# Matins Nocturn 2 for the reference engine's "1st Sunday of August"
# (Tempora/081-0.txt) — this app's own calendar-month/week reading cycle
# (calendar/month-week-id.ts's monthWeekId, distinct from the Easter-offset
# post-pentecost-NN ids), pooled alongside them by hours/matins.ts's
# buildReadingPool. See that function's header and month-week-id.ts's own
# header for why this id exists at all: which month/week governs a given
# Sunday shifts with Easter's date, so there's no fixed post-pentecost-NN
# correspondence to author against — this id is computed straight from the
# calendar date instead. Live-verified (2026-08-02, Monastic Tridentinum
# 1617): "Dominica X Post Pentecosten I. Augusti", homily is St. Ambrose on
# Ps. 118, matching this file's own Lectio4-6.
#
# Nocturn 1 deliberately not imported here — the user's own bible-plan
# store already owns that slot (see propers/bible-plan.ts).
#
# Combined per the recombine rule: Lectio4-6 are one continuous excerpt
# from the same sermon, no real source break between them.
id: month-week-081
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Enarrationes in Psalmum CXVIII, Sermon 5"
    text:
      la: >-
        Inítium esse sapiéntiæ timórem Dómini, dicit prophéta. Quid est autem inítium sapiéntiæ, nisi
        sǽculo renuntiáre? Quia sápere sæculária, stultítia est. Dénique sapiéntiam hujus mundi,
        stultítiam esse apud Deum, Apóstolus dicit. Sed et ipse timor Dómini, nisi secúndum sciéntiam
        sit, nihil prodest, immo obest plúrimum. Síquidem Judǽi habent zelum Dei; sed quia non habent
        secúndum sciéntiam, in ipso zelo et timóre majórem cóntrahunt divinitátis offénsam. Quod
        circumcídunt infántulos suos, quod sábbata custódiunt, timórem Dei habent; sed quia nesciunt
        legem spiritálem esse, circumcídunt corpus, non cor suum.


        Et quid de Judǽis dico? Sunt étiam in nobis qui habent timórem Dei, sed non secúndum
        sciéntiam, statuéntes durióra præcépta, quæ non possit humána condítio sustinére. Timor in eo
        est, quia vidéntur sibi consúlere disciplínæ, opus virtútis exígere; sed inscítia in eo est,
        quia non compatiúntur natúræ, non ǽstimant possibilitátem. Non sit ergo irrationábilis timor.
        Etenim vera sapiéntia a timóre Dei íncipit, nec est sapiéntia spiritális sine timóre Dei; ita
        timor sine sapiéntia esse non debet.


        Basis quædam verbi est timor sanctus. Sicut enim simulácrum áliquod in basi statúitur, et tunc
        majórem habet grátiam, cum in basi státua fúerit collocáta, standíque áccipit firmitátem: ita
        verbum Dei in timóre sancto mélius statúitur, fórtius radicátur in péctore timéntis Dóminum; ne
        labátur verbum de corde viri, ne véniant vólucres et áuferant illud de incuriósi et
        dissimulántis afféctu.
      en: >-
        The Prophet saith that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." And what is the
        first act of wisdom but to renounce the world, since to love the things of the world is folly?
        So indeed saith the Apostle, "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." (1 Cor. 3:19.)
        But the very fear of the Lord itself is useless, nay, harmful, if it be not according to
        knowledge. The Jews have a truly fervent zeal for God, but since they have not knowledge, their
        very zeal and fear do cause them to do things contrary to God's will. That they circumcise
        their children, that they keep holy the Sabbath-Day, showeth how they fear the Lord, but
        knowing not the spiritual meaning of the Law, they circumcise the body and not the heart.


        But wherefore should I speak of Jews? There are those among ourselves who have the fear of
        God, but not according to knowledge, and set up hard ordinances which the weakness of man is
        not able to bear. They fear God in this, that they seem to themselves to be looking to
        discipline, and to be enforcing the practice of godliness, but they lack knowledge, in that
        they feel not for the weakness of nature, nor consider whether a thing can, or cannot be done.
        Let not then the fear of God be unreasonable. True wisdom beginneth with the fear of God,
        neither is it spiritual wisdom without the fear of God, but neither ought the fear of God to be
        without wisdom.


        Holy fear is the foundation of all good instruction. Just as a statue is set up upon a
        pedestal, and thereby receiveth both beauty and strength, even so doth it become the word of
        God to be set forth based upon an holy fear, and it is in the heart of him that feareth that it
        getteth the firmest root, even an home wherefrom it droppeth not, neither do the fowls of the
        air come and carry it away, as from the heart of him that is careless and deceiving.
    responsory:
      la: "R. Da mihi, Dómine, sédium tuárum assistrícem sapiéntiam, et noli me reprobáre a púeris tuis: * Quóniam servus tuus sum ego, et fílius ancíllæ tuæ.\nV. Mitte illam de sede magnitúdinis tuæ, ut mecum sit et mecum labóret.\nR. Quóniam servus tuus sum ego, et fílius ancíllæ tuæ."
      en: "R. Give me wisdom, O Lord, that sitteth by thy throne, and reject me not from among thy children. * For I am thy servant and son of thine handmaid.\nV. O send her out from the throne of thy glory, to be with me and to labour with me.\nR. For I am thy servant and son of thine handmaid."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
