Jesus came into the world to distribute love - to distribute it unconditionally, to distribute it generously, to distribute it without limitation. The gospel passage today - about Jesus feeding the five thousand - is about Jesus distributing love - the love that is found in his care and concern for people; the love that is found in the giving of himself on the Cross to be the bread of life - which we share at this and every Mass!
God the Father set it up so that when we enter into and experience loving - we enter into and experience Him - and when we don’t, we don’t experience Him either! It’s rather simple! Yet, rather challenging! The type of love we are talking about here is a self-sacrificing love; a love that takes effort; a love that must hurt if it is to be authentic and genuine; a love that stay the course until the bitter end! So many people in this, and every age, have rather chosen a different kind of softer, pseudo-version-of-love, a self-centered love, a self-exalting love! People who choose to love this way - do not experience love at all, they do not experience God.
Let us be among those, this day, who realize that first there was God; then there was God’s creation as a manifestation of this love; then there was us who are first loved by God - always! Our lives can only and should only be a response to that tremendous initiating love! Everything we do must reflect our thanksgiving to God for have first loved us - and then loved us again by redeeming us at the price of the blood of his only-begotten Son!
God so loved the world that he gave his Son, so that the world might have life through him!
Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, so much!
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