17th Sunday of
Ordinary Time Year B 29-07-12
Theme: Providing God
1st Reading
2nd Reading
Gospel John 6:1-15 concern for
the hungry.
The struggle for life is seen
all round us.
People attempt to solve problems
by intellectual, social, economical, political, and cultural standards.
We forget God is at the helm
of all activities in this world.
The universe has to depend on
the providence of God.
We come to the church for Mass
every Sunday.
Some of us bring along with us,
our concerns.
The concerns can be physical,
or spiritual., social, cultural, family, or any of these.
Often these concerns hinder
our spiritual progress.
Let us see how God is giving
us opportunities to solve these concerns?
If we take stock of our lives
we see that often…..
We float along the stream and
forget why we are floating.
Unless and until we become
familiar with the purpose of our goal all our efforts will become futile.
We pray for food, shelter, good
health of mind and body etc.
When these issues are
addressed we forget God.
Hardly do we pray for
spiritual consolation.
Go back to early days, when
parents taught us to pray,.
What was the prayers they
taught us?
To provide us with
necessities. Like daily bread, clothing, shelter etc.
What we learned from our
parents is being practiced even today.
Unconsciously we still depend
on those childhood prayers.
It is time like adult
Christians we have to learn to pray from depth of our being.
Today’s three readings are
exercise in God’s providential care.
He will never permit us to
starve.
The resource he has created is
enough and more.
But our greed increases day by
day.
The nations are advocating
family planning to provide for all the living.
We have destroyed the ecology,
forests, and other natural resources.
That is why the whole of sense
of the divine is lost.
We forget we are finite; we
try to play as if we are infinite.
Jesus clearly wants his
disciples to be thinking of the providence.
That is why he asks them, ‘how
many loaves of bread do they have?’
They miss the point and say ‘what
they can do in a desert place?’
Now Jesus proves who is the
master of the desert, where it is difficult to find anything, Jesus uses the
available things to provide for all sufficient and more.
But Jesus is God man and his
miracle is clearly a sign for his future provident care brought into
existential domain.
Our participation in the
Eucharistic celebration is clearly indicative of this same belief in the
providential trust.
We see in these three readings
how God has been taking care of all our needs.
In the second reading how our unity in becoming one with Jesus in his Body
and Spirit is demonstrated.
This gives us a sense of
harmony in Jesus life and mission.
So many things happen in our
lives.
Like the Israelites we have to
see the hand of God in every thing happening in our lives.
We are often anxious for
things that are not available in our lives.
We try to compare our needs
with the needs of our neighbors.
How many of us are willing to
be last and least.
We would never be satisfied
with the little we have.
We like to own more and more.
This will cause us to be
unsatisfied and always greedy.
How to be happy and content
and grateful to God who has given us life, is shown in today’s reading.
We have heard people saying
praise the Lord, thank the Lord.
This is a good beginning of
trusting in the provident God.
This makes our lives more
wanting than satisfied.
We
wish a nice Sunday to all
Yours ever in the divine word,
Fr. Juze vaz svd
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