GOSPEL REFLECTION Jesus is walking on water (extraordinary!) Peter calls to Jesus: “Let us come to You across the water.” Jesus responds: “Come.” Peter has complete faith in Jesus. Just one word from Jesus, Peter has the faith to step out onto the water and walk. Peter had no doubts. So, with extraordinary faith, Peter makes his first step and then continues to walk – so great is Peter’s faith in Jesus. Peter has extraordinary faith in His Lord. If Jesus says come, Peter has

GOSPEL REFLECTION ... We have heard in today’s Gospel how Jesus fed the 5000 men (not to mention all the women and children) from just 5 loaves of bread and 2 small fish with 12 baskets of bread left over. The Gospel says, “they all ate as much as they wanted” with “scraps remaining, twelve baskets full.” God’s love provides an overabundance. In our time there have been many reported cases where food has miraculously multiplied. Perhaps the most popular case occurred in the 1

GOSPEL REFLECTION: Today’s Second Reading: Romans: “All things work out for good for those who love the Lord” (Rom 8:28). It is a promise for those who love God. There are many examples of God turning evil to good in the lives of those who love Him. One example is Joseph, the favourite son of Jacob. (Genesis 50) Out of jealousy Joseph was put into a well left to die by his own brothers. Then they decided to sell him as a slave to traders going down to Egypt. In Egypt he was

GOSPEL REFLECTION ... In today’s Gospel Our Lord says: “The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed … the enemy came, sowed darnel among the wheat. And the servants of the owner said: “Let them grow to the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt then gather the wheat to my barn.” Our Lord says that people of this kingdom on earth are “subjects of the evil one.” Our Lord did say

GOSPEL REFLECTION ..... “The one who received the seed in rich soil is the man who hears the word and understands it; he is the one who yields a harvest and produces now a hundred-fold, now sixty, now thirty.” I will tell you a story written by an English doctor, Dr Helen Rose Venres. She was a missionary in the Congo in Africa from 1953 to 1973. “One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labour ward; but in spite of all that we could do, she died leaving us with a