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All 53 nocturn-readings files with a responsory field started straight into the text with no leading R., unlike octave-readings' own R./V. convention. Fixed in content per direct instruction (not injected at render time), matching each file's own existing plain V./R. style rather than switching to octave-readings' R./V. glyphs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EWzE3kaSZCs79fPBrrE1aF
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# Matins Nocturn 2 for "3rd Sunday of October" (Tempora/103-0.txt) — see
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# month-week-081.yml's header for the id scheme. Responsory reuses 101's
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# own Responsory4 (source's own cross-reference).
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id: month-week-103
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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. 41"
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text:
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la: >-
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Quia fortitúdo non solum secúndis rebus, sed étiam advérsis probátur, spectémus Judæ Machabǽi
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éxitum. Is enim post victum Nicánorem, regis Demétrii ducem, secúrior advérsus vigínti míllia
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exércitus regis, cum octingéntis viris bellum adórsus, voléntibus his cédere, ne multitúdine
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opprimeréntur, gloriósam magis mortem quam turpem fugam suásit: Ne crimen, inquit, nostræ
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relinquámus glóriæ. Ita commísso prǽlio, cum a primo ortu diéi in vésperam dimicarétur, dextrum
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cornu, in quo validíssimam manum advértit hóstium, aggréssus fácile avértit. Sed dum fugiéntes
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séquitur, a tergo vúlneri locum prǽbuit; ítaque gloriosiórem triúmphis mortem invénit.
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Quid Jónatham fratrem ejus attéxam, qui cum parva manu advérsus exércitus régios pugnans,
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desértus a suis et cum duóbus tantum relíctus, reparávit bellum, avértit hostem, fugitántes
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suos ad societátem revocávit triúmphi? Habes fortitúdinem béllicam, in qua non medíocris
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honésti ac decóri forma est, quod mortem servitúti prǽferat ac turpitúdini. Quid autem de
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Mártyrum dicam passiónibus? Et ne lóngius evagémur, non minórem de supérbo rege Antíocho
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Machabǽi púeri revexérunt triúmphum, quam paréntes próprii; síquidem illi armáti, isti sine
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armis vicérunt.
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Stetit invícta septem puerórum cohors, régiis cincta legiónibus: defecérunt supplícia,
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cessérunt tortóres, non defecérunt Mártyres. Alius córium cápitis exútus, spéciem mutáverat,
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virtútem áuxerat. Alius linguam jussus amputándam prómere, respóndit: Non solos Dóminus audit
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loquéntes, qui audiébat Móysen tacéntem; plus audit tácitas cogitatiónes suórum, quam voces
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ómnium. Linguæ flagéllum times, flagéllum sánguinis non times? Habet et sanguis vocem suam, qua
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clamat ad Deum, sicut clamávit in Abel.
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en: >-
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As fortitude is proved not only by prosperity but also in adversity, let us now consider the
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death of Judas Maccabæus. For he, after Nicanor, the general of King Demetrius, was defeated,
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boldly engaged twenty thousand of the king's army with eight hundred men who were anxious to
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retire for fear of being overcome by so great a multitude, but whom he persuaded to endure a
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glorious death rather than to retire in disgraceful flight. "Let us not leave," he says, "any
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stain upon our glory." Thus, then, engaging in battle after having fought from sunrise till
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evening, he attacks and quickly drives back the right wing, where he sees the strongest troop
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of the enemy to be. But while pursuing the fugitives from the rear, he gave a chance for a
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wound to be inflicted. (1 Mac. 9:8.) Thus he found the spot of death more full of glory for
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himself than any triumph.
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Why need I further mention his brother Jonathan, who fought against the king's force, with but
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a small troop? (1 Mac. 11:68.) Though forsaken by his men, and left with only two, he retrieved
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the battle, drove back the enemy, and recalled his own men, who were flying in every direction,
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to share in his triumph. Here, then, is fortitude in war, which bears no light impress of what
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is virtuous and seemly upon it, for it prefers death to slavery and disgrace. But what am I to
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say of the sufferings of the martyrs? Not to go too far abroad, did not the children of
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Maccabæus gain triumphs over the proud King Antiochus, as great as those of their fathers? The
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latter in truth were armed, but they conquered without arms.
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The company of the seven brothers stood unconquered, though surrounded by the legions of the
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king — tortures failed, tormentors ceased; but the martyrs failed not. One, having had the skin
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of his head pulled off, though changed in appearance, grew in courage. Another, bidden to put
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forth his tongue, so that it might be cut off, answered: "The Lord hears not only those who
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speak, for He heard Moses when silent. He hears better the silent thoughts of His own than the
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voice of all others. Do you fear the scourge of my tongue, and do you not fear the scourge of
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blood spilt upon the ground? Blood, too, has a voice whereby it cries aloud to God, as it did
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in the case of Abel."
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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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