Wednesday - Is 25:6-10a Psalm 22 Mt from 15.29 to 37: Jesus healed many sick people and multiplies the loaves.
The banquet of the Lord.
In today's Liturgy of the Word we can see the figure and its implementation, the advertisement and the reality of saving events. Isaiah sees a mountain on which is laid a juicy meal to which all nations are invited. The joy of the feast is added to remove the veil of sadness and death that covered the face of the people, the tears and lamentations. Instead arise in their hearts the hope of salvation, placed in him completely. A cry of grateful joy bursts forth from their mouths. The Gospel shows us the realization of the benefits promised to the people and taken with the first coming of the Lord Jesus mind of Jesus to the people is that of compassion: it is people coming from far away to hear his voice and to be healed of their diseases. There are three days that follow. How to send them back to their homes without giving them something to eat? He takes care of the needs of all the multitude, it is recommended by the apostles. Faced with their concerns of having to feed so many people, Jesus cut short: How many loaves have you? Say: Seven and a few small fish. Orders the crowd to sit down and then with seven loaves and a few small fish feed people that can now be transported back to their homes. Should have been very tasty loaves and fishes, not only for the appetite after three days after Jesus was rather hear, but also as a result of a miracle bread. It is true that what was announced by Isaiah. Faith shows us in this mountain, the altar where the Lord multiplies the Eucharistic bread to feed those who want, giving himself. Perhaps it would not be out of place to the wonder of our people every time we present to receive the body of Jesus, even more extraordinary miracle. There ciberemmo him not out of habit, but driven by a strong desire to be saved in our pettiness. MBS
Journal "A Sua Immagine" - comment by Msgr. Francesco Ruppi
Today's Gospel describes one of the days of the Master knows that as soon as people arrived, everyone goes to see and hear, they bring the sick, the lame, the paralyzed and many
sick. Jesus, full of compassion, heals disease and then having the people around him and listen, says a moving speech: "I have compassion on the crowd, which is not eating, I do not want them back home fast." And so the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves . This page of Matthew is very moving in many ways: first, because Christ is with the sick, heal them and is not just to teach but also to feed the people who listen. Two indications profits for each of us to love more the sick, help them and support them in their infirmity. And also because it invites us to worry about more than the hungry. Many millions of men hunger, thirst, and we wasted daily bread and water. A third of mankind is dying of hunger. We can not forget, because we are all children of God