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Friends,
today’s Gospel shows Jesus’ compassion for the multitude in the desert.
“When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with
pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began
to teach them many things.”
There
is the motif of the people Israel in the desert after their escape from
Egypt. Isolated, alone, afraid, without food, they clamored for
something from Moses. Here we see people who are dying to be fed, and a
prophet who is under threat of death. This crowd around the threatened
Jesus is a metaphor for the Church. We have come to him because we are
hungry, and we stay even when things look bleak.
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