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It is touching to read the first sentence of today’s Gospel: “At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.”
Even now, Jesus continues to look on the crowd of humanity and pours out his heart and love to all of us out of concern for our eternal salvation.
Jesus wants to heal our divisions, forgive our sins, unite us to the Father and to each other in peace. Jesus wants to lead us to greener pastures of repose.
The Holy Mass is a continuation of the offering of Jesus on the cross, the offering he makes of himself to us out of love. In the Mass we find a bit of the peace that Jesus wants to bring to us for an eternity.
Let us approach the Lord in the Eucharist as the sheep of his flock, looking to Jesus for salvation from all that ills us as individuals and as a society. We look to Jesus to feed us for the journey he is asking us to make.
And, as we make our own return to the one who shows us true love, to Jesus, we can also ask others to join us, for the “harvest is abundant” and, although the “laborers are few” we can’t let that shortage keep us from doing our part as ambassadors for Christ, the living God.
Have a blessed week everyone.