vu/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-monica.yml

# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Monica, Widow (May 4) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/05-04*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-04.txt, English/Sancti/05-04.txt.
#
# Lectio4-5 (Monica's own vita and death) combined into one reading, no
# internal source break. Lectio6 (St. Augustine's own account of her
# death, Confessions Bk. 9, ch. 12) is a genuinely distinct source, kept
# separate.
#
# Nocturn 3's Gospel+homily is the same pairing already authored for
# post-pentecost-15.yml (Luke 7:11-16, the raising of the widow's son at
# Naim, + St. Augustine's Sermon 44 on it) — this saint's own file gives
# only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), so the full pericope text is
# reused verbatim from that already-live-verified transcription rather
# than re-sourced here (same citation, not fabricated). The homily
# excerpt (Lectio7-9) is transcribed fresh from this saint's own file,
# since its wording differs slightly from post-pentecost-15's own
# (different old translation of the same sermon). Responsories reused
# from post-pentecost-15.yml for the same reason — this file gives none
# of its own.
id: st-monica
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Monica, sancti Augustíni dupliciter mater, quia eum et mundo et cælo péperit, maríto mortuo,
        quem senectute confectum Jesu Christo conciliávit, castam et opéribus misericórdiæ
        exercitam viduitátem agebat; in assiduis vero ad Deum oratiónibus pro fílio, qui in
        Manichæórum sectam inciderat, lácrimas effundébat. Quem étiam Mediolanum secuta est; ubi
        ipsum frequenter hortabátur, ut ad episcopum Ambrosium se conferret. Quod cum ille fecísset,
        ejus et publicis conciónibus et privátis colloquiis catholicæ fidei veritátem edoctus, ab
        eodem baptizátus est.


        Mox in Africam redeuntes, cum ad Ostia Tiberina constitissent, incidit in febrem. Quo in
        morbo cum eam quodam die ánima defecísset, ut se collegit, Ubi, inquit, eram? Et astántes
        íntuens, Ponite hic matrem vestram: tantum vos rogo, ut ad altáre Dómini meminéritis mei.
        Nono autem die beáta mulier ánimam Deo réddidit. Ejus corpus ibi in ecclésia sanctæ Aureæ
        sepúltum est: quod póstea, Martino quinto summo Pontifice, Romam translátum, in ecclésia
        sancti Augustíni honorifice cónditum est.
      en: >-
        Monica was twice over the mother of St. Augustine, for, under God, he owed to her both
        earth and heaven. When her husband was very old she made him a friend of Jesus Christ, and
        after his death she lived a widow in all purity and constantly occupied in works of mercy.
        Her son Augustine had fallen into the heresy of the Manichaeans, and for his conversion she
        earnestly pleaded with God for years, with strong crying and tears. She followed Augustine
        to Milan, and tenderly and constantly besought him to confer with Ambrose the Bishop. This
        he consented to do, and at last, through the public sermons and private conversations of
        Ambrose, his eyes were opened to see the truth of the Catholic Religion, and he received
        baptism at the Bishop's hands.


