Saturday, July 24, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Exodus 24:3-8

³So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. ⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord. ⁶Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the rest he poured upon the altar. ⁷And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken we will do, we will be obedient. ⁸And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 49:1-2, 5-6, 14-15 (Psalm 50 at Mass)

¹The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof: ²Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

⁵Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices. ⁶And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 13:24-30

²⁴Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. ²⁵But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. ²⁶And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. ²⁷And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? ²⁸And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? ²⁹And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. ³⁰Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.