Responsorial Psalm
All your works will give you thanks;
all your saints, O Lord, will praise you.
They will tell of the glory
of your kingdom and
speak of your power,
All creatures look to you
to be fed in due season;
with open hand you satisfy
the living according to their needs.
Righteous is the Lord in all his ways,
his mercy shows in all his deeds.
He is near those who call on him,
who call trustfully upon his name.
XVII SEMANA DEL TIEMPO ORDINARIO
2nd. READING (Eph 4,1-6)
Therefore I, the prisoner of Christ, invite you to live the vocation you have received.
Be humble, kind, patient, and bear with one another in love. Make every effort to keep
among you the unity of Spirit through bonds of peace. Let there be one body and one
spirit, for God, in calling you, gave the same Spirit to all. One Lord, one faith, one
baptism. One God, the Father of all, who is above all and works through all and is in
all.
Gospel
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, near Tiberias, and large
crowds followed him because of the miraculous signs they saw when he healed the
sick. So he went up into the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Then lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw the
crowds that were coming to him and said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread so that
these people may eat?" He said this to test Philip, for he himself knew what he was
going to do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred silver coins would not buy enough
bread for each of them to have a piece." Then one of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter's brother, said, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but
what good are these for so many?" Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was
plenty of grass there so the people, about five thousand men, sat down to rest. Jesus
then took the loaves, gave thanks and distributed them to those who were seated. He
did the same with the fish and gave them as much as they wanted. And when they had
eaten enough, he told his disciples, "Gather up the pieces left over, that nothing may
be lost." So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with bread, that is with
pieces of the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. When the people saw this
sign that Jesus had just given, they said, "This is really the Prophet, he who is to come
into the world." Jesus realised that they would come and take him by force to make
him king; so he fled to the hills by himself.
