack and tortured
with pieces of white-hot metal. Then her breasts were cut off. When Agatha received this
injury she cried out to Quintianus, Cruel tyrant, art thou not ashamed to do this to me,
having thyself sucked at a mother's breast? She was remanded again to prison and put in
irons. That night an old man, who called himself an Apostle of Christ, came to her, and
healed her wounds. The following day she was brought for the last time before the Praetor.
Her constancy was unmoved, and she was rolled on sharp potsherds and live embers.
At that time the whole city was shaken with a great earthquake, and two of the Praetor's
dearest friends, Silvinus and Falconius, were killed by falling walls. The townspeople were
in an uproar, and Quintianus, in fear of a riot, ordered Agatha, who was half dead, to be
carried back to prison quietly. Then she made the following prayer: O Lord, Who hast been
my Keeper from my childhood, Who hast taken from me all love for this present world, Who
hast strengthened me so that I am more than conqueror over the cruelty of the executioners,
receive my spirit, and with these words she passed to heaven. She finished her testimony
on the 5th day of February. Her body was buried by the Christians.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Dorothea, Virgin and Martyr (Feb 6,
# sharing the date with St. Titus in the general Tridentine calendar).
# No SanctiM/02-06o*.txt at all (the only SanctiM file for this date,
# plain SanctiM/02-06.txt, bases `@Sancti/02-06` i.e. Titus, not
# Dorothea) — same "the shared plain file isn't necessarily yours"
# wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints); like
# st-felix-presbyter/st-prisca in January, Dorothea turns out to be a
# missed pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case
# (see memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-06o.txt, English/Sancti/02-06o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-dorothea
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Doróthea virgo, ex Cæsaréa Cappadociæ, propter Christi confessiónem ab Apricio præside
comprehensa, Chrystæ et Callistæ soróribus, quæ a fide defécerant, tradita est, ut eam a
propósito removérent. Sed contra factum est; nam eas Doróthea ad cultum christianæ
religiónis redúxit, propter quam étiam martyrium suscepérunt. Quare Virgo equuleo diu
torta et palmis cæsa, ad extremum cápitis damnata, duplicatam virginitátis et martyrii
palmam accepit.
en: >-
The maiden Dorothy, of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was betrayed to Apricius the President by
her two sisters, Chrysta and Callista, who had denied the faith, in the hope that he would
induce her to do likewise. She was arrested, but it came not to pass as they hoped. On the
contrary, she brought them back to the Christian worship, and they received martyrdom. She
was long tormented upon the rack, and scourged with palm branches, and in the end was
beheaded, receiving the double palm of virginity and martyrdom.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and
# Martyr (Feb 1) — SanctiM/02-01.txt inherits the whole day
# (`@Sancti/02-01`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own
# proper content is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a
# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-01.txt, English/Sancti/02-01.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (St. Jerome's account of Ignatius's life and
# epistles) combined into one reading, one continuous excerpt.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 12:24-26) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per the
# pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel, since the
# Gospel text itself isn't included), combined with Lectio8-9 as one
# continuous excerpt of St. Augustine's tract. No responsory given for
# either.
id: st-ignatius-of-antioch
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 16"
text:
la: >-
Ignátius, Antiochénæ ecclésiæ tértius post Petrum Apóstolum epíscopus, commovénte
persecutiónem Trajáno, damnátus ad béstias, Romam vinctus míttitur. Cumque návigans
Smyrnam venísset, ubi Polycárpus, audítor Joánnis, epíscopus erat, scripsit unam
epístolam ad Ephésios, álteram ad Magnesiános, tértiam ad Trallénses, quartam ad
Romános. Et inde egrédiens scripsit ad Philadélphios, et ad Smyrnǽos, et própriam ad
Polycárpum, comméndans illi Antiochénsem ecclésiam; in qua et de Evangélio, quod nuper a
me translátum est, super persóna Christi ponit testimónium.
