{ "date": "2026-11-04", "calendar": "1954", "language": "en", "title": { "latin": "S. Caroli Episcopi et Confessoris", "local": "St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop and Confessor" }, "rank": "Duplex", "lessons": [ { "number": 1, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "De Ezechiéle Prophéta", "citation": "Ezek 7:1-4", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "text": "Et factus est sermo Dómini ad me, dicens:" }, { "n": 2, "text": "Et tu, fili hóminis, hæc dicit Dóminus Deus terræ Israël: Finis venit, venit finis super quátuor plagas terræ." }, { "n": 3, "text": "Nunc finis super te, et immíttam furórem meum in te: et judicábo te juxta vias tuas, et ponam contra te omnes abominatiónes tuas." }, { "n": 4, "text": "Et non parcet óculus meus super te, et non miserébor; sed vias tuas ponam super te, et abominatiónes tuæ in médio tui erunt, et sciétis quia ego Dóminus." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Indicábo tibi, homo, quid sit bonum aut quid Dóminus requírat a te:", "repeat": "Fácere judícium et justítiam et sollícitum ambuláre cum Deo tuo." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Spera in Dómino, et fac bonitátem, et inhábita terram." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Fácere judícium et justítiam et sollícitum ambuláre cum Deo tuo.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "Lesson from the book of Ezekiel", "citation": "Ezek 7:1-4", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "text": "And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:" }, { "n": 2, "text": "And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land." }, { "n": 3, "text": "Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy abominations against thee." }, { "n": 4, "text": "And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to", "repeat": "Do justice and judgment, and to walk humbly with thy God." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Do justice and judgment, and walk humbly with thy God.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 2, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "Ezek 7:5-9", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 5, "text": "Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Afflíctio una, afflíctio ecce venit." }, { "n": 6, "text": "Finis venit, venit finis, evigilávit advérsum te, ecce venit:" }, { "n": 7, "text": "Venit contrítio super te, qui hábitas in terra; venit tempus, prope est dies occisiónis, et non glóriæ móntium." }, { "n": 8, "text": "Nunc de propínquo effúndam iram meam super te, et complébo furórem meum in te: et judicábo te juxta vias tuas, et impónam tibi ómnia scélera tua," }, { "n": 9, "text": "Et non parcet óculus meus, nec miserébor; sed vias tuas impónam tibi, et abominatiónes tuæ in médio tui erunt, et sciétis quia ego sum Dóminus percútiens." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Angústiæ mihi sunt úndique, et quid éligam ignóro;", "repeat": "Mélius est mihi incídere in manus hóminum, quam derelínquere legem Dei mei." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Si enim hoc égero, mors mihi est; si autem non égero, non effúgiam manus vestras." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Mélius est mihi incídere in manus hóminum, quam derelínquere legem Dei mei.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "Ezek 7:5-9", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 5, "text": "Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come." }, { "n": 6, "text": "An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee: behold it is come." }, { "n": 7, "text": "Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains." }, { "n": 8, "text": "Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes." }, { "n": 9, "text": "And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "I am straitened on every side, and know not what to choose.", "repeat": "It is better for me to fall into the hands of men, than to sin against the law of my God." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "For if I do this thing, it is death unto me and if I do it not, I cannot escape your hands." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "It is better for me to fall into the hands of men, than to sin against the law of my God.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 3, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "Ezek 7:10-13", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 10, "text": "Ecce dies, ecce venit; egréssa est contrítio, flóruit virga, germinávit supérbia," }, { "n": 11, "text": "Iníquitas surréxit in virga impietátis; non ex eis et non ex pópulo neque ex sónitu eórum, et non erit réquies in eis." }, { "n": 12, "text": "Venit tempus, appropinquávit dies: qui emit non lætétur, et qui vendit, non lúgeat: quia ira super omnem pópulum ejus;" }, { "n": 13, "text": "Quia qui vendit, ad id quod véndidit non revertétur: et adhuc in vivéntibus vita eórum." