1ST READING
Love
is indeed the answer to almost all, if not all, the problems we face in
the world. Sin is always an absence of love to one degree or another,
depending on the seriousness of the sin. Let us try to grow in love of
both God and our neighbor today by seeking the things that will
increase, rather than decrease, love in our lives.
1 John 4:7-10
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In
this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only begotten
Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 In this is
love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
P S A L M
Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8
R: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
1 O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son; 2 he shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. (R) 3 The mountains shall yield peace for the people, and the hills justice. 4 He shall defend the
afflicted among the people, save the children of the poor. (R) 7 Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. 8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. (R)
GOSPEL
One
of the roles of Jesus in proclaiming the Gospel was that of a teacher.
Hecame to teach us the truth of God’s love for us and how love is truly
the basis of our existence. It would be easier if it was a set of
empirically measured laws, but it is not. We have been created in love
and redeemed in love. We have to learn that love is the only answer to
the problems in our lives and in the world. Let us seek to live this
truth starting today.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
The Lord has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives.
Mark 6:34-44
34 When
Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for
they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many
things. 35 By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late. 36 Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 He
said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said
to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it
to them to eat?” 38 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out they said, “Five loaves and two fish.” 39 So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties. 41 Then,
taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he
said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to
set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. 42 They all ate and were satisfied. 43 And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish. 44 Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men.
think: Love is the only answer to the problems in our lives and in the world.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ___________________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_________
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