What will you bring to the table?

Dear Parish Family,

​Today’s gospel is one of the first gospels I remember hearing as a child, as I was preparing to make my first communion. At a first quick glance of this gospel, it's just the great miracle of the multiplication of the bread. Very appropriate in connection to communion; all are fed by our Lord. Thinking back now and looking deeper, I see that it is also very much a message of how we are all meant to contribute to our Eucharistic celebration.

When I heard this gospel as a child, I remember thinking how special and brave this boy was who brought his loaves of bread and fishes to contribute to the meal of thousands. As an adult, I also see Philip’s point of the enormity of the challenge. How to feed so many? Who could afford such a task? And here is the young naive boy who somehow thinks 5 loaves and 2 fishes could possibly make a difference. But that is just the thing! We see as man sees, not as God sees. To a young child some of life’s problems always have the most simple fixes. A typical child's response is just do it, it's not that hard.

​This is the invitation to us too, how will we contribute to the communion meal? Are we willing to bring what we have? To allow God to bless it and break it and use it to feed the many. We are all called to be active participants of the Eucharistic meal. 

We all have something to bring; Bring it all to our Lord, the good (joys, time, talent and treasure), bad and ugly (struggles, fears, weakness, burdens and yes, even our sinfulness), because our Lord will transform it all! To the point that there will be baskets full of blessings left over.


Blessings,

Tere Delgado
​Faith Formation Minister

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