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Jesus himself is the Bread of Life who will satisfy every hunger and thirst.

In many important ways, John’s Gospel uses the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes to teach about the Eucharist.

We who are Jesus’ disciples today have also been sent to share the Gospel with others.

Jesus continues to send us into the world as his disciples. But like the first disciples, we are not sent alone.

By showing that Jesus himself was rejected, Mark consoles and reassures his first readers. He also prepares us to accept this possible consequence of Christian discipleship.

Each individual must make his or her own act of faith in affirming Jesus as God’s Son.

When we bring our worries to God in prayer, we might just begin to learn to see things from God’s perspective.

In God we live and move and have our being, but God is a mystery and his kingdom, though present, has not yet come into its fullness.

Mark then brings Jesus’ family back into the picture. … This gives Jesus the opportunity to point out that family for him is not based on blood.

Those who drink from the chalice are invited to share in a new covenant which will be sealed by Jesus’ own blood.