Sunday, December 19, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Micheas 5:2-5

²AND THOU, BETHLEHEM Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda: out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity. ³Therefore will he give them up even till the time wherein she that travaileth shall bring forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be converted to the children of Israel. ⁴And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the height of the name of the Lord his God: and they shall be converted, for now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth. ⁵And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 79:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 (Psalm 80 at Mass)

²Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth ³Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

¹⁵Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard: ¹⁶And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁸Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. ¹⁹And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 10:5-10

⁵Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me: ⁶Holocausts for sin did not please thee. ⁷Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God. ⁸In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law. ⁹Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth. ¹⁰In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Douay-Rheims: Luke 1:39-45

³⁹And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. ⁴⁰And she entered into the house of Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth. ⁴¹And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: ⁴²And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. ⁴³And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. ⁴⁵And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.