SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - JULY 28th
John 6:1-15
What is more important, to feed the hungry, or to clothe the naked? While we would rightly say both are important, we see this question answered in our readings today. We always eat! It is a part of our daily routine, an aspect we cannot ignore. We base so many things around eating, so much in fact that Church events sometimes rely on what food is served or what is offered!
This understanding is vital to understand our scriptures today, for it shows that when we are fed, we not only continue life but are satisfied as we read about Jesus feeding the crowd. This represents Jesus not only having the ability to perform miracles, to control the world itself in multiplying the bread and fish, but in how our most basic needs are satisfied through his actions. By this understanding we are to simplify our faith and ask ourselves “how has God brought satisfaction in my life?” This question brings out humility in not demanding God to satisfy our whims and desires but to reflect on what we have already been given this day.
Our faith is centered around the sacraments, principally the Eucharist, the “bread of life.” In the most foundational ways, we are called to receive communion in the state of grace to be satisfied through God’s grace. This satisfaction is to be brought about spiritually then physically, reminding ourselves of our true calling, to live a life of holiness in this life and the next. We often fail to remember this due to the dissatisfaction we find in our world, our Church and our Diocese. To rely on Christ first and foremost is a true lesson of humility, one we must learn repeatedly in this time.
What is more important, to feed the hungry, or to clothe the naked? The answer is both through our reliance on sacramental grace. In receiving satisfaction through the sacraments, we are called to action to help others. As it was two thousand years ago in Jesus’ life, as can be today in our own.
In Christ, Fr. Aaron
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Schedules for
WHEAT Family of Parishes
WEEKENDS
Saturdays:
4 pm St. Vincent
4:30 pm Immaculate Conception
Sundays:
8 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
9 am St. Joseph
9:30 am Immaculate Conception
10 am St. Vincent
10:30 am St. George
11 am Annunciation
5 pm Annunciation
WEEKDAYS
Monday:
9 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
Tuesday:
8 am St. George
8 am St. Vincent
8 am Immaculate Conception
6 pm Mass at St. Vincent
Wednesday:
7am Annunciation
8am Immaculate Conception
Thursday:
8am Immaculate Conception
8am St. Joseph
6pm Mass at St. Vincent
Friday:
9 am Annunciation
1st Friday Nocturnal Adoration
3rd Friday Adoration at 9:30am
8 am St. George
6 pm 1st Friday of the month only,
devotions at
Saturday:
8 am St. Joseph
Check the bulletin for Holy Day times.
Confessions at Annunciation: 4:00PM on Sunday and upon request. Anointing of the Sick on the first Sunday of the month after the 11AM Mass.
Food Donation
for JULY
FISH can always use paper or plastic garbage bags.
Please protect the barrel - it is not for disposal of garbage.
