Saturday in the First Week of September

If today be a Feria, the Collect is taken from the preceding Sunday as given in the Ordo.    At Vespers, however, the Collect is taken from the following Sunday.

Matins

De libro Job

The Lesson is taken from
the Book of Job

Milítia est vita hóminis super terram, et sicut dies mercenárii, dies ejus.  Sicut servus desíderat umbram, et sicut mercenárius præstolátur finem óperis sui, sic et ego hábui menses vácuos et noctes laboriósas enumerávi mihi.  Si dormíero, dicam : Quando consúrgam?  Et rursum exspectábo vésperam, et replébor dolóribus usque ad ténebras.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Quis mihi tríbuat, ut in inférno prótegas me et abscóndas me, donec pertránseat furor tuus, Dómine, nisi tu, qui solus es Deus? * Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?
V.  Numquid sicut dies hóminis dies tui, ut quæras iniquitátem meam ; cum sit nemo, qui de manu tua possit erúere.
R.  Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?

R.  O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave!  O that thou wouldest keep me secret there, until thy wrath be past! * O that thou wouldest appoint me a set time wherein to remember me!
V.  Are thy days as the days of man, that thou must needs enquire after mine iniquity and search after my sin? behold, there is none that can deliver me out of thine hand!
R.  O that thou wouldest appoint me a set time wherein to remember me!

Indúta est caro mea putrédine, et sórdibus púlveris cutis mea áruit et contrácta est.  Dies mei velócius transiérunt quam a texénte tela succíditur, et consúmpti sunt absque ulla spe.  Meménto quia ventus est vita mea, et non revertétur óculus meus ut vídeat bona.  Nec aspíciet me visus hóminis ; óculi tui in me, et non subsístam.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.  My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.  O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Utinam appenderéntur peccáta mea, quibus iram mérui, * Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.
V.  Quasi aréna maris hæc grávior apparéret, unde et verba mea dolóre sunt plena.
R.  Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.

R.  O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath,  *  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.
V.  For these same would be heavier than all the sands of the sea, therefore also my words are full of sorrow.
R.  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.

In Feastdays of Simple rank and in the Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath :

V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.

And on such Feastdays of Simple rank, the Third Lesson is read according to the Proper.  In the Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath, the Third Lesson is read according to the month of the year.

Proper Third Lesson

Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath

Sicut consúmitur nubes et pertránsit, sic qui descénderit ad ínferos non ascéndet ; nec revertétur ultra in domum suam, neque cognóscet eum ámplius locus ejus.  Quaprópter et ego non parcam ori meo; loquar in tribulatióne spíritus mei, confabulábor cum amaritúdine ánimæ meæ.  Numquid mare ego sum aut cetus, quia circumdedísti me cárcere?

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.  He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.  Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.  Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Quare detraxístis sermónibus veritátis? ad increpándum verba compónitis et subvértere nitímini amícum vestrum : * Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.
V.  Quod justum est, judicáte ; et non inveniétis in lingua mea iniquitátem.
R.  Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.

R.  Why do ye argue against the words of truth?  Do ye imagine words to reprove me? and strive to confound one that is your friend? * Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.
V.  Judge that which is just, and ye shall find no iniquity in my tongue.
R.  Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.

The Office of Matins ends after the Third Respond.  The Te Deum is not said, and Lauds normally follows immediately, beginning with the Opening Versicles.  Otherwise, the Conclusion of Matins is read, according to the Rubrics.

Conclusion of Matins
 

After the conclusion of the First Nocturn, the Second Nocturn is begun according to the current weekday.

Second Nocturn