Here are the readings for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time,
August 5, 2012:
August 5, 2012:
Psalm 78: 3-4, 23-25, 54
Ephesians 4: 17, 20-24John 6: 24-35
What do you want?
What do you need?
Do those two questions ever get confused in your mind and heart?
Pretend that you are with Moses, wandering around- lost, perhaps?- and just so sure that you're going to starve to death out in the wilderness. What you'd escaped in Egypt was horrible and yet...
Have you shared those feelings in your own life? Frustrated by imperfection, worried by uncertainty?
Go back to Moses.... and from nowhere, food is provided for you! What feelings would that bring up for you? Relief? Gratitude? Wanting more (could you send some butter for the bread, please?!)?
In this Gospel, the people who were just fed (in last week's Gospel about the multiplication of loaves and fish) are still not satisfied. They want more physical demonstrations of power; Jesus wants to talk with them about spiritual nourishment. What does it mean for you to call Jesus "The Bread of Life"? Think on that, play with the words, pray with the words.
And we'll check in together next week!
The Catechumenate meets again on August 12, as does the Mystagogia group.
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