{"id":3275,"date":"2008-06-13T20:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/06\/in-plateas-et-vicos-civitatis\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T20:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:45:43","slug":"in-plateas-et-vicos-civitatis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/06\/in-plateas-et-vicos-civitatis\/","title":{"rendered":"In plateas et vicos civitatis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/0613%20StAntonio16th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0613%20StAntonio16th.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/0613%20StAntonio16th-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"433\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen I came to the Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers this evening, I made the delightful discovery of the text (with a splendid First Mode melody) now given for the feast of Saint Anthony in the 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/antiphonale-monasticum-iii-2007.html\">Antiphonale Monasticum<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Exi cito in plateas et vicos civitatis,<br \/>\net pauperes ac debiles, caecos et claudos compelle intrare,<br \/>\nut impleatur domus mea, alleluia.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Quick, go out into the broadways and lanes of the city:<br \/>\nbring in the poor, the cripples, the blind and the lame,<br \/>\nthat so my house may be filled.<br \/>\n(Luke 14: 21, 23)<\/em><br \/>\nThe old Matins legend for Saint Anthony had this:<br \/>\n<strong>Anthony, the Ark of the Covenant<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>It is said that he knew all the Bible by heart; and the Pope, after hearing him preach, declared that in Anthony all the Scriptures were enshrined, as they were of old in the Ark of the Covenant.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Marketplace Preaching<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>So truly did he love holiness and truth that he was a relentless preacher against both vice and heresy, wherefrom he was nicknamed Everlasting-Hammer-of-the-Hereticks.  All work ceased when he came to a town; and because the churches could not hold the crowds which flocked to him, he preached in the marketplaces; whereafter hereticks as well as Catholics thronged to him to be shriven.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Death in a Treehouse<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>When he was sick unto death, he is said to have asked that a floor be put up in a tree, whereon he could lie, in the open air, and wait for death amidst the singing of the birds.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>My Treehouse<\/strong><br \/>\nI especially like the bit about the treehouse.  When I was a lad, my father built me a treehouse in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catalpa\">Catalpa tree<\/a> in the backyard.  It was very special to me: my quiet place.  I loved climbing into the treehouse, closing the door, and sitting there, among the branches, with my open Bible.  I also have a very distinct memory of praying to Our Mother of Perpetual Help in the treehouse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came to the Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers this evening, I made the delightful discovery of the text (with a splendid First Mode melody) now given for the feast of Saint Anthony in the 2007 Antiphonale Monasticum: Exi cito in plateas et vicos civitatis, et pauperes ac debiles, caecos et claudos compelle intrare, ut <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-QP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}