Sunday, June 13, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Ezechiel 17:22-24

²²Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain high and eminent. ²³On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof. ²⁴And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 91:2-3, 13-16 (Psalm 92 at Mass)

²It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High. ³To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

¹³The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. ¹⁴They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. ¹⁵They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated, ¹⁶That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Douay-Rheims: 2 Corinthians 5:6-10

⁶Therefore having always confidence, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord. ⁷(For we walk by faith, and not by sight.) ⁸But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord. ⁹And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him. ¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

Douay-Rheims: Mark 4:26-34

²⁶And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, ²⁷And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not. ²⁸For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. ²⁹And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. ³⁰And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it? ³¹It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth: ³²And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof. ³³And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. ³⁴And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.