Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Also Read: Mass Readings for 13 July 2025
First Reading: Deuteronomy 30: 10-14
“If you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law, turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” (v.10)
The passage today reminds us that we have to keep the Lord’s commandments! The preceding verse explains the reason for the same. “Then the Lord, your God, will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. “The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors.” (v.9) To know the commandments, we must read his words regularly! The author says that it is not too difficult, because the Lord’s words are in our hearts and our mouths! (v.14)
Let us remain committed to reading and meditating on scripture regularly. Let us realign our hearts and reassign our schedules so that we remain in the Word of the Lord, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 69: 14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37
I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves. (30-31)
Alleluia!
How great is the Lord our God! He doesn’t need our ox or bull, but it’s only our song of Thanksgiving that pleases HIM, Amen! Alleluia!
Second Reading: Colossians 1: 15-20
He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him. (18-19)
Today’s short passage is packed with the most important teachings of the Christian faith! Some of them include:” Christ Jesus is the head, and we are the body of HIS Church!” God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him!
In this catechism lesson we can understand that the Lord Jesus Christ is our head and we His Body! God’s fullness dwelt in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Let us thank the Lord for his mercy on us because he reconciled all things to himself through the blood and death of Jesus, His Son! We ask the Lord to grant us the grace to live worthily of this great privilege. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Alleluia: John 6: 63c, 68c
Alleluia, Alleluia! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 10: 25-37
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (27)
The whole catechism is summed up in these two commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ! The first 3 commandments of the Old Testament (Ex. 20) correspond to: ‘Love the Lord your God…’ While the rest of the commandments correspond to: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
In sharing the ‘Good Samaritan story’, Jesus teaches us that a neighbor is anyone in need! If we are to care for the needy around us, we will need to be open to acknowledging them! Not everyone needs us! But we need to allow the Holy Spirit to help us discern the needs of those around us. We are to surrender ourselves, our means, our time to the Lord, for he is the only one who really knows the needs of others!
Let us humble ourselves to serve the Lord who is present among our brethren! Let us rejoice while we serve HIM. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
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