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Misit Dóminus Angelum suum et conclúsit ora leónum,", "repeat": "Et non contaminavérunt, quia coram eo injustítia invénta non est in me." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Misit Deus misericórdiam suam et veritátem suam: ánimam meam erípuit de médio catulórum leónum." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Et non contaminavérunt, quia coram eo injustítia invénta non est in me.", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Et non contaminavérunt: quia coram eo injustítia invénta non est in me.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "Ezek 7:10-13", "source": "", "verses": [ { "n": 10, "text": "Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded." }, { "n": 11, "text": "Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them." }, { "n": 12, "text": "The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof." }, { "n": 13, "text": "For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life." } ], "paragraphs": [] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "The Lord hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that", "repeat": "They have not hurt me forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "God hath sent forth His mercy and His truth, (and delivered) my soul from among the lions' whelps." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "They have not hurt me forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me.", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "They have not hurt me forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 4, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Cárolus, Mediolani nobili Borromæórum família natus, quanta futurus esset sanctitáte conspicuus, divina lux super pariéntis matris cubiculum noctu coruscans præsignávit. A puerítia clericali milítiæ adscriptus, abbatía postmodum insignítus, patrem admonuit ne réditus in rem familiarem converteréntur; quorum ipse nactus administratiónem, quidquid supérerat, expendebat in páuperes. Adoléscens liberálibus disciplinis Papíæ operam dedit. Castitátem adeo coluit, ut impudícas étiam mulieres, ad labefactándam ejus pudicítiam pluries immissas, invicta constántia fugaverit. Vigesimum tertium ætátis annum agens, a Pio quarto ejus avunculo in sacrum cardinalium collegium cooptatus, insígni pietátis ac virtútum ómnium splendore præluxit. Mox ab eodem Mediolanénsis archiepíscopus creatus, in eo plurimam operam adhibuit, ut, juxta sacrosanctum Tridentinum concílium, quod ejus potíssimum sollicitúdine jam tum fuerat absolutum, ecclésiam sibi commissam compóneret; atque, ut depravatos plebis suæ mores reformaret, præter iteratam sæpius synodórum celebratiónem, seípsum exímiæ sanctitátis præbuit exemplar. In profligandis hæreticis e partibus Rhætórum et Helvetiórum, quorum plurimos ad christianam fidem convértit, maxime laborávit." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Invéni David servum meum, óleo sancto meo unxi eum:", "repeat": "Manus enim mea auxiliábitur ei." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Nihil profíciet inimícus in eo, et fílius iniquitátis non nocébit ei." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Manus enim mea auxiliábitur ei.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Charles, of the noble family of Borromeo, was born (on the 2nd day of October, in the year of our Lord 1538,) at (the Castle of Arona, fourteen miles from) Milan. In foretoken of his holy life, God caused a bright light to shine by night over the chamber where his mother lay in travail. As soon as his age would allow him, he received the tonsure. When he was twelve years old, he was made Abbot (of the rich Benedictine Abbey of St. Gratinian and St. Felin,) but reminded his father that the revenues thereof were not to be used as mere family property. His father, to whom the administration of these revenues fell during his son's non-age, still gave them forthwith over to him, and whatever was left over, he gave to the poor. While he was young he studied letters at Pavia. He kept his purity thoroughly, so that he scared away the unclean women, of whom many were set upon him, to overthrow his self-control. In the twenty-third year of his age, his uncle Pius IV. made him a Cardinal, in which dignity he was a burning and shining light of godliness and all graces before the whole of the Sacred College. About forty days afterwards the same Pope created him Archbishop of Milan. As such it was his great desire to order the Church committed to his charge in accordance with the requirements of the most holy Council of Trent, which was in great part by his labours brought to a conclusion. To raise up the degraded lives of the people, he oftentimes held Synods, but himself set an example of deep godliness. He worked earnestly to purge the parts about the Alps and borders of Switzerland of heresy, and brought many of the heretics to the Christian faith." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "I have found David My servant, with My holy oil have I anointed him", "repeat": "For My hand shall help him." