Friday, January 29, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 10:32-39

³²But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. ³³And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. ³⁴For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. ³⁵Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward. ³⁶For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay. ³⁸But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. ³⁹But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 36:3-6, 23-24, 39-40 (Psalm 37 at Mass)

³Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. ⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart. ⁵Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it. ⁶And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

²³With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way. ²⁴When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him.

³⁹But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

Douay-Rheims: Mark 4:26-34

²⁶And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, ²⁷And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not. ²⁸For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. ²⁹And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. ³⁰And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it? ³¹It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth: ³²And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof. ³³And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. ³⁴And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.