Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 04th August 2024

Today we continue the theme from last Sunday about God’s miracle of feeding people when there is no food available. Last week we heard of Elishah the Prophet’s feeding of others and then Jesus in the Gospel multiplying the food. Today we hear about the manna in the desert.

We can reflect on God’s presence in our lives. Only God makes our life possible. Only God offers to us what we truly need in order to live. So often we want the food of this world, and yet the food of this world does not last for eternity.

Many of us take for granted the importance of all that happens in this life. We often think that what happens here has ultimate value, but it does not. I don’t want to starve to death in this life, but if I had to starve to death in order to help someone else and there were no other way, then I would be prepared to do that – for love of the other person and for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven.