Sunday, April 11, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19

¹³The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. ¹⁴But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. ¹⁵But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

¹⁷And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance, as did also your rulers. ¹⁸But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. ¹⁹Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 4:2, 4, 6-10

²When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

⁴Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

⁶Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things? ⁷The light of thy countenance O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart. ⁸By the fruit of their corn, their wine and oil, they are multiplied. ⁹In peace in the selfsame I will sleep, and I will rest: ¹⁰For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

Douay-Rheims: 1 John 2:1-5

¹My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just: ²And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. ³And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.

Douay-Rheims: Luke 24:35-48

³⁵And they told what things were done in the way; and how they knew him in the breaking of the bread. ³⁶Now whilst they were speaking these things, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and saith to them: Peace be to you; it is I, fear not. ³⁷But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a spirit. ³⁸And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? ³⁹See my hands and feet, that it is I myself; handle, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have. ⁴⁰And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet. ⁴¹But while they yet believed not, and wondered for joy, he said: Have you any thing to eat? ⁴²And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish, and a honeycomb. ⁴³And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave to them. ⁴⁴And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. ⁴⁵Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day: ⁴⁷And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸And you are witnesses of these things.