Reading I 1 Jn 4:7-10
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know
God, for God is love.
In this way the love of God was revealed
to us:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the
world
so that we might have life through him.
In this is love:
not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Responsorial Psalm 72:1-2,
3-4, 7-8
R.
(see 11) Lord, every nation on
earth will adore you.
O God, with your judgment endow the
king,
and with your justice, the king’s son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
R.
Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
The mountains shall yield peace for the
people,
and the hills justice.
He shall defend the afflicted among the
people,
save the children of the poor.
R.
Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
R.
Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
Alleluia Lk 4:18
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The Lord has sent me to bring glad
tidings to the poor
and to proclaim liberty to captives.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Mk 6:34-44
When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart
was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a
shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things.
By now it was already late and his
disciples approached him and said,
“This is a deserted place and it is
already very late.
Dismiss them so that they can go
to the surrounding farms and villages
and buy themselves something to eat.”
He said to them in reply,
“Give them some food yourselves.”
But they said to him,
“Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages
worth of food
and give it to them to eat?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you
have? Go and see.”
And when they had found out they said,
“Five loaves and two fish.”
So he gave orders to have them sit down
in groups on the green grass.
The people took their places in rows by
hundreds and by fifties.
Then, taking the five loaves and the two
fish and looking up to heaven,
he said the blessing, broke the loaves,
and gave them to his disciples
to set before the people;
he also divided the two fish among them
all.
They all ate and were satisfied.
And they picked up twelve wicker baskets
full of fragments
and what was left of the fish.
Those who ate of the loaves were five
thousand men.