Dignum autem vidétur, quia tanti viri fécimus mentiónem, et de epístola ejus, quam ad
Romános scribit, pauca pónere: De Sýria usque ad Romam pugno ad béstias in mari et in
terra, nocte diéque ligátus cum decem leopárdis, hoc est milítibus, qui me custódiunt;
quibus et cum beneféceris, pejóres fiunt. Iníquitas autem eórum mea doctrína est; sed non
idcírco justificátus sum. Utinam fruar béstiis, quæ mihi sunt præparátæ; quas et oro mihi
velóces esse ad intéritum et ad supplícia, et állici ad comedéndum me, ne, sicut et
aliórum Mártyrum, non áudiant corpus attíngere. Quod si veníre nolúerint, ego vim fáciam,
ego me urgébo, ut dévorer. Ignóscite mihi, filíoli; quid mihi prosit, ego scio.
Nunc incípio Christi esse discípulus, nihil de his quæ vidéntur, desíderans, ut Jesum
Christum invéniam. Ignis, crux, béstiæ, confráctio ossium, membrórum divísio, et totíus
córporis contrítio, et tota torménta diáboli in me véniant; tantum ut Christo fruar.
Cumque jam damnátus esset ad béstias, et ardóre patiéndi rugiéntes audíret leónes, ait:
Fruméntum Christi sum; déntibus bestiárum molar, ut panis mundus invéniar. Passus est
anno undécimo Trajáni. Relíquiæ córporis ejus Antiochíæ jacent extra portam
Daphníticam, in cœmetério.
en: >-
Ignatius was the third Bishop of Antioch after the Apostle Peter. When Trajan stirred up
his persecution, he was condemned to be devoured by wild beasts, and sent to Rome in
chains. When on his journey thither he arrived at Smyrna, where Polycarp, the disciple of
John, was Bishop, he wrote an Epistle to the Ephesians, another to the Magnesians, a third
to the Trallians, and a fourth to the Romans, and after leaving Smyrna, he addressed a
further Epistle to the Philadelphians, and another to the Smyrnians, along with a private
Epistle to Polycarp, to whose care he commended the Church of Antioch. In this last he
quoteth a passage regarding the Person of Christ from the Gospel, which I have recently
translated.
It is fitting that, as we have made mention of a man of so much importance, we should also
note briefly the Epistle which he addressed to the Romans. I am on my way, saith he, from
Syria to Rome, and am already fighting with beasts on sea and on land all the way. I may
say I am chained day and night to ten leopards, for indeed the soldiers, who have charge of
me, are no better. The more courteous I am to them, the worse they use me. But still their
wickedness is good schooling for me, though I know that my mere sufferings cannot in
themselves gain me justification. I earnestly wish for the beasts which are to devour me;
at any rate, I pray they may put me out of pain quickly, and fly on me willingly, that I be
not like some other Martyrs, whose bodies the animals have refused to touch. If I find that
they will not come on, I will run at them as quick as I can, to make them devour me. Let me
be, my little children I know what is good for me.
I feel now that I am beginning to be Christ's disciple; I desire none of those things which
are seen, if so be I may find Christ Jesus. I care not that there come upon me fire, or
cross, or wild beasts, or breaking of my bones, or sundering of my members, or destruction
of my whole body, yea, or all the torments of the devil, if only so be I may win Christ.
When he was brought condemned to the theatre, and heard the roaring of the beasts which
were to devour him, he felt so strong an eagerness to suffer, that he cried out I am
Christ's wheat, and so let the beasts' teeth be my mill, that I may be ground, and be found
to make good bread. He suffered in the eleventh year of Trajan. What was left of his body
lieth at Antioch, in the graveyard outside the gate which leadeth toward Daphne.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Tract 51 on John (on John 12:24-26)"
text:
la: >-
Ipse Dóminus Jesus erat granum mortificándum et multiplicándum; mortificándum
infidelitate Judæórum, multiplicándum fide populórum. Jam vero exhortans ad passiónis
suæ sectanda vestígia, Qui amat, inquit, ánimam suam, perdet eam. Quod duobus modis
intelligi potest. Qui amat, perdet; id est, si amas, perdes. Si cupis vitam tenére in
Christo, noli mortem timére pro Christo. Item alio modo: Qui amat ánimam suam, perdet
eam; noli amare, ne perdas; noli amare in hac vita, ne perdas in æterna vita.
