Tuesday, February 23, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 1:10, 16-20

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

¹⁶Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, ¹⁷Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. ¹⁸And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. ¹⁹If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. ²⁰But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 49:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23 (Psalm 50 at Mass)

⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. ⁹I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

¹⁶But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? ¹⁷Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

²¹These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

²³The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 23:1-12

¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, ²Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. ³All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. ⁴For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. ⁵And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes. ⁶And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues, ⁷And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. ⁸But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren. ⁹And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. ¹¹He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. ¹²And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.