Tuesday, April 13, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Acts 7:51-59

⁵¹You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also. ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers: ⁵³Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. ⁵⁴Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him. ⁵⁵But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. ⁵⁶And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him. ⁵⁷And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul. ⁵⁸And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁵⁹And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 30:3-4, 6-8, 17, 21 (Psalm 31 at Mass)

³Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me. ⁴For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

⁶Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth. ⁷Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord: ⁸I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

¹⁷Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

²¹Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Douay-Rheims: John 6:30-35

³⁰They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew, that we may see, and may believe thee? What dost thou work? ³¹Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. ³²Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world. ³⁴They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread. ³⁵And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.