Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
- Jeremy Taylor
("Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time. . . " The Serenity Prayer.)
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1 Jn 4:7-10; Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8
Mk 6:34-44
When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things.
By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said,
“This is a deserted place and it is already very late.
Dismiss them so that they can go
to the surrounding farms and villages
and buy themselves something to eat.”
He said to them in reply,
“Give them some food yourselves.”
But they said to him,
“Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food
and give it to them to eat?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”
And when they had found out they said,
“Five loaves and two fish.”
So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass.
The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties.
Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven,
he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples
to set before the people;
he also divided the two fish among them all.
They all ate and were satisfied.
And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments
and what was left of the fish.
Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men.
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Reflection on the Scriptures
The intriguing story we find in today’s Gospel from Mark provides a detailed example of just how God often reveals Himself through routine daily events of life. After a long day of teaching, Jesus sought to get away with His disciples to a quiet place. However, a large crowd was able to discover where Jesus had gone and, hungry for more of His teaching, crowded in to hear Him. As it was
late in the day, Jesus knew that they would soon need food. He met them precisely where they were and set about to address their need for an evening meal. This attention to detail resulted in a miracle of feeding over 5,000 men (plus likely their families) with five loaves and two fish. So what is the purpose of including this story as a part of His Holy Word? Could it be that it is much more than allowing us to see the miraculous power of God? Could it be that it
is intended to open our eyes and hearts to the countless ways that God reveals Himself in the ordinary events of our lives each and every day? Do we let the hustle and bustle of our daily routines rob us of seeing God revealing Himself to us each day? I know that I so often fail to recognize all that God is doing in my life – how He is clearly involved with all the little details. How these revelations happen is truly unfathomable – but routine for our amazing God. God’s
orchestration of the details of our lives provides a constantly renewing epiphany of God revealing Himself to us – if only we open our eyes & hearts to comprehend. .
- by Larry Hopp
The Son of God Became Human
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Part One, Section Two, Chapter Two
Article 3: He Was Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit, and Born of the Virgin Mary
Paragraph 1: The Son of God Became Man
I. Why Did the Word Become Flesh?
460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":78 "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God."79 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."80 "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity,
assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."81
(Footnote references in the Catechism.)
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