Monday, March 22, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 42:1-7

¹Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. ²He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad. ³The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. ⁴He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law. ⁵Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon. ⁶I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles: ⁷That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 26:1-3, 13-14 (Psalm 27 at Mass)

¹The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? ²Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen. ³If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.

¹³I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Douay-Rheims: John 12:1-11

¹Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. ²And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him. ³Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. ⁴Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: ⁵Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? ⁶Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein. ⁷Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial. ⁸For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always. ⁹A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also: ¹¹Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.