Tuesday, January 5, 2027

Douay-Rheims: 1 John 4:7-10

⁷Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. ⁹By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. ¹⁰In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 71:2-4, 7-8 (Psalm 72 at Mass)

²Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. ³Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. ⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.

⁷In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. ⁸And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Douay-Rheims: Mark 6:34-44

³⁴And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. ³⁵And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: ³⁶Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat. ³⁷And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat. ³⁸And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. ³⁹And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass. ⁴⁰And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. ⁴¹And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all. ⁴²And they all did eat, and had their fill. ⁴³And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes. ⁴⁴And they that did eat, were five thousand men.