Jesus Feeds 5ooo people with 5 Loaves and Two Fish (18 Sunday in ordinary Time: 2 Aug 2020)

Jesus Feeds 5ooo people with 5 Loaves and Two Fish (18 Sunday in ordinary Time: 2 Aug 2020)

*MAIN POINTS FROM THE FIRST READING*

 1.  *COME*

Come to the water *all* who are thirsty, though you have *no money* 

You will have: *corn to eat, wine and milk to drink* 

 Why spend money and your wages on that *which is not bread,* which *doesn't satisfy* you

2. *LISTEN* 

When we *LISTEN,*

a.    we have *good things to eat* ....

b.    *reach food to enjoy* ....

c.    *our soul will live* 

3. With you I will make an *EVERLASTING COVENANT* out of the favour promised to David.

*MAIN POINTS FROM THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM*

1. You *open wide your hand* oh Lord and *grant our desires*  ( It means God is generous)

2. God is *kind* and full of *compassion* ... *slow to anger abounding in love* (it mans God takes care of our spiritual needs)

3.  How *good* is Lord *to all* (we are good only to those whom we love, whom we like)

4. You give them *food* in due time (God takes care of our needs both spiritual and physical)

 5. He is *just* in all his ways *loving* in all his deeds (we are *unjust* in our dealings but God is just)

*MAIN POINTS FROM THE SECOND READING* 

1. *Nothing can come between US and love of Christ*. 

No...

trouble, 

worry,  

persecution,  

lack of food & clothes,

threats,  

attacks,  

neither death nor life, 

no angel,  

no Prince, 

nothing that exists, 

nothing still to come,

not any power,

height, 

depth, 

or created things...

Can separate us from the love of Chrit.

*MAIN POINTS FROM THE GOSPEL READING* OF TODAY (MATHEW)

 1. John the Baptist dies. Jesus hears about it and then 

2. Jesus goes by boat to a lonely place.

3.  People hear about Jesus' movement and they leave the town and *go to meet Jesus on foot.*

4. Jesus sees a *large crowd*

 5. The place is a *lonely place*

6. Time has slipped by. That means its evening. 

7. Disciples ask Jesus to send the people away

8. Jesus said:  *"no need to send them away, you yourself give them something to eat"*

9. They had five loaves and two fish 

10. Jesus said *"bring them here to me"*

He raised his eyes to heaven, 

said the blessing

 broke the bread

 and distributed.

 All ate as much as they wanted.

There were 12 baskets extra. 

(This can remind us of 12 disciples, 12 Tribes of Israel)

5,000 people were fed, not counting women and children

*SAME PASSAGE FROM THE GOSPEL OF MARK*

Apostles return from their ministry.

They report Jesus what happened in their ministry

People were like sheep without a shepherd

Jesus begins to teach them

They needed to spend 200 silver coins to buy enough food for people

1 silver coin is equal to one day wage of a rural worker

* SAME PASSAGE FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE*

Jesus goes to Bethsaida

 He welcomes the people and speaks to them about the *kingdom of God*

He *heals* the people who were sick.

Disciples talk about the *food and lodging for the people*

* SAME PASSAGE FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN*

Jesus goes to lake Galilee

People had *seen* Jesus and followed him

People had seen Jesus *healing* sick people

Jesus goes to a *hill, sits down there* (this is a lonely place) 

It was time for Passover meal. 

Jesus asked *Philip* as to where they could find enough food to feed the people.

*Jesus tests Philip*, he exactly knew what he was to do.

 Philip says *200 silver coin will not be enough* to buy food for those people

 *Andrew finds a boy* who has five loaves and two fish

Jesus tells *not to waste food*

They collect *12 baskets*

People think that *Jesus is a prophet*

They wanted to make him a *king.*

*POINTS FOR REFLECTION*

*1. "BRING THEM HERE TO ME"*

✓ *God is asking us to be GENEROUS with what he has given to us*

a.    ... life,

b.    talents,

c.    health,

d.    riches,

e.    capabilities,

f.     strength,

g.    knowledge,

h.    experience

As a seminarian, as an aspirant who is under formation, I am asked to *bring my life to Jesus and SURRENDER* to him like the *boy* who surrendered the *five loaves and two fish*  and God is going to perform miracles through me to feed so many people in my future ministry as a priest and religious.

