FIRST
READING: Ephesians
5: 21 - 33
21
Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the
church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24
As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in
everything to their husbands.
25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her,
26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word,
27
that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot
or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without
blemish.
28
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself.
29
For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
as Christ does the church,
30
because we are members of his body.
31
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
32
This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to
Christ and the church;
33
however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the
wife see that she respects her husband.
PSALM:
Psalms 128:
1 - 5
1
Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!
2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be
happy, and it shall be well with you.
3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your
children will be like olive shoots around your table.
4
Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.
5
The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life!
GOSPEL:
Luke 13:
18 - 21
18
He said therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what
shall I compare it?
19
It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his
garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made
nests in its branches."
20
And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
21
It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of
flour, till it was all leavened."
