TODAY'S WORD

By


Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore

Genesis: 3:21 "And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them."


TODAY'S REFLECTION

In the gospel reading the disciples find themselves faced with a situation which they feel is beyond them. 

There is a large crowd of hungry people in a deserted place with no means to feed them. 

Their desperation comes through in the question they ask Jesus, ‘Where could anyone get bread to feed these people in a deserted place like this?’ 

There are times in all our lives when we feel like the disciples. 

We find ourselves facing into a situation which seems beyond our capacity to deal with. 

We wonder how we are going to manage. 

In the gospel reading the disciples discovered that the Lord enabled them to deal with the situation and to feed the crowd. 

Working with very few human resources, seven loaves of bread and a few small fish, Jesus made it possible for the disciples to feed the crowd. 

Sometimes in our own lives too, the Lord enables us to do something that we would be quite unable to do if left to our own resources. 

The Lord can work powerfully through the few resources that are at our own disposal if we offer them to him and invite him to come and use them. 

Saint Paul knew this from his own experience. He wrote in his letter to the Philippians, ‘I can do all things through him who gives me strength’.

Let us take time to appreciate the immense value of this gift – the opportunity Jesus gives us to walk unafraid in his light. We will never need to hide from God in darkness.

Let us cultivate a clean heart and examine our conscience at the end of each day. 

Let us remember the blessings we have received as well as our failings – the wrong we did and the good we failed to do. 


RESOLUTION

Let's resolve to reunite ourselves with God through the sacrament of Reconciliation and clothe ourselves anew in his love, mercy and forgiveness.

Have blessed Saturday and a Happy Weekend.

Mary queen of families pray for us.