18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Matthew: 14:13-21

‘There is no need for them to go: give them something to eat yourselves.’

Reflection
Matthew 14:13-21

What will happen to us if we are generous? We never run out of things to give be it money, goods, intellect or anything that we are generous of giving. Everything flows back in return a hundredfold. Why is this so? The reason behind is, the moment we give, we don’t only give to the person who needs it we also give to Jesus. And Jesus whom we can never outdo in generosity gives back to us many times over what we give Him. With five loaves and two fish He fed the nearly five thousand people not including women and children. After all of them had eaten they had an excess of twelve wicker baskets. The simple message of the gospel for us is we must be generous at all times.

We just have to look at what is happening during Holy Mass which is very similar to what happened with the feeding of the five thousand people in our gospel. Inside every Holy Mass Jesus generously gives to us His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity during Holy Communion. Has Jesus stopped giving Himself to us during Holy Mass? No, Since HE instituted the Eucharist up until this very moment Jesus has been generously giving Himself to us through Holy Communion. As Jesus is merciful and generous most especially to the poor so we must be also. Let us not worry if our pockets will hurt from our being merciful and generous. For Jesus will always see to it that we will be filled with anything that we need.

Marino J. Dasmarinas Intercom Aug 26