Friday, June 25, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Genesis 17:1, 9-10, 15-22

¹And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

⁹Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations. ¹⁰This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

¹⁵God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara. ¹⁶And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him. ¹⁷Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth? ¹⁸And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee. ¹⁹And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him. ²⁰And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year. ²²And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 127:1-5 (Psalm 128 at Mass)

¹Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. ²For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. ³Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. ⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. ⁵May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 8:1-4

¹And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him: ²And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. ³And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.