# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Joseph Calasanctius, Confessor # (Aug 27). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-27.txt, # English/Sancti/08-27.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. John # Chrysostom) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field. id: st-joseph-calasanctius readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Josephus Calasanctius a Matre Dei, Petraltæ in Aragonia nobili genere natus, a teneris annis futuræ in pueros caritatis et eorum institutionis indicia præbuit. Nam adhuc parvulus eos ad se convocatos in mysteriis fidei et sacris precibus erudiebat. Humanis divinisque litteris egregie doctus cum studiis theologicis Valentiæ operam daret, nobilis potentisque feminæ illecebris fortiter superatis, virginitatem, quam Deo voverat, inoffensam insigni victoria servavit. Sacerdos ex voto factus, a compluribus episcopis in Castellæ Novæ, Aragoniæ et Catalauniæ regnis in partem laboris ascitus, exspectationem omnium vicit, pravis ubique moribus emendatis, ecclesiastica disciplina restituta, inimicitiis cruentisque factionibus mirifice exstinctis. At cælesti visione et Dei voce frequenter admonitus, Romam profectus est. In Urbe summa vitæ asperitate, vigiliis et jejuniis corpus affligens, in orationibus et cælestium rerum contemplatione dies noctesque versabatur, septem ejusdem Urbis ecclesias singulis fere noctibus obire solitus: quem inde morem complures annos servavit. Dato piis sodalitatibus nomine, mirum quanto ardore pauperes, infirmos potissimum, aut carceribus detentos eleemosynis omnique pietatis officio sublevaret. Lue Urbem depopulante, una cum sancto Camillo, tanto fuit actus impetu caritatis, ut præter subsidia ægrotis pauperibus large collata, ipsa étiam defunctorum cadavera suis humeris tumulanda transferret. Verum cum divinitus accepisset, se ad informandos intelligentiæ ac pietatis spiritu adolescentulos præcipue pauperes, destinari, ordinem Clericorum regularium pauperum Matris Dei scholarum piarum fundavit, qui peculiarem curam circa puerorum eruditionem ex proprio instituto profiterentur: ipsumque ordinem a Clemente octavo, a Paulo quinto aliusque summis Pontificibus magnopere probatum, brevi tempore per plurimas Europæ provincias et regna mirabiliter propagavit. Quamvis ordini universo præesset, totisque viribus ad animarum salutem incumberet, numquam tamen intermisit pueros, præsertim pauperiores, erudire, quorum scholas verrere, eosque domum comitari consuevit. In eo summæ patientiæ et humilitatis munere, valetudine étiam infirma, duos et quinquaginta annos perseveravit: dignus propterea, quem crebris Deus miraculis coram discipulis illustraret, et cui beatissima Virgo cum puero Jesu, illis orantibus benedicente, appareret. Cum obitus sui diem, et ordinis tunc prope eversi restitutionem atque incrementum prænuntiasset, secundum et nonagesimum annum agens, Romæ obdormivit in Domino, octavo Kalendas Septembris, anno millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo octavo. Ejus cor et lingua post sæculum integra et incorrupta reperta sunt. Ipse vero multis post obitum quoque signis a Deo illustratus, primum a Benedicto decimo quarto beatorum cultu decoratus fuit, ac deínde a Clemente decimo tertio inter sanctos solemniter est relatus. en: >- Joseph Calasanz, called of the Mother of God, was born of a noble family at Petralta in Aragon. From his tender years he began to show that fondness for children, and that gift of instructing them for which he was afterwards distinguished. He called them around him when he was still but a child himself, and taught them the mysteries of the faith and godly prayers. He was deeply learned in profane and sacred letters, and it was while he was studying theology at Valencia that he bravely overcame the wiles of a noble and powerful lady and, by a brilliant victory, kept untarnished that virginity which he had vowed to God. He became a Priest in consequence of a vow, and was summoned by many Bishops in the kingdoms of New Castile, Aragon, and Catalonia to help them in their work, wherein he surpassed the hopes of all, correcting depraved manners, restoring the discipline of the Church, and marvellously putting an end to hatreds and bloody feuds. But in obedience to a vision from heaven and many warnings from the voice of God, he left Spain and went to Rome. In Rome he afflicted his body with extraordinary hardness of living, with watching, and with fasting, and so passed his days and nights in prayer, and in the contemplation of heavenly things. He was used to visit the Seven Churches almost every night, a custom which he kept for many years. Having joined several godly Brotherhoods, it was strange how eagerly he relieved the poor by alms and every sort of kindness, choosing especially the sick and the imprisoned. When the city was ravaged by a pestilence, such was the charitable zeal with which he joined in the labours of St. Camillus de' Lelli, that besides