Food departments are using “guessing games” to market their latest
products. One example would be asking the customers to use their sense of taste
and sight to identify which of the two well-dressed cakes on the platter corresponds
to the product. After the costumers have a taste, the company would reveal the correct
cake corresponding to the product. Then, the customers with their wrong choice
would feel bad on what their tongue and eyes have just recognized. Little
wonder why sometimes things we see around us are better appreciated using the
desires of our hearts more than what our eyes see and our tongues taste.
That little example is something our eyes really see and our ears really
hear - and it would probably remain in our mind for a time to come. But can you
envision how incredible it is going to be when it is Jesus Himself that we are
going to taste and see in our life? In the second reading, we heard that the
apostles had accounts of these experiences. On the night before Jesus suffered,
when they had all feasted - Jesus gave Himself up for them in the form of bread
and wine. Same goes for today’s Gospel, in
the multiplication of the 5 loaves and 2 fishes to feed the 5000 hungry people.
This simply shows that as long as we
have faith, with more than the external form of the bread and wine, or the 5
loaves and 2 fishes that our senses could identify comes a gift of life from
Him.
And that’s what Jesus expects of us today. To value and understand with
pure hearts the mystery of the Eucharist - that in the wine His blood is present
and the bread is His own flesh. That in the given numbers of loaves and fish is
the deliverance from hunger of the 5000 people as well. Thus, faith importantly
which is unshaken could make the presence of Jesus Christ clearer than what meets
our frail senses.
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