Sunday, January 17, 2027

Douay-Rheims: 1 Kings 3:3-10, 19

³Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. ⁴And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I. ⁵And he ran to Heli and said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. He said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went and slept. ⁶And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did not call thee, my son: return and sleep. ⁷Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the Lord been revealed to him. ⁸And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up and went to Heli. ⁹And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli understood that the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and slept in his place. ¹⁰And the Lord came and stood: and he called, as he had called the other times: Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.

¹⁹And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 39:2, 4, 7-10 (Psalm 40 at Mass)

²With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

⁴And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.

⁷Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: ⁸Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me ⁹That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart. ¹⁰I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

Douay-Rheims: 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20

¹³Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power. ¹⁵Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. ¹⁸Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. ¹⁹Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? ²⁰For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

Douay-Rheims: John 1:35-42

³⁵The next day again John stood, and two of his disciples. ³⁶And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸And Jesus turning, and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? ³⁹He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed with him that day: now it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard of John, and followed him. ⁴¹He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. ⁴²And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.