Tuesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. ²²Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: ²³Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: ²⁶That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any; such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish. ²⁸So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. ²⁹For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: ³⁰Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. ³²This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church. ³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

¹Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. ²For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. ³Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. ⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. ⁵May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

℟ Blessed are all they that fear the Lord.

He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it? ¹⁹It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof. ²⁰And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like? ²¹It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.