Thursday, July 22, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Canticle of Canticles 3:1-4

¹In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not. ²I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not. ³The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth? ⁴When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 62:2-6, 8-9 (Psalm 63 at Mass)

²O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! ³In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory. ⁴For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips shall praise. ⁵Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands. ⁶Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

⁸Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: ⁹My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.

Douay-Rheims: John 20:1-2, 11-18

¹And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. ²She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

¹¹But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, ¹²And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. ¹³They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord; and I know not where they have laid him. ¹⁴When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing; and she knew not that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, thinking it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master). ¹⁷Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God. ¹⁸Mary Magdalen cometh, and telleth the disciples: I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me.