Tuesday, May 11, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Acts 20:17-27

¹⁷And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of the church. ¹⁸And when they were come to him, and were together, he said to them: You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner I have been with you, for all the time, ¹⁹Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews; ²⁰How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, ²¹Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. ²²And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which shall befall me there: ²³Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. ²⁴But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. ²⁵And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. ²⁶Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all men; ²⁷For I have not spared to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 67:10-11, 20-21 (Psalm 68 at Mass)

¹⁰Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect. ¹¹In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

²⁰Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us. ²¹Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Douay-Rheims: John 17:1-11

¹These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. ²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. ³Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ⁴I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee. ⁶I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; and they have kept thy word. ⁷Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee: ⁸Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. ⁹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine: ¹⁰And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. ¹¹And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.