# Matins Nocturn 2 for "4th Sunday of August" (Tempora/084-0.txt) — see
# month-week-081.yml's header for the id scheme. Responsory reuses 081's
# own Responsory4 (source's own cross-reference).
id: month-week-084
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Book 1, ch. 10"
    text:
      la: >-
        Sunt nonnúlli qui vitam suam négligunt et, dum transitória áppetunt, dum ætérna vel non
        intélligunt, vel intellécta contémnunt, nec dolórem séntiunt, nec habére consílium sciunt;
        cumque supérna quæ amisérunt, non consíderant, esse se (heu míseri) in bonis felíces putant.
        Nequáquam enim ad veritátis lucem, cui cónditi fúerant, mentis óculos érigunt; nequáquam ad
        contemplatiónem pátriæ ætérnæ desidérii áciem tendunt; sed semetípsos in his, ad quæ projécti
        sunt, deseréntes, vice pátriæ díligunt exsílium quod patiúntur, et in cæcitáte quam tólerant,
        quasi in claritáte lúminis exsúltant.


        At contra, electórum mentes, dum transitória cuncta nulla esse conspíciunt, ad quæ sint cónditæ
        exquírunt: cumque eórum satisfactióni nihil extra Deum súfficit, ipsa inquisitiónis
        exercitatióne fatigáta illórum cogitátio, in Conditóris sui spe et contemplatióne requiéscit,
        supérnis intérseri cívibus áppetit; et unusquísque eórum adhuc in mundo córpore pósitus, mente
        tamen extra mundum surgit: ærúmnam exsílii, quam tólerat, deplórat, et ad sublímem pátriam
        incessántibus se amóris stímulis éxcitat. Cum ergo dolens videt, quam sit ætérnum quod pérdidit,
        ínvenit salúbre consílium, temporále hoc despícere quod percúrrit: et quo magis crescit
        consílii sciéntia ut peritúra déserat, eo augétur dolor, quod necdum ad mansúra pertíngat.


        Intuéndum quoque est, quod nullus dolor mentis sit in actióne præcipitatiónis. Qui enim sine
        consíliis vivunt, qui seípsos rerum evéntibus præcípites déserunt, nullo ínterim cogitatiónum
        dolóre fatigántur. Nam qui solérter in vitæ consílio figit mentem, caute sese in omni actióne
        circumspiciéndo consíderat; et ne ex re quæ ágitur, repentínus finis adversúsque surrípiat,
        hunc prius mólliter pósito pede cogitatiónis palpat: pensat, ne ab his quæ agénda sunt,
        præpédiat formído; ne in his quæ differénda sunt, præcipitátio impéllat; ne prava per
        concupiscéntiam apérto bello súperent; ne recta per inánem glóriam insidiándo supplántent.
      en: >-
        Some there are who are careless concerning their true life, greedy of the things which pass
        away, but as to the things which are eternal, either understand them not, or, understanding
        them, holding them to be but of little moment, feel no sorrow, nor know how to take wise
        advice, and, in forgetfulness of the heavenly possessions which they have lost, they deem
        themselves (alas, poor wretches) happy in their goods. They lift not up their eyes to the light
        of truth for which they were created; no keen desire ever maketh them to cast a longing look
        toward the everlasting Fatherland. Leaving alone the chief end for which they were made, they
        fix their affections upon the exile which they are enduring, instead of upon their home, and
        make merry in the blindness which they are suffering, as though it were glorious day-light.


        But, on the other hand, the understandings of the elect, while they apprehend the things which
        pass away, perceive them to be indeed nothings, and work towards grasping the true end to which
        they were created, and since nothing outside God satisfieth them, their thought, wearied by the
        intensity of speculation, findeth rest in the hope for, and the contemplation of, their Maker.
        They are fain to take their place among the citizens above, and each one of them, although
        still placed in the world as concerns his body, doth yet in heart and mind ascend above the
        world. They bemoan the hardships of the exile which they are enduring, and rouse themselves by
        the constant pricking of their love, to look to their Fatherland above. When therefore such an
        one seeth with grief that by sin he hath lost an eternal inheritance, he findeth this healthy
        counsel, to reckon but lightly the things of time through which he is passing, and as the
        riper groweth his wise course that he hath chosen, the deeper groweth his sorrow that he hath
        not yet attained unto the things which endure.


        We must also realise that they who are headlong in their courses feel not sorrow of heart. They
        that live without thought, who leave themselves recklessly to the guidance of events, escape
        the weariness of thought. He that ordereth his life by prudent consideration looketh carefully
        around him before each thing that he doth, and, like a man that, before advancing on an
        uncertain way, trieth the ground with his foot, so he taketh thought beforehand, lest some
        sudden and evil thing should happen to him; he considereth whether that which he hath a mind to
        do is not forbidden to him by caution, whether he be not too hasty about things which were
        better put off to another season, lest evil should overcome him by open attack upon his lusts,
        or even good undo him by the in-bringing of vain glory.
    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 }
