Capitulum

Wisdom 10:10 describes God's guidance of Jacob, but the liturgy applies it to all confessors. The phrase 'vias rectas' (right paths) recalls Psalm 22's 'paths of righteousness' and Proverbs' 'way of wisdom.' The 'regnum Dei' shown to the just is not merely future reward but present contemplative knowledge - Augustine's 'videre Deum' (seeing God). At Terce, the hour of Pentecost's Spirit-descent, this reading affirms that the confessor's holy life resulted from divine guidance, not human achievement. The same Spirit who led Christ into the wilderness leads his confessors through life's journey.