Wednesday, April 28, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Acts 15:1-6

¹And some coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. ²And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of the other side, should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem about this question. ³They therefore being brought on their way by the church, passed through Phenice, and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. ⁴And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God had done with them. ⁵But there arose some of the sect of the Pharisees that believed, saying: They must be circumcised, and be commanded to observe the law of Moses. ⁶And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 121:1-5 (Psalm 122 at Mass)

¹I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord. ²Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem. ³Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together. ⁴For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord. ⁵Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

Douay-Rheims: John 15:1-8

¹I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. ²Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. ⁶If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth. ⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. ⁸In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.