Hoc autem, quod posterius dixi, magis habére vidétur evangélicus sensus; séquitur enim:
Et qui odit ánimam suam in hoc mundo, in vitam ætérnam custódit eam. Ergo, quod supra
dictum est, Qui amat, subintellígitur in hoc mundo, ipse útique perdet; qui autem odit,
útique in hoc mundo, in vitam ætérnam ipse custódit eam. Magna et mira senténtia,
quemádmodum sit hóminis in ánimam suam amor ut pereat, ódium ne pereat. Si male
amáveris, tunc odísti; si bene óderis, tunc amásti. Felices, qui odérunt custodiéndo, ne
perdant amándo.
Sed vide ne tibi subrépat ut teípsum velis interímere, sic intelligendo, quod debes
odisse in hoc mundo ánimam tuam. Hinc enim quidam malígni atque perversi hómines, et in
seipsis crudeliores et sceleratiores homicídæ flammis se donant, aquis se præfócant,
præcipítio se collídunt et pereunt. Hoc Christus non docuit; immo étiam diabolo
præcipitium suggerénti respóndit: Redi retro, sátana: scriptum est, Non tentábis
Dóminum, Deum tuum. Petro autem dixit, signíficans qua morte clarificatúrus erat Deum:
cum esses júnior, cingébas te, et ambulabas quo volébas; cum autem senúeris, alter te
cinget et feret quo tu non vis. Ubi satis expressit, non a seipso, sed ab alio debére
occídi, qui vestígia sequitur Christi.
en: >-
The Lord Jesus was Himself a corn of wheat that was to die and bring forth much fruit; to
die by the unbelief of the Jews, and to bring forth much fruit in the faith of the
Gentiles. He, exhorting men to follow His steps, saith He that loveth his life shall lose
it. Now, these words may be understood in two ways. First: he that loveth his life shall
lose it, that is, If thou love life, thou wilt lose it; if thou wilt live for ever in
Christ, refuse not to die for Christ. Or secondly: he that loveth his life shall lose it;
love not then that which thou shalt lose; love not this present life, so that thou be
thereby in jeopardy of losing life eternal.
What this second interpretation is the meaning of the Gospel appeareth most probably from
the words which follow: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life
eternal. From which we may suppose the sense of the first words to be: He that loveth his
life in this world shall lose it unto life eternal. This is a great and marvellous saying,
showing how a man may so love life as to lose life, and so hate life as to keep life. If
thou love it too well, then dost thou hate it; if thou hate it with an holy hatred, then
dost thou love it. Blessed are they that, lest they should so love it as to lose it, so
hate it as to keep it.
Beware lest thou take these words He that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto
life eternal as some do, for an approval of suicide. Some evil and perverse men, bloody and
guilty murderers of themselves, do indeed throw themselves into the fire, drown themselves
in water, and cast themselves down precipices, and so perish. This is not the teaching of
Christ, Who, when the devil would have Him cast Himself down from an high place, answered
Get thee behind Me, Satan. It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Who also
said to Peter, signifying by what death he should glorify God: When thou wast young thou
girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when thou shalt be old, another
shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. From which it is evident that he
that would follow Christ's footsteps, must be slain, not by himself, but by another.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 3 reading for St. Matthias, Apostle (Feb 24) —
# SanctiM/02-24.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/02-24`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-24.txt, English/Sancti/02-24.txt.
# Lectio4-6 fall back to Common of an Apostle (`Commune/C1`), not
# proper text, so not authored here. Lectio7's Gospel citation
# (Matt 11:25-30) is a bare incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full
# pericope text given, so — per the pre-1955 pass's convention of not
# transcribing bare incipits — only the homily portion is authored
# (not marked isGospel), combined with Lectio8-9 as one continuous
# excerpt of St. Augustine's sermon. No responsory given.
id: st-matthias
readings:
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 10 on the Words of the Lord (on Matt 11:25-30)"
text:
la: >-
Veníte ad me, omnes qui laborátis. Quare enim omnes laborámus, nisi quia sumus hómines
mortáles, frágiles, infírmi, lútea vasa portántes, quæ fáciunt ínvicem angústias? Sed, si
angustiántur vasa carnis, dilaténtur spátia caritátis. Quid ergo dicit, Veníte ad me,
omnes qui laborátis, nisi ut non laborétis? Dénique promíssio ejus in promptu est;
quóniam laborántes vocávit, quærent forte, qua mercéde vocáti sunt. Et ego vos, inquit,
refíciam. Tóllite jugum meum super vos, et díscite a me, non mundum fabricáre, non
cuncta visibília et invisibília creáre, non in ipso mundo mirabília fácere et mórtuos
suscitáre; sed, Quóniam mitis sum et húmilis corde.
Magnus esse vis? a mínimo íncipe. Cógitas magnam fábricam constrúere celsitúdinis? de
fundaménto prius cógita humilitátis. Et quantam quisque vult et dispónit superimpónere
molem ædifícii, quanto erit majus ædifícium, tanto áltius fodit fundaméntum. Et fábrica
quidem cum constrúitur, in supérna consúrgit; qui autem fodit fundaméntum, ad ima
deprímitur. Ergo et fábrica ante celsitúdinem humiliátur, et fastígium post
humiliatiónem erígitur.
Quod est fastígium construéndæ fábricæ, quam molímur? quo perventúrum est cacúmen
ædifícii? Cito dico, usque ad conspéctum Dei. Vidétis quam excélsum est, quanta res est
conspícere Deum. Qui desíderat, et quod dico et quod audit intéllegit. Promíttitur nobis
conspéctus Dei, veri Dei, summi Dei. Hoc enim bonum est, vidéntem vidére. Nam, qui colunt
falsos deos, fácile illos vident; sed eos vident, qui óculos habent et non vident. Nobis
autem promíttitur vísio Dei vivéntis et vidéntis.
en: >-
Come unto Me, all ye that labour! And wherefore labour we all, but because we are frail,
sickly, dying creatures, burdened with earthen vessels which distress us? But if these
fleshly vessels be distressful, let the open expanse of love be free and wide. Come unto
Me, all ye that labour! and why? That we may labour no more. His promise is an instant
promise, for He calleth such as are labouring. Perchance they will ask Him what shall be
their reward? And I, saith He, will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of me,
not how to make the world, not how to create all things visible and invisible, not to work
wonders in the earth, nor to raise the dead, but for I am meek and lowly in heart.
Wilt thou be great? Begin by being little. Dost thou think to raise up a lofty building?
Then lay the foundations thereof in lowliness. The greater soever, and the more massy, be
that which any man thinketh to build, so much the deeper doth he dig his foundation. And
when the house is built, it towereth heavenward; but he which layeth the foundation goeth
down into the earth. The building, therefore, is low before it is high, and, after it is
low, it riseth high to the roof.
What is the roof of the house on which we labour? Whither do its spires rise? I answer you
at once; to the presence of God. You see how high it is, yea, what it is to see God. He
that will, understandeth what I say, and he heareth. What is promised you is to see God,
God, the True, God, the Supreme. Blessed is he who seeth Him by Whom he is seen. Such as
worship false gods see them easily, but they see them who have eyes and see not. But unto
us it is promised that we shall see that God Who liveth and seeth.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Romuald, Abbot (Feb 7) —
# SanctiM/02-07.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/02-07`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-07.txt, English/Sancti/02-07.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. Lectio7-9 reference `@Sancti/01-25:Lectio7-9` (the
