S. Joannis Chrysostomi Episcopi Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris.

Cumque cognovíssent se esse nudos, consuérunt fólia ficus, et fecérunt sibi perizómata. Et cum audíssent vocem Dómini Dei deambulántis in paradíso ad auram post merídiem, abscóndit se Adam et uxor ejus a fácie Dómini Dei in médio ligni paradísi. Vocavítque Dóminus Deus Adam, et dixit ei: Ubi es? Qui ait: Vocem tuam audívi in paradíso: et tímui, eo quod nudus essem, et abscóndi me. Cui dixit: Quis enim indicávit tibi quod nudus esses, nisi quod ex ligno, de quo præcéperam tibi ne coméderes, comedísti? Dixítque Adam: Múlier, quam dedísti mihi sóciam, dedit mihi de ligno, et comédi. Et dixit Dóminus Deus ad mulíerem: Quare hoc fecísti? Quæ respóndit: Serpens decépit me, et comédi.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

When they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons. And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise. And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou? And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.

Et ait Dóminus Deus ad serpéntem: Quia fecísti hoc, maledíctus es inter ómnia animántia, et béstias terræ: super pectus tuum gradiéris, et terram cómedes cunctis diébus vitæ tuæ. Inimicítias ponam inter te et mulíerem, et semen tuum et semen illíus: ipsa cónteret caput tuum, et tu insidiáberis calcáneo ejus. Mulíeri quoque dixit: Multiplicábo ærúmnas tuas, et concéptus tuos: in dolóre páries fílios, et sub viri potestáte eris, et ipse dominábitur tui. Adæ vero dixit: Quia audísti vocem uxóris tuæ, et comedísti de ligno, ex quo præcéperam tibi ne coméderes, maledícta terra in ópere tuo: in labóribus cómedes ex ea cunctis diébus vitæ tuæ. Spinas et tríbulos germinábit tibi, et cómedes herbam terræ. In sudóre vultus tui vescéris pane, donec revertáris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris. Et vocávit Adam nomen uxóris suæ, Heva: eo quod mater esset cunctórum vivéntium.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and the beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.

Quare áliquot episcopórum acto Chalcédone convéntu, quo ipse vocátus ire nóluit, quod nec legítimum concílium, nec públicum esse díceret; niténte in primis ipsa contra Chrysóstomum Eudóxia, ejícitur in exsílium: sed paulo post propter ejus desidérium seditióne pópuli facta, admirábili civitátis plausu ab exsílio revocátur. Verum cum pérditos mores increpáre non desísteret, et ad argénteam Eudóxiæ státuam in foro sanctæ Sophíæ ludos fíeri prohibéret: conspiratióne inimicórum episcopórum íterum exsuláre cógitur, víduis et egéntibus ómnibus commúnis paréntis ejectiónem lugéntibus. In exsílio Chrysóstomus incredíbile est et quanta mala perpéssus sit, et quam multos ad Jesu Christi fidem convérterit.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

Come Bishops being assembled in a Council at Chalcedon, which Council the Saint held to be neither lawful, nor public, although he was commanded to go there, he refused. Whereupon Eudoxia, striving earnestly against him, caused him to be sent into exile. Soon after, however, the people of the city rose, and demanded his recall, and he was then brought back again amid great public rejoicings. Nevertheless he ceased not to war against vice, and absolutely forbade the celebration of public games round the silver statue of Eudoxia in the square outside the Church of the Eternal Wisdom. Upon this, a party of Bishops, who were enemies to him, banded together, and obtained that he should be banished again, which was done accordingly, (on the 20th day of June, 404,) amid the lamentations of widows and the poor, who felt as if they were being deprived of a common father. During this exile, it almost passeth belief how much Chrysostom suffered, and how many souls he turned to the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.