the great help which he brought to the sick poor, he would even carry the bodies of the dead on his own shoulders to burial. Having understood from God that his call was to bring up children in godliness and good learning, he founded the Order of the Poor Regular Clerks of the Pious Schools of the Mother of God, who profess as the special object of their Institute a singular care for the teaching of the poor. This Institute received the warm approval of Clement VIII., Paul V., and other Popes, and in a short time obtained a marvellous extension through many provinces and kingdoms of Europe. Then when he was at the head of his whole Order, and toiling with all his might for the salvation of souls, he never ceased to teach children, especially the poor, to sweep out the school-rooms, and to accompany the scholars home. Thus in spite of broken health he worked on for two and fifty years, with the greatest longsuffering and lowliness. He won that God should glorify him by many miracles worked in the presence of his disciples, and that the Most Blessed Virgin should appear to him, with the Child Jesus in her arms, blessing them as they prayed. He foretold the day of his own death, and the restoration and growth of his Order, which seemed at that time to be almost entirely destroyed. He fell asleep in the Lord at Rome, upon the 25th day of August, in the year of salvation 1648, and of his own age the 92nd. An hundred years after his death his heart and tongue were found whole and incorrupt. God glorified him by many miracles even after his death, and he was first crowned by Benedict XIV. with the honours paid to the Blessed, and then solemnly enrolled by Clement XIII. among the Saints. status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 60 on Matthew, ch. 18" text: la: >- Videte ne aliquem istorum contempseritis parvulorum, quia eorum Angeli Patris mei faciem semper aspiciunt, et quia ego propter eos veni, et hæc Patris mei voluntas est. Ad tuendos conservandosque pusilios diligentiores nos reddit. Perspicis quam ingentia in tutelam tenujum mœnia erexerit, et quantum studium curamque habeat, ne perdantur tum quia supremas despicientibus eos pœnas statuit, tum quia summam pollicetur mercedem his, qui curam eorum suscipiunt; idque tam suo, quam Patris exemplo corroborat. Dominum igitur étiam nos imitemur, et nihil pro fratribus omittamus, étiam eorum quæ humilia viliaque nimium videntur; sed si administratione nostra étiam opus fuerit, quamvis tenuis atque abjectus quidem, cui administrandum sit, fuerit, quamvis ardua nobis res atque laboris plena esse videatur, omnia hæc pro fratris salute tolerabiliora facilioraque, oro, videantur: tanto enim studio tantaque cura Deus dignam esse animam ostendit, ut neque Filio suo pepercerit. Si non est nobis satis ad salutem, quod virtuose ipsi vivamus, sed oportet aliorum salutem re ipsa desiderare; cum neque nos recte vivamus, neque alios hortemur, quid respondebimus? Quæ nobis spes salutis reliqua erit? Quid majus, quam animis moderari, quam adolescentulorum fingere mores? Omni certe pictore, omni certe statuario, ceterisque hujusmodi omnibus excellentiorem hunc duco, qui juvenum animos fingere non ignoret. en: >- Take heed, saith Jesus, that ye despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of My Father; and that for their sake am I come, and this is the will of My Father. Hereby the Lord stirreth us up to guard and save these little ones. Thou seest how mighty are the walls which He raiseth to protect little children, and how great thought and care He hath lest they should be lost, threatening on the one hand the uttermost punishment against whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Him, and promising on the other hand, the highest reward to whosoever shall receive one such little child in His Name, and this His teaching He giveth both in His Own, and in His Father's Name. Let us therefore take example by the Lord, and let us leave nothing undone for the good of any of our brethren, even for such as seem to us the least and lowliest, but if there be any need that we should serve any, low and outcast though he be, let us serve him though the thing look hard to us and calling for a great deal of work, let such things, I pray, be looked on as light and easy if they be required for our neighbour's salvation, for of such price and such care did God count his soul to be worth, that He spared not to purchase it, even His Own Son. If it be not enough for our salvation that we should ourselves live well, but we must also seek the salvation of others, what shall we answer, if we neither live well ourselves, nor exhort others? What hope that we shall be saved is then left to us? What more important task is there than to train up minds, and teach to the young how to live? He that is skilled to mould well the minds of children I reckon a nobler workman than any painter or sculptor, or such like artist. status: { la: verified, en: verified }