# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, # Confessor (Nov 11, sharing the date with St. Menna — see # st-menna.yml) — SanctiM/11-11.txt inherits the whole day # (`@Sancti/11-11`) 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/11-11.txt, English/Sancti/11-11.txt. # # Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita # (the famous cloak-sharing and death narratives). # Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 11:33-36) 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), a single # excerpt of St. Ambrose's commentary. No responsory given for either # reading. id: st-martin-of-tours readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Martínus, Sabáriæ in Pannónia natus, cum décimum attigísset annum, invítis paréntibus ad ecclésiam confúgiens, in catechumenórum númerum adscríbi vóluit. Quíndecim annos natus in milítiam proféctus, primum in Constántii, deínde Juliáni exércitu militávit. Qui, cum nihil habéret præter arma et vestiméntum quo tegebátur, Ambiáni, páuperi ac nudo, ab eo peténti ut Christi nómine sibi eleemósynam tribúeret, partem chlámydis dedit. Cui sequénti nocte Christus, dimidiáta illa veste indútus, appáruit, hanc mittens vocem: Martínus catechúmenus hac me veste contéxit. Decem et octo annos cum habéret, baptizátus est. Quare, relícta militári vita, ad Hilárium Pictaviénsem epíscopum se cóntulit, a quo in acolythórum númerum redáctus est. Post, factus epíscopus Turonénsis, monastérium ædificávit, ubi cum octogínta mónachis sanctíssime aliquámdiu vixit. Qui, cum póstea ad Candacénsem vicum suæ diœcésis in gravem febrim incidísset, assídua Deum oratióne precabátur, ut se ex illo mortáli cárcere liberáret. Quem audiéntes discípuli, sic rogábant: Cur nos, pater déseris? cui nos míseros derelínquis? Quorum voce commótus Martínus, ita Deum orábat: Dómine, si adhuc pópulo tuo sum necessárius, non recúso labórem. Sed, cum eum in illa veheménti febre supínum orántem vidérent discípuli, supplíciter ab eo petiérunt, ut, convérso córpore, tantísper, dum remítteret morbi vis, pronus conquiésceret. Quibus Martínus, Sínite me, inquit, cælum pótius quam terram aspícere, ut, suo jam itínere itúrus ad Dóminum, spíritus dirigátur. Instánte jam morte, viso humáni géneris hoste, Quid, inquit, astas, cruénta béstia? nihil in me funéste repéries. Ea in voce, unum et octogínta annos natus, ánimam Deo réddidit; quam Angelórum chorus excépit, eósque divínas canéntes laudes multi, in primísque sanctus Severínus Coloniénsis epíscopus, audiérunt. en: >- Martin was born at Sabaria in Pannonia. When he was ten years old he went to the Church, in the spite of his heathen father and mother, and by his own will was numbered among the Catechumens. At fifteen years of age he joined the army, and served as a soldier first under Constantius and then under Julian. Once at the gate of Amiens a poor man asked him for an alms for Christ's name's sake, and since he had nothing to his hand but his arms and his clothes, he gave him half of his cloak. In the night following Christ appeared to him clad in the half of his cloak, and saying (to the angels who bare Him company): While Martin is yet a Catechumen, he hath clad Me in this garment. At eighteen years of age he was baptized. He gave up thereupon the life of a soldier, and betook himself to Hilary, Bishop of Poietiers, by whom he was placed in the order of Acolytes. Being afterwards made Bishop of Tours, he built a monastery wherein he lived in holiness for a while in company of four-score monks. At the last he fell sick of a grievous fever at Cande, a village in his diocese, and besought God in constant prayer to set him free from the prison of this dying body. His disciples heard him and said: Father, why wilt thou go away from us? unto whom wilt thou bequeath us in our sorrow? Their words moved Martin, and he said: Lord, if I be still needful to thy people, I refuse not to work. When his disciples saw him, in the height of the fever, lying upon his back and praying, they entreated him to turn over and take a little rest upon his side while the violence of his sickness would allow him. But Martin answered them: Suffer me to look heavenward rather than earthward, that my spirit may see the way whereby it is so soon going to the Lord. At the moment of death he saw the enemy of mankind, and cried out: What are you come here for, you bloody brute? You murderer, you'll find nothing in me. With these words on his lips, he gave up his soul to God, being aged eighty years. He was received by a company of Angels, who were heard praising God by many persons, especially by holy Severinus, Bishop of Cologne. status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Commentary on Luke, Bk. 7 (on Luke 11:33-36)" text: la: >- Quia in superióribus Ecclésiam Synagógæ prǽtulit, hortátur nos ut fidem pótius nostram ad Ecclésiam transferámus. Lucérna enim fides est, juxta quod scriptum est: Lucérna pédibus meis verbum tuum, Dómine. Verbum enim Dei fides nostra est; Verbum Dei lux est; Lucérna est fides: Erat Lux vera, quæ illúminat omnem hóminem veniéntem in hunc mundum. Lucérna autem lucére non potest, nisi aliúnde lumen accéperit. Hæc est Lucérna quæ accénditur, virtus scílicet nostræ mentis et sensus, ut drachma illa possit, quæ períerat, reperíri. Nemo ergo fidem sub lege constítuat; lex enim intra mensúram est, ultra mensúram grátia; lex obúmbrat, grátia claríficat. Et ídeo nemo fidem suam intra mensúram legis inclúdat, sed ad Ecclésiam cónferat, in qua septifórmis Spíritus relúcet grátia, quam Princeps ille sacerdótum fulgóre supérnæ divinitátis illúminat, ne eam legis umbra restínguat. Dénique lucérna illa, quam matutínis vespertinísque tempóribus, ritu véteri Judæórum, princeps sacerdótum solébat accéndere, velut sub módio sita legis, evánuit; et cívitas illa Jerúsalem quæ in terris est, quæ occídit prophétas, quasi in conválle fletus pósita delitéscit. Illa autem Jerúsalem quæ in cælo est, in qua mílitat fides nostra, in illo altíssimo ómnium locáta monte, hoc est Christo, non potest ténebris et ruínis hujus mundi abscóndi; sed fulgens candóre Solis ætérni, luce nos grátiæ spiritális illúminat. en: >- In that which goeth before, Christ hath set the Church before the synagogue, and He exhorteth us rather to trust in the Church. The candle is faith, even as it is written: thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Our faith is the word of God. The word of God is light. Faith is the candle. It is written concerning the Word of God, that That was the true Light, Which lighteth every man that cometh into this world. But a candle cannot shine, unless it be lighted from some other fire. Also it is written: What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And here the candle lighted to find the lost piece is the strength in our understandings and affections. Let no man therefore seek faith under the law. For the law is by measure, but grace without measure; the law overshadoweth, but grace enlighteneth. And therefore let no man shut up his faith within the measure of the law, but give it unto the Church, wherein shineth the sevenfold grace of the Spirit, and whereon the Divine glory of the Great High Priest doth strike from heaven, lest the shadow of the law should rest any more at all upon her. Under the old law there was the sevenfold lamp which the Priest of the Jews lighted every morning and every evening, and this was as it were a candle put under a bushel. That Jerusalem which is upon earth, that Jerusalem which killed the Prophets, lieth hid, as it were, in a dark place in the valley of tears. But that Jerusalem which is in heaven, whereof by faith we are soldiers, is a city set upon the highest of all mountains, even upon Christ. Her the darkness and tempests of earth cannot hide, but she blazeth with the glory of the Eternal Sun, and maketh to fall upon us the light of spiritual grace. status: { la: verified, en: verified }