Mc 8, 1-10
En aquellos días, vio Jesús que lo seguía mucha gente y no tenían qué comer. Entonces llamó a sus discípulos y les dijo: “Me da lástima esta gente: ya llevan tres días conmigo y no tienen qué comer. Si los mando a sus casas en ayunas, se van a desmayar en el camino. Además, algunos han venido de lejos”.
Sus discípulos le respondieron: “¿Y dónde se puede conseguir pan, aquí en despoblado, para que coma esta gente?” Él les preguntó: “¿Cuántos panes tienen?” Ellos le contestaron: “Siete”.
Jesús mandó a la gente que se sentara en el suelo; tomó los siete panes, pronunció la acción de gracias, los partió y se los fue dando a sus discípulos, para que los distribuyeran. Y ellos los fueron distribuyendo entre la gente.
Tenían, además, unos cuantos pescados. Jesús los bendijo también y mandó que los distribuyeran. La gente comió hasta quedar satisfecha, y todavía se recogieron siete canastos de sobras. Eran unos cuatro mil. Jesús los despidió y luego se embarcó con sus discípulos y llegó a la región de Dalmanuta.
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GospelMK 8:1-10
In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat,
Jesus summoned the disciples and said,
“My heart is moved with pity for the crowd,
because they have been with me now for three days
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away hungry to their homes,
they will collapse on the way,
and some of them have come a great distance.”
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread
to satisfy them here in this deserted place?”
Still he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They replied, “Seven.”
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.
They also had a few fish.
He said the blessing over them
and ordered them distributed also.
They ate and were satisfied.
They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets.
There were about four thousand people.
Jesus summoned the disciples and said,
“My heart is moved with pity for the crowd,
because they have been with me now for three days
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away hungry to their homes,
they will collapse on the way,
and some of them have come a great distance.”
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread
to satisfy them here in this deserted place?”
Still he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They replied, “Seven.”
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.
They also had a few fish.
He said the blessing over them
and ordered them distributed also.
They ate and were satisfied.
They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets.
There were about four thousand people.
He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples
and came to the region of Dalmanutha.
and came to the region of Dalmanutha.
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Meditacion:
El evangelio de hoy, ultimo de la semana, me dejo un par de imagenes en mi cabeza "mucha gente en un lugar desolado".
E inmediatamente pense en un retiro. Sin duda las personas habian seguido a Jesus sin pensar siquiera en su propia subsistencia. De alguna manera, pensaban que serian satisfechos con comida, tal vez los apostoles habian traido algo...
Para Jesus, era su mision alimentarlos porque ellos habian puesto su vida en sus manos.
Y se produce el milagro. Y dejenme decirles algo, es el mismo milagro que se produce hoy para todo aquel que entrega su vida a Dios.
"Pide y se os dara" dice el evangelio pero no es que nosotros no sepamos como vivir, lo que sucede es que queremos recibir y no dar nada a cambio.
Estas personas estaban con hambre, con sed, no muy diferente de lo que encontramos hoy dia en medio de nuestras ciudades, de nuestros pueblos, y somos nosotros, los seguidores de Jesus, los del camino como se llamaban los cristianos al principio, los que debemos proveer sustento espiritual para esas almas que, en un camino de elevacion hacia Dios, hacen un alto en nuestras vidas porque estan sedientas, porque estan hambrientas de Dios.
Hermanos la vida es un desierto, de nuevo, "mucha gente y un lugar desierto" hagamos hoy dia el milagro del pan y los peces en la vida de otras personas, convirtiendo nuestra propia vida en un reflejo de la vida de Jesus.
Dios los bendiga, nos vemos el lunes
“Padre celestial, pongo todo lo que soy y lo que tengo y mi vida entera en tus manos santas y poderosas.” Amen
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Today's Gospel, last week, left me a couple of images in my head "many people in a desolate place."
And immediately I thought of a retreat. No doubt people had followed Jesus without even thinking about their own subsistence. Somehow, they thought they would be satisfied with food, maybe the apostles had brought something ...
For Jesus, it was their mission to feed them because they had put their lives in their hands.
And the miracle occurs. And let me tell you something, it is the same miracle that occurs today for everyone who gives his life to God.
"Ask and it will be given to you" says the gospel but it is not that we do not know how to live, what happens is that we want to receive and not give anything in return.
These people were hungry, thirsty, not very different from what we find today in the midst of our cities, our towns, and it is we, the followers of Jesus, those on the road as the Christians were called at the beginning, who we must provide spiritual sustenance for those souls who, on a path of elevation to God, stop in our lives because they are thirsty, because they are hungry for God.
Brothers, life is a desert, again, "many people and a desert place" let us today make the miracle of bread and fish in the lives of other people, turning our own life into a reflection of the life of Jesus.
God bless you, see you Monday
"Heavenly Father, I put all that I am and what I have and my entire life in your holy and powerful hands." Amen
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