Tuesday, December 7, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 40:1-11

¹Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. ²Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. ³The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. ⁴Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. ⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. ⁶The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. ⁷The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: ⁸The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever. ⁹Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God: ¹⁰Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him. ¹¹He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 95:1-3, 10-13 (Psalm 96 at Mass)

¹Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth. ²Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day. ³Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.

¹⁰Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice. ¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: ¹²The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice ¹³Before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 18:12-14

¹²What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray? ¹³And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. ¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.