1st READING
Israel has a history of mistakes and unfaithfulness in her relationship with God. There are many examples of where she has strayed from the path God put before her and her leaders. Yet, God always forgives them and draws them back into His realm of influence. God has never broken His covenant with us – He has always been faithful. It is important for us to learn these basic truths so that we can apply them in our lives.
1 Kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34
26 Jeroboam thought to himself: “The kingdom will return to David’s house. 27 If now this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, king of Judah, and they will kill me.” 28 After taking counsel, the king made two calves of gold and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29 And he put one in Bethel, the other in Dan. 30 This led to sin, because the people frequented those calves in Bethel and in Dan. 31 He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the people who were not Levites. 32 Jeroboam established a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month to duplicate in Bethel the pilgrimage feast of Judah, with sacrifices to the calves he had made; and he stationed in Bethel priests of the high places he had built. 13: 33 Jeroboam did not give up his evil ways after this, but again made priests for the high places from among the common people. Whoever desired it was consecrated and became a priest of the high places. 34 This was a sin on the part of the house of Jeroboam for which it was to be cut off and destroyed from the earth.
P S A L M
Psalm 106:6-7, 19-20, 21-22
R: Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
6 We have sinned, we and our fathers; we have committed crimes; we have done wrong. 7 Our fathers in Egypt considered not your wonders. (R) 19 They made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. (R) 21 They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, 22 Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea. (R)
GOSPEL
Jesus feeds the four thousand. He does not want them to go hungry. Who would want them to go hungry? No one! Let us focus on the leftovers. What do they tell us in the context of this story? I think they tell us that God’s sufficiency is never just sufficient but over-abundant. Let us always remember this when we are worried about where the resources are going to come from for our next mission. It is God’s job to convert people – He will also provide the resources for us to help set the scene.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Mark 8:1-10
1 In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, 2 “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance.” 4 His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?” 5 Still he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven.” 6 He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. 7 They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. 8 They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over — seven baskets. 9 There were about four thousand people. He dismissed the crowd 10 and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha.
1 Corinthians 9-12
think: It is God’s job to convert people; He will also provide the resources for us to help set the scene.
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