"MY ONLY AMBITION IS TO SERVE GOD

IN THE MOST HUMBLE TASKS."

                          - Saint Andre Bessette

 

 ＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊     

1 John 4:7-10

My dear friends,

Let us love one another for love c God. Everyone who loves, is born of God and knows God.

Those who do not love have not known God, for How did the love of God appear among us?

God sent his only Son into this world, that we might have life, through him.

This is loe: not that we loved God, but that, he first love us and sent his Son, as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

 

Ps 72:1-2,3-4,7-8

Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

 

 ＊＊＊ Gospel ＊＊＊      

 Mark 6:34-44

As Jesus went ashore, he saw a large crowd, and he had compassion on them,

for they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

It was now getting late, so his disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is now late.

You should send the people away, and let them go to the farms and villages

around here, to buy themselves something to eat."

 

Jesus replied, "You, yourselves, give them something to eat." They answered, "If we are to feed them,

we need two hundred silver coins to go and buy enough bread."

But Jesus said, "You have some loaves; how many?

Go and see." The disciples found out and said, "There are five loaves and two fish."

 

Then he told them to have the people sit down, together in groups, on the green grass.

This they did in groups of hundreds and fifties. And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish among them.   

 

They all ate and everyone had enough. The disciples gathered up what was left,

and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces of bread and fish. Five thousand men had eaten there. 

 

Gospel Reflection ：

 It is comforting to hear and be reminded that we have a compassionate and loving God.

He not only sees our suffering but also empathizes with it. Like a Good Shepherd,

He walks among us, fulfilling humanity's hunger and thirst for God.

May this inspire within us a deeper motivation to draw closer to God,

not out of fear but in response to a God who loves us faithfully and without fail.