[Adapted from Feb.
3, 2004 archive]
You, the living
bread, have given
your life for the
life of the world.
We who eat your bread
cannot ignore
the lives of others
who live in your world.
Open our eyes, that
we may see how many
have no bread. Open our eyes to see how
the poor are
despoiled, how the needy groan. Rise up,
O God; place them in
the safety for which they long.
The day is distant
when all will share, that all may eat.
The day is distant,
but it is a day you have promised.
May we see the
promise, greet it, and work
toward the day when
you will bring it to be.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 12; 146; 36; 7
Gen. 21:1-21
Heb. 11:13-22
John 6:41-51
Selected Verses
Ps. 12:5
“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now
rise up,” says the LORD;
“I will place
them in the safety for which they long.”
Gen. 21:19a
Then God opened [Hagar’s] eyes and she saw a well of water.
Heb. 11:13a
All of these died in faith without having received the promises,
but from a distance they saw and greeted them.
John 6:50-51
“…This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one
may eat of it and not die. I am the
living bread that came down from heaven.
Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will
give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
[Jesus to the crowd that had come looking for him]
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