Weekly Message from Fr. Rick:
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
= July 25, 2021 =
“ ... Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry Him off ....”
How did He know? He knew because He is God the Son the Second Person of the Trinity. As God, He knows all things, including the often disordered thoughts of the human heart.
Like the crowds miraculously fed by Jesus that day people are often tempted to think of God as a kind of cosmic “vending machine” drop in some money, make your selection and presto there you are with your soda, your snack or whatever you ordered. And you never give the vending machine another thought. Until the next craving for a snack or a soda.
But God is NOT a vending machine.
The people He fed that day thought if they could only keep Jesus confined in their own little fantasy, as a source of bread forever then they were all set. They missed, at least for a time, the connection between the bread multiplied and the true bread that is Jesus true and lasting gift. The true bread that is Jesus gift to all the world, for the Life of the World.
This weekend and next please welcome Fr. “Skip” Balz who has graciously agreed to cover weekend Masses for me while I am away on vacation.
Fr. Rick