Tuesday of the 30th 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 hurch, 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. 21a)
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.death. 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. Evaristus, Pope (†108). He led the Roman Church, as fourth successor of St. Peter, during the time of Emperor Trajan.
St. Gaudiosus, bishop († fifth/ sixth century). Bishop of Abitina, in present-day Tunisia, who, while fleeing persecution of the Vandals, ended his days in a monastery that he had founded in Naples, Italy.
St. Oran of Iona, monk (†sixth century). One of the first disciples of St. Columba, he was Abbot of Meath and worked in the evangelization of Scotland.
Blessed Bartholomew of Braganza, bishop (†1270). Dominican Friar who instituted the Militia of Jesus Christ in Vicenza, Italy, where he was Bishop.
Blessed Salvador Mollar Ventura, martyr (†1936). Franciscan Friar Minor. Martyred for his fidelity during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
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