vu/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch.yml

# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch
# (Feb 22) — SanctiM/02-22.txt's own Lectio5-12 all resolve back to
# `@Sancti/02-22:LectioN` (resliced for the Monastic 12-lesson
# structure; its `[Rule]`/hymn lines separately borrow structure from
# `SanctiM/01-18`, the Roman Chair's own Monastic file, but the actual
# proper vita/homily text is this feast's own, from `Sancti/02-22.txt`)
# — 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/02-22.txt, English/Sancti/02-22.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (St. Augustine's sermon on the feast) combined
# into one reading, one continuous excerpt.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 16:13-19) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so only the
# homily portion was originally authored (not marked isGospel), combined
# with Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of Pope St. Leo's sermon.
#
# Update (2026-09-05): the Gospel pericope itself is now authored too
# (isGospel: true, immediately before the homily) — this feast's own
# [Evangelium] redirects `@Commune/Coronatio`, sourced from
# missa/Latin/Commune/Coronatio.txt, English/Commune/Coronatio.txt, not
# guessed at.
id: chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 15 on the Saints"
    text:
      la: >-
        Institútio solemnitátis hodiérnæ a senióribus nostris Cáthedræ nomen accépit, ídeo quod
        primus Apostolórum Petrus hódie episcopátus cáthedram suscepísse referátur. Recte ergo
        ecclésiæ natálem sedis illíus colunt, quam Apóstolus pro ecclesiárum salúte suscépit,
        dicénte Dómino: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam.


        Petrum ítaque fundaméntum Ecclésiæ Dóminus nominávit: et ídeo digne fundaméntum hoc
        Ecclésia colit, supra quod ecclesiástici ædifícii altitúdo consúrgit. Unde conveniénter
        psalmus, qui lectus est, dicit: Exáltent eum in ecclésia plebis, et in cáthedra seniórum
        laudent eum. Benedíctus Deus, qui beátum Petrum Apóstolum in Ecclésia exaltári præcépit:
        quia dignum est ut fundaméntum hoc in Ecclésia honorétur, per quod ad cælum conscénditur.


        Quod natális ergo Cáthedræ hódie cólitur, sacerdotále honorátur offícium. Sibi hoc
        Ecclésiæ ínvicem præstant, quia tanto necésse plus habet Ecclésia dignitatis, quanto
        sacerdotále offícium plus honóris. Cum solemnitátem hanc Ecclésiis mérito religiósa
        observátio introdúxerit, miror, cur apud quosdam infidéles hódie tam perniciósus error
        incréverit, ut super túmulos defunctórum cibos et vina conférant, quasi egréssæ de
        corpóribus ánimæ carnáles cibos requírant.
      en: >-
        The solemn Feast of today received from our forefathers the name of that of St. Peter's
        Chair, because there is a tradition that it was on this day that Peter, first of the
        Apostles, was enthroned in a Bishop's Chair. Rightly, therefore, do the Churches observe
        the anniversary of that Chair, the right to which the Apostle received for the salvation of
        the Churches from the Lord of the Churches Himself, with the words: Thou art Peter, and
        upon this rock I will build My Church.


        It was the Lord Himself Who called Peter the foundation of the Church, and therefore it is
        right that the Church should reverence this foundation whereon her mighty structure riseth.
        Justly is it written in the Psalm which we have just heard: Let them exalt him in the
        congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. Blessed be God,
        Who hath commanded that the Blessed Apostle Peter should be exalted in the congregation!
        Worthy to be honoured by the Church is that foundation from which her goodly towers rise,
        pointing to heaven!


        In the honour which is this day paid to the inauguration of the first Bishop's throne, an
        honour is paid to the office of all Bishops. The Churches testify one to another, that, the
        greater the Church's dignity, the greater the reverence due to her priests. While I confess
        how rightly godly custom hath exalted this Feast in the estimation of all the Churches, the
        more do I wonder at the growth of that unhealthy error which at this day causeth some
        unbelievers to lay food and wine upon the graves of the dead, as if souls once rid of the
        body had any longer any need of bodily refreshment.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: true
    citation: { la: "Matt 16:13-19", en: "Matt 16:13-19" }
    text:
      la: >-
        In illo témpore: Venit Jesus in partes Cæsaréæ Philíppi, et interrogábat discípulos suos,
        dicens: Quem dicunt hómines esse Fílium hóminis? At illi dixérunt: Alii Joánnem
        Baptístam, alii autem Elíam, álii vero Jeremíam, aut unum ex prophétis. Dicit illis
        Jesus: Vos autem quem me esse dícitis? Respóndens Simon Petrus, dixit: Tu es Christus,
        Fílius Dei vivi. Respóndens autem Jesus, dixit ei: Beátus es, Simon Bar Jona: quia caro
        et sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus, qui in cœlis est. Et ego dico tibi, quia
        tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non
        prævalébunt advérsus eam. Et tibi dabo claves regni cœlórum. Et quodcúmque ligáveris
        super terram, erit ligátum et in cœlis: et quodcúmque sólveris super terram, erit
        solútum et in cœlis.
      en: >-
        At that time, Jesus came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his
        disciples, saying, "Whom do men say that the Son of man is?" But they said, "Some John
        the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets." Jesus
        saith to them, "But whom do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art
        Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answering, said to him, "Blessed art thou,
        Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who
        is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My
        Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the
        keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be
        bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also
        in heaven."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 3, on the Anniversary of his own Election (on Matt 16:13-19)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Apóstolos Dóminus, quid de se hómines opinéntur, intérrogat: et tamdiu sermo
        respondéntium commúnis est, quámdiu humánæ intellegéntiæ ambigúitas explicátur. At ubi
        quid hábeat sensus discipulórum exígitur, primus est in Dómini confessióne, qui primus est
        in apostólica dignitáte. Qui cum dixísset: Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi: respóndit ei
        Jesus: Beátus es Simon Bar-Jona, quia caro et sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus,
        qui in cælis est. Id est, Ideo beátus es, quia Pater meus te dócuit: nec terréna opínio te
        feféllit, sed inspirátio cæléstis instrúxit: et non caro et sanguis, sed ille me tibi,
        cujus sum unigénitus Fílius, indicávit.


