Wednesday, February 24, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Jeremias 18:18-20

¹⁸And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. ¹⁹Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. ²⁰Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 30:5-6, 14-16 (Psalm 31 at Mass)

⁵Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector. ⁶Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

¹⁴For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life. ¹⁵But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God. ¹⁶My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 20:17-28

¹⁷And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them: ¹⁸Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death. ¹⁹And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again. ²⁰Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. ²¹Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. ²²And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. ²³He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father. ²⁴And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren. ²⁵But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them. ²⁶It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister: ²⁷And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant. ²⁸Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.