Wednesday, October 6, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Jonas 4:1-11

¹And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry: ²And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil. ³And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live. ⁴And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry? ⁵Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city. ⁶And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued), and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy. ⁷But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered. ⁸And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live. ⁹And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death. ¹⁰And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished. ¹¹And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 85:3-6, 9-10 (Psalm 86 at Mass)

³Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. ⁴Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. ⁵For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. ⁶Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

⁹All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name. ¹⁰For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

Douay-Rheims: Luke 11:1-4

¹And it came to pass, that as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. ²And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. ³Give us this day our daily bread. ⁴And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.