# Nocturn 2-3, Fourth Sunday of Advent (temporalId advent-4). Sourced from # Tempora/Adv4-0.txt (Latin) / English/Tempora/Adv4-0.txt. See # advent-1.yml for the general sweep method. (When Dec 24 itself falls on # this Sunday, calendar/temporal-id.ts's own Vigil-of-Christmas override # takes over that specific date's identity - see vigil-of-christmas.yml - # so this file governs the other six possible dates for Advent 4.) # # Nocturn 2 (Lectio4-6): one continuous excerpt from St. Leo the Great's # 1st Sermon on the December Fast and Almsgiving. Responsory: Lectio4's # own (Responsory4, "Nascétur nobis párvulus"). # # Nocturn 3 (Lectio7-9): Lectio7 carries real homily prose after its bare # Gospel incipit (Luke 3:1-6, "Et réliqua") - Pope St. Gregory the Great's # Homily 20 on the Gospels begins within Lectio7 itself, same pattern as # advent-1/-2/-3. Combined Lectio7's homily portion (incipit dropped) with # Lectio8-9, using Responsory7 ("Jurávi, dicit Dóminus"). # # Update (2026-09): the Gospel pericope itself, previously left unauthored # per the "bare incipit, skip it" convention described above, is now # authored too (isGospel: true, immediately before the homily) - sourced # from the Missale's own [Evangelium] for the same Sunday (the Mass Gospel # and the Matins Nocturn 3 Gospel are the same pericope), not guessed at. # Matins now shows the full Gospel, then the homily on it, matching # post-pentecost-15's original pattern - see TODO.md's dated entry. id: advent-4 readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false source: "St. Leo the Great, Sermon 1 on the December Fast and Almsgiving" text: la: >- Si fidéliter, dilectíssimi, atque sapiénter creatiónis nostræ intelligámus exórdium, inveniémus hóminem ideo ad imáginem Dei cónditum, ut imitátor sui esset auctóris: et hanc esse naturálem nostri géneris dignitátem, si in nobis, quasi in quodam spéculo, divínæ benignitátis forma respléndeat. Ad quam quotídie nos útique réparat grátia Salvatóris, dum quod cécidit in Adam primo, erígitur in secúndo. Causa autem reparatiónis nostræ non est nisi misericórdia Dei: quem non diligerémus, nisi prius nos ipse dilígeret, et ténebras ignorántiæ nostræ, suæ veritátis luce discúteret. Quod per sanctum Isaíam Dóminus denúntians, ait: Addúcam cæcos in viam quam ignorábant, et sémitas quas nesciébant, fáciam illos calcáre: fáciam illis ténebras in lucem, et prava in dirécta. Hæc verba fáciam illis, et non relínquam eos. Et íterum: Invéntus sum, inquit, a non quæréntibus me, et palam appárui iis qui me non interrogábant. Quod quómodo implétum sit, Joánnes Apóstolus docet, dicens: Scimus quóniam Fílius Dei venit, et dedit nobis sensum, ut cognoscámus verum, et simus in vero Fílio ejus. Et íterum: Nos ergo diligámus Deum, quóniam ipse prior diléxit nos. Diligéndo ítaque nos Deus, ad imáginem suam nos réparat: et ut in nobis formam suæ bonitátis invéniat, dat unde ipsi quoque quod operátur operémur, accéndens scílicet méntium nostrárum lucérnas, et igne nos suæ caritátis inflámmans, ut non solum ipsum, sed étiam quidquid díligit, diligámus. en: >- Dearly beloved brethren, if we study attentively the history of the creation of our race, we shall find that man was made in the image of God, that his ways also might be an imitation of the ways of his Maker. This is the natural, real, and highest dignity to which we are capable of attaining, that the goodness of the Divine nature should have a reflection in us, as in a glass. As a mean of reaching this dignity, we are daily offered the grace of our Saviour, for as in the first Adam all men are fallen, so in the Second Adam can all men be raised up again. Our restoration from the consequences of Adam's fall is sheer mercy of God, and nothing else; we should not have loved Him unless He had first loved us, and scattered the darkness of our ignorance by the light of His truth. This the Lord promised by the mouth of Isaiah, where He saith: I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them. And again: I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after Me. And we know from the Apostle John how God fulfilled His promise: We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him That is True, and be in Him That is True, even in His Son. And again: Let us therefore love God, because He first loved us. For His great love then wherewith he hath loved us, God reneweth His likeness in us. And, moreover, in order that He may find in us the reflection of His goodness, He giveth us that whereby to work along with Himself, (Who worketh all in all,) lighting, as it were, candles in our dark minds, and kindling in us the fire of His love, to make us love not Himself only, but likewise, in Him, whatsoever He loveth. responsory: la: "R. Nascétur nobis párvulus, et vocábitur Deus, Fortis: * Ipse sedébit super thronum David patris sui, et imperábit: cujus potéstas super húmerum ejus.\nV. In ipso benedicéntur omnes tribus terræ, omnes gentes sérvient ei.\nR. Ipse sedébit super thronum David patris sui, et imperábit: cujus potéstas super húmerum ejus." en: "R. Unto us shall a Child be born, and His name shall be called the Mighty God. * He shall sit upon the throne of His father David, and shall reign, and the government shall be upon His shoulder.\nV. In Him shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed; all nations shall serve Him.