Wednesday, March 24, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 50:4-9

⁴The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master. ⁵The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. ⁶I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. ⁷The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. ⁸He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me. ⁹Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 68:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34 (Psalm 69 at Mass)

⁸Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. ⁹I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. ¹⁰For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

²¹In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none. ²²And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

³³Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live. ³⁴For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 26:14-25

¹⁴Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, ¹⁵And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him. ¹⁷And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? ¹⁸But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch with my disciples. ¹⁹And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them, and they prepared the pasch. ²⁰But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples. ²¹And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me. ²²And they being very much troubled, began every one to say: Is it I, Lord? ²³But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me. ²⁴The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not been born. ²⁵And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said it.