Did your parish shorten today's second reading?

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Here’s what I saw when I opened my missal today…

Second Reading
Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5.2a, 25-32

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians

(included bracketed text for Long Form and text in parentheses for Short Form only)

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 the 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.] (Live in love, as Christ loved us.) 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, ht 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.

Did they read the entire reading at your parish? I’m curious as to how many churches decided to avoid the topic by rending the verse in two. I was happy that we read the entire verse in ours and the homily talked about it. I don’t like the idea of removing a verse just because a verbal contingent don’t like what it says!
 
That’s so funny, I came over here from your blog to see if you’d posed the question, and indeed you have. 😉

I’m very interested in seeing what happened with this reading today in others’ parishes as well.
 
nope, and visiting priest gave a great homily on marriage based on the comparison Paul makes with marriage and the Eucharist. perfect segue to our confirmation class topic today–marriage. discussion was lively to say the least
 
Did not even hear the short one. Readings today:

Epistle: 2 Cor: 3: 4-9
Gospel: Lk: 10 23-37
 
Nope. Our priest (brilliant, superb homilist) pointed out that he chose the longer version, and spoke about “hard truths” that the Church teaches (that reading, artificial birth control, abortion, indissolubility of sacramental marriage, no Communion for non-Catholic Christians.) He also stressed the parallel between the marriage relationship and that of Christ with His Church.
 
We got the long form. As long as you understand its the Bible listeners should have no trouble with the reading.

PRAISE THE LORD!

GER
 
We also heard the longer form–we almost always do–but please remember that the shorter form is a legitmate option and that a priest might choose it for reasons other than “avoiding the topic”.
 
Today was our little parish’s 125th anniversary jubilee mass, and we had the entire length of all the readings of the day.

Archbishop Chaput gave a wonderful sermon which tied in the celebration of one of the oldest parishes in Colorado with all three readings. I’d never heard him speak before, and he was wonderfullly engaging, using both humor and participation throughout his sermon.

My only thought, as a single woman, was, “Good thing I’m not married so I don’t have to submit to anyone!” 😛 But then His Emminence pointed out we are all called to be subordinate to one another, and that husbands really bear the brunt of the call because they are called to sacrifice themselves for their wives as Christ sacrificed Himself for His bride, the Church. “Great,” I thought, “now none of the very few single men in this parish will be open to courtship and marriage!” 😃

Seriously, I love this reading, and I was so glad it fell on the one day that, if anyone might have tried to shorten or change the readings, the Archbishop’s visit demanded that the readings remain – and we were priveleged to hear his sermon on them!

I do pray that other pastors were able to use these readings, in their fullness, to call the faithful to deeper love and service of Christ in one another.

Gertie
 
:sad_yes: Yep.

And after Mass I made clucking sounds and called my pastor a chicken to his face. 😛 (We are close enough that I can do that and get a chuckle out of him). Then I told him: “I’d stay and chat longer, but I have to go now and lay down my life for my bride – Lord knows what I get out of the deal though!”

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:sad_yes: Yep.

And after Mass I made clucking sounds and called my pastor a chicken to his face. 😛 (We are close enough that I can do that and get a chuckle out of him). Then I told him: “I’d stay and chat longer, but I have to go now and lay down my life for my bride – Lord knows what I get out of the deal though!”

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Archbishop Chaput did mention that most priests dread when this reading comes around because they don’t want to have to preach on this topic. 😃 I’m sure our pastor was glad it fell on this Sunday so the Archbishop could do the “dirty work.”
 
We got the long form at Saturday vigil mass. The priest, at the beginning of the homily, made a point of mentioning that he simply forgot to tell the lector to do the short version, and it would be corrected at the Sunday masses.
 
We don’t have a second reading. The epistle was taken from II Corinthians 3: 4-9.

