Readings of the day: RB 11 Vigils or Night Office on Sunday
Mass: Jm 1:12-18; Resp. Ps 94; Mk 8:14-21
Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights.
(Jm 1:17)
Like the disciples in today’s Gospel account, we forget the gifts God has bestowed upon us. The disciples had forgotten about Jesus feeding five thousand people on five loaves and four thousand people on seven—with leftovers! We see the disciples behaving like the Pharisees: wanting signs, making demands upon Jesus, being rebellious and skeptical. Jesus questions them: have your hearts hardened; have your eyes not seen; your ears not heard? What is our attitude to the presence of Jesus in our midst? Do we recognize His enduring love and mercy showered upon us day in and day out, in gifts great, namely, the Eucharist, and small alike—in a smile, a gesture of thanks, an act of courtesy, a helping hand, a word of encouragement, a warm embrace. Let us remember. Let us be thankful.
The ate and had their fill, and what they craved the Lord gave them;
they were not disappointed in what they craved.
(Communion Antiphon, Mass)
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