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "The enemy shall prevail nothing against him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "For My hand shall help him.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 5, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Hujus viri caritas præcipue enituit, cum, Uritano principatu véndito, prétium univérsum, ad quadragínta aureórum millia, una die in páuperes erogávit. Nec minore pietáte viginti millia, quæ sibi fúerant legata, distríbuit. Ecclesiásticos proventus, quibus ab avunculo copiose fuerat cumulátus, dimísit, nonnullis retentis, quibus ad proprios usus et egenórum necessitates utebátur. Quo témpore pestis Mediolani grassabátur, domesticam supellectilem, ne relícto sibi lectulo, in eosdem alendos cóntulit, super nuda in pósterum tábula decumbens; eoque morbo laborántes sédulo invisens, paterno reficiebat afféctu, et Ecclésiæ sacraménta propriis ipse mánibus administrans, mirum in modum solabátur. Humillimis interim precibus reconciliator accédens, publica supplicatióne indicta, fune sibi ad collum alligato, nudis pédibus étiam offendiculo cruentátis, crucem bájulans, semetípsum pro peccátis pópuli hóstiam offerens, divinam indignatiónem avértere satagebat. Ecclesiásticæ libertátis fuit acerrimus propugnator. Disciplinæ vero restituéndæ sollícitus, a seditiosis, dum oratióni insísteret, torménti bellici laxáta rota, igneo glóbulo percússus, divina virtúte servátur illæsus." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Pósui adjutórium super poténtem, et exaltávi eléctum de plebe mea:", "repeat": "Manus enim mea auxiliábitur ei." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Invéni David servum meum, óleo sancto meo unxi eum." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Manus enim mea auxiliábitur ei.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Charity was the brightest mark of his life. His principality of Oria, (in the kingdom of Naples,) he sold for forty thousand crowns, and gave the whole sum to the poor in one day. Twenty thousand crowns being left him as a legacy (by Virginia, widow of Count Frederick Borromeo,) he gave the whole to the poor. The incomes of the benefices wherewith he had been loaded by his uncle, he spent upon the needs of the poor, except what he used for himself. When the plague grievously raged in Milan, he gave up to the sick poor the furniture of his own house, even to his own bedding, and thenceforward slept upon the boards. He constantly visited the sick, cheered them by his fatherly kindness, and wonderfully comforted them, ministering to them with his own hands the Sacraments of the Church. At the same time he drew near to plead for them with God in lowly entreaty, and ordered a public Procession wherein he walked himself carrying a Cross, with a rope halter round his neck, and his bare feet bleeding from the stones, and fain to turn away the Divine anger by offering himself as a scapegoat for the sins of his people. He was a stout defender of the freedom of the Church. But in the Church he was an earnest reformer of discipline, and once, when he was engaged in prayer, (the paid agent of) some conspirators took a shot at him with a blunderbuss, but, though the ball struck him, the power of God kept him unharmed." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of My people", "repeat": "For My hand shall help him." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "I have found David My servant, with My holy oil have I anointed him." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "For My hand shall help him.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 6, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Abstinéntia fuit admirábili; jejunábat sæpíssime, pane tantum et aqua, solis quandoque lupínis contentus. Nocturnis vigiliis, asperrimo cilício, assiduis flagellis corpus domábat. Humilitátis ac mansuetúdinis studiosíssimus fuit. Oratiónem ac verbi Dei prædicatiónem, gravíssimis licet curis occupatus, numquam intermisit. Multas ecclésias, monasteria, collegia ædificávit. Plura scripsit, ad episcopórum præsertim instructiónem utilíssima; cujus étiam ópera parochórum catechismus pródiit. Demum, in solitúdinem Varalli montis, ubi scultpis imagínibus Dominicæ passiónis mysteria ad vivum repræsentántur, secessit; ibique , diébus aliquot voluntária castigatióne asperam, sed Christi dolórum meditatiónibus suavem vitam ducens, in febrim íncidit. Mediolanum reversus, ingravescénte morbo, cínere ac cilício coopertus, et óculis in Crucifixi imáginem defixis, migrávit in cælum, ætátis anno quadragesimo septimo, Dómini vero millesimo quingentésimo octogesimo quarto, tertio Nonas Novembris. Quem, miraculis clarum, Paulus quintus Pontifex maximus in Sanctórum númerum retulit." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Iste est, qui ante Deum magnas virtútes operátus est, et omnis terra doctrína ejus repléta est:", "repeat": "Ipse intercédat pro peccátis ómnium populórum." