Friday, February 26, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28

³Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. ⁴And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

¹²And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father’s flocks, ¹³Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

¹⁷And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain. ¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him. ¹⁹And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh. ²⁰Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him: ²¹And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said: ²²Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father. ²³And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours: ²⁴And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water. ²⁵And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. ²⁶And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? ²⁷It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words. ²⁸And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 104:16-21 (Psalm 105 at Mass)

¹⁶And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. ¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. ¹⁸They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, ¹⁹Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. ²⁰The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty. ²¹He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46

³³Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country. ³⁴And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. ³⁵And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them in like manner. ³⁷And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son. ³⁸But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. ³⁹And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen? ⁴¹They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit in due season. ⁴²Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes. ⁴³Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

⁴⁵And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them. ⁴⁶And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.