Today is the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The assigned readings are 2 Kings 4:42-44, Ephesians 4:1-6, and John 6:1-15. The Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 145 (Psalm 145:10-11, 15-18).
For one version of the Responsorial Psalm set to music, please visit:
YouTube: Responsorial Psalm - Psalm 145 Praise to the Goodness and Greatness of God
Today’s Gospel reading is as follows:
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near.
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.”
One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the people recline.”
Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”
Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off
to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
Reflections on these readings:
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales: Sundays Salesian: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (July 29, 2012)
A Concord Pastor Comments: Leftovers from Jesus' picnic! (28 JUL 12)
Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio: The Eucharist vs. Junk Food - You Are What You Eat
The Deacon's Bench: Homily for July 29, 2012: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (28 JUL 12)
The Lectionary: God sustains his people in time in need (17th Sunday in Ordinary Time B) (26 JUL 12)
Dr. Scott Hahn: Bread Left Over (July 29th 2012 - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The Word Encountered: The Bread of Life (Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B)
Dominican Daily: Word to Life: Sirius XM: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (28 JUL 12)
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