Sunday, August 22, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Josue 24:1-2, 15-18

¹And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes, and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord: ²And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.

¹⁵But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. ¹⁶And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods. ¹⁷The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed. ¹⁸And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 33:2-3, 16-21 (Psalm 34 at Mass)

²I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth. ³In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

¹⁶The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers. ¹⁷But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. ¹⁸The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles. ¹⁹The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit. ²⁰Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them. ²¹The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

Douay-Rheims: Ephesians 5:21-32

The shorter form is Ephesians 5:2, 25-32.

²¹Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. ²²Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: ²³Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: ²⁶That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any; such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish. ²⁸So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. ²⁹For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: ³⁰Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. ³²This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.

Douay-Rheims: John 6:61-70

⁶¹Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it? ⁶²But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? ⁶³If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? ⁶⁴It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life. ⁶⁵But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him. ⁶⁶And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father. ⁶⁷After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him. ⁶⁸Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? ⁶⁹And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. ⁷⁰And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.