        Et ego, inquit, dico tibi: hoc est, sicut Pater meus tibi manifestávit divinitátem meam,
        ita et ego tibi notam fácio excelléntiam tuam, quia tu es Petrus: id est, cum ego sim
        inviolábilis petra, ego lapis anguláris, qui fácio útraque unum, ego fundaméntum præter
        quod nemo potest áliud pónere: tamen tu quoque petra es, quia mea virtúte solidáris, ut
        quæ mihi potestáte sunt própria, sint tibi mecum participatióne commúnia. Et super hanc
        petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam. Super hanc,
        inquit, fortitúdinem ætérnum éxstruam templum: et Ecclésiæ meæ cælo inserénda sublímitas,
        in hujus fídei firmitáte consúrget.


        Hanc confessiónem portæ ínferi non tenébunt, mortis víncula non ligábunt: vox enim ista
        vox vitæ est. Et sicut confessóres suos in cæléstia próvehit, ita negatóres ad inférna
        demérgit. Propter quod dicit beatíssimo Petro: Tibi dabo claves regni cælórum: Et
        quæcúmque ligáveris super terram, erunt ligáta et in cælis: et quæcúmque sólveris super
        terram, erunt solúta et in cælis. Transívit quidem étiam in álios Apóstolos vis
        potestátis istíus, et ad omnes Ecclésiæ príncipes decréti hujus constitútio commeávit:
        sed non frustra uni commendátur, quod ómnibus intimátur. Petro enim ídeo hoc singuláriter
        créditur, quia cunctis Ecclésiæ rectóribus Petri forma præpónitur. Manet ergo Petri
        privilégium, ubicúmque ex ipsíus fertur æquitáte judícium. Nec nímia est vel sevéritas vel
        remíssio, ubi nihil erit ligátum, nihil solútum, nisi quod beátus Petrus aut sólverit, aut
        ligáverit.
      en: >-
        The Lord asked His disciples Who men said that He was, and their answers were human as
        long as they were the answers of human reason, unilluminated by Divine light. At last, when
        the glimmerings of earthly conjecture were spoken, he whose Apostleship is the first in
        dignity, was the first to confess his Lord. And Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art the
        Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him: Blessed art thou,
        Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father Which is
        in heaven. That is to say, For this cause art thou blessed, because My Father Himself hath
        taught thee; the opinions of men have not beguiled thee, the voices of angels have not
        taught thee, not flesh and blood, but He, Whose Only begotten Son I am, hath revealed Me
        unto thee.


        Thus saith the Lord unto Simon Peter: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter. That
        is to say, Even as My Father hath revealed unto thee concerning Me that I am God, even so
        now will I also reveal unto thee that thou art Peter; I am the sure Rock of defence, the
        Corner Stone, Who make both one, I am the Foundation, beside Which other can no man lay,
        and thou also art a rock, in My Strength made hard, and those things whereof I by right am
        Lord, into thy hand do I give them, that thou mayst bear rule over them, for Me, and with
        Me. And upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
        against it. Upon this strength of thine, whereof I am the Strength, I will build My eternal
        temple, and upon the truth of thy confession of Me I will make to rise My glorious Church
        whose spires shall pierce to heaven.


        Against this confession the gates of hell shall never prevail, neither shall the bonds of
        death take hold upon it. Thus saith He That is faithful and true. And as this confession
        hath power to lift up to heaven them that make it, so is it able to thrust down to hell them
        that gainsay it. Wherefore it is said unto the most blessed Peter: And I will give unto thee
        the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound
        in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. This power
        passed indeed to the other Apostles also; this the Lord's will had effect in them; but it
        is not in vain that it is written that that was given to one which passed from him to all.
        To Peter alone were the keys given, and Peter is set as the pattern for all them that bear
        rule in the Church to follow. There remaineth therefore the right of Peter, wheresoever his
        judgment decreeth justice. Neither is there anything too hard, or too lax, where there is
        nothing bound and nothing loosed, save when Peter bindeth or looseth.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }