OUR LIVES ARE IN YOUR HANDS
Whatever life brings to you and me, we come to know that all that is to
come will be in the Lord's loving hands.
In our responsorial
psalm, we acclaim today, "Into Your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
You are my rock and my stronghold. I put all my trust in You" (Ps 31 3-4).
These words bring to us much joy. "You are my God." My fate is in Your
hands. We receive a sense of relief coming over us, a feeling of satisfaction
and safety in times of trouble. Whatever life brings to you and me, we come to
know that all that is to come will be in the Lord's loving hands.
Let us ask Jesus to
allow our faith to grow and to put an end to worry in our lives, so that we
will continue to work for what is good. We want to bring a happy face and a light heart to serve
because we want to bring God's goodness to this world -- true treasure, and
Jesus is that treasure.
In St. John's
Gospel, Jesus says, "I am the Bread of Life," coming from the Father.
The Bread which Jesus Christ offers is none else than the very Life of God.
This is the True Bread that can truly satisfy the hunger in our hearts. And
when we eat this Bread, it sustains us not only on our journey to heavenly
paradise, it gives us the abundant supernatural life of God Himself, both
for now and for all eternity. At God's
table we unite ourselves with Jesus Christ our Lord, who makes us sharers in
His Body and Blood.