# 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. en: >- 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. status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 72 on Matthew (on Matt 22:34-46)" text: la: >- 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. en: >- 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. status: { la: verified, en: verified }