May 2.  MOTHER OF PEACE is just one of thousands of small projects where generous and committed people care for abandoned, homeless or disabled children and adults. Providing food can be a great challenge and for some it feels like the well-known miracle of the feeding of the 5000 with just a few loaves and fish.  Miracles of multiplication of food have been recorded too in various parts of the world.  But was Jesus also testing the generosity of the people and the inventiveness of the apostles as well as providing the gathered crowds with food?

Reflect, share, act. Scripture.  There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they among so many. Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks he distributed to those who were seated. From John 6:1-15  Pope Francis: Feeding the hungry is one of the Corporal Works of Mercy.   JUBILEE. I ask with all my heart that hope be granted to the billions of the poor, who often lack the essentials of life. Before the constant tide of new forms of impoverishment, we can easily grow inured and resigned. Yet we must not close our eyes to the dramatic situations that we now encounter all around us, not only in certain parts of the world. Each day we meet people who are poor or impoverished; they may even be our next-door neighbours. Often they are homeless or lack sufficient food for the day. They suffer from exclusion and indifference on the part of many. It is scandalous that in a world possessed of immense resources, destined largely to producing weapons, the poor continue to be “the majority of the planet’s population, billions of people. The poor are almost always the victims, not the ones to blame. SNC 15.   Pray: Mary, mother of the poor and forgotten, pray for us.