Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Give Them Some Food

I was cleaning out my office yesterday...getting ready for a new class to begin.  It is a bit of a ritual, clearing off and re-organizing my bookshelves, de-cluttering my desk drawers and desktop.  I suppose that what I am doing ritually with the STUFF in my office I am hoping has a counterpart in my brain! 

In the cleaning I found these quotes* I apparently gathered for an RCIA reflection on the Eucharist...seems to fit nicely with today's Gospel, Mark 6:34-44.


It's bad.  You don't know what to do when you've got five children standing around crying for something to eat and you don't know where to get it and you don't know which way to start to get it.  I just get nervous or something'.

---Kentucky miner's wife


There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
--
-Gandhi

      
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives.  Hope that you might have baked it or bought it--or even kneaded it yourself.  For that look on his face, for your hands meeting his across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot or suffer a lot--or die a little, even. 
---Daniel Berrigan                                     

May I see the power of bread
May I have the courage and caritas
to be a part of satisfying, and nourishing, and sustaining
Make of me a Homo-Eucharisticus**


*upon a google search I found these quotes appearing together as part of a reflection on LOAVES AND FISHES, by artist John August Swanson, whose talent I admire very much
**term stolen, I believe, from Gil Baillie…who perhaps gleaned it from Gregory Dix

                               


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