Daily Gospel - Readings for sunday, august 2, 2020. Pope Reflection

Daily Gospel - Readings for august 2, 2020.

Daily prayer for august 2.

My Lord, I trust you are the great provider and always ready to give me your assistance when I need it. Help me to conquer those areas of fear within me and transform them into places where your joy abounds forever. I trust that protective love. Amen.

Reading for sunday. Daily gospel

Isaiah 55:1-3.

Thus says the LORD: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare. Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you the everlasting covenant, the benefits assured to David

Daily Psalm for sunday.

Psalm 144(145):8-9,15-18.

"You open wide your hand, O Lord; you grant our desires." (R).

The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures. (R).

The eyes of all creatures look to you and you give them their food in due time. You open wide your hand, grant the desires of all who live. (R).

The Lord is just in all his ways and loving in all his deeds. He is close to all who call him, who call on him from their hearts. (R).

Second reading for august 2.

Romans 8,35.37-39.

What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! Blessings on the King who comes, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heavens! Alleluia!" (Cfr. Luke 19:38,2:14)

Daily Gospel for august 2. Matthew 14:13-21.

Daily Gospel reading for sunday, august 2 (The first multiplication of the breads): "At that time, When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples approached him and said, "This is a deserted place and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves." (Jesus) said to them, "There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves." But they said to him, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have here." Then he said, "Bring them here to me," and he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over, twelve wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children".

Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.

"The bread of God is Jesus himself"

In the reading of the daily Gospel, in this miracle, the merciful power of God works, curing all evil in body and spirit. But Jesus is not a healer, he is also a teacher: in fact, he climbs the mountain and if he feels, he knows well what he is about to do, he puts his disciples to the test.

What can we do to feed all those people? St. Philip the Apostle, one of the Twelve, makes a quick calculation: by organizing a collection, it will be possible to collect, at most, two hundred dinars to buy the bread that, however, would not be enough to feed five thousand people.

The disciples reason in terms of the market, but Jesus replaces the logic of buying with the logic of giving. The two logics, right? The logic of buying and the logic of giving.

And behold, Andrew, another of the Apostles, Simon Peter´s brother, presents a boy who offers everything he has: five loaves of bread and two fish; but certainly, says Andrew, they are nothing for those people

But Jesus expected precisely this. He ordered the disciples to make the people sit down, then he took those loaves and fishes, thanked the Father and distributed them. These gestures anticipate those of the Last Supper, which give the bread of Jesus its truest meaning.

The bread of God is Jesus himself. By taking Communion with him, we receive his life in us and become children of the heavenly Father and brothers and sisters to each other. By taking Communion we meet Jesus, truly alive and risen.

To participate in the Eucharist means to enter into the logic of Jesus, the logic of gratuity, of participation. And no matter how poor we are, we can all give something. Taking Communion also means taking from Christ the grace that makes us capable of sharing with others what we are and what we have.

The crowd is amazed at the wonder of the multiplication of the loaves; but the gift that Jesus offers is fullness of life for the hungry man. Jesus satisfies not only the material hunger, but the deeper hunger, the hunger for the meaning of life, the hunger for God.

In the face of the suffering, the loneliness, the poverty and the difficulties of so many people, what can we do? Lamenting does not solve anything, but we can offer what little we have. Like that boy. We certainly have some time, some talent, some competence... Who among us does not have his "five loaves and two fishes"? We all do.

If we are willing to put them in the Lord´s hands, they will be enough to make the world a little more loving, peaceful, just and, above all, joyful. How necessary joy is in the world. God is capable of multiplying our small gestures. Gestures of solidarity and making us participants in his gift. (Daily Gospel reflection, Angelus, 26 July 2015)

Daily Gospel Prayer for august 2.

I give you my heart, Lord, so that you may make it strong and thus multiply your work of love. Listen to my prayers, repair my strength, I want to give everything for You. With your presence I can feel really alive to give myself to others with love. Give me a new heart that loves You and loves others. Amen. (Healing with prayer daily gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"Men and women who pray know that hope is stronger than discouragement. They believe that love is stronger than death, and that it will surely one day triumph, even though in times and ways that we do not know. (Pope Francis, 7.29.2020)

Daily porpose.

I will invite two or more people to accompany me, by means of some social and technological tool, to a daily day of prayer for a week, asking to stop the coronavirus disease.

🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.

Enjoy now the video meditation for sunday, for the daily Gospel august 2, 2020. Matthew 14:13-21. 18th Week in Ordinary Time.

Map of readings for the day.

• Initial readings

• Daily Gospel Readings

• Pope reflection

• Daily Gospel Prayer

• Daily Gospel Purpose

• Video meditation for the Gospel

Daily Gospel Intentions for august 2.

With the readings daily Gospel, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, sunday, that you wish to express. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. Write down in the commentaries all that you want God to give you or heal you through the reading of his Word in the daily Gospel for august 2, 2020. God Bless you.