17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 26, 2015
Written by Fr. Fitz Thursday, 23 July 2015 10:20
Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks and distributed them...
My beloved God Son, deceased George, and Joann,
at dinner.
We take each dinner for granted. But for all there will be a "Last Supper."
In the meantime, we must feed ourselves and should be concerned with feeding the hungry all around us.
Today in the USA one in five children lives in a family that struggles to put food on the table.
BREAD FPR THE WORLD is the most effective agent in fighting hunger problems.
bread.org
Feeding the hungry was not at the margins of Jesus concern. Witness today'sGospel, the Wedding Feast of Cana, the Last Supper itself.
In fact table ministry was at the core of Jesus activity.
Bread for the world is an ecumenical Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.
We CAN end hunger in our time, but churches and charities cannot do it all. Government must also do its part.
But there is an anti-government spirit fostered by such propaganda agents like FOX NEWS that says the government must shrink from any kind of social outreach. They play a constant drum beat on this theme.
Yet the Government is US.
We the people are the government and what we the people demand, government will accomplish. But do we want a government that is narcissistic, concentrated on protecting the very rich, and abandoning the hungry and the poor to "raise themselves up by their own bootstraps..." or a government that is compassionate and reaches oit its hand to the struggling poor?
The future election will give an answer to that question.
The answer is up to me and to you.
The hungry DO have a voice amid all the plolitical clamor.
That voice is Bread For The World.
Will you join your vour voice to their's?
If you say "YES!"
Visit bread.org and see what you can do.
And so we pray:
"Give us this day our daily Bread,..."
and give us a government, OUR government,
that hears the cry of the hungry,
in our time,
and in our land.
Amen