Scriptual Reflection
DAILY READINGS - 12TH JULY 2025

Daily Readings

July 12, 2025

Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time


Reading I

Genesis 49:29–33; 50:15–26a


In those days: Jacob commanded his sons and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah – the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.” When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived for one hundred ten years. And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own. And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old.


Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 105:1–2, 3–4, 6–7  


Response: You who are poor seek God, and your hearts will revive.


Give thanks to the Lord; proclaim his name. 

Make known his deeds among the peoples. 

O sing to him, sing his praise; 

tell all his wonderful works! 


Response: You who are poor seek God, and your hearts will revive.


Glory in his holy name; 

let the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice. 

Turn to the Lord and his strength; 

constantly seek his face. 


Response: You who are poor seek God, and your hearts will revive.


O children of Abraham, his servant, 

O descendants of the Jacob he chose, 

he, the Lord, is our God; 

his judgments are in all the earth. 


Response: You who are poor seek God, and your hearts will revive.


Alleluia

1 Peter 4:14


R. Alleluia, alleluia.


 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.


Gospel

Matthew 10:24–33


At that time: Jesus said to his apostles, “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.


Reflection 


Jesus continues to instruct his disciples as to the inevitable difficulties and hardships they will have to face during their missionary journey. They will go through suffering and persecution in their ministry like their Master because a disciple is not above the teacher. However, they have to keep foremost in their minds that those who persecute them will have power only over their mortal bodies and not over their souls. Jesus is with them in moments of pain, suffering and persecution and therefore they should never give up hope in the Lord. Our life does not end in the tomb. It travels beyond the tomb for which we need to keep burning the lamp of hope. Let us burn the lamp of hope with the oil of love and remove all kinds of fears from our hearts.


Saint John Gualbert Abbot Confessor (985-1073)


Hailing from a noble family, John Gualbert felt it incumbent upon himself, in accordance with the custom of his age, to avenge the murder of a near relative. On Good Friday 1013, he happened to meet the unarmed assassin in a narrow lane and was about to run him through with his sword when the latter threw himself at his feet, and with arms outstretched cross-like, begged for forgiveness and commended his soul to God. John thereupon forgave and embraced him, and when, a little later, he stopped to implore God’s pardon for his own sins in the Benedictine church of San Miniato, the large Crucifix bowed its head in approval of his act of mercy. Overcome, he asked to join the monks at San Miniato.

Four years later, together with a group of stricter monks, John went to Camaldoli to protest against the simonistic election of Abbot Herbert. There he lived for 21 years until in 1038 he founded at Vallombrosa a new monastery for those who, like himself, wished to lead a life of extraordinary austerity and penance. Here the law of silence was perpetual.

The Vallombrosan Congregation grew rapidly after the founder’s death, when some of its extreme austerities were modified and by the end of the 12th century it counted some 60 Houses, all in Italy. Saint John Gualbert died in 1073 and was canonized in 1193.

Reflection: “The interior man prefers the care of himself to all other cares; and he who diligently attends to himself is easily silent with regard to others” (Imitation of Christ, Bk II,5,2).






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