August 4 - Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I B & C
(Nm.11:4-15; Ps.81:2,12-17; Mt.14:13-21) “Israel I would feed with the best of wheat.” But the best of wheat they despise, and seek to satiate their appetite with meat. The blessed food from heaven, come from the hand of God, the Israelites soon grow tired of as they travel through the desert. Their stomachs cry out for earthly flesh. As our psalm tells us, the people “heard not” the voice of God but preferred “their own counsels,” so He “gave them up to the hardness of their hearts.” He will give them the meat they desire, and it will bring plague upon them for their lusts against God. Yet…
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