# Conversion of St. Paul's own Common-of-Apostle-flavoured closing
# lessons) — not proper to Romuald at all, so not authored here. No
# responsory given in the source for Lectio4-6.
id: st-romuald
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Romuáldus, Ravénnæ, Sérgio patre, nóbili génere natus, adoléscens in propínquum
monastérium Classénse pœniténtiæ causa secéssit: ubi religiósi hóminis sermóne ad
pietátis stúdium veheméntius incénsus, viso étiam semel et íterum per noctem in ecclésia
beáto Apollinári, quod Dei servus illi futúrum promíserat, mónachus effícitur. Mox ad
Marínum, vitæ sanctitáte ac severióre disciplína in fínibus Venetórum eo témpore
célebrem, se cóntulit, ut ad arctam et sublímem perfectiónis viam eo magístro ac duce
uterétur.
Multis sátanæ insídiis et hóminum invídia oppugnátus, tanto humílior se assídue
jejúniis et oratiónibus exercébat, et rerum cæléstium meditatióne, vim lacrimárum
profúndens, fruebátur: vultu tamen ádeo læto semper erat, ut intuéntes exhilaráret. Magno
apud príncipes et reges in honóre fuit; multíque ejus consílio, mundi illécebris abjéctis,
solitúdinem petiérunt. Martýrii quoque cupiditáte flagrávit, cujus causa dum in
Pannóniam proficíscitur, morbo, quo afflictabátur cum progrederétur, levabátur cum
recéderet, revérti cógitur.
In vita et post mortem miráculis clarus, spíritu étiam prophetíæ non cáruit. Scalam a
terra cælum pertingéntem, in similitúdinem Jacob Patriárchæ, per quam hómines in veste
cándida ascendébant et descendébant, per visum conspéxit; eóque Camaldulénses mónachos,
quorum institúti auctor fuit, designári mirabíliter agnóvit. Dénique cum annos centum et
vigínti ágeret, et centum ipsos in summa vitæ asperitáte Deo servísset, ad eum migrávit,
anno salútis millésimo vigésimo séptimo. Ejus corpus quinquénnio postquam sepúltum
fúerat, íntegrum repértum, Fabriáni in ecclésia sui órdinis honorífice cónditum est.
en: >-
The holy Abbot Romuald was the son of one Sergius, of a noble family of Ravenna. While he
was still very young, he went to a neighbouring monastery at Classis to do penance. While
he was there he heard a discourse by a monk, which stirred him up strongly to aim at
godliness of living; and he had afterwards in the Church by night two visions in which the
blessed servant of God Apollinaris foretold to him that he should become a monk himself.
He accordingly did so; and soon afterwards betook himself to one Marinus, whose holy life
and strict discipline were then much noised about in all the coasts of the Venetians, that
he might by his teaching and guidance attain towards the hard and lofty point of
perfection.
The more he was assailed by the wiles of Satan and the unkindness of men, the more did he
exercise himself in lowliness, with continual fasting and prayer, and rejoice in thinking
of heavenly things, with abundance of tears. And all the while he bore so bright a face as
gladdened all who looked on him. He was held in great honour by princes and kings, and his
counsel moved many to leave the blandishments of the world and withdraw to the desert. He
had such a burning desire to obtain the crown of martyrdom that he set out for Pannonia on
purpose to seek it, but, falling into sickness whenever he went forward though growing
strong again whenever he drew back, he behoved to return home.
God worked miracles by him both during his life and after his death, and likewise gave him
the gift of prophecy. Like the Patriarch Jacob, he saw a ladder reaching from earth to
heaven, and men in white garments ascending and descending upon it, in whom he marvellously
knew were represented the monks of the Camaldolese Institute, of which he was the founder.
At the age of 120 years, of which he had spent 100 in serving God in great hardness, he
passed into His Presence, in the year of Salvation 1027. Five years after his death his
body was found incorrupt, and laid in a magnificent grave in the Church of his order at
Fabriano.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Scholastica, Virgin (Feb 10) —
# SanctiM/02-10.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/02-10`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-10.txt, English/Sancti/02-10.txt.
