HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

Sunday 19 June 2022

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (9, 11 – 17)

At that time, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about the kingdom of God and to heal those in need of treatment.
The day was beginning to decline and the Twelve approached him saying: “Dismiss the crowd to go to the surrounding villages and countryside, to lodge and find food: here we are in a deserted area.”
Jesus said to them, “You give them something to eat.” But they said, “We have but five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.” There were in fact about five thousand men.
He said to his disciples: “Have them sit in groups of about fifty.” They did so and made them all sit down.
He took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven, blessed them, broke them and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the crowd.
They all ate their fill and the pieces left over from them were taken away – twelve baskets.

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