SEASONS OF THE CHURCH YEAR
5th SUNDAY after PENTECOST 2025 Jul 13
The Church Year is divided into Festivals beginning with Christmas, which includes 4 Sundays in Advent and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
This is followed by Epiphany Season which begins with the Epiphany of Our Lord and ends 9 Sundays later with the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
The Time of Easter follows beginning with Lent, followed by Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday and concludes with Good Friday. Easter Season begins with the Resurrection of Our Lord and includes the Ascension of Our Lord and ends with Pentecost.
The first Pentecost took place on the 50th day after Easter Sunday when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, enabling them to testify boldly to spread the Good News of the Gospel.
The Time of the Church is the Season after Pentecost, beginning with The Holy Trinity, the First Sunday after Pentecost through the Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost ending with the Sunday of Fulfillment, the Last Sunday after Pentecost.
This week we mark the 5th SUNDAY after PENTECOST 2025 Jul 13
SERMON TEXT: Luke 10:25-37 NIV
SERMON THEME:
Mercy Out of Love
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.
31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.
35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
REFLECTION:
Jesus, written off by the world, a humble homeless hero called heretic, and yet the very Son of God will lay down his life to save ours. In this least expected way, seeming more like the wounded man left for dead – He is the true Good Samaritan. By his being pierced, He binds our wounds. Covered in our sins… covers us with His righteousness. By the water and the blood flowing from His side, He pours the healing oil and wine on our wounds through font and chalice. By His carrying the cross, He lifts us up and carries us to the place where we will be healed, paying not with a denarii to the innkeeper but with his precious holy blood and innocent suffering and death.
He came to die and rise again: for the geek, the dweeb, the loser, the outcast, the worst of the worst… he came to die for sinners… he came to die for you and for me. This is the picture of mercy: doing all that we have left undone through His perfect love. This is the picture of mercy… love and kindness in action. And so for all who are bound to Christ through baptism and communion, His mercy is still in action through us.
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lcms Resources "And who is my neighbor?’ A Sermon on the Good Samaritan: author: Steven Schave
SERMON HYMN:
Lord of Glory You Have Bought Us
1 Lord of glory, you have bought us
with your life-blood as the price,
never grudging for the lost ones
that tremendous sacrifice;
and with that have freely given
blessings countless as the sand
to th'unthankful and the evil
with your own unsparing hand.
2 Grant us hearts, dear Lord, to give you
gladly, freely, of your own.
With the sunshine of your goodness
melt our thankless hearts of stone
till our cold and selfish natures,
warmed by you, at length believe
that more happy and more blessed
'tis to give than to receive.
3 Wondrous honor you have given
to our humblest charity
in your own mysterious sentence,
"You have done it all for me."
Can it be, O gracious Master,
that you need what we can do,
saying by your poor and needy,
"Give as I have giv'n to you"?
4 Lord of glory, you have bought us
with your life-blood as the price,
never grudging for the lost ones
that tremendous sacrifice.
Give us faith to trust you boldly,
hope, to stay our souls on you;
but, oh, best of all your graces,
with your love our love renew.
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