*2. GOD TAKES CARE OF SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT AS WELL AS OUR PHYSICAL NOURISHMENT* 

God nourishes us physically as well as spiritually.

in the first reading we are told *"come to the water ...eat corn without money,  wine and milk.... when we listen to him we will  have good things to eat... rich food to enjoy... and our soul will live"*

In the *Responsorial Psalm* we read *"you open wide your hand, O Lord and grant our desires....you give them food in due time.

In the Second Reading we read *"nothing can separate us from the love of CHRIST... even when we like food or clothing"*

In the *GOSPEL READING,* Jesus feeds the five thousand people with *five loaves and two fish*

 *2. SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT*

If you listen to me your *soul will live*

In *Responsorial Psalm* we read, *God is kind and full of compassion slow to anger and abounding in love*

In the *Second Reading* we read *"nothing can come between US and love of Christ"*

No....

trouble

worry

persecution

lack of food lack of clothing

threats

attacks,

death

life

angel

Prince

nothing that exists nothing still to come

no power

height

depth

or created things

can separate us from the love of Christ

In *Gospel Reading* Jesus is *teaching* the people, telling them about the *kingdom of God* *healing* their sicknesses

3. God is *GENEROUS* with his gifts and blessings. We too are asked to be generous 

## 2 Cor 9: 6-8 God says, *God loves a cheerful giver*

## Lk 6: 38 *Give and it will be given to you, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap, for the measure you give will be the measure you get back"*

## Acts 20: 35 *there is more joy in giving than in receiving*

## 1 Tim 6:17-19 *" … to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share"*

## Jn 3:16 *" For God so loved the world that he gave his only son..."*

1. *When someone dies, we need to pray for that person sincerely,* feel for that person like Jesus did for John the Baptist today.

2. *Jesus went to a lonely place* probably he might have prayed for John the Baptist who had just died. He must have gone there to mourn for him. We also need to spend time alone by ourselves like Jesus. 

3. We must be eager to *GO to Jesus, go to the church, go to confession, go for holy communion for SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT of our soul* like the people of today went to see Jesus and hear from him.

4. God saw a large crowd and *he had compassion on them.* Like Jesus we need to help people, be compassionate people.

5. Jesus *healed* the people who were sick. We too need to *HEAL* the wounds of others no matter spiritual or physical wounds.

5. Like Jesus we need to *trust in God* even when situation seems very bad. Jesus  trusted in God even though they were in a *faraway place* in a *lonely place* it was *late evening* *no food was there to buy* *no money was there to buy food and eat* and yet he trusted in God and prayed and miracle took place, 5,000 people were fed

6. Jesus said *"you give them something to eat don't simply send them away"*   many a times we want to avoid problem, avoid people, we don't want to do something positive for the people who are around us. Jesus is asking us today to do something by ourselves which is at our disposal, the little that we can do. Very often we put the blame on others or we give the work to somebody else and wash our hands off like Pontius Pilate 

7. Jesus told them to collect the leftover food and they collected 12 baskets. *We should not waste food especially at this time of covid-19.* We need to share our food with others. We need to see how we are able to help people in one way or the other.

"Always Do What Pleases God" (Week 5: Lent: Tuesday)

Behaviour of the people

1. They lost patience

2. They spoke against God and Moses

3. Grumbled saying that the food was unsatisfying food

Consequence of their evil behaviour

1 God sent fiery serpent whose bite brought death to the people

2. Gospel reading: If you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sin

3. About you, I have much to say, much to condemn

Repentance on the part of the people

1. The people said: “We have sinned by speaking against God and against Moses.”

Consequence of their repentance

Moses intercedes with God to save the people

Lessons from Jesus/ Good examples from Jesus  

1. What I have learnt from him, I declare to the world

2. What the father has taught me is what I preach

3. He who sent me is with me, he has not left me to myself

4. For I always do what pleases him

5. Many came to believe him

Let us see our behaviour in the light of the liturgy of the word

1. We need to learn before we teach, before we declare something to the world. Learning never ends. We need to learn from God. Sit with him in moments of personal prayer and meditation. He is a great teacher. He will teach us. We will declare his teaching to the world and not our teaching.

