Sunday, February 7, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Job 7:1-4, 6-7

¹The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. ²As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work; ³So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. ⁴If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

⁶My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. ⁷Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 146:1-6 (Psalm 147 at Mass)

¹Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise. ²The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel. ³Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises. ⁴Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. ⁵Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number. ⁶The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

Douay-Rheims: 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23

¹⁶For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. ¹⁷For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me: ¹⁸What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. ¹⁹For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

²²To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all. ²³And I do all things for the gospel’s sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.

Douay-Rheims: Mark 1:29-39

²⁹And immediately going out of the synagogue they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. ³⁰And Simon’s wife’s mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her. ³¹And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. ³²And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all that were ill and that were possessed with devils. ³³And all the city was gathered together at the door. ³⁴And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases; and he cast out many devils, and he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him. ³⁵And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed. ³⁶And Simon, and they that were with him, followed after him. ³⁷And when they had found him, they said to him: All seek for thee. ³⁸And he saith to them: Let us go into the neighbouring towns and cities, that I may preach there also; for to this purpose am I come. ³⁹And he was preaching in their synagogues, and in all Galilee, and casting out devils.