Today’s first reading teaches us how husbands and wives must love and respect one another in sacred marriage but also more importantly how we must care and love His Church whom He, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ cherishes and loves. Afterall we share a sacred union with Him and One another. For we are One Body in Him.
Therefore we, as Church that is One Body in Him must grow! We must go out into the peripheries bringing shade, comfort, healing, warming the hearts of the faithful.
We must bring the joy of the Gospel far and wide!
The kingdom of God is at hand and all are welcome through Jesus Christ our Lord, so let us then embrace all our brethren into His Kingdom. Amen
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First reading
Ephesians 5:25-33 ·
Give way to one another in obedience to Christ
Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her in water with a form of words, so that when he took her to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless. In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself. A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church, because it is his body – and we are its living parts. For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body. This mystery has many implications; but I am saying it applies to Christ and the Church. To sum up; you too, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself; and let every wife respect her husband.
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Gospel
Luke 13:18-21
The kingdom of God is like the yeast that leavened three measures of flour
Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’
Another thing he said, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’
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