Saturday, August 21, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17

^2:1Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very rich, whose name was Booz. ²And Ruth the Moabitess said to her mother in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter. ³She went therefore and gleaned the ears of corn after the reapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

⁸And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in any other field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my maids, ⁹And follow where they reap. For I have charged my young men, not to molest thee: and if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of the waters whereof the servants drink. ¹⁰She fell on her face and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me a woman of another country? ¹¹And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done to thy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast left thy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

^4:13Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive and to bear a son. ¹⁴And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffered thy family to want a successor, that his name should be preserved in Israel. ¹⁵And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons. ¹⁶And Noemi taking the child laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it. ¹⁷And the women her neighbours, congratulating with her and saying: There is a son born to Noemi: called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.

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 23:1-12

¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, ²Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. ³All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. ⁴For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. ⁵And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes. ⁶And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues, ⁷And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. ⁸But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren. ⁹And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. ¹¹He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. ¹²And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.