Monday, January 4, 2027

Douay-Rheims: 1 John 3:22-24; 4:1-6

^3:22And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us. ²⁴And he that keepeth his commandments, abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

^4:1Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. ²By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God: ³And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world. ⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. ⁵They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them. ⁶We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 2:7-8, 10-13

⁷The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. ⁸Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

¹⁰And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth. ¹¹Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling. ¹²Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. ¹³When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25

¹²And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee: ¹³And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim; ¹⁴That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet: ¹⁵Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: ¹⁶The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up. ¹⁷From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

²³And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people. ²⁴And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had palsy, and he cured them: ²⁵And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.