Daily Reading for Sunday, July 6th, 2025

Gospel, Luke 10:1-12, 17-20

¹ After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting.

² And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting.

³ Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

⁴ Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

⁵ Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!"

⁶ And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you.

⁷ Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

⁸ Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you.

⁹ Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you."

¹⁰ But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,

¹¹ "We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near."

¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

¹⁷ The seventy-two came back rejoicing. 'Lord,' they said, 'even the devils submit to us when we use your name.'

¹⁸ He said to them, 'I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

¹⁹ Look, I have given you power to tread down serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you.

²⁰ Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice instead that your names are written in heaven.'

Reading 2, Galatians 6:14-18

¹⁴ But as for me, it is out of the question that I should boast at all, except of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵ It is not being circumcised or uncircumcised that matters; but what matters is a new creation.

¹⁶ Peace and mercy to all who follow this as their rule and to the Israel of God.

¹⁷ After this, let no one trouble me; I carry branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.

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