Monday, February 1, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 11:32-40

³²And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: ³³Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners: ³⁵Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. ³⁶And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons. ³⁷They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: ³⁸Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth. ³⁹And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise; ⁴⁰God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 30:20-24 (Psalm 31 at Mass)

²⁰O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men. ²¹Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues. ²²Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city. ²³But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee. ²⁴O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

Douay-Rheims: Mark 5:1-20

¹And they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens. ²And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit, ³Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. ⁴For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him. ⁵And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones. ⁶And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him. ⁷And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not. ⁸For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit. ⁹And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many. ¹⁰And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country. ¹¹And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding. ¹²And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. ¹³And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea. ¹⁴And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done: ¹⁵And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid. ¹⁶And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine. ¹⁷And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts. ¹⁸And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him. ¹⁹And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had mercy on thee. ²⁰And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.