- Matthew 14:16-18
The food that fed the great crowd was the food that the disciples had with them.
It wasn't as though Jesus made bread come down from heaven, or fish sprout from the grass.
Jesus took the food the disciples had with the, and somehow, in God's power, that was the food that fed everybody.
Sometimes I feel like the disciples must have felt that day.
There are so many demands on us ... so many things coming at us. We don't have enough money. We don't have enough time. We don't have enough patience. We don't have enough goodness.
Jesus say, "Bring those demands, those concerns, those worries here to me."
At Mass, we bring the bread and the wine (which stand for our whole life) and we put them on the altar and in God's hands.
And it's enough.
We can make it through the day.
- Little Burgundy Book, Diocese of Saginaw