[Jesus said,] “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can...
Jesus said to [the crowd,] “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry." This does not refer to the physical sensation of hunger never being experienced by someone who comes to Jesus, but that whoever comes to Jesus will...
What a powerful testimony of God being faithful to people who trust God’s word. A man brought food from the first fruits to [Elisha,] the man of God consisting of twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain. This man and the community he...
What can we learn from today’s gospel lesson? For starters, that apostles stick together. That they choose to share each other’s company and in doing so, when they find themselves weary, worn out from doing, they collectively search for Jesus and approach him. They gather...
Herod was a most suspicious and paranoid tetrarch. The seventh son of Herod the Great and a Roman administrator to Galilee and Perea, he lost his position of authority around 39 AD after hoping to rise to the true level of monarch, and not merely...
People sometimes refuse to see you for who you have become. They can’t get over how you’re different from how they remember you, how you may have changed for the better, that you are now more than they estimated you could ever be. Remember, I’m from...
I love when characters in the Bible mimic my own tendencies or the behavior of people throughout all of history. For instance, how many of us can identify with Jairus, one of the leaders of the synagogue? How many of us, like him, have tried...
The main takeaways from today’s gospel readings are these: We do not know how God accomplishes things. The first thing we become aware of as humans is knowing that in the grand scheme of things, we play only a small part. Throughout the entire scope...
Let’s begin with a little background info regarding today’s gospel scene. Jesus has been away from home for a few years and is now in Capernaum, about twenty miles northeast of Nazareth. It’s as if he left home after growing up in Halifax, traveled around...
God expended extra effort on our behalf using his mighty hand and outstretched arm precisely so people might have a day of rest, precisely to free them from slavery, from the situation they were in that would not allow them to practice what God had...