Monday, August 23, 2027

Douay-Rheims: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 8-10

¹Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy: to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. ²Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all; making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing, ³Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: ⁴Knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election: ⁵For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

⁸For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia, and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing. ⁹For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God. ¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead,) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 149:1-6, 9

¹Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints. ²Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king. ³Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. ⁴For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation. ⁵The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds. ⁶The high praise of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:

⁹To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 23:13-22

¹³But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. ¹⁴Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. ¹⁵Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. ¹⁶Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor. ¹⁷Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? ¹⁸And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor. ¹⁹Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? ²⁰He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it: ²¹And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth in it. ²²And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.