CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - BRENDAN -18TH SUNDAY-A
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Mo NguyenFri, Jul 31 at 3:27 PMEIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A
02 AUGUST 2020
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 14: 13-21)
‘GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO EAT’
‘GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO EAT’
The disciples function rather like a modern celebrity’s ‘minders’. When Jesus has finished healing the sick, they urge him to send the crowd away to buy food for themselves before nightfall.
Jesus reacts to the word ‘buy’. He will not send people away to buy anything – nor should the disciples. When they point out with astonishment that they barely have enough for themselves (five loaves and two fish), Jesus, acting the part of divine Wisdom who speaks in the First Reading (Isa 55: 1-3), freely provides more than enough food for the whole multitude.
His gestures in doing so – taking the loaves, blessing, breaking and giving them – clearly foreshadows the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper (Matt 26: 26). To participate in the Eucharist is to experience the same divine hospitality so lavishly provided by Jesus.
The miraculous feeding and the Eucharist which it foreshadows bring out that the essence of what God wants to do for us is simply be a most generous Host at the banquet of eternal life. At the same time, since it depicts people being fed with real food, it bears directly, in a sacramental sense, upon the problem of world hunger. The Lord who took pity on the large crowd, looks with similar eyes upon our world and instructs us, as he instructed his disciples, ‘Give them something to eat yourselves’. In the words of the Venerable Pedro Arrupe (former Jesuit General): ‘The Eucharist will never be complete so long as people still go hungry in our world’.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
What is your "5 loaves & 2 fishes"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC3FLqDgWRE
Chúa Làm Phép Lạ Bánh Và Cá - Hiệp Lễ (Chúa Nhật 18 Thường Niên Năm A):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNWg5BmXG