Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6, 22-29
[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his disciples saw him walking on the sea.]
The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea
saw that there had been only one boat there,
and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat,
but only his disciples had left.
Other boats came from Tiberias
near the place where they had eaten the bread
when the Lord gave thanks.
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,
they themselves got into boats
and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
And when they found him across the sea they said to him,
“Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me
not because you saw signs
but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
Do not work for food that perishes
but for the food that endures for eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you.
For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
So they said to him,
“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
Satiate people
1. Looking for Jesus. Many people believe in Jesus, but they don’t believe in what He says. Today people look for the Jesus of miracles or the one who can solve their problems, but they don’t accept what He proposes and promises. Jesus invites you to live his lifestyle. That means living like Jesus and understanding that we follow him because we have a relationship with him and not because of a set of rules that mark what we can or can’t do.
2. The crowd. When a religion works only to please or satiate the people, it can lose its essence and begin to neglect the originality of Jesus’s message, by adapting it to the taste of each one. Likewise, if we only assist the people socially, neglecting the spiritual sense of the reason and the purpose these actions are performed for, the essence of the Gospel message is lost. At times we have confused society, showing that the Church’s central duty is social, and it isn’t, our mission is to evangelize, which clearly has a social repercussion, but that’s different. Because those who announce Jesus show humanity on the way to divinity. That’s what we are aiming at.
3. Believe. To believe in Jesus is to accept him and understand that there is a message to be proclaimed. Living Jesus’s lifestyle demands living the present and taking on what we have and what we are. To be a believer is to be convinced that God never lets go of us and that we’re safe in Him.
Never forget that something good is on the way. God bless you and be with you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