2. As Jesus felt that God the Father was with him, we also need to make sure that God is with us. God never abundance us. We abandon God and go away from him through our sins. Jesus says: “without me you can do nothing”, “I am the vine you are the branches” “Your fruitfulness comes from me…..”

3. Jesus always did what pleased the Father. God the father himself said: “This is my beloved Son, I am well pleased with him” Do we always do what please God? Many a times we do in order to please people rather than God. We need to learn from Jesus. We need to please God first

Mary, Queen of Peace

22 SUNDAY, YEAR A, JESUS' SUFFERING AND OUR SUFFERING

SUNDAY REFLECTION: 22 SUNDAY, YEAR A: (3 SEP, 2017)

Entrance Antiphon

♥ Entrance antiphon uses the phrase: “… O Lord you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you…”

Collect

♥ The Collect says that God may nurture in us what is good and, by His watchful care, keep safe what he has nurtured.

First Reading (pain and suffering)

♥ In the first reading we find Jeremiah going through very painful situation. The pain is so much that he cannot hold it any longer. Surprisingly the Word of God has become the source of his pain. It is because of the Word of God that he is having so many enemies. Similar things are happening in the Gospel reading. Jesus is talking about suffering and death.

Responsorial Psalm (cling to him in suffering)

♥ The last verse of the responsorial Psalm tells us as to what we should do when suffering comes into our life. It says:  For you have been my help; in the shadow of your wings I rejoice; My soul clings to you; your right hand holds me fast.

Second Reading

♥ The second reading tells us to present ourselves as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.

♥ It tells us not to be conformed to this world.

♥ The above things are hard things. They entail lot of suffering to present ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God

Gospel Reading

♥ Gospel reading presents PETER as a stumbling block. He is told: “Get behind me Satan.” Who is our stumbling block on the way of following the Lord. It can be a close friend of ours, it can also be someone from our own family. Without death, there is no resurrection. Without GOOD FRIDAY there is no EASTER SUNDAY.

♥ We need to set our minds on divine things and not on human things

♥ Followers of Christ should do the following:

  Deny themselves

  Take up their daily cross (living sacrifice)

  Follow Jesus.

Reflections

“…JESUS' SUFFERING AND OUR SUFFERING…”

♥ My reflection today is on suffering–Suffering of Jesus and our suffering.

♥ We all have suffering in our life.

♥ Buddha was disturbed with this reality. We are all disturbed with it. People of Arunachal Pradesh are disturbed with this reality.

♥ I am quite convinced that God gives us suffering with a purpose. He did not spare his own beloved son in this regard.

♥ Matthew 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Mt 26:39 RSV). Jesus had to drink it (Cross). We are quite fresh with this reality of Jesus suffering after the Lenten season.

♥ Matthew 16:23 When Peter told Jesus that he should not suffer he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men” (Mt 16:23 RSV).

♥ 2 Samuel 16:10 But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’” (2Sa 16:10 RSV)

♥ 2 Corinthians 12:7 And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a THORN was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. ⁸ Three times I besought the Lord about this that it should leave me; ⁹ but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2Cor 12:7 RSV)

♥ God is ever close to those who suffer. He said that when you have fed the hungry you have fed me (Mt 25:35). Jesus is in the hungry, in those who suffer.

♥ Exodus 3:7 Then the LORD said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings” (Ex 3:7 RSV).