\nR. He shall sit upon the throne of His father David, and shall reign, and the government shall be upon His shoulder." status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: true citation: { la: "Luc 3:1-6", en: "Luke 3:1-6" } text: la: >- Anno quintodécimo impérii Tibérii Cǽsaris, procuránte Póntio Piláto Judǽam, tetrárcha autem Galilǽæ Heróde, Philíppo autem fratre ejus tetrárcha Iturǽæ et Trachonítidis regiónis, et Lysánia Abilínæ tetrárcha, sub princípibus sacerdótum Anna et Cáipha: factum est verbum Dómini super Joánnem, Zacharíæ fílium, in desérto. Et venit in omnem regiónem Jordánis, prǽdicans baptísmum pæniténtiæ in remissiónem peccatórum, sicut scriptum est in libro sermónum Isaíæ Prophétæ: Vox clamántis in desérto: Paráte viam Dómini: rectas fácite sémitas ejus: omnis vallis implébitur: et omnis mons et collis humiliábitur: et erunt prava in dirécta, et áspera in vias planas: et vidébit omnis caro salutáre Dei. en: >- Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of the district of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. And he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the desert, 'Make ready the way of the Lord, make straight His paths. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth; and all mankind shall see the salvation of God.' status: { la: verified, en: verified } - nocturn: 3 isGospel: false source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 20 on the Gospels" text: la: >- Dicébat Joánnes ad turbas, quæ éxibant ut baptizaréntur ab eo: Genímina viperárum, quis osténdit vobis fúgere a ventúra ira? Ventúra enim ira est animadvérsio ultiónis extrémæ: quam tunc fúgere peccátor non valet, qui nunc ad laménta pœniténtiæ non recúrrit. Et notándum, quod malæ sóboles, malórum paréntum actiónem imitántes, genímina viperárum vocántur: quia per hoc quod bonis ínvident, eósque persequúntur, quod quibúsdam mala retríbuunt, quod læsiónes próximis exquírunt: quóniam in his ómnibus patrum suórum carnálium vias sequúntur, quasi venenáti fílii de venenátis paréntibus nati sunt. Sed quia jam peccávimus, quia usu malæ consuetúdinis involúti sumus: dicat quid nobis faciéndum sit, ut fúgere a ventúra ira valeámus. Séquitur: Fácite ergo fructus dignos pœniténtiæ. In quibus verbis notándum est, quod amícus Sponsi non solum fructus pœniténtiæ, sed dignos pœniténtiæ ádmonet esse faciéndos. Aliud namque est fructum fácere pœniténtiæ, aliud, dignum pœniténtiæ fructum fácere. Ut enim secúndum dignos pœniténtiæ fructus loquámur, sciéndum est, quia quisquis illícita nulla commísit, huic jure concéditur, ut lícitis utátur: sicque pietátis ópera fáciat, ut tamen si volúerit, ea quæ mundi sunt, non relínquat. At si quis in fornicatiónis culpam, vel fortasse, quod est grávius, in adultérium lapsus est: tanto a se lícita debet abscíndere, quanto se méminit et illícita perpetrásse. Neque enim par fructus boni óperis esse debet, ejus qui minus, et ejus qui ámplius delíquit: aut ejus qui in nullis, et ejus qui in quibúsdam facinóribus cécidit, et ejus qui in multis est lapsus. Per hoc ergo quod dícitur: Fácite fructus dignos pœniténtiæ: uniuscujúsque consciéntia convenítur, ut tanto majóra acquírat bonórum óperum lucra per pœniténtiam, quanto gravióra sibi íntulit damna per culpam. en: >- John said unto the multitude, that came forth to be baptised of him: O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? The wrath to come in one sense signifieth the great vengeance of the Latter Day: the sinner that repenteth not of his sin now, will have no mean whereby to flee from punishment then. Let us remark that addressing evil children copying the example of evil parents, the Baptist calleth them a generation of vipers in that they were envious at the righteous, and persecuted them; that they repaid evil for evil; that they hunted out ways of harming their neighbours, in all these things following the pattern of carnal parents, the prophet likeneth them to a venomous brood hatched from a venomous stock. We also have sinned, we have fallen into wicked habits. What must we do, if we would flee from the wrath to come? Let us hear John. Bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. In which words let us remark that the Friend of the Bridegroom demandeth not only fruits of repentance, but fruits worthy of repentance. The former are one thing, and the latter another. In considering then what are fruits worthy of repentance, we may remark that if we had done nothing unlawful we might have had free use of things which are lawful, and been able to sanctify ourselves without abstaining from indulgence in the things of the world. But if any one, for example, hath fallen into fornication, or perhaps, into what is much worse, adultery, he ought to make up for his lawless pleasure by abstaining in some degree from lawful enjoyments. He that hath sinned less is not bound to mortify himself as much as he that hath sinned more, nor he that is innocent like him that is guilty. Let every one hearing these words bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, proceed to judge himself by his own conscience, and the more he perceiveth that he hath sinned, the greater penance let him do. responsory: la: "R. Jurávi, dicit Dóminus, ut ultra jam non iráscar super terram: montes enim et colles suscípient justítiam meam, * Et testaméntum pacis erit in Jerúsalem.\nV. Juxta est salus mea, ut véniat: et justítia mea, ut revelétur.\nR. Et testaméntum pacis erit in Jerúsalem." en: "R. I have sworn, saith the Lord, that I will not be wroth any more with the earth; for the mountains and the hills shall receive My righteousness. * And the covenant of My peace shall be in Jerusalem.\nV. My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.\nR. And the covenant of My peace shall be in Jerusalem." status: { la: verified, en: verified }