First Reading Genesis 14:18-20
Melchizedek, king of Salem, blessed Abram.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 110:1-4
You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Gospel Reading
Luke 9:11b-17
They all ate and were satisfied.
Background on the Gospel Reading
Today, the second Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate a second solemnity, which marks our return to Ordinary Time. Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. At one time, this day was called Corpus Christi, Latin for “the Body of Christ.” In the most recent revision of the liturgy, the name for this day is expanded to be a more complete reflection of our Eucharistic theology.
The feeding of the 5,000 is the only one of Jesus' miracles to appear in all four Gospels. Luke places it between Herod's question, “Who is this about whom I hear such things?” and Peter's response to Jesus' question about who he thought Jesus was: “You are the Messiah of God.” In Luke the feeding is not the result of Jesus' compassion for the crowd but is instigated by the disciples. They wanted Jesus to send the crowd away to town. Instead Jesus tells the disciples to give them some food on their own.
The passage is meant to remind us of two feedings in the Old Testament: the feeding of the Israelites in the desert and Elisha's feeding of 100 people with 20 loaves in 2 Kings 4:42-44. It is also connected to the institution of the Eucharist. As in the Last Supper accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke and in Paul's account in 1 Corinthians 11:23-24, Jesus takes bread, looks up to heaven, blesses the bread, breaks it, and then gives it to the disciples. In using this exact language, Luke is reminding his readers that in this miracle Jesus is doing more than feeding hungry people as God did for the Israelites and the prophet Elisha did as well. The bread he gives is his body, which he will continue to give as often as the community breaks bread in remembrance of him in the Eucharist.
March 10 - 1st Sunday of Lent: Temptation
March 9 - Saturday after the Ash Wednesday - Call of Levi
March 08 - Friday After the Ash Wednesday
March 07 - Thursday After the Ash Wednesday
March 6: Ash Wednesday - Repentance
March 3 - Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C : Each tree is known by its yield
February 24 - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C: Be merciful as God is merciful.
February 17 - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C: The way to happiness
February 10 - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time :Disciple's Call
February 3rd, Fourth Sunday of the Ordinary Time Year C: Rejection
January 27 - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C :The Word of God
January 20 - Second Sunday of the Ordinary Time Year C : When Jesus enters into our lives it is like 'water changed into wine'.
January 13 - The Baptism of the Lord : Being the Beloved
January 6 - Epiphany of the Lord : The Star of Wonder
January 1 - Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mother of God
December 30 - The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Year C
December 25 - The Nativity of the Lord
December 23 - Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C
December 16 - Third Sunday of Advent Year C
December 9 - Second Sunday of Advent Year C
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