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In the darkness of our lives when the sea of trouble and woes are overwhelming. And the cold wind of panic floods our hearts, where is Jesus? Are we too grief stricken to see Him? Are we so caught up that we do not recognise Him?

Behold our Lord and God was among us and is among us now! Our risen Lord who even before His death and resurrection could still the winds and water; walk on the latter and bring us to safe harbour in the blink of an eye. He reassures us today,”Do Not Be Afraid…..I AM with you always.” Have we yet accepted Jesus our Lord and God into our hearts? Our minds? The very depths of our souls?

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Gospel John 6:16–21

When it was evening, the disciples of Jesus went down to the sea, embarked in a boat, and went across the sea to Capernaum. It had already grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they began to be afraid. But he said to them, “It is I. Do not be afraid.” They wanted to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately arrived at the shore to which they were heading.

O sacrament most holy, O sacrament divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine!

Sweet Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist, a tangible extension of His great love for us. A mystery and a revelation in itself. Do we take time to ponder on this great love of His? Do we spend time in adoration?

All of us Catholics around the world to this very day are given the Eucharist daily should we desire to receive. Do we take this for granted?

Do we offer all that we have to God and give Him thanks and praise? The boy in today’s Gospel offered up all he had to the hands of Jesus and our loving God blessed him and all around him abundantly! O how if all of us had such faith?

O sacrament most holy, O sacrament divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine!

Gospel John 6:1–15

Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.