♥ Job 2: 7-10  So Satan left the presence of

Yahweh. He struck Job down with malignant ulcers from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ⁸ Job took a piece of pot to scrape himself, and went and sat among the ashes.⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Why persist in this integrity of yours? Curse God and die.” ¹⁰ “That is how a fool of a woman talks,” Job replied. “If we take happiness from God's hand, must we not take sorrow too?” And in all this misfortune Job uttered no sinful word (Job 2:7-10 NJB).

♥ Being thrown to the Lions to be eaten, IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH said: “I will become worthy bread in the sight of God.”

♥ Jesus is telling us today: Take up your daily cross and follow me.

♥ Moments of suffering, are moments of grace. May our daily suffering bring us closer to God and to one another.

♥ SICKNESS: It is a moment of grace for the parents. They get a chance to work out together (husband and wife); they get a chance to love the child/ member they could not do so. It is also a time for the child to experience that the parents really love him/her. It is also a moment of grace for the entire Christian community of a particular village. They get a chance to come together to pray for that sick member. Contribute financial help and so on and so forth.

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER: YEAR A EMMAUS: STAY WITH US LORD

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER: YEAR A

EMMAUS: STAY WITH US LORD

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

♥ The entrance antiphon of today uses phrases: “…JOY, SING…”

♥ when the Lord is [stays] with us, we cannot but be joyful, we sing for joy.

COLLECT

♥ Today’s collect uses the phrase: “…May your people EXULT forever in renewed YOUTHFULNESS of Spirit… REJOICE now… REJOICE in heave…”

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

♥ “….offering of your EXULTANT Church….You have given her cause of for such GRATE GLADNESS…”

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

♥ “… the INCORRUPTIBLE GLORY of the Resurrection…”

FIRST READING (ACTS: 2:14, 23-33)

♥ “ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST”: The Holy Spirit is playing a great role in the life of peter and his apostles. And one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is JOY

♥ We sing a hymn: “If the SPIRIT OF THE LORD is in my soul like David the victor I will sing…”

♥ PETER STOOD UP WITH THE ELEVEN: When Jesus was arrested Peter was hiding. Now he is COURAGEOUSLY, with LOUD VOICE telling the people of Israel about JESUS.

♥ ARE WE AFRAID to proclaim Christ in words and action? Here Peter is preaching FEARLESSLY and in the Gospel we will find TWO DISCIPLES, after recognizing the Lord, INSTANTLY GO AT NIGHT to tell about Jesus to their friends.

♥ SHEMA: HEAR O ISRALE (Dt 6:4-5): it is connected with listening: it is more than sound waves entering our ears. It means pay ATTENTION to or FOCUS on, it means RESPONDING to what you hear. Listening to God means keeping the COVENANT God made with us. That means to LISTEN and to OBEY. In Hebrew there is no word for DOING. SHEMA means both LISTENING and DOING.

♥ In the Gospel Reading we find two disciples LISTENING to JESUS all along the way. As a FAITHFUL how do I LISTEN to the WORD OF GOD and as a PASTOR how do I BREAK the word of God. Jesus is breaking the Word of God so beautifully. Do I break it piece by piece? Peter is preaching Christ so courageously. Do I listen to God speaking to me through various people and events. Do I respond to him.

♥ JESUS WAS PUT INTO THEIR POWER BY DELIBERATE INTENTION AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD. The same thing happened to Job. Do we grumble when something wrong goes into our life. How do we respond to our pain, suffering, trials and temptations?

♥ …YOU KILLED HIM… yes we kill Jesus through our sins, bad examples, or make him alive in by LISTENING to his WORD and living it in our life.

♥ DAVID: I SAW THE LORD BEFORE ME ALWAYS: Jesus is always with us in the EUCHARIST. He himself said: “I am with you ALWAYS till the end of life” (Mt 28:20) He said: “I am the ALPHA and the OMEGA- the beginning and the end” (Rev 1:8). Do we go for FREQUENT VISITS to the BLESSED SACRAMENT as told to us by Don Bosco?

