5 Aug 2024
Fully Human, Fully Divine
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For 5 August 2024, Monday of week 18 in Ordinary Time, based on Matthew 14:13-21
Now when Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.’ Jesus said to them, ‘They need not go away; you give them something to eat.’ They replied, ‘We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.’ And he said, ‘Bring them here to me.’ Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Rose Schulte
06 August 2024 @ 1:02 am
Thank you for personalizing your preaching with your own experience. Surely your family is blessed by your faith in a Lord who is fully human and fully divine.
Brigid Cannon, OP
06 August 2024 @ 1:34 am
Grateful Maria, for your powerful message and examples of how when we reach out to Jesus in our limitations God multiplies our resources. So let us never say we have nothing to give.
Many blessings on your continued preaching of the Word,
Brigid Cannon, OP