WEDNESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT (Year II)
First Reading: Isa 25:6-10a
Psalm: 23. R. v. 6cd
Gospel: Mt 15:29-37
Our God is ever compassionate. He cares about the condition of his people and he does this with so much love and care. We see this in the gospel of today. Christ said: “I have compassion on the crowd”. And moved with this deep concern, he healed them. Now that the sick ones have been made well, his unfathomable love moved him further to satisfy their material hunger.
Jesus is teaching us a lesson by this feeding of the four thousand that God always wishes to provide abundantly for us through us. When Jesus mentioned his concern for the famished crowd, his disciples were busy thinking of where to get trucks of bread for them. But he turned to them and asked: “How many loaves have you?” Jesus asked this question to make his disciples let go the little bread and fish they had. Because most times we are blind to see abundance in the little we have.
There is nothing that we have that is little before God. Our little is what God wants from us because that is what he wants to work with. Whether rich or poor, whatever we have is little because before God who is the giver of all things, it is always little. So we all need to give whether we consider ourselves rich or poor because we are the hands through which God feeds the hungry.
Our little is the best gift we can offer. We must not wait to have plenty before we give because that plenty is still little before God. Let us give God the little we have by feeding the hungry because that kind gesture of love comes with so much satisfaction. When we do this, we build wealth for ourselves; for it is in giving that we become rich. How many loaves have you? And how many have you given?
PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Help us O Lord to be generous with the little we have so that we may continually provide for one another. Amen.
FR VALENTINE EGBUONU, MSP
First Reading: Isa 25:6-10a
Psalm: 23. R. v. 6cd
Gospel: Mt 15:29-37
Our God is ever compassionate. He cares about the condition of his people and he does this with so much love and care. We see this in the gospel of today. Christ said: “I have compassion on the crowd”. And moved with this deep concern, he healed them. Now that the sick ones have been made well, his unfathomable love moved him further to satisfy their material hunger.
Jesus is teaching us a lesson by this feeding of the four thousand that God always wishes to provide abundantly for us through us. When Jesus mentioned his concern for the famished crowd, his disciples were busy thinking of where to get trucks of bread for them. But he turned to them and asked: “How many loaves have you?” Jesus asked this question to make his disciples let go the little bread and fish they had. Because most times we are blind to see abundance in the little we have.
There is nothing that we have that is little before God. Our little is what God wants from us because that is what he wants to work with. Whether rich or poor, whatever we have is little because before God who is the giver of all things, it is always little. So we all need to give whether we consider ourselves rich or poor because we are the hands through which God feeds the hungry.
Our little is the best gift we can offer. We must not wait to have plenty before we give because that plenty is still little before God. Let us give God the little we have by feeding the hungry because that kind gesture of love comes with so much satisfaction. When we do this, we build wealth for ourselves; for it is in giving that we become rich. How many loaves have you? And how many have you given?
PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Help us O Lord to be generous with the little we have so that we may continually provide for one another. Amen.
FR VALENTINE EGBUONU, MSP
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