21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

1And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes, and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord: 2And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.

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15But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. 16And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods. 17The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed. 18And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.

2I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.

3In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

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16The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

17But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

18The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles.

19The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.

20Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

21The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

21Being 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.

60These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum. 61Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it? 62But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? 63If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 64It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life. 65But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him. 66And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father. 67After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him. 68Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? 69And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.