Monday, August 9, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Deuteronomy 10:12-22

¹²And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: ¹³And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee? ¹⁴Behold heaven is the Lord’s thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein. ¹⁵And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved. ¹⁶Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more. ¹⁷Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes. ¹⁸He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment. ¹⁹And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²⁰Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name. ²¹He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen. ²²In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 147:1-4, 8-9

¹Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. ²Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. ³Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. ⁴Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

⁸Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. ⁹He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 17:21-26

²¹And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: ²²And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. And they were troubled exceedingly. ²³And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the didrachmas, came to Peter and said to him: Doth not your master pay the didrachmas? ²⁴He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom? of their own children, or of strangers? ²⁵And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free. ²⁶But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.