Wednesday, December 16, 2026

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 45:6-8, 18, 21-26

⁶That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else: ⁷I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things. ⁸Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

¹⁸For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

²¹Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me. ²²Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other. ²³I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return: ²⁴For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear. ²⁵Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: they shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded. ²⁶In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 84:9-14 (Psalm 85 at Mass)

⁹I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart. ¹⁰Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land. ¹¹Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed. ¹²Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven. ¹³For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit. ¹⁴Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.

Douay-Rheims: Luke 7:18-23

¹⁸And John’s disciples told him of all these things. ¹⁹And John called to him two of his disciples, and sent them to Jesus, saying: Art thou he that art to come; or look we for another? ²⁰And when the men were come unto him, they said: John the Baptist hath sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he that art to come; or look we for another? ²¹(And in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases, and hurts, and evil spirits: and to many that were blind he gave sight.) ²²And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached: ²³And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.