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Iste est, qui contémpsit vitam mundi, et pervénit ad cæléstia regna." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Ipse intercédat pro peccátis ómnium populórum.", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Ipse intercédat pro peccátis ómnium populórum.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "He was remarkable for his abstinence. He very often fasted upon nothing but bread and water, and sometimes nothing but lupines. He tamed his body by depriving himself of sleep, by very rough haircloth, and by constant scourging. He was an earnest practiser of lowliness and meekness. However much he was taken up with business, he never gave himself relaxation from prayer and from preaching the word of God. He built many Churches, convents, and schools. He wrote much matter, useful more especially for the good of Bishops. The publication of the Parish Priests' Catechism was due to his care. In October, 1584, he withdrew himself, for the purpose of making a retreat, to (what is called) the Sacro Monte of Varallo, an hill whereon (many sacred subjects and especially) the incidents of the Lord's sufferings are represented in life-size groups of coloured figures. (On Oct. 24) he was taken ill of a (tertian) ague, ~(but concealed it,) and lived there for some days a life of torture by voluntary suffering, but of sweetness by thoughts of Christ's woes. After his return to Milan, (which he reached in a litter upon All Souls' Day,) his sickness became hopeless, and early in the night between the (3rd and) 4th days of November, in the 47th year of his own age, and in that of our Lord 1584, covered with ashes and sackcloth, and with his eyes fixed upon the image of Christ crucified, he exchanged earth for heaven. He was famous for miracles, and Pope Paul V. numbered him among the Saints." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "This is he which wrought great wonders before God, and the whole earth is full of his teaching", "repeat": "May he pray for all people, that their sins may be forgiven unto them" }, { "type": "verse", "text": "This is he which loved not his life in this world, and hath attained unto the kingdom of heaven." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "May he pray for all people, that their sins may be forgiven unto them", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "May he pray for all people, that their sins may be forgiven unto them", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 7, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum", "citation": "Matt 25:14-23", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis parábolam hanc: Homo péregre proficíscens, vocávit servos suos, et trádidit illis bona sua. Et réliqua." ] }, { "title": "Homilía sancti Gregórii Papæ", "citation": "", "source": "Homilia 9 in Evangelia", "paragraphs": [ "Léctio sancti Evangélii, fratres caríssimi, solícite consideráre nos ádmonet, ne nos, qui plus céteris in hoc mundo accepísse áliquid cérnimur, ab Auctóre mundi grávius inde judicémur. Cum enim augéntur dona, ratiónes étiam crescunt donórum. Tanto ergo esse humílior atque ad serviéndum Deo prómptior quisque debet ex múnere, quanto se obligatiórem esse cónspicit in reddénda ratióne. Ecce homo, qui péregre proficíscitur, servos suos vocat, eisque ad negótium talénta partítur. Post multum vero témporis positúrus ratiónem revértitur: bene operántes pro apportáto lucro remúnerat, servum vero a bono ópere torpéntem damnat." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Amávit eum Dóminus, et ornávit eum: stolam glóriæ índuit eum,", "repeat": "Et ad portas paradísi coronávit eum." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Induit eum Dóminus lorícam fídei, et ornávit eum." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Et ad portas paradísi coronávit eum.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew", "citation": "Matt 25:14-23", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "At that time Jesus spake unto His disciples this parable A man, travelling into a far country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And so on." ] }, { "title": "Homily by Pope St Gregory (the Great.)", "citation": "", "source": "9th on the Gospels.", "paragraphs": [ "Dearly beloved brethren, this Lesson from the Holy Gospel moveth us to take good heed lest we, who are seen in this world to have received more than others, should thereby bring ourselves into greater condemnation from the Maker of this world. To whom much is given, of the same is much required. Therefore, let him that receiveth much, strive to be all the more lowly, and all the more ready to do God service, for his very gifts’ sake, knowing that he will be obliged to give account thereof. Behold, a man, travelling into a far country, calleth his own servants, and delivereth unto them talents, to the end that they may trade therewith. After a long time, the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them, and to them that have done well He rendereth a reward of their labours, but that servant which was careless of his master’s work He condemneth." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "The Lord loved him and beautified him He clothed him with a robe of glory", "repeat": "And crowned him at the gates of Paradise." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "The Lord hath put on him the breast-plate of faith, and hath adorned him." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "And crowned him at the gates of Paradise.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 8, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Quis ítaque iste homo est qui péregre proficíscitur, nisi Redémptor noster, qui, in ea carne quam assúmpserat, ábiit in cælum? Carnis enim locus próprius terra est; quæ quasi ad peregrína dúcitur, dum per Redemptórem nostrum in cælo collocátur. Sed homo iste, péregre proficíscens, servis suis bona sua trádidit; quia fidélibus suis spirituália dona concéssit. Et uni quidem quinque talénta, álii duo, álii vero commísit unum. Quinque étenim sunt córporis sensus, vidélicet: visus, audítus, gustus, odorátus et tactus. Quinque ergo taléntis, donum quinque sénsuum, id est, exteriórum sciéntia, exprímitur. Duóbus vero, intelléctus et operátio designátur. Uníus autem talénti nómine, intelléctus tantúmmodo designátur." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Sint lumbi vestri præcíncti, et lucérnæ ardéntes in mánibus vestris:", "repeat": "Et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Vigiláte ergo, quia nescítis qua hora Dóminus vester ventúrus sit." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis.", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "Et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "What other, then, is that man travelling into a far country but our Redeemer, Who is gone up from us into heaven in that Flesh Which He had taken into Himself? For the earth is the home of the Flesh, Which travelleth into a far country when our Redeemer giveth It a place in heaven. But that man travelling into a far country delivered unto his servants his goods and so doth our Redeemer give spiritual gifts unto His faithful people. “And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one.” There are five bodily senses that is, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. By the five talents therefore are signified the five senses, that is, outward knowledge. By the two, wit and work. And by the figure of the one talent, understanding, which is alone." ] } ], "responsory": [ { "type": "respond", "text": "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;", "repeat": "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding." }, { "type": "verse", "text": "Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.", "repeat": "" }, { "type": "gloria", "text": "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost." }, { "type": "respond", "text": "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.", "repeat": "" } ], "te_deum": false } }, { "number": 9, "latin": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "Commemoratio: Ss. Mart. Vitalis et Agricolæ", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Vitalis et Agricola ejus dominus, in persecutióne Diocletiáni et Maximiáni, Bononiæ ob Jesu Christi prædicatiónem comprehénsi sunt. Cumque Vitalis, quo magis precibus et minis tentarétur ut senténtiam mutaret, eo magis se Christi cultórem ac servum profiterétur; vario tormentórum genere cruciatus, constanter ómnia pérferens, in oratióne spíritum Deo réddidit. Agricola vero, cum ejus supplícium dilátum esset, si forte, tormentis servi permotus, Christo vellet renuntiáre, ejus exemplo magis confirmátus est. Itaque, cruci affixus, Vitali servo consors et cosius fuit nobilis martyrii. Eórum corpora, ad Judæórum sepúlcra cum essent humata, a sancto Ambrosio invénta, in sacrum celebremque locum transláta sunt." ] } ], "responsory": [], "te_deum": true }, "translation": { "notes": [], "parts": [ { "title": "Commemoration of Sts. Vitalis and Agricola", "citation": "", "source": "", "paragraphs": [ "Vitalis was a slave, and Agricola his owner. They were arrested at Bologna in the persecution under Diocletian and Maximian, for preaching Jesus Christ. Vitalis, the more he was implored and threatened to change his mind so much the more proclaimed himself a worshipper and servant of Christ, and after bravely bearing a course of diverse tortures, gave up his soul in prayer to God. The execution of Agricola had been put off, in the hope that the agonies of his servant might scare him into denying Christ; but the sight only hardened him. He was therefore crucified, and so became sharer and fellow with his slave Vitalis in the glory of testification. Their bodies were laid in the Jews' burying-place, where they were found by St. Ambrose, who removed them to an hallowed and honourable sepulchre." ] } ], "responsory": [], "te_deum": true } } ], "links": { "page": "https://matutinum.org/readings/1954/en/2026-11-04" } }