August 21, 2021

2:1	But there was a man related to Elimelech, a powerful man, and very wealthy, named Boaz.
2:2	And Ruth, the Moabite, said to her mother-in-law, “If you order, I will go into the field and gather the ears of grain which escape the reaping hand, wherever I will find favor with the father of a family, who will be compassionate to me.” She answered her, “Go, my daughter.”
2:3	And so she went and gathered the ears of grain after the completion of the reaping. But it happened that this field was owned by Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

2:8	And Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen to me, daughter. Do not go to gather in any other field, nor depart from this place, but join with my young women,
2:9	and follow where they reap. For I given orders to my young men, so that no one is to harass you. And so, whenever you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from the waters that the young men also drink.”
2:10	She, falling on her face and paying homage on the ground, said to him: “How did this happen to me, that I should find favor before your eyes, and that you would condescend to accept me, a foreign woman?”
2:11	He answered her, “Everything has been reported to me, what things you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you left your parents, and the land in which you were born, and came to a people you did not know before.

4:13	And so Boaz took Ruth, and received her as his wife, and he went in to her, and the Lord granted to her to conceive and bear a son.
4:14	And the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not permitted your family to be without a successor, and may his name be called upon in Israel.
4:15	And now you may have someone to comfort your soul and to care for you in old age, for he is born of your daughter-in-law, who loves you, and this is much better for you, than if you had seven sons.”
4:16	And taking up the boy, Naomi placed him on her bosom, and she took on the duties of carrying him and nursing him.
4:17	And the women of the near future were congratulating her and saying, “There was a son born to Naomi. They called his name Obed. Here is the father of Jesse, the father of David.”

23:1	Then Jesus spoke to the crowds, and to his disciples,
23:2	saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in the chair of Moses.
23:3	Therefore, all things whatsoever that they shall say to you, observe and do. Yet truly, do not choose to act according to their works. For they say, but they do not do.
23:4	For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men’s shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own.
23:5	Truly, they do all their works so that they may be seen by men. For they enlarge their phylacteries and glorify their hems.
23:6	And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
23:7	and greetings in the marketplace, and to be called Master by men.
23:8	But you must not be called Master. For One is your Master, and you are all brothers.
23:9	And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.
23:10	Neither should you be called teachers. For One is your Teacher, the Christ.
23:11	Whoever is greater among you shall be your minister.
23:12	But whoever has exalted himself, shall be humbled. And whoever has humbled himself, shall be exalted.