Daily Readings - Gospel for wednesday, july 15, 2020. Pope Reflection

Daily Gospel - Readings for july 15, 2020.

Reading for wednesday. Daily gospel

Isaiah 10:5-7,13-16.

The Lord of hosts says this: Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger, the club brandished by me in my fury! I sent him against a godless nation; I gave him commission against a people that provokes me, to pillage and to plunder freely and to stamp down like the mud in the streets. But he did not intend this, his heart did not plan it so. No, in his heart was to destroy, to go on cutting nations to pieces without limit. For he has said: ‘By the strength of my own arm I have done this and by my own intelligence, for understanding is mine; I have pushed back the frontiers of peoples and plundered their treasures. I have brought their inhabitants down to the dust. As if they were a bird’s nest, my hand has seized the riches of the peoples. As people pick up deserted eggs I have picked up the whole earth, with not a wing fluttering, not a beak opening, not a chirp.’ Does the axe claim more credit than the man who wields it, or the saw more strength than the man who handles it? It would be like the cudgel controlling the man who raises it, or the club moving what is not made of wood! And so the Lord of Hosts is going to send a wasting sickness on his stout warriors; beneath his plenty, a burning will burn like a consuming fire.

Daily Psalm for wednesday.

Psalm 93(94):5-10,14-15.

"The Lord will not abandon his people." (R).

They crush your people, Lord, they afflict the ones you have chosen They kill the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless child. (R).

And they say: ‘The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.’ Mark this, most senseless of people; fools, when will you understand? (R).

Can he who made the ear, not hear? Can he who formed the eye, not see? Will he who trains nations not punish? Will he who teaches men, not have knowledge? (R).

The Lord will not abandon his people nor forsake those who are his own; for judgement shall again be just and all true hearts shall uphold it. (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia!" (Cfr. Mt. 11:25)

Daily Gospel for july 15. Matthew 11:25-27.

Daily Gospel reading for wednesday, july 15 (The revelation of the Gospel to the humble): "At that time, Jesus exclaimed, "I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.".

Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.

In the reading of the daily Gospel, we see that this term "little ones" indicates all those who depend on the help of others, and in particular, children. Later Jesus will say:

"Beware of despising any of these little ones, for I tell you the truth, your angels in heaven are always present to my Father in heaven" (Mt 18:10).

Therefore, children are in themselves a richness for mankind and also for the Church, because they constantly call us to the necessary condition to enter the Kingdom of God: that of not considering ourselves self-sufficient but in need of help, of love, of forgiveness. And we are all in need of help, of love, of forgiveness! All of us!

Children remind us of another beautiful thing; they remind us that we are always children. Even if one becomes an adult or an old man, even if one becomes a father, if one occupies a place of responsibility, underneath all this remains the identity of a child.

We are all children. And that always brings us back to the fact that we have not given life to ourselves, but that we have received it.

[...] There are so many gifts, so many riches that children bring to humanity. I will only remember some of them. They bring their way of seeing reality, with a confident and pure look. Children have a spontaneous trust in their mother and father; and they have a spontaneous trust in God, in Jesus, in our Lady.

At the same time, his inner gaze is pure, not yet contaminated by malice, by bending, by the "scabs" of life which harden the heart... But children are not diplomats: they say what they feel, they say what they see, directly.

Moreover, in their inner simplicity, they bring with them the capacity to give and receive tenderness. Tenderness is having a heart "of flesh" and not "of stone", as the Bible says (cf. Ez 36:26).

They also have the capacity to smile and to cry. Some when I take them to kiss them, they smile. Others, seeing me in white, think that I am the doctor and that I have come to give them the injection and they cry. Spontaneously. Children are like that.

[...] We have to ask ourselves: do I smile spontaneously, with freshness, with love? Or is our smile artificial? Do I still cry? Or have I lost the ability to cry? Two very human questions that children teach us.

For all these reasons, Jesus invites his disciples to be like children, because the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like them. (Daily Gospel reflection, General Audience, March 18, 2015)

Daily Gospel Prayer.

My Lord and my God, help me to trust You as a child trusts, as a child gives himself and loves in Your comforting arms that guard and protect from all evil. I propose to stop living for myself, to get out of my selfishness and to be generous in all that I do. With your love and inspiration, I will be able to do everything. Amen. (Healing with prayer daily gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"It takes more strength to repair than to build, to restart than to start, to reconcile than to get along. This is the strength that God gives us". (Pope Francis, 08.21.2019)

Daily porpose.

Seek to grow in union with God. Find your Bible and read the entire Psalm 74.

🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.

Enjoy now the video meditation for wednesday, for the daily Gospel july 15, 2020. Matthew 11:25-27 - 15th Week in Ordinary Time.

Map of readings for the day.

• Initial readings

• Daily Gospel Readings

• Pope reflection

• Daily Gospel Prayer

• Daily Gospel Purpose

• Video meditation for the Gospel

Daily Gospel Intentions for july 15.

With the readings daily Gospel, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, wednesday, that you wish to express. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. Write down in the commentaries all that you want God to give you or heal you through the reading of his Word in the daily Gospel for july 15, 2020. God Bless you.