Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.

O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king's son; He shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts; the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute. For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out, And the afflicted when he has no one to help him. He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor; The lives of the poor he shall save.

After the five thousand had eaten and were satisfied, Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And when he had taken leave of them, he went off to the mountain to pray. When it was evening, the boat was far out on the sea and he was alone on shore. Then he saw that they were tossed about while rowing, for the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them. But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out. They had all seen him and were terrified. But at once he spoke with them, "Take courage, it is I, do not be afraid!" He got into the boat with them and the wind died down. They were (completely) astounded. They had not understood the incident of the loaves. On the contrary, their hearts were hardened.

The essential revelation of the Gospel is the dominant and pervasive presence of God. It is a call to meet God and God is only found in solitude. To those who live among men, it would seem that this solitude is denied. This would be to believe that we precede God in solitude: it is he who awaits us; to find Him is to find it, because true solitude is spirit and all our human solitudes are only relative journeys towards the perfect solitude which is in faith. True solitude is not the absence of men, it is the presence of God. To bring one's life face to face with God, to surrender one's life to the notion of God, is to leap into a region where we are made solitary. It is the height that makes the mountains lonely and not the place where their bases are placed. If the outpouring of the presence of God in us rises in silence and solitude, it leaves us seated, mixed, radically united with all men who are made of the same earth as us. “Blessed is he who receives the word of God and keeps it” (Lk 11:28). There is no solitude without silence. Silence sometimes means remaining silent, but silence always means listening. An absence of noise that would be empty of our attention to the word of God, would no longer be silence. A day full of noise and full of voices can be a day of silence if the noise becomes for us an echo of the presence of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king's son; He shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. The mountains shall yield peace for the people, and the hills justice.   He shall defend the afflicted among the people, save the children of the poor. Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. May he rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, "This is a deserted place and it is already very late. Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat." He said to them in reply, "Give them some food yourselves." But they said to him, "Are we to buy two hundred days' wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?" He asked them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and see." And when they had found out they said, "Five loaves and two fish." So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass. The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties. Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to (his) disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish. Those who ate (of the loaves) were five thousand men.

Let us take note of the disciples' trusting abandonment to God's providence in life's greatest necessities and their disdain for a life of luxury: there were twelve of them and they only had five loaves and two fish. They were not bothered by bodily things but dedicated all their zeal to the things of the soul. Moreover they did not keep these provisions for themselves: they handed them over to the Savior at once when he asked them for them. Let us learn from this example to share what we have with those in need, even if we only have a little. When Jesus asks them to bring the five loaves, they don't say: “What will there be for us later on? Where will we find what is necessary for our own needs?” They obey promptly (…) Taking the loaves, then, the Lord broke them and entrusted the honor of distributing them to the disciples. He did not just want to honor them by this holy service but desired them to take part in the miracle so as to be wholly convinced witnesses to it and not forget what had taken place under their own eyes (…). It is through them that he made the people sit down and that he distributed the bread so that each one of them might bear witness to the miracle accomplished at their hands (…) Everything in this event – the desert place, the bare ground, the small supply of bread and fish, the distribution of these same things to everyone without distinction, each one of them having the same as their neighbor – all this teaches us humility, frugality and fraternal charity. To love one another equally, to place everything in common amongst those who are serving the same God: this is what our Savior is teaching us here.

Beloved: This is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not be amazed, (then,) brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. (Now) this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if (our) hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God

Sing joyfully to the LORD all you lands; serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful song. Know that the LORD is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise; give thanks to him; bless his name.  The LORD is good: his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations.

Jesus decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth." But Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him." Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Jesus answered and said to him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this." And he said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Our Lord Jesus Christ Has appeared to us from the bosom of the Father. He has come and drawn us out of the shadows And enlightened us with his joyful light. Day has dawned for humankind; Cast out the power of darkness. For us a light from his light has arisen That has enlightened our darkened eyes. Over the world he has made his glory arise And has lit up the deepest depths. Death is no more, darkness has ended, The gates of hell are shattered. He has illumined every creature, All the shades from times long past. He has brought about salvation and given us life; Next he will come in glory. Our King is coming in his great glory: Let us light our lamps and go out to meet him (Mt 25,6); Let us be glad in him as he has been glad in us And gives us gladness with his glorious light. My friends, arise! make yourselves ready To give thanks to our Savior King, Who will come in his glory and make us joyful With his joyous light in the Kingdom.