Mass Reading and Gospel - October 25, 2022

 

Ordinary Weekday

 

First Reading:

Ephesians 5: 21-33

 

Responsorial Psalm:

Psalms 128: 1-2, 3, 4-5

 

Alleluia:

Matthew 11: 25

 

Gospel:

Luke 13: 18-21

 

First Reading:

Ephesians 5: 21-33

 

21 Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

 

22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

 

23 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

 

24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

 

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

 

26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

 

27 That 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.

 

28 So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife, loves himself.

 

29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourished and cherished it, as also Christ doth the church:

 

30 Because we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

 

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

 

32 This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.

 

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

 

Responsorial Psalm:

Psalms 128: 1-2, 3, 4-5

 

R. (1a) Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

 

1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

 

R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

 

3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.

 

R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

 

4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

 

5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

 

R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

 

Alleluia:

Matthew 11: 25

 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

 

25 Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; You have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.

 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

 

Gospel:

Luke 13: 18-21

 

18 He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?

 

19 It 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.

 

20 And again He said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like?

 

21 It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.