# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, 2026-12-08, clean year.
id: lauds-capitulum-immaculate-conception
text:
  la: "Ab inítio et ante sǽcula creáta sum, et usque ad futúrum sǽculum non désinam, et in habitatióne sancta coram ipso ministrávi."
  en: "From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him."
citation:
  la: "Sir 24:14"
  en: "Sir 24:14"
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified