Saturday, July 10, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Genesis 49:29-31; 50:15-25

^49:29And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, ³⁰Over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in. ³¹There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.

^50:15Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. ¹⁶And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, ¹⁷That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. ¹⁸And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants. ¹⁹And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? ²⁰You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people. ²¹Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly. ²²And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father’s house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasses were born on Joseph’s knees. ²³After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ²⁴And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place: ²⁵And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 104:1-4, 6-7 (Psalm 105 at Mass)

¹Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. ²Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works. ³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. ⁴Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. ⁷He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 10:24-33

²⁴The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord. ²⁵It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the goodman of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? ²⁶Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known. ²⁷That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops. ²⁸And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows. ³²Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. ³³But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.