17th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Scripture: 1ST Reading: 2 Kings 4:42-44
              2nd Reading: Ephesians 4: 1-6
              Gospel: John 6: 1-15
Most everyone knows the story of the multiplication of the loaves of bread and a couple fish to feed five thousand people on a hillside, where they gathered to hear Jesus speak. Jesus received the five loaves and the two fish from a boy, he gave thanks and distributed the bread and as much fish as they wanted.
This was an amazing thing that happened on the side of that mountain, and what we experience at every Mass is just as amazing, “The Eucharist”, the height of God’s abundance to us, giving us his only begotten Son in this Eucharist, the real presence of Jesus among us; just as real as the presence of Jesus when he gave out five ;loaves and two fish to feed five thousand people sitting on a hillside.
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