Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Eph 5:21-33
Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the Church, He Himself the Savior of the Body. As the Church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and handed Himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the Church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the Church, because we are members of His Body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church. In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 (R. 1a)
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
who walk in His ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored. R.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
Your children like olive plants
around your table. R.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life. R.
Gospel – Lk 13:18-21
Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Again He said, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.”
Featured Saints
St. John Houghton, priest and martyr (†1535). As Carthusian Prior of the Charterhouse of London, he was the first man to refuse to sign the Act of Supremacy which recognized King Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church in England, becoming the Protomartyr of the English Reformation, executed at Tyburn.
St. Gaudentius, bishop (†circa 410). Bishop of Brescia, ordained by St. Ambrose.
St. Bernard Calbó, bishop(†1243). Cistercian Abbot of the Monastery of Santes Creus, he was later elected Bishop of Vic, Spain
St. Anthony of St. Anne Galvão, priest (†1822 São Paulo).
St. Fructos, eremita (†715). From a noble Spanish family, he distributed his goods among he poor and took up his abode on a riverbank escarpment, where he lived as a hermit.
Blessed Thaddeus Machar, bishop (†1492). Irish noble, elected Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, he was obliged to leave his homeland due to hostility from those in power. He died in Borgo Sant’Antonio, Italy, during a trip to Rome.
Blessed Recaredo Centelles Abad, priest and martyr (†1936). Member of the Diocesan Confraternity of Worker Priests. During the anti-Catholic persecution of the Spanish Civil War, he was shot at the gates of the cemetery of Nules, Spain.
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