# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Joachim, Confessor, Father of # the Blessed Virgin Mary (Aug 16). Sourced directly from # web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-16.txt, English/Sancti/08-16.txt. # Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, sermons by St. Epiphanius and St. John of # Damascus on Ss. Joachim and Anne, combined into one reading. Nocturn # 3: the Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full # pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only the homily # (Lectio7-9, St. John of Damascus on the genealogy of Christ) is # authored, isGospel: false, no citation field. id: st-joachim readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false source: "St. Epiphanius, Discourse on the Praises of the Virgin; St. John of Damascus, 1st Sermon on the Birth of the BVM" text: la: >- De radíce Jesse ortus est rex David, et de tribu regis David sancta Virgo: sancta, inquam, et sanctórum virórum fília, cujus paréntes fuérunt Jóachim et Anna; qui quidem in vita sua Deo placuérunt, atque étiam fructum ejúsmodi germinavérunt, sanctam Vírginem Maríam, templum simul et matrem Dei. Jóachim porro, Anna et María, hi tres Trinitáti palam sacrifícium laudis offerébant. Jóachim enim interpretátur Præparátio Dómini, eo quod ex illo præparátum sit templum Dómini, nempe Virgo. Anna rursus simíliter Grátia interpretátur, proptérea quod Jóachim et Anna grátiam accepérunt, ut accedéntibus précibus, talem fructum germinárent, sanctam Vírginem adépti; Jóachim síquidem precabátur in monte, et Anna in horto suo. Quóniam futúrum erat ut Dei Génetrix et Virgo ex Anna orirétur, natúra grátiæ fœtum antevértere mínime ausa est; verum tantísper exspectávit, dum grátia fructum suum produxísset. Síquidem oportébat eam primogénitam in lucem edi, quæ rerum ómnium conditárum Primogénitum, in quo ómnia coagmentáta sunt, paritúra erat. O par beátum Jóachim et Anna! vobis omnis creatúra obstrícta est. Per vos enim donum, ómnium donórum præstantíssimum, Creatóri óbtulit, nempe castam matrem, quæ sola Creatóre digna erat. Exsúlta, Jóachim, quóniam ex fília tua Fílius natus est nobis; et vocátur nomen ejus magni consílii, hoc est, salútis totíus mundi Angelus. Pudóre afficiátur Nestórius, ac manum ori impónat. Puer hic Deus est. Quonam ígitur modo ea Dei Génetrix non sit, quæ péperit? Si quis sanctam Dei Genetrícem non confitétur, a Deitáte remótus est. Mea non est hæc orátio, quamquam alióqui mea; hanc enim diviníssimam hereditátem a theólogo patre Gregório accépi. O beátum par Jóachim et Anna! Ac profécto ex ventris vestri fructu immaculáti agnoscímini, quemádmodum Christus quodam loco dixit: Ex frúctibus eórum cognoscétis eos. Ut Deo gratum erat ac dignum ea quæ a vobis orta est, vitæ vestræ ratiónes instituístis. Caste enim ac sancte múnere vestro functi, virginitátis thesáurum produxístis. en: >- From the Root of Jesse sprang King David, and from the stock of King David, the Holy Virgin. Holy I call her, and the daughter of holy men. Her father and mother were Joachim and Anne, who pleased God in their lives, and brought forth an offspring well pleasing to Him, even the Holy Virgin Mary, at once the Temple and the Mother of God. These three, Joachim, Anne, and Mary, clearly offered up unto the Trinity a sacrifice of praise. For the name Joachim being interpreted, signifieth "the preparation of the Lord," and out of him was prepared the Temple of the Lord, namely, the Virgin. The name Anne signifieth grace, and she and Joachim did indeed receive a grace when, in answer to their prayers, they generated such an offspring, compassing the Holy Virgin. Joachim prayed upon the mountain and Anne in her garden. Since it was to be that the Virgin Mother of God should be born of Anne, nature dared not to produce any other child before this child of grace, but humbly waited until grace should have produced her's. It behoved that she should come into the world as a first-born, who was to bear the First-born of every creature, even Him by Whom all things were made. O blessed couple, Joachim and Anne, unto you is all creation laid under debt, since through you creation hath offered to the Creator this noblest of gifts, namely, that chaste mother, who alone was worthy of the Creator. Rejoice, O Joachim, from whose daughter a Child hath unto us been born, and His name is called The Angel of the Great Counsel, that is, of the salvation of the whole world. Let Nestorius be ashamed, and put his hand upon his mouth. Her Child is God. How then can His Mother be other than Mother of God? Whosoever acknowledgeth not the Holy Mother of God is far from God. This saying is not mine, although it is mine in all other senses than that of authority. I have received it as a most godly legacy from Father Gregory the Divine. O blessed couple, Joachim and Anne. Christ saith in a certain place: By their fruits ye shall know them; and ye are known by the fruit of your chaste