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The Way of the Good Samaritan, 15th Sunday (C), July 13, 2025


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Msgr. Roger J. Landry

Chapel of the Vincentian Seminary, Krakow, Poland
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
July 13, 2025
Deut 30:1-14, Ps 69, C0l 1:15-20, Lk 10:25-37

 

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The following points were attempted in the homily:

  • The question of the scribe is one of the most important questions that can be asked: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Since he was trying to test Jesus, Jesus flipped the test. He answered correctly about loving God with all we have and loving our neighbor. Jesus, however, emphasized that it’s not enough to know the right answer but we have to act on it: “Do this and you will live.”
  • To justify himself because of, presumably, his own knowledge, he said, “Who is my neighbor?” The question of who was and wasn’t one’s neighbor was important for Jews: as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, many of their rabbis said that they were to love their neighbor and hate their enemy. Jesus would indicate by the Parable of the Good Samaritan that he wanted us to consider everyone as members of our neighborhood.
  • Jesus is the Good Samaritan who when we were ambushed by the evil one going down from the abode of God to the lowest place on earth, causing us to sin, heard our cries, drew near, saved our life and entrusted us to the Church to care for us until his second coming. The Good Samaritan parable is essentially a summons for us to love others as Jesus loved us. “Do this and you will live,” he said at the end.
  • He strengthens us at every Mass precisely to do that.
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    The readings for today’s Mass were:

    Reading 1
    Deuteronomy 30:10-14

    Moses said to the people:

    “If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God,
    and keep his commandments and statutes
    that are written in this book of the law,
    when you return to the LORD, your God,
    with all your heart and all your soul.

    “For this command that I enjoin on you today

    is not too mysterious and remote for you.
    It is not up in the sky, that you should say,
    ‘Who will go up in the sky to get it for us
    and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?’
    Nor is it across the sea, that you should say,
    ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us
    and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?’
    No, it is something very near to you,
    already in your mouths and in your hearts;
    you have only to carry it out.”

    Responsorial Psalm
    Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37

    R. (cf. 33)  Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

    I pray to you, O LORD,
    for the time of your favor, O God!
    In your great kindness answer me
    with your constant help.
    Answer me, O LORD, for bounteous is your kindness:
    in your great mercy turn toward me.
    R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
    I am afflicted and in pain;
    let your saving help, O God, protect me.
    I will praise the name of God in song,
    and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
    R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
    “See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
    you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
    For the LORD hears the poor,
    and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
    R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
    For God will save Zion
    and rebuild the cities of Judah.
    The descendants of his servants shall inherit it,
    and those who love his name shall inhabit it.
    R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

     

    Reading 2
    Colossians 1:15-20

    Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God,

    the firstborn of all creation.
    For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
    the visible and the invisible,
    whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
    all things were created through him and for him.
    He is before all things,
    and in him all things hold together.
    He is the head of the body, the church.
    He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
    that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
    For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
    and through him to reconcile all things for him,
    making peace by the blood of his cross
    through him, whether those on earth or those in heaven.

    Alleluia
    Cf. John 6:63c, 68c

    R. Alleluia, alleluia.

    Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life;
    you have the words of everlasting life.
    R. Alleluia, alleluia.

    Gospel
    Luke 10:25-37

    There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said,

    “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
    Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law?
    How do you read it?”
    He said in reply,
    “You shall 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.”
    He replied to him, “You have answered correctly;
    do this and you will live.”

    But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus,

    “And who is my neighbor?”
    Jesus replied,
    “A man fell victim to robbers
    as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
    They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead.
    A priest happened to be going down that road,
    but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
    Likewise a Levite came to the place,
    and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
    But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him
    was moved with compassion at the sight.
    He approached the victim,
    poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.
    Then he lifted him up on his own animal,
    took him to an inn, and cared for him.
    The next day he took out two silver coins
    and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,
    ‘Take care of him.
    If you spend more than what I have given you,
    I shall repay you on my way back.’
    Which of these three, in your opinion,
    was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”
    He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.”
    Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

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