        The mother and son set out to return to their home in Africa, but after they had reached
        Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber, she was stricken down by a fever. One day as she lay sick,
        she came to herself after her mind had been long wandering, and said: "Where am I?" Then she
        saw who were standing by, and said: "Let your mother lie here only; remember me at the altar
        of the Lord." On the ninth day this blessed lady surrendered her spirit to God. Her body was
        buried there at Ostia in the Church of St. Aurea, but, long after, in the papacy of Martin
        V, it was carried to Rome and honourably buried again in the Church of St. Augustine.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Confessions, Book 9, ch. 12"
    text:
      la: >-
        Neque enim decére arbitrabámur funus illud quéstubus lacrimosis gemitibúsque celebrare, quia
        illa nec mísere, nec omnino moriebátur: hoc et documéntis morum ejus, et fide non ficta
        rationibúsque certis tenebamus. Atque inde paulatim reducébam in prístinum sensum ancíllam
        tuam, conversationémque ejus piam in te et sanctam, in nos blandam atque morígeram, qua
        súbito destitútus sum; et libuit flere de illa et pro illa. Et si quis peccátum invenerit,
        flevisse me matrem meam exígua parte horæ, matrem óculis meis mortuam, quæ me multos annos
        fleverat, ut óculis suis viverem, non irrideat; sed potius, si est grandi caritate, pro
        peccátis meis fleat ipse ad te Patrem ómnium fratrum Christi tui.
      en: >-
        We did not think that hers was a death which it was seemly to mark with repining, or tears,
        or lamentations, seeing that she died not sorrowfully, nor at all as touching her best and
        noblest part. This we knew, because we knew what her life had been, her faith unfeigned, her
        sure and certain hope. And then, nevertheless, I remembered again what thine handmaid was
        used to be, her walk with thee, how godly and holy it was, and with us so gentle and
        long-suffering; and that it was all gone away from me now. And I wept, over her and for her.
        And if any man will make it blame to me that I wept for a little while, when I saw lying
        dead before mine eyes my mother, who had wept over me so many years, that she might see me
        live, I say, if any man will make it blame to me, I pray him not to sneer at me, but rather
        (if his charity be so great) himself to weep over my sins before thee, who art a Father to
        all them to whom thy Christ is a Brother.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: true
    citation: { la: "Luc 7:11-16", en: "Luke 7:11-16" }
    text:
      la: "In illo témpore: Ibat Jesus in civitátem, quæ vocátur Naim: et ibant cum eo discípuli ejus: et turba copiósa. Cum autem appropinquáret portæ civitátis, ecce, defúnctus efferebátur fílius únicus matris suæ: et hæc vídua erat, et turba civitátis multa cum illa. Quam cum vidísset Dóminus, misericórdia motus super eam, dixit illi: Noli flere. Et accéssit et tétigit lóculum. Hi autem, qui portábant, stetérunt. Et ait: Adoléscens, tibi dico, surge. Et resédit, qui erat mórtuus, et cœpit loqui. Et dedit illum matri suæ. Accépit autem omnes timor: et magnificábant Deum, dicéntes: Quia Prophéta magnus surréxit in nobis: et quia Deus visitávit plebem suam."
      en: "At that time, Jesus went to a town called Naim; and His disciples and a large crowd went with Him. And as He drew near the gate of the town, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large gathering from the town was with her. And the Lord, seeing her, had compassion on her, and said to her, Do not weep. And He went up and touched the stretcher; and the bearers stood still. And He said, Young man, I say to you, arise. And he who was dead, sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother. But fear seized upon all, and they began to glorify God, saying, A great prophet has risen among us, and God has visited His people."
    responsory:
      la: "Quis mihi tríbuat, ut in inférno prótegas me et abscóndas me, donec pertránseat furor tuus, Dómine, nisi tu, qui solus es Deus? * Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?\nV. Numquid sicut dies hóminis dies tui, ut quæras iniquitátem meam; cum sit nemo, qui de manu tua possit erúere.\nR. Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?"
      en: "O that Thou wouldest hide me in the grave; that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, even thine, O Lord, Thou That alone art God; * That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!\nV. Are thy days as the days of man, that Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.\nR. That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!"
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 44 on the Words of the Lord"
    text:
      la: >-
        De juvene illo resuscitato gavisa est mater vidua; de homínibus in spíritu quotídie
        suscitátis gaudet mater Ecclésia. Ille quidem mórtuus erat corpore; illi autem mente. Illius
        mors visibilis visibíliter plangebátur; illórum mors invisibilis nec quærebátur, nec
        videbátur. Quæsívit ille, qui nóverat mórtuos. Ille solus nóverat mórtuos, qui poterat fácere
        vivos. Nisi enim ad mórtuos suscitándos venísset, Apóstolus non diceret: Surge, qui dormis,
        et exsúrge a mórtuis, et illuminábit te Christus.


        Tres autem mórtuos invenímus a Dómino resuscitatos visibíliter, míllia invisibíliter. Quot
        autem mórtuos visibíliter suscitaverit, quis novit? Non enim ómnia, quæ fecit, scripta sunt.
        Joánnes hoc dixit: Multa alia fecit Jesus, quæ si scripta essent, árbitror totum mundum non
        posse libros cápere. Multi ergo sunt alii sine dubio suscitati, sed non tres frustra
        commemorati. Dóminus enim noster Jesus Christus ea, quæ faciebat corporáliter, étiam
        spiritáliter volebat intelligi. Neque enim tantum miracula propter miracula faciebat; sed ut
        illa, quæ faciebat, mira essent vidéntibus, vera essent intelligéntibus.


        Quemádmodum qui videt litteras in códice óptime scripto, et non novit légere, laudat quidem
        antiquarii manum, admirans ápicum pulchritúdinem; sed quid sibi velint, quid índicent illi
        ápices, nescit, et est óculis laudator, mente non cógnitor. Alius autem et laudat artifícium,
        et capit intelléctum: ille útique, qui non solum vidére quod commune est ómnibus potest, sed
        étiam légere; quod qui non dídicit, non potest. Ita qui vidérunt Christi miracula, et non
        intellexérunt quid sibi vellent, et quid intelligéntibus quodámmodo innúerent, miráti sunt
        tantum quia facta sunt; alii vero et facta mirati, et intellecta assecuti. Tales nos in
        schola Christi esse debemus.
      en: >-
        That her son was called again to life was the joy of that widowed mother; that souls of men
        are every day called to life is the joy of our Mother the Church. He was dead in body; they
        have been dead in mind. His death was outward, and was outwardly bewailed; their inward
        death hath been neither mourned for nor seen. But He hath sought for them, Who hath seen
        that they are dead, and He only hath seen that they are dead, Who hath been able to make
        them alive. If He had not come to raise the dead, the Apostle had not said: "Awake, thou
        that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."


        It is written how the Lord raised from the dead three persons visibly, but thousands
        invisibly. But how many they may have been whom He raised visibly, who knoweth? For all the
        things which He did are not written. John saith thus: "There are also many other things
        which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the
        world itself could not contain the books that should be written." There were then, doubtless,
        many more raised to life, but it is not meaningless that three are recorded. For our Lord
        Jesus Christ hath willed that those things which He did carnally, we should understand also
        spiritually. He worked not miracles only for the sake of working wonders, but that His works
        might be at once wonderful to them that beheld, and true to them that understand them.


        Even as one that looketh upon a scroll right fairly written, and knoweth not how to read
        therein, praiseth the hand of the old scribe when he seeth the beauty of the points, but
        what it saith, what those points mean, he knoweth not, and praiseth by the eye, without
        understanding by the mind; and as, on the other hand, he that can not only gaze on it, as
        can all men, but also can read it, praiseth the penmanship, and catcheth the sense likewise,
        which the unlearned cannot do: even so, there were some that saw the miracles which Christ
        did, and understood not what they meant, nor what they, as it were, hinted to such as did
        understand them, and these only marvelled to see them wrought. And other some there were
        which saw the works, and marvelled, and understood them, and profited by them. And it is as
        these last that we ought to be in the school of Christ.
    responsory:
      la: "Numquid supplántat judícium? aut Omnípotens subvértit quod iustum est? † Líbera me, Dómine, et pone me juxta te: * Et cujúsvis manus pugnet contra me.\nV. Apprehénde arma et scutum, et exsúrge in adjutórium mihi.\nR. Et cujúsvis manus pugnet contra me."
      en: "Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty overthrow that which is just? Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside you, * And let any man's hand fight against me.\nV. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.\nR. And let any man's hand fight against me."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }