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# Matins Nocturn 2 for "1st Sunday of October" (Tempora/101-0.txt) — see
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# month-week-081.yml's header for the id scheme. Own Responsory4 (not a
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# cross-reference).
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id: month-week-101
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, De Officiis, Book 1, ch. 40"
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text:
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la: >-
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Fortásse áliquos béllica defíxos glória tenet, ut putent solam esse præliárem fortitúdinem; et
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ídeo me ad ista deflexísse, quia illa nostris déforet. Quam fortis Jesus Nave, ut uno prǽlio
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quinque reges captos stérneret cum pópulis suis! Deínde cum advérsum Gabaonítas urgéret
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prǽlium, et vererétur ne nox impedíret victóriam, magnitúdine mentis et fídei clamávit: Stet
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sol, et stetit, donec victória consummarétur. Gédeon in trecéntis viris de ingénti pópulo et
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acérbo hoste revéxit triúmphum. Jónathas adoléscens virtútem magnam fecit in prǽlio.
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Quid de Machabǽis loquar? Sed prius de pópulo dicam patrum; qui cum essent paráti ad
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repugnándum pro templo Dei et pro legítimis suis, dolo hóstium die lacessíti sábbati, maluérunt
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vulnéribus offérre nuda córpora, quam repugnáre, ne violárent sábbatum. Itaque omnes læti se
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obtulérunt morti. Sed Machabǽi considerántes quod hoc exémplo gens omnis posset períre, sábbato
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étiam, cum ipsi in bellum provocaréntur, ulti sunt innocéntium necem fratrum suórum. Unde
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póstea stimulátus rex Antíochus, cum bellum accénderet per duces suos Lýsiam, Nicánorem,
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Górgiam, ita cum Orientálibus suis et Assýriis attrítus est cópiis, ut quadragínta et octo
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míllia in médio campi a tribus míllibus prosterneréntur.
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Virtútem ducis Judæ Machabǽi de uno ejus mílite consideráte. Namque Eleázarus, cum
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supereminéntem céteris elephántem loríca vestítum régia advérteret, arbitrátus quod in eo esset
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rex, cursu cóncito in médium legiónis se prorúpit: et, abjécto clýpeo, utráque manu interficiébat,
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donec perveníret ad béstiam, atque intrávit sub eam, et subjécto gládio interémit eam. Itaque
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cadens béstia oppréssit Eleázarum, atque ita mórtuus est. Quanta ígitur virtus ánimi! primo, ut
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mortem non timéret; deínde, ut circumfúsus legiónibus inimicórum, in confértos raperétur hostes,
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médium penetráret agmen, et contémpta morte ferócior, abjécto clýpeo, utráque manu vulnerátæ
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molem béstiæ subíret ac sustinéret: post infra ipsam succéderet, quo plenióri feríret ictu;
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cujus ruína inclúsus magis quam oppréssus, suo est sepúltus triúmpho.
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en: >-
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There may perchance be some who are so blinded by the glory of war as to think there is no
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valour but warlike valour, and that the reason why I have taken up other subjects is that among
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us there is no warlike valour whereof to speak. But what was the valour of Josue the son of
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Nun, when in one battle he laid low five nations, and took prisoners their kings? When he was
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fighting against the Gibeonites, and feared lest the closing in of night should cut short his
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victory, he cried aloud in the greatness of his mind and of his faith: "Sun, stand thou still
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over against Gibeon, and thou, Moon, over against the valley of Ajalon" — and the sun stood
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still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. (Josue
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10:12-13.) Gideon, with three hundred men, won the victory over the vast people, and the savage
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enemy. The lad Jonathan waxed valiant in fight.
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Shall I speak of the Maccabees? But before I speak of them, I will speak of their fathers, even
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of them who, when they were ready to fight for the Temple of God and for their own rights, were
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assailed by a trick of their enemies upon the Sabbath day, and were willing rather to offer
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their bodies naked to the sword than to strike back again and break the Sabbath, and so they
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gave themselves up gladly to death; but when the Maccabees bethought them that the whole nation
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might thus perish, they avenged the innocent blood of their brethren even upon the Sabbath day
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when they were provoked to battle, and afterward, when King Antiochus had been stirred up to
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make war on them by his generals, even Lysias and Nicanor and Gorgias, he and his Eastern and
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Assyrian forces were so crushed that forty and eight thousand were laid low on the field by
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three thousand.
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What was the valour of Judas the Maccabean leader we may judge by the type of one of his men.
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When Eleazar saw an elephant bigger than the rest, and adorned with the King's harness, he
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thought that the King was riding thereon, and he threw himself into the midst of the enemy, and
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cast away his shield and slew on either hand until he was come to the beast, and ran underneath
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it, and killed it with his sword, and so the beast fell upon Eleazar and crushed him, and he
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died. What valour was here! To begin with, he feared not to die, and when the enemy surrounded
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him he cast himself into the midst of their ranks, pierced their column, and becoming all the
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fiercer through his mockery of death, he threw away his shield and upheld with both hands the
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huge bulk of the wounded monster beneath which he had gone the better to spite it, so that when
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he died with it he might well have been said not so much to be crushed as to be swallowed up in
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victory.
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responsory:
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la: "R. Impetum inimicórum ne timuéritis: mémores estóte, quómodo salvi facti sunt patres nostri: * Et nunc clamémus in cælum et miserébitur nostri Deus noster.\nV. Mementóte mirabílium ejus, quæ fecit pharaóni et exercítui ejus in Mari Rubro.\nR. Et nunc clamémus in cælum et miserébitur nostri Deus noster."
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en: "R. Be ye not afraid of the assault of the enemy; remember how our fathers were delivered. * Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven, and our God will have mercy upon us.\nV. Remember His marvellous works that He hath done unto Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.\nR. Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven, and our God will have mercy upon us."
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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