THE GOSPEL
Mark 6:30-34They hastened there on foot from all the towns
and arrived at the place before them.
Only
yesterday,
the crowd had
no answers or meaning.
Like sheep without a shepherd.
They fled to
you.
Today
the crowd is us.
Caretakers of the poor.
Of the sick. We are the doctors,
immigrants and environmentalists.
But.
We still look for the way. People on the search.
We flee to you, Jesus. Have pity on us.
Show us your way. Let us be
today’s shepherds.
THE FIRST READING
Jeremias 23:1-6
I will appoint shepherds for them …
so that they need no longer fear and tremble.
Guatemalan
coffee-growers
plead
for fair prices.
African children
in the millions
starve.
Haitians
fear
vermin
in their water.
Clean water for
the poor?
No.
Lord,
let us care
like you
do.
Help us do what is
right and
just.
THE SECOND READING
Ephesians 2:13-18
For he is our peace, he who broke down the dividing wall.
Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants,
developers and tree-huggers,
conservatives, liberals,
men and women,
can now meet
as one.
The place of
meeting is
Christ.
His
word
is peace.
Lord,
bring us together,
in peace,
in
you.
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