Verum dum concílio Romæ hábito, decréto Innocéntii primi Pontíficis restitúitur, a milítibus, qui eum custodiébant, miris in itínere malis et calamitátibus affícitur. Cumque per Arméniam ducerétur, sanctus Basilíscus Martyr, in cujus templo ántea oráverat, noctu sic eum affátus est: Joánnes frater, crástinus dies nos loco conjúnget. Quare postrídie sumpto Eucharístiæ sacraménto seque crucis signo múniens, ánimam Deo réddidit, décimo octávo Kaléndas Octóbris. Quo mórtuo, horríbilis grando Constantinópoli cécidit, et quatríduo Augústa cessit e vita. Ejus corpus insígni pompa et hóminum multitúdine celebrátum, Theodósius Arcádii fílius Constantinópolim portándum, et honorífice sepeliéndum curávit sexto Kaléndas Februárii: cujus étiam relíquias venerátus, paréntum suórum véniam pétiit: quod deínde Romam translátum in basílica Vaticána cónditum est. Multitúdinem, pietátem, ac splendórem conciónum, ceterorúmque ejus scriptórum, interpretándi étiam ratiónem, et inhæréntem senténtiæ sacrórum librórum explanatiónem, omnes admirántur: dignúmque exístimant, cui Paulus Apóstolus, quem ille mirífice cóluit, scribénti et prædicánti multa dictásse videátur.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

At this time a Council was assembled at Rome, wherein Chrysostom's restoration to his See was decreed by Pope Innocent I., but meanwhile, he was suffering great hardships and cruelties on his journey at the hands of the soldiers who had him in charge. As he passed through Armenia he prayed in the Church of the holy martyr Basiliscus, and the same night that blessed conqueror appeared to him in a vision and said Brother John, to-morrow thou shalt be with me. On the next day, therefore, he received the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and, arming himself with the sign of the cross, resigned his soul to God, it being the 14th of September, (in the year of salvation, 407.) As soon as he was dead a furious hailstorm took place at Constantinople, and after four days the Empress died. The Emperor Theodosius, the son of Arcadius, brought the body of John Chrysostom to Constantinople with great state, and numerously attended, and on the 27th of January, (438,) laid it with magnificent honours in the grave, beside which he prayed for the forgiveness of his own father and mother. The holy body was afterwards taken to Rome, and is now buried in the Vatican Basilica. The number, devoutness, and brilliance of St. John Chrysostom's sermons and other writings, his acuteness in exposition, and the close aptness of his explanations of Holy Scripture, have been and are the object of universal wonder and admiration, and often seem not unworthy to have been dictated to him by the Apostle Paul, for whom he entertained a wonderful devotion.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.

Ergo ad níhilum valet sal infatuátum, nisi ut mittátur foras, et calcétur ab homínibus. Non ítaque calcátur ab homínibus, qui pátitur persecutiónem: sed qui persecutiónem timéndo infatuátur. Calcári enim non potest nisi inférior: sed inférior non est, qui quamvis córpore multa in terra sustíneat, corde tamen fixus in cœlo est.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, to be trodden under foot of and men. He that suffereth persecution is not thus trodden under foot of men; he that in good sooth is trodden under foot of men, is he which, through fear of persecution, hath lost his savour. No man can be trodden upon, unless he be beneath him which treadeth upon him; but he cannot be beneath his tormentor, who, suffer he how grievously soever in his body upon earth, hath still his heart in heaven.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.

Vos estis lumen mundi. Quómodo dixit supérius sal terræ, sic nunc dicit lumen mundi. Nam neque supérius ista terra accipiénda est, quam pédibus corpóreis calcámus: sed hómines qui in terra hábitant, vel étiam peccatóres, quorum condiéndis et exstinguéndis putóribus apostólicum salem Dóminus misit. Et hic mundum non cœlum et terram, sed hómines, qui sunt in mundo, vel díligunt mundum, opórtet intélligi, quibus illuminándis Apóstoli missi sunt. Non potest cívitas abscóndi super montem pósita: id est, fundáta super insígnem magnámque justítiam, quam signíficat étiam ipse mons, in quo dísputat Dóminus.
Tu autem Dómine miserére nobis.
℟. Deo grátias.

Ye are the light of the world. They whom the Lord hath, just above, called the salt of the earth, the same doth He now call the light of the world. By the earth, whereof they were said to be the salt, we have not understood to be signified that earth whereupon we walk with our bodily feet, but the men which dwell upon the earth, or sinners, for the sweetening and correction of whose stinking corruption the Lord hath sent His Apostles, as it were, as so much salt. And so here also, by the world we are to understand, not the heavens and the earth, but the men which are in the world, or which love the world for the enlightening of whom the Apostles have been sent. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid - that is, set upon the heights of the same plain and great righteousness, whereof the mountain upon the which the Lord taught was itself a figure.
But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟. Thanks be to God.