Sunday 13 July 2025
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Sunday is also designated Action for Children Sunday and Sea Sunday. Further information and resources can be found on our Special Sunday pages:
Action for Children Sunday
Sea Sunday
Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Amos 7: 7-17
As servants working an estate (StF 491)
Before I take the body of my Lord (StF 575) (communion)
*God has spoken – by his prophets (StF 157)
It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand (StF 705)
When listening prophets dare to speak (StF 163)
Psalm 82
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
Love inspired the anger (StF 253)
Send down the fire of your justice (StF 413)
Who can sound the depths of sorrow in the Father heart of God (StF 723)
[Note: StF 723 is also suggested for 17 and 24 July - perhaps take the opportunity to use the hymn as a thread across all three Sundays.]
Colossians 1: 1-14
Behold the servant of the Lord! (StF 546)
*God has spoken – by his prophets (StF 157)
Speak, O Lord, as we come to You (StF 161)
What shall we offer our good Lord (StF 671)
Your words to me are life and health (StF 164)
Luke 10: 25-37
A new commandment I give unto you (StF 242)
As your family, Lord, see us here (StF 571)
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love (StF 249)
Jesus calls us here to meet him (StF 28)
The Church of Christ, in every age (StF 415)
When I needed a neighbour, were you there? (StF 256)
Would you walk by on the other side (StF 257)
Alternative related readings
Deuteronomy 30: 9-14
Breathe on me, breath of God (StF 370)
Day by day, dear Lord (StF 444)
Not far beyond the sea nor high (StF 159)
Shout for joy! The Lord has let us feast (StF 598)
Teach me to dance to the beat of your heart (StF 477)
Psalm 25: 1-10
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
Empty, broken, here I stand, Kyrie eleison (StF 421)
Father, hear the prayer we offer (StF 518)
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father (StF 51)
The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want (StF 481)
Though the fruit tree doesn’t blossom (StF 93)
A prayer that we may see God in others
Teach us, Lord, to seek your face in those who think they are faceless; your word among those who are voiceless; and your transforming presence among those who feel powerless. Draw us to yourself that we may be active contemplatives in the heart of your world, discovering afresh the presence of Jesus wherever it is disguised and honouring you in the face of the neighbour, the lowly appearance of bread and wine, and the walk of daily service, that we might follow where you lead and respond with warmed hearts and active hands. Amen.
Inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Karl Rahner
Richard Andrew, District Chair, Darlington District
A prayer for integrity - Alternative Prayer
God of grace, good beyond all that is good, fair beyond all that is fair and loving beyond all that is loving; grant us to be of one mind in our faith, of one hope in our calling, and of one heart in our loving; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 200-c. 265)
Sunday 13 July 2025
Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” (vs 36-37)