# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Confessor # (July 5). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-05.txt, # English/Sancti/07-05.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one # reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends # "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the # bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. Augustine of # Hippo) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field. id: st-anthony-mary-zaccaria readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Antonius Maria Zaccaría, Cremonæ in Insubria nobili genere natus, jam a púero qua futurus esset sanctitáte porténdere visus est. Eximiárum enim in eo virtútum significatiónes mature eluxérunt, pietátis in Deum ac beátam Vírginem; insígnis præsertim in páuperes misericórdiæ; quorum inópiæ sublevandæ, vel pretiósa veste sibi detracta, haud semel præsto fuit. Humanióribus litteris in pátria excultus, Ticíni philosophíæ, Patavii medicinæ addiscendæ operam dedit; utque ómnibus vitæ integritate, ita et æquálibus acúmine ingenii facile antecelluit. Lauream adeptus ac domum reversus, ubi intelléxit se Dei mónitu ad animórum magis quam córporum morbis medéndum vocari, in sacras disciplínas percipiendas sédulo incúbuit. Interea ægrotos vísere, púeros christiana doctrina informare, júvenum cœtus pietáte excólere, ætate étiam provectos ad mores emendándos frequenter hortari non déstitit. Sacris initiatus, cum primo litáret, cælésti oborto lúmine, Angelórum coróna circúmdatus stupénti pópulo apparuísse tráditur. Exinde animárum salúti impensius consúlere, depravátis móribus summa ope obsístere curæ fuit. Ad hæc ádvenas, egénos, afflictos paterno complexus afféctu, piis alloquiis atque subsidiis recreatos ita solari, ut ejus domus miserórum perfúgium haberétur, ípseque pater pátriæ atque angelus merúerit a suis civibus appellari. Mediolani, cum secum agitaret uberióres in rem christianam manare posse fructus, si in vinea Dómini sibi labórum socios adscísceret, re communicáta cum Bartholomæo Ferrario et Jacobo Morígia, nobilíssimis et sanctíssimis viris, sodalitátis Clericórum regulárium fundaménta jecit; quam, ob suum in Géntium Apostolum amórem, a sancto Paulo nuncupávit. Quæ, Cleménte septimo Pontifice máximo approbante et Paulo tertio confirmánte, brevi per complures regiónes propagáta est. Sanctimoniálium quoque Angelicárum socíetas ipsum Antónium Mariam parentem et auctórem hábuit. Qui tamen adeo de se submisse sentiebat, ut nullo pacto præésse suo ordini umquam volúerit. Tanta vero fuit patiéntia, ut formidolosíssimas tempestates in suos commótas constanti animo perferret; tanta caritate, ut piis adhortatiónibus religiósos viros ad Dei amórem inflammare, sacerdótes ad apostolicam vivéndi normam revocare, patrumque familias sodalítia ad bonam frugem institúere numquam intermíserit. Immo, intérdum præláta cruce per cómpita plateasque cum suis progréssus, férvida ac veheménti oratióne aberrántes improbosque hómines ad salútem redúceret. Illud étiam memorándum, quod, in Jesum crucifixum amóre flagrans, crucis mystérium ab ómnibus, ad statum æris campani indícium, sexta quaque feria sub vésperas, recoléndum curávit. Sanctíssimum Christi nomen in suis scriptis passim usurpábat et in ore semper habebat; ejusdémque cruciatus, vere Pauli discipulus, in corpore suo præ se ferebat. In sacram Eucharistiam singulari caritate ferebátur; cujus et frequenter percipiendæ consuetúdinem instaurávit, et morem e sublimi throno publice in triduum adorandæ invexísse perhibétur. Pudicítiam adeo coluit, ut étiam in exsangui corpore, revivíscere visus, ejus amórem testarétur. Accéssere cæléstia dona éxtasis, lacrimárum, futurórum eventuum cognitiónis, scrutatiónis cordium, virtútis in humani generis hostem. Tandem, magnis labóribus ubíque exantlátis, Guastallæ quo pacis sequester accítus fuerat, gravi morbo correptus est. Cremonam adductus, inter suórum fletus et complexus piíssimæ matris, quam proxime obituram prædixit, superna Apostolórum visióne recreatus, sodalitátis suæ increménta prænuntians, tertio Nonas Julii anno millesimo quingentésimo trigesimo nono, sanctíssime obiit, annos natus sex supra trigínta. en: >- Anthony Mary Zaccaria was born of a noble family, at Cremona, on the Pau. Even in his childhood marks of his future holiness became manifest. There shone brightly in him, signs of excellent graces of childlike love toward God and the Blessed Virgin, and more especially of tenderness toward the poor, for the relief of whose needs he was ready more than once to strip off his own costly dress. He studied arts at his own home, philosophy at Ticino, and medicine at Padua, and as he excelled all others in goodness, so did he surpass all his companions in intellectual power. After taking his degree he returned home, and there understood from God that his call was to the healing of souls, rather than to that of bodies. He therefore began earnestly to study theology while he continued in the meantime to visit the sick, to teach Christian doctrine to children, to excite godliness among the young, and oftentimes even to exhort the aged to amend their ways. It is said that when he first said Mass after his ordination a light broke from heaven, and he seemed to the astonished bystanders to be surrounded by a circle of angels: from that time forth he laboured more earnestly for the salvation of souls, and the struggle against evil living. His fatherly love for strangers, for the needy, and for the afflicted, and the godly exhortations and alms wherewith he entertained them, made his house to become a refuge for the wretched, and earned for himself from his fellow-citizens the title of father of the fatherland and of angels. While he was at Milan he bethought him that greater Christian good might be done if he gathered round him some fellow-labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and when he had conferred thereon with those noble and holy men Bartholomew Ferrari and James Morigia, he founded the brotherhood of Clerks Regulars, to whom on account of his own great love for the Apostle of the Gentiles he gave the name of Clerks of St. Paul. Under the approbation