August 3, 2014

Reading

Isaiah   55: 1-3

55:1 All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.

55:2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and expend your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen very closely to me, and eat what is good, and then your soul will be delighted by a full measure.

55:3 Incline your ear and draw near to me. Listen, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, by the faithful mercies of David.

Second Reading

Romans 8: 35, 37-39

8:35 Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword?

8:37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us.

8:38 For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength,

8:39 nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Gospel

Matthew 14: 13-21

14:13 When Jesus had heard it, he withdrew from there by boat, to a deserted place by himself. And when the crowds had heard of it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

14:14 And going out, he saw a great multitude, and he took pity on them, and he cured their sick.

14:15 And when evening had arrived, his disciples approached him, saying: “This is a deserted place, and the hour has now passed. Dismiss the crowds, so that, by going into the towns, they may buy food for themselves.”

14:16 But Jesus said to them: “They have no need to go. Give them something to eat yourselves.”

14:17 They answered him, “We have nothing here, except five loaves and two fish.”

14:18 He said to them, “Bring them here to me.”

14:19 And when he had ordered the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish, and gazing up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the bread to the disciples, and then the disciples to the multitudes.

14:20 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up the remnants: twelve baskets full of fragments.

14:21 Now the number of those who ate was five thousand men, besides women and children