Had that been the Epistle for today, however, it would not have been shortened. 😉
 
We had a visiting priest tonight from the Jesuits (a wise holy man) who used the full text and then preached on it. He said that we believe this is the Word of the Lord, but so many people refuse to belief or accept what Saint Paul wrote, but we must accept it with faith etc.
 
My parish used the longer reading. My associate usually prefers the longer one as opposed to the shorter one.
 
I was pleasantly surprised that our parish did not use the “shorter” version. And it appears, based on the comments posted thus far, that most other parishes did as well.👍

I also thought that our young priest did a masterful job tying all the readings together today. So did many others at my Church, as evidenced by some people clapping at the end of the homily. That raises another pet peeve of mine, the clapping after a homily, which makes it like we are going to mass to be entertained. On the other hand, I think many people that clap, are actually clapping to encourage the priest to continue to preach on the “difficult” issues.
 
🙂 Our parish had the fullness of the long form in it’s entirety . . . and our wonderful priest shared a homily much like the one described above that Denver Archbishop Chaput preached . . . Father acknowledged that in this day and age there are those who would like to just . . . disregard . . . God’s holy wisdom . . . shared in this passage by the Blessed St. Paul . . . but then went on to explore the fact that truly successful relationships . . . particularly in the depth of the relationship of marriage . . . always . . . involve subordination/submission in all humility . . . one to another . . . in varying degrees . . . The homily was reverently and prayerfully received by the congregation . . . with occassional good natured laughter as our pastor humorously shared some illustrations . . . It was such a blessing . . and Father went into some depth about husbands loving their wives . . . and how domination, abuse, callousness, bossyness, etc. are not actions of love . . . All in all it was a super dialogue . . . *God bless him . . . and may God bless . . . **all *. . . the wonderful priests who didn’t give in to worldly pressures . . . .

*It’s been lovely reading all the affirmative answers above . . . *

When we have this Ephesians 5:21-32 portion of **Sacred :bible1: Scripture my heart tends also to embrace the portion of Scripture **below . . .
:bible1: The Holy Bible
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Matthew 20:26-28
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And after eight days again **his **disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold **my **hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
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. . . all for Jesus+
. . . thank you Holy Mother Church+​
 
(I’m not fully sure why this is in the Traditional forum since it deals with the NO/OF…)

As it happened I attended 5 Masses that dealt with the Sunday readings [more strictly speaking 2, and was around for 3 more, so I heard the homilies]. The longer reading was read for all. All were on marriage, tied to the Gospel idea of “hard teaching”, and some tied in the Eucharist.

Homily 1 was given by a priest who usually preaches “simply and doctrinally”. Therefore, we were reminded that (1) Catholics should get married in the church (2) civil marriages are devoid of blessings (3) there is no divorce (4) remarried people, or “two timers” very sadly can’t come for Communion (5) general advice on family life

Homily 2 was again on the onemarriage- nodivorce-marryintheChurch track except that this particular priest is less fluent in conversational English and so usually reads from a sermon that has been checked by someone. Unfortunately, he decided to depart at some points for emphasis, and got a little mixed up with thw words “husband” and “wife” throughout the homily. Thus I was stifling giggles at very impassioned, arm waving statements like “Why is society no seeing God’s grace? Because we have lost appreciation for the faithfulness in one marriage. One marriage ONLY. It is God’s want that the pure conjugal love should be shared in the sanctity of the marriage bond between a man and his husband”. 😃

Homily 3 was directly on the Ephesians wifely submission and loving husbands. The pastor preaches in a very frank and funny manner, though personally I don’t think the sermon would have convinced any feminists.

Homily 4 was on fidelity within marriage, to the Church, and to God, and that was tied in to the Eucharist.
 
Long reading… then the priest used it as a soap box to tell us all how this no longer applies because we don’t live in a patriarchal society anymore, and that the church should no longer be patriarchal either, and we should have women deacons/priests/bishops/popes. I got up and walked out as soon as my daughter got back from the children’s liturgy.
 
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