8/5/18: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s Remedy for our Complaining Hearts

Today's 1st Reading is the story of what happens immediately after God shows his power and love to the Israelites by leading them out of slavery in Egypt and defeating their enemies in the Red Sea: They start complaining. Yet instead of writing his forgetful, ungrateful people off, he responds to their cries for food by giving them bread from heaven. Do we not see ourselves here? How quick are we to forget God's protection in the past and cry out in our lack of trust? Yet God's response to us is even greater than it was to Israel. Instead of feeding us with mere bread He gives us His Son, the true bread of life, the remedy for body and soul.