JESUS FEEDS MILLIONS EVERY DAY WITH HIS BODY AND BLOOD.
JESUS FEEDS 4000 PEOPLE WITH 7 LOAVES.
THE GOODNEWS:
"In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance.”
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?”
Still he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They replied, “Seven.”
He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.
Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd.
They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also.
They ate and were satisfied.
They picked up the fragments left over—seven baskets. There were about four thousand people.
He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha." (Mark 8: 1 - 10).
In the Gospel of today, Mark 8: 1 - 10, we are not surprised by Jesus' compassion for the hungry crowd around Him who followed Him to learn whatever they could of His teaching. We have observed instances of Jesus' concern for the welfare of His disciples and the crowd that followed Him.
What appeared impossible to the Apostles on feeding 4000 hungry people in a desert was no challenge to Jesus.
Jesus is God and He could relieve the hunger of the crowd or a town with a word of command.
Jesus took "the seven loaves and he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd." No sweat. Very easy for Jesus.
Consider what happens at Mass, the priest takes the bread, prays over it and says "This is My Body." The consecration of the bread to become the Body of Jesus is possible because Jesus is God. He gave this power to His disciples and to the priests they would ordain.
Just as there have been sceptics from the beginning of the Church that Jesus did not and could not feed 4000 people. There are also sceptics today on the Miracle of the Multiplication of loaves. The same doubters scorn the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. They are wrong and ignorant of history and the Scriptures. The Catholic Church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth. This is why it has survived for over 2000 years and is found in every country in the world.
"They all ate and they were all satisfied." Jesus wants you to feed on Him in the Eucharist and be satisfied.
Protect yourselves from wolves and liars who want to corrupt your faith by daily:
1. Prayer.
2. Daily Word of God.
3. Frequent Confession and Eucharist.
"It is in the holy family, the original church in miniature that every christian family must be reflected" [it is in the holy family, the original church in miniature that every christian family must be reflected}]. (Pope St John XXIII).
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