Saturday, June 19, 2027

Douay-Rheims: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

¹If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed), but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. ²I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. ³And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), ⁴That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter. ⁵For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities. ⁶For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. ⁷And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. ⁸For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me. ⁹And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 33:8-13 (Psalm 34 at Mass)

⁸The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them. ⁹O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him. ¹⁰Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. ¹¹The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good. ¹²Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. ¹³Who is the man that desireth life: who loveth to see good days?

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 6:24-34

²⁴No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. ²⁵Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? ²⁶Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? ²⁷And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit? ²⁸And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. ²⁹But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. ³⁰And if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? ³²For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. ³³Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. ³⁴Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.