This Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time through the Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time, we hear the Gospel of St. John, rather than from St. Mark. These St. John’s writings are all about Jesus as the Bread of Life. These next five weeks in the liturgical cycle is often referred to as ‘The Bread of Life Discourse,’ and our focus these next few weeks in Scripture is on the Jesus as Eucharist.
Today, the Old Testament Reading from the Second Book of Kings and the Gospel of John, are about a multiplication of loaves to feed the people—with plenty left over! The Responsorial Psalm today is: “The hand of Lord feeds us; He answers all our needs.” Listen closely to the verses of this Psalm about God’s great generosity!
St. Paul reminds us today to “live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love…” We are to be fed and then transformed by our joining together at the table of the Eucharist. This is food for our journey in life. This is the nourishment for endurance and for change in order to be what we profess to be: disciples and believers in Christ.
Every Sunday We Remember how he loved us to His death, we know Him in The Breaking of the Bread, We Are Called and we sing the Song of the Body of Christ together. We Come in Joy to Meet the Lord, We Gather Together at the Table of Plenty to Taste and See His goodness. We Come and Eat This Bread, for You Satisfy the Hungry Heart. Take and Eat, and Look Beyond the obvious and Behold the Lamb of God who Now in This Banquet gives us Life-Giving Bread, Saving Cup. He makes of us One Bread, One Body. He is The Bread of Life, Bread for the World and Our Blessing Cup.
Keep singing!
Elizabeth Dyc
Today, the Old Testament Reading from the Second Book of Kings and the Gospel of John, are about a multiplication of loaves to feed the people—with plenty left over! The Responsorial Psalm today is: “The hand of Lord feeds us; He answers all our needs.” Listen closely to the verses of this Psalm about God’s great generosity!
St. Paul reminds us today to “live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love…” We are to be fed and then transformed by our joining together at the table of the Eucharist. This is food for our journey in life. This is the nourishment for endurance and for change in order to be what we profess to be: disciples and believers in Christ.
Every Sunday We Remember how he loved us to His death, we know Him in The Breaking of the Bread, We Are Called and we sing the Song of the Body of Christ together. We Come in Joy to Meet the Lord, We Gather Together at the Table of Plenty to Taste and See His goodness. We Come and Eat This Bread, for You Satisfy the Hungry Heart. Take and Eat, and Look Beyond the obvious and Behold the Lamb of God who Now in This Banquet gives us Life-Giving Bread, Saving Cup. He makes of us One Bread, One Body. He is The Bread of Life, Bread for the World and Our Blessing Cup.
Keep singing!
Elizabeth Dyc
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