17th Sunday of Ordinary Time

 Jesus Feeds the 5,000.  Jn. 6:1-15

5,000 people were following Jesus into the middle of nowhere 

And no one brought any food!

It makes a person wonder what were they thinking?

Why were they so unprepared. 

But Jesus was able to feed them 

As He took the loaves and fishes and multiplied them to feed 5,000 with food left over. 

Millions of people wander through life,

And bring no spiritual food with them. 

It makes a person wonder what are they thinking. 

Is not life more than just feeding the desires of the body?

But Jesus is able to feed them too. 

Not with loaves and fishes for their stomachs

But with His very Body and Blood for their souls!

While Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes and fed five thousand 

At Mass through the words of the priest and the power of the Holy Spirit

Jesus offers to feed the entire world. 

And yet millions continue go hungry. 

Not only do they go hungry 

They choose to go hungry 

Even When the Supper of the Lamb

Is laid before them. 

And while others choose to go hungry

Still others choose to dine on the swill 

Of materialism, pleasure seeking, pornography, drugs or other things,

That is like eating nothing but donuts for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

It may satisfy your hunger temporarily 

But it will eventually kill you!  

When you are hungry for love, acceptance, meaning and purpose in life. 

Hungry for Hope and Forgiveness and Peace. 

There is only One Food that satisfies. 

One Table that is overflowing. 

One Body that can feed the whole world. 

That is the Supper of the Lamb!

Just as the Lamb was slain at Passover for the Jews

And those who ate it and poured its blood on the doorposts

Were fed and set free. 

So those who Feast at the Supper of the Lamb

Will be fed in this world on what makes life worth living,

And set free from the grave for Eternal Life.