# Lectio4-6 (St. Gregory the Great's account, from the Dialogues, of
# her final visit with St. Benedict) combined into one reading, one
# continuous excerpt. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-scholastica
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Bk. 2, ch. 33"
text:
la: >-
Scholástica, venerábilis patris Benedícti soror, omnipoténti Dómino ab ipso infántiæ
témpore dedicáta, ad eum semel per annum veníre consuéverat; ad quam vir Dei non longe
extra jánuam in possessióne monastérii descendébat. Quadam vero die venit ex more, atque
ad eam, cum discípulis venerábilis ejus descéndit frater; qui totum diem in Dei láudibus
sacrísque collóquiis ducéntes, incumbéntibus jam noctis ténebris, simul accepérunt
cibum. Cumque adhuc ad mensam sedérent, et inter sacra collóquia tárdior se hora
protráheret, éadem sanctimoniális fémina soror ejus eum rogávit, dicens: Quæso te, ut
ista nocte me non déseras, ut usque mane de cæléstis vitæ gáudiis loquámur. Cui ille
respóndit: Quid est quod lóqueris, soror? manére extra cellam nullátenus possum. Tanta
vero erat cæli serénitas, ut nulla in áëre nubes appareret. Sanctimoniális autem fémina,
cum verba fratris negántis pósuit, et caput in mánibus omnipoténtem Dóminum rogatúra
declinávit. Cumque leváret de mensa caput, tanta coruscatiónis et tonítrui virtus, tántaque
inundátio plúviæ erúpit, ut neque venerábilis Benedíctus, neque fratres, qui cum eo áderant,
extra loci limen, quo conséderant, pedem movére potúerint.
Sanctimoniális quippe fémina caput in mánibus declínans, lacrimárum flúvium in mensam
fúderat, per quas serenitátem áëris ad plúviam traxit. Nec paulo tárdius post oratiónem
inundátio illa secúta est; sed tanta fuit conveniéntia oratiónis et inundatiónis, ut de
mensa caput jam cum tonítruo leváret; quátenus unum idémque esset moméntum, et leváre
caput, et plúviam depónere. Tunc vir Dei inter corúscos et tonítruos atque ingéntis plúviæ
inundatiónem, videns se ad monastérium non posse remeáre, cœpit cónqueri contristátus,
dicens: Parcat tibi omnípotens Deus, soror: quid est quod fecísti? Cui illa respóndit:
Ecce rogávi te et audíre me noluísti; rogávi Deum meum, et audívit me: modo ergo, si
potes, egrédere et, me dimíssa, ad monastérium recéde. Ipse autem exíre extra tectum non
valens, qui remanére sponte nóluit in loco, mansit invítus. Sicque factum est, ut totam
noctem pervígilem dúcerent, atque per sacra spiritális vitæ collóquia, sese vicária
relatióne satiárent.
Cumque die áltero éadem venerábilis fémina ad cellam própriam recessísset, vir Dei ad
monastérium rédiit. Cum ecce post tríduum, in cella consístens, elevátis in áëra óculis
vidit ejúsdem soróris suæ ánimam de córpore egréssam in colúmbæ spécie cæli secréta
penetráre. Qui, tantæ ejus glóriæ congáudens, omnipoténti Deo in hymnis et láudibus
grátias réddidit, ejúsque óbitum frátribus denuntiávit. Quos étiam prótinus misit, ut
ejus corpus ad monastérium deférrent, atque in sepúlcro, quod sibi ipsi paráverat,
pónerent. Quo facto cóntigit, ut, quorum mens una semper in Deo fúerat, eórum quoque
córpora nec sepultúra separáret.
en: >-
The worshipful Scholastica, the sister of our Father Benedict, was hallowed unto the Lord
Almighty from a child. Her custom was to come to see her brother once every year. And when
she came, the man of God went down unto her, not far from the gate, but, as it were,
within the borders of his monastery. And there was a day when she came, as her custom was,
and her worshipful brother went down to her, and his disciples with him. Then they passed
the whole day together, praising God, and speaking one to the other of spiritual things.
