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| "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING:
1 John 4:
7 - 10
7
Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And
every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
8
He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.
9
By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.
10
In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he
hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our
sins.
PSALM:
Psalms 72:
1 - 4, 7 - 8
1
Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy
justice:
2
To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
3
Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills
justice.
4
He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children
of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.
7
In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the
moon be taken sway.
8
And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends
of the earth.
Alleluia:
Luke 4:
18
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Wherefore
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor
and
to heal the contrite of heart.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL:
Mark 6:
34 - 44
34
And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on
them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began
to teach them many things.
35
And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him,
saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:
36
Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may
buy themselves meat to eat.
37
And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to
him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give
them to eat.
38
And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when
they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.
39
And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by
companies upon the green grass.
40
And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
41
And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up
to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his
disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among
them all.
42
And they all did eat, and had their fill.
43
And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and
of the fishes.
44
And they that did eat, were five thousand men.