♥ DAVID: he too speaks about= gladness, joy, hope, being filled with gladness through GOD’S PRESENCE. In the EUCHARIST we have the REAL PRESENCE, the ARK OF THE COVENANT, which was always with the people of Israel, CLOUD BY DAY AND FIRE BY NIGHT, the alpha and omega, I am with you always till the end of life…JESUS is also called the SON OF DAVID.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

♥ KEEP THE LORD EVER IN YOUR SIGHT: This is the same language that David uses in the first reading who said I SAW THE LORD BEFORE ME ALWAYS.

♥ “There is FULLNESS OF JOY IN YOUR PRESENCE:” Do we find our joy in God’s presence or in money, wealth, sex, clothing, material possession, pornography, blue films, drugs, drinks etc.. The Psalmist says: ONE DAY WITHIN YOUR COURT IS BETTER THAN THOUSAND ELSEWHERE (Ps 84:10) Do we come for SUNDAY SERVICE [EUCHARIST] to find fullness of joy in our life.

SECOND READING

♥ Today’s second reading uses the word RANSOM= it means, “a WRITTEN NOTE OF MY PUNISHMENT IS CANCELLED. I don’t have to go to the court. It is as though a potential bomb has been defused. And we commemorate this event in the EUCHARIST= body broken for you, blood shed for you. He did this for our USELESS WAY OF LIFE. Peter said in the first reading: YOU KILLED HIM. Our useless way of life killed Jesus sinless though he was. ARE WE STILL LIVING A USELESS WAY OF LIFE.

GOSPEL READING

♥ The TWO DISCIPLES in the Gospel reading are you and I. we too get DISCOURAGED with life and try to RUN AWAY FROM OUR PROBLEMS, pains and suffering. It is so sad to know that so many young people have COMMITTED SUICIDE out of discouragement.

♥ On the way, they were unburdening their pain, discussing what happened with them, with their master, how injustice was done to Jesus, how he was killed. How some women told them that his body was not found. At this moment Jesus himself comes up, HE JOINS THEM and WALKS by their side. CAN YOU SEE JESUS WALKING WITH YOU IN YOUR LIFE, IN YOUR ORDINARY, DAILY LIFE.

♥ Jesus asks: WHAT MATTERS are you discussing= this show that Jesus is interested in our life. Do we go often to meet him, to be with him, to spent time with him.

♥ SOMETHING PREVENTED THEM FROM RECOGNIZING THE LORD. What prevents us from recognizing the Lord, from meeting the Lord in the daily EUCHARIST, in the CONFESSIONAL, in our DAILY LIFE while encountering our neighbours, in our work place =, is it our pride, sin, money, wealth, sinfulness…  

♥ CLEOPAS’ KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS: that Jesus is = Jesus of Nazareth, great prophet, said the did good things and FOUND FAVOUR in front of God and people. This is not enough. Jesus is not yet the “LORD AND SAVIOR OF CLEOPAS”. What is our knowledge of Jesus.

♥ CLEOPAS’ HOPE: That he would set Israel free. What is our hope. What are you hoping from the Lord? Is it eternal life/salvation or something lower than that like cleopas.

♥ WOMEN: Jesus showed himself to the women before than men. Why not men first. We were with him all the time.

♥ DID NOT FIND THE BODY: Jesus had told on the Cross to the good thief: TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE. And how can you expect his body to be in the tomb. But the creed says: “ON THE THIRD DAY he rose again. How do struggle with this. For him THOUSAND YEARS ARE LIKE YESTERDAY and come and gone. “TODAY OR ON THE THIRD DAY” is our problem-problem of human beings. God is ALPHA AND OMEGA. He is the same YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER (Heb 13:8). 

♥ JESUS EXPLAINS TO THEM THE SCRIPTURE THAT TELLS ABOUT HIMSELF: Jesus is BREAKING THE WORD of God. He TAKES CARE to explain everything. Do we, PRIESTS the ministers of the Word of God, take that much of care to break the word of God? Do we prepare ourselves? If not than our people will be as Jesus said: FOOLISH MEN, SLOW TO BELIEVE. When people have weak faith, to some extend WE ARE TO BE BLAMED. We have not taken care to break the word of God properly. On the other hand as disciples/faithful people of God have we listened to/ SHEMA God’s word attentively like the two disciples. Some come late, after the word of God.

