Saturday, July 5, 2025
Happy Saturday, friend! We are so excited to share with you what's coming up this week as we all prepare our hearts by praying with readings for Sunday, the day of rest with our Lord.
Live Liturgically // This Week’s Feast Days
Saturday, July 5 // Optional Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal [In the Dioceses of the United States] // Optional Memorial of Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Priest
Sunday, July 6 // Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wednesday, July 9 // Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs
Friday, July 11 // Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot
Letter from the Editor //
Dear Sister,
After all the Sunday Solemnities of June, we find ourselves this first weekend of July on the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. The priest’s green vestments remind us of green fields where the “harvest is abundant but the laborers are few” (Luke 10:2). The Gospel for tomorrow gets at the heart of what this time is about: it is a time to tell those we meet, “The kingdom of God is at hand for you” (Luke 10:9). The Lord wants to bring healing to the world and has chosen us to spread His message of love. He wants us to “declare what he has done for [us]” (Psalm 66:16) so that “all the earth” will “cry out to God with joy” (Psalm 66:2).
When people do not receive His message from us, He does not want us to be discouraged, but to shake the dust from our feet and come back to Him. We cannot do His work without being nourished by Him in the Sacraments and Adoration. We must let Him carry us in His arms and believe His words that “as a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13). Through our suffering with Jesus as we do His work, He will make each of us into “a new creation” (Galatians 6:15). What He calls us to will not always be easy, but no matter what fruit we see of our labors, He tells us to “rejoice because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20).
In Christ’s Love,
Susanna
Read the Readings for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
First Reading // Isaiah 66:10-14c
Psalm // Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20
Second Reading // Galatians 6:14-18
Gospel // Luke 10:1-12, 17-20
Susanna Spencer holds a master's in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and is the Devotions Editor for Blessed is She. She is a freelance writer and editor and a teacher-in-training living with her philosopher husband and four kids in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She loves reading theology, attending beautiful liturgies, cooking delicious food, and casually following baseball. She is the author of the Gospel Studies including Seek His Kingdom: A Meditation on Matthew , Listen to Him: A Meditation on Mark, and Abide in His Love: A Meditation on John. She was narrator for Found: Advent With the Good Shepherd and Rescued: Lent With the Lamb of God and a contributing author and editor for our children’s devotional prayer book, Rise Up. She was the Theological Editor of the Blessed Conversations Studies. Find out more about her here.
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