Saturday, July 12, 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
Sunday, July 13 // Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday, July 14 // Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States]
Tuesday, July 15 // Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Wednesday, July 16 // Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Friday, July 18 // Optional Memorial of Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest [In the Dioceses of the United States]
Letter from the Editor //
Dear Sister,
The Readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time draw us into a truth about our very existence. Saint Paul writes to us that “Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God” and that with “all things” we were created “through him and for him” (Colossians 1:15, 16). Each of us was created to “love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27). This may seem hard to do, but the Psalmist tells us that “The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing to the soul” (Psalm 19:9). Only in following His law of love will we be who He wants us to be.
The Lord is not far away from us, nor do we have to seek the grace to follow Him “up in the sky” or “across the sea” (Deuteronomy 30:12, 13). No, sister, He and His Word are “very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts” (Deuteronomy 30:14). The call to follow Him is always before us. Like the Good Samaritan who saw the need of his neighbor and “treated him with mercy” (Luke 10:37), we are given the call to love our neighbor as ourselves every single day. The Lord is just waiting for us to say yes to His love and then with His help we will “have only to carry it out” in our daily lives (Deuteronomy 30:14). For this we were made.
In Christ’s Love,
Susanna
Read the Readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
First Reading // Deuteronomy 30:10-14
Responsorial Psalm // Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11 (2nd Option)
Second Reading // Colossians 1:15-20
Gospel // Luke 10:25-37
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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