loins. That that which should be born of you might be worthy and well-pleasing in the sight of God, ye ordered your own lives by rule. In the chaste and holy exercise of your natural gift, ye produced the treasure of virginity. status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "St. John of Damascus, Bk. IV on the Orthodox Faith, ch. 15 (on the Lord's genealogy)" text: la: >- Quod Joseph ex davídica tribu oríginem dúxerit, sanctíssimi Evangelístæ Matthǽus et Lucas líquido demonstrárunt. Verum, hoc inter eos discríminis est, quod Matthǽus ex Davíde per Salomónem Joséphum dedúcit; Lucas autem per Nathan. At vero sanctæ Vírginis ortum uterque siléntio prætériit. Quocírca scire óperæ prétium est, nec apud Hebrǽos nec apud Scriptúram sacram hoc in more pósitum fuísse, ut mulíerum genus recenserétur. Verum, hoc demum lege cautum erat ne tribus ulla uxóres ex áltera tribu accérseret. Ac proínde Joseph, qui ex tribu davídica ortum trahébat justitiámque colébat, sanctam Vírginem haudquáquam præter legis præscríptum despondísset, nisi ex eódem sceptro genus duxísset. Ob idque satis hábuit Evangelísta demonstrásse, unde Joseph ortum tráxerit. Igitur ex stirpe Nathan, fílii David, Levi génuit Melchi et Panthérem. Panther autem génuit Barpanthérem. Barpánther rursus génuit Jóachim. Jóachim dénique génuit sanctam Dei Genetrícem. Rursus, ex stirpe Salomónis, fílii David, Mathan ex uxóre sua génuit Jacob. Mórtuo autem Mathan, Melchi ex tribu Nathan, fílius Levi ac frater Panthéris, uxórem ipsíus Mathan, quæ étiam Jacóbi mater erat, matrimónio sibi copulávit, atque ex ea génuit Heli. Ita uteríni fratres erant Jacob et Heli; ille nimírum ex tribu Salomónis, hic ex tribu Nathan oriúndus. Porro Heli, qui ex tribu Nathan erat, nullis líberis suscéptis, e vita migrávit; eáque de causa Jacob ipsíus frater, qui ex tribu Salomónis flúxerat, ipsíus uxórem accépit, fratríque suo semen excitávit ac Joséphum progénuit. Joseph ítaque natúra quidem fílius Jacob erat, a Salomóne oriúndus; legis autem ratióne patrem habébat Heli, ex Nathan oriúndum. Quæ cum ita sint, Jóachim lectíssimam illam ac summis láudibus dignam mulíerem Annam matrimónio sibi copulávit. Verum, quemádmodum prisca illa Anna, cum sterilitátis morbo laboráret, per oratiónem ac promissiónem, Samuélem procreávit; eódem modo hæc étiam, per obsecratiónem et promissiónem, Dei Genetrícem a Deo accépit, ut ne hic quoque cuíquam ex illústribus matrónis céderet. Itaque grátia Dóminam parit. Vere étenim rerum ómnium conditárum Dómina facta est, cum Creatóris Mater éxstitit. en: >- That Joseph sprang from the lineage of David, the most holy Evangelists Matthew and Luke have clearly shown. There is this difference between them, that Matthew traceth the pedigree from David through Solomon, and Luke through Nathan. But both of them pass in silence over the descent of the Holy Virgin. In explanation of this we shall find on investigation that among the Jews, and in the Holy Scriptures, it hath never been in use to chronicle the pedigrees of women. But the Law containeth a warning against the tribes intermarrying one with another. Joseph was of the same tribe as David, and since he was a just man, he would not have espoused the Holy Virgin, unless she had been of the same race, as such an union would not have been in accordance with the commandment of the law. For this reason the Evangelist held it enough to have shown the descent of Joseph. Therefore, from the stock of Nathan the son of David, Levi begat Melchi and Panther; and Panther begat Bar-Panther. Bar-Panther begat Joachim; and Joachim begat the Holy Mother of God. Again, from the stock of Solomon the son of David, Mathan of his wife begat Jacob. And after Mathan was dead, Melchi, of the family of Nathan, son to Levi and brother to Panther, took to him in marriage her that had been the wife of Mathan, and was mother of Jacob, and begat of her Heli. So that Jacob and Heli were half-brothers, sons of the same mother, but one of the stock of Solomon and the other of the stock of Nathan. Then Heli, who was the descendant of Nathan, died, having had no children. Whereupon, Jacob, who was the descendant of Solomon, took to himself the widow of his half-brother Heli, to raise up seed unto his brother, and begat of her Joseph. So Joseph was by nature the son of Jacob the descendant of Solomon, but in the eye of the Law he had for his father Heli the descendant of Nathan. Things being thus, Joachim took to wife that most eminent and praiseworthy woman, Anne. And even as the patient Hannah, being stricken with barrenness, by prayer and promise became the mother of Samuel, so likewise this woman also through prayer and promise received from God the Mother of God, that in fruitfulness she might not be behind any of the famous matrons. And thus grace is mother of the Lady. And indeed she became the Lady of every creature, since she hath been mother of the Creator. status: { la: verified, en: verified }