of the Supreme Pontiff Clement VII. and the confirmation of Paul III. this brotherhood was in a short time widely spread abroad. The Congregation of nuns who are called Angelicals also regard Anthony Mary as their Father and Founder. His own thought of himself was so lowly that he never would be at the head of his own Order. In great long-suffering he bore with patience the violent storms which were raised against his Institute. In the greatness of his charity he never ceased to enkindle the members of religious orders to love toward God, to exhort priests to live Apostolic lives, and to found guilds of married men, to the bringing forth of much fruit. Somewhiles he and his disciples would walk through the streets and squares with a Cross carried before them, and there by burning and vehement harangues call to salvation the wandering and the wicked. It is to be remembered that in his burning love for Jesus Crucified he reminded all men of the Mystery of the Cross by the sound of a bell every Friday evening, and himself as a true disciple of Paul always bore about in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus. The holy Name of Christ is found everywhere in his writings and was ever in his mouth. He was moved by a singular love toward the Holy Eucharist. He established a custom of receiving it often, and is said to have brought in the practice of exposing the same upon a lofty throne for three days' adoration. Of his earnest modesty the appearance of life which was seen even in his dead body seemed a witness. Together with all these things he possessed the gifts of trance, of tears, of knowledge of things to come, of reading the thoughts of the heart, and of power against the enemy of mankind. He was worn out with toil when he was seized with his last illness at Guastalla, whither he had been called as a peacemaker. He was carried to Cremona amid the tears of his brethren and the embraces of his devoted mother, whose imminent death he foretold. He was comforted by a vision of the Apostles above, and predicted the increase of his Brotherhood. In the year 1539, he died a holy death at the age of thirty-six. status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 47 (various)" text: la: >- Durum vidétur et grave quod Dóminus imperávit, ut, si quis eum vult sequi ábneget seípsum; sed non est durum nec grave quod ille ímperat, qui ádjuvat ut fiat quod ímperat. Nam illud verum est quod ei dícitur in Psalmo: Propter verba labiórum tuórum ego custodívi vias duras. Quidquid enim durum est in præceptis, ut sis lene, caritas facit. Nóvimus quanta ipse amor facit. Quid autem est, Neget se? Non præsumat de se, séntiat se hóminem, et respiciat dictum propheticum: Maledictus omnis qui spem suam ponit in hómine: subdúcat se sibi sed non deorsum versus: subdúcat se sibi, ut hæreat Deo. Quo sequendus est Dóminus? Quo iit, novimus; resurréxit enim et ascéndit in cælum: illo sequendus est. Plane desperándum non est, quia ipse promísit, non quia homo aliquid potest. Jam quare desperémus, si membra illíus cápitis sumus? Bonum est illo eum sequi; sed vidéndum est, qua. Etenim verba ista Dóminus Jesus non tunc dicebat quando a mórtuis jam resurrexerat; nondum erat passus, venturus erat ad crucem, venturus ad exhonoratiónem, ad contumelias, ad flagélla, ad spinas, ad vulnera, ad insultatiónes, oppróbria, mortem. Quasi exasperáta est via: pigrum te facis, non vis sequi: Séquere. Nam quis non velit ire ad exaltatiónem? omnes delectat celsitudo, sed humilitas gradus est. Tolle crucem tuam, et séquere Dóminum. Crux enim nostra, quam Dóminus portari a nobis jubet, ut eum expeditíssimi sequamur, quid aliud quam mortalitátem carnis hujus significat? Ipsa enim nos cruciat, donec absorbeátur mors in victoriam. Crux ergo hæc ipsa crucifigenda est, et transfigenda est clavis timoris Dei, ne solutis et liberis membris reluctántem portare non possis; sequi enim Dóminum, nisi eam portans, omnino non vales. Nam quómodo eum sequéris, si non es ejus? Qui autem Jesu Christi sunt, ait Apóstolus, carnem suam crucifixérunt cum passiónibus et desidériis. en: >- That which the Lord commandeth hard and heavy seemeth: if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. But neither hard nor heavy is that which He commandeth when He that commandeth giveth help to fulfil. Whatsoever is hard in the commandment, love maketh easy. We know how great is the power of love. And what signifieth this, let him deny himself? Let him put no trust in himself, let him feel that he is man, and let him have regard unto that which was spoken of the prophet: Cursed be the man that trusteth in men. Let him mistrust himself, but not to sink; let him mistrust himself, that he may cleave unto God. Whither are we to follow the Lord? Whither He is gone, we know. He is risen from the dead, and is gone up into heaven. Thither we must follow Him. And we must not despair of so doing, not because man is able to do anything, but because He is faithful That promised. Why, then, should we despair, since we are members of His Body? Good is it to follow Him, but whither we are to follow Him we must see. When the Lord Jesus uttered those words bidding us to follow Him, He had not Himself as yet arisen from the dead; there lay still before Him the cross, shame, mockery, scourging, thorns, wounds, outrages, insults, death. Art thou slothful? willest thou not to follow Him? but follow Him all the same, for who would not follow unto glory? All men love exaltation, but lowliness is the step to rise withal. Take up thy cross, and follow the Lord. For our cross, which the Lord commandeth us to carry after Him, that we may follow Him most speedfully, what is it but the death of this flesh? For it is this flesh that crucifieth us until death is swallowed up in victory. Therefore must this our own cross itself be crucified and pierced with the nails of the fear of God, lest, if it be free, it hamper thee in the carrying of it, and thou canst nowise follow the Lord save in carrying it. For how canst thou follow Him if thou be none of His? And they that are Christ's, saith the Apostle, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. status: { la: verified, en: verified }