♥ STAY WITH US LORD: Do we ask the Lord to stay with us or we allow him to go away. After we go away from these TWO TABLES: TABLE OF THE WORD AND THE TABLE OF THE EUCHARIST, will Jesus continue to stay with us till the next Sunday or we let him go just after we leave this church.

♥ … AT THE BRAKING OF THE BREAD THEIR EYES WERE OPENED: at the breaking of the bread the yes of the disciples were opened. At the eating of the fruit, the eyes of Adam and eve were opened. Jesus has brought us new apple the Eucharist and when we eat this ‘new apple’ we don’t’ feel afraid, shy, like Adam and Eve but we are filled with joy, hope and courage like Peter who is preaching today in the first reading, we become courageous like the two disciples.

♥ JESUS VANISHED FROM THEIR SIGHT: Jesus had promised to stay with them. He did not simple VANISHED. The disciples could not see him because he was no more outside. JESUS WAS INSIDE IN THEIR HEART AND SOUL. Jesus not only ‘stays’ with them but he takes one more step: he stays in their soul and heart. Similar thing happens during the Eucharistic celebration. The priest consecrates the body and blood and the priest breaks it and shows it to the people HOLY COMMUNION/JESUS disappears physically and “STAY WITH US LORD” in our hearts and soul.

♥ DID NOT OUR HEART BURN WITHIN US AS HE TALKED AND EXPLAINED THE SCRIPTURES?: Word of God has that property of making our hearts burn. There is light in the word of God. “Thy word is a LAMP unto my feet and LIGHT unto my path” (Ps 119:105). Walk by this light. That is way the RESPONSORIAL PSALM says: “SHOW ME the path of life” 

Jeremiah 5:14 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: “Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.”

 ♥ INSTANTLY THEY SET OUT THAT NIGHT: it was already dark, after re aching Emmaus they might have taken time to cook the bread, there was no gas cylinder at that time. It must have got very late and yet they went out to tell their friends. At the end of the Mass [after breaking the bread] the priest says “Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord” we too after having encountered the Lord, need to go courageously and shared this good news with others.

♥ There is the presence of God in the Eucharist and in the Community. Where two or three are gathering in my name I am there. The two disciples went to Jerusalem. In the community.

♥ The Lord says: Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood I will be in you and you will be in me.

♥ John 6:54 Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has ETERNAL LIFE, and I shall raise that person up on the last day. (Joh 6:54 NJB)

♥ How many Priest celebrate Mass shabbily

♥ Some come with MOBILE NUMBER written in their palms.

♥  John 6:51 “I am the LIVING BREAD which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will LIVE FOR EVER; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” (Jn 6:51 NJB)

♥ What is the difference between animals and us if our life does not last forever. There is no use of living this life if it is going to end at the graveyard. St. Augustine says: we become what we eat.

♥ John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not HUNGER, and he who believes in me shall NEVER THIRST” (Jn 6:35 RSV)

♥ in the Retreat centers some can be in front of the blessed sacrament only by drinking water.

♥ We have HUNGER FOR WEALTH, money: it does not go away. No matter how much we make money, this hunger does not go away.

♥ Some have got the HUNGER FOR LUST. They are married, have husband/wife, have children but the hunger and thirst of this lust does not go away. It makes them restless. But when we begin to rest in front of the Blessed Sacrament he frees us from this.

♥ From today whenever you come to the Eucharistic table, consider it as your most important duty. We prepare a lot for going to PARTY, OFFICE but for SUNDAY MASS prepare much more than that. Teach others as well, teach your children. Some parents PRINT CARD FOR THE FIRST COMMUNION of their children. They are passing a very important message to their children. Teach our young people about the body and blood of Christ.