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Bringing the Joy of the Gospel, the King and his Kingdom to Others, 14th Sunday (C), July 6, 2025


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Msgr. Roger J. Landry

Vincentian Seminary, Krakow, Poland
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
July 6, 2025
Is 66:10-14, Ps 66, Gal 6:14-18, Lk 11:1-12.17-20

 

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The following points were attempted:

  • Jesus’ call of 72 “others” (beyond the apostles) and the importance of recognizing that as we pray to the Harvest Master, we’re praying for ourselves to be those harvesters, just like the Church has been praying for us all the way back to today’s Gospel scene.
  • The link between the Gospel and the other readings is joy. We go to God to receive joy, just like through the Prophet Isaiah God encouraged them to come to receive, even to be breastfed, with delight in Jerusalem. Then, as prayed in the Psalm, we’re summoned to go out to all the world to let the whole world cry out to God with joy. The mission of the Church, the harvest, the proclamation of the Gospel to the ends of the earth, is a proclamation of joy.
  • Joy is the interpretive key for the missionary instructions Jesus gives in the Gospel.
  • Joy is the way St. Paul responded to his being crucified with Christ and why he boasted it, because he was able to make up what was lacking in himself of Christ’s sufferings for the sake of his body the Church.
  • Joy is what St. Maria Goretti had with regard to the Church’s teachings on chastity and purity, for which she was murdered 123 years ago today. Joy is what she sought to bring to her murdered, Alessandro Serenelli, and then what he brought to her mother, Assunta, they brought to their parish, he brought to the Capuchin order and they brought to the whole world, being present together at her canonization 75 years ago, the first outdoor canonization in St. Peter’s Square in the history of the Church.
  • We come to Mass to be renewed in joy, as Jesus nurses us with maternal love with the word of God and the word made flesh, both of which he wants to give us so that his joy may be in us and our joy perfected. Then he wants to bless us at the end of the Mass so that we may go and announce the Gospel of the Lord, bringing this joy, his joy, our joy, to the whole world.
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    The readings for this Mass were: 

    Reading 1
    Isaiah 66:10-14c

    Thus says the LORD:

    Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,
    all you who love her;
    exult, exult with her,
    all you who were mourning over her!
    Oh, that you may suck fully
    of the milk of her comfort,
    that you may nurse with delight
    at her abundant breasts!
    For thus says the LORD:
    Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river,
    and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent.
    As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms,
    and fondled in her lap;
    as a mother comforts her child,
    so will I comfort you;
    in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.

    When you see this, your heart shall rejoice

    and your bodies flourish like the grass;
    the LORD’s power shall be known to his servants.

    Responsorial Psalm
    Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20

    R. (1) Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

    Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
    sing praise to the glory of his name;
    proclaim his glorious praise.
    Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
    “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you,
    sing praise to your name!”
    Come and see the works of God,
    his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
    He has changed the sea into dry land;
    through the river they passed on foot;
    therefore let us rejoice in him.
    He rules by his might forever.
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
    Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
    what he has done for me.
    Blessed be God who refused me not
    my prayer or his kindness!
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

    Reading 2
    Galatians 6:14-18

    Brothers and sisters:

    May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
    through which the world has been crucified to me,
    and I to the world.
    For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision,
    but only a new creation.
    Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule
    and to the Israel of God.

    From now on, let no one make troubles for me;

    for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,

    brothers and sisters. Amen.

    Alleluia
    Colossians 3:15a, 16a

    R. Alleluia, alleluia.

    Let the peace of Christ control your hearts;
    let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
    R. Alleluia, alleluia.

    Gospel
    Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 

    At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others

    whom he sent ahead of him in pairs
    to every town and place he intended to visit.
    He said to them,
    “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
    so ask the master of the harvest
    to send out laborers for his harvest.
    Go on your way;
    behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
    Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;
    and greet no one along the way.
    Into whatever house you enter, first say,
    ‘Peace to this household.’
    If a peaceful person lives there,
    your peace will rest on him;
    but if not, it will return to you.
    Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you,
    for the laborer deserves his payment.
    Do not move about from one house to another.
    Whatever town you enter and they welcome you,
    eat what is set before you,
    cure the sick in it and say to them,
    ‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
    Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you,
    go out into the streets and say,
    ‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet,
    even that we shake off against you.’
    Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
    I tell you,
    it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.”

    The seventy-two returned rejoicing, and said,

    “Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.”
    Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
    Behold, I have given you the power to ‘tread upon serpents’ and  scorpions
    and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.
    Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you,
    but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

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