And when the night came, they brake bread together. And while they were yet at table, and
conversed together on spiritual things, the hour was late. Then the holy woman his sister
besought him, saying: Leave me not, I pray thee, this night, but let us speak even until
morning of the gladness of the eternal life. He answered her: What is it that thou sayest,
my sister? I can by no means remain out of my cell. Now the firmament was so clear that
there were no clouds in the sky. Then the holy nun, when she had heard the words of her
brother, that he would not abide with her, clasped her hands on the table, and laid her
face on her hands, and besought the Lord Almighty. And it came to pass that when she lifted
up her head from the table, there were great thunderings and lightnings, and a flood of
rain, insomuch that neither the worshipful Benedict nor the brethren that were with him
could move as much as a foot over the threshold of the place where they sat.
Now when the holy woman laid her head in her hands upon the table, she wept bitterly, and
as she wept, the clearness of the sky was turned to a tempest. As she prayed, immediately
the flood followed. And the time was so, that she lifted up her head when it thundered, and
when she had lifted up her head, the rain came. When the man of God saw that he could not
return to his monastery, because of the lightnings, and thunderings, and the great rain,
he was sorrowful and grieved, saying: Almighty God forgive thee, my sister; what is this
that thou hast done? She answered him: Behold, I besought thee, and thou wouldest not
hear; I besought my God, and He hath heard me; if, therefore, thou wilt, go forth, leave
me alone, and go thy way to thy monastery. But he could not, and so he tarried in the same
place, not willingly, but of necessity. And so it came to pass that they slept not all that
night, but fed one another with discourse on spiritual things.
And when the morning was come, the worshipful woman arose, and went unto her own cell, and
the man of God went back to his monastery. And, behold, after three days he was sitting in
his cell, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and saw the soul of his sister, delivered
from the body, fly to heaven in a bodily shape like a dove. Wherefore he rejoiced because
of the glory that was revealed in her, and gave thanks to Almighty God in hymns and
praises, and made known to the brethren that she was dead. He commanded them also to go
and take up her body, and bring it to his monastery, and lay it in the grave which he had
made ready for himself. Whereby it came to pass that they twain who had ever been of one
mind in the Lord, even in death were not divided.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Simeon, Bishop and Martyr (Feb 18) —
# no genuine SanctiM/02-18*.txt: the only file found there,
# `SanctiM/02-18b.txt`, is unrelated content for St. Bernadette
# Soubirous (a later addition to that date slot, not referencing
# Simeon or `@Sancti/02-18` at all) — same "the file that exists isn't
# necessarily yours" wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints); Simeon turns out to be a missed
# pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see
# memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-18.txt, English/Sancti/02-18.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-simeon
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Simeon, fílius Cléophæ, post Jacobum próximus Jerosolymis ordinátus epíscopus, Trajano
imperatóre apud Atticum consularem est accusatus, quod christianus esset et Christi
propinquus. Comprehendebántur enim omnes eo témpore, quicúmque ex genere David orti
essent. Quare multis cruciátus tormentis eodem passiónis genere, quod Salvátor noster
subíerat, affícitur: mirántibus ómnibus, quod homo ætate confectus (erat enim centum et
viginti annórum) acerbíssimos crucis dolóres fortiter constanterque paterétur.
en: >-
Simeon, the son of Cleophas, was chosen the second Bishop of Jerusalem, being the first
after James. Under the Emperor Trajan he was accused before the Pro-Consul Atticus, as
being both a Christian and a relation of Christ, this being the time when all were
arrested that were of the lineage of David. He underwent with great suffering the same
things that were inflicted on our Saviour, and all men marvelled to see with how great
boldness and firmness he endured the grievous torment of the cross, at his great age, for
he was an hundred and twenty years old.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }