Food for Thought & Bulletin
(2 Aug 2026)
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Address: Church: 1 Jalan Serindik; Redemptorists Community: 19-21 Jalan la Salle; 31400 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia; Tel: (60) 05 5458220; Email: omphip@gmail.com; FaceBook: https://m.facebook.com/OMPHipoh/
Food for thought: (Bulletin 2 Aug 2026), Gospel: Mt 14: 13-21
Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help,
Ipoh, Malaysia
“Feeding One Another“
The miracle of the loaves and fish appears in all four of the Gospels. Matthew's version of this story shows that the early Christian community continued to find new levels of symbolism in this miracle. The gestures of Jesus, the focus on the bread rather than the fish, and the careful collection of the fragments, have strong Eucharistic overtones. And Matthew highlights the role of the disciples throughout the whole episode. They are important mediaries, who distribute the bread and gather the leftovers. The disciples share in Jesus' ministry.
In the midst of this, we hear Jesus tell His disciples: "Go and feed them yourselves..." The Eucharist is not simply the presence of Jesus in our midst, satisfying our every need. Christ is present to us in order that we might be present to others. He feeds us so that we might be empowered to feed one another, to serve one another and be energized in a way that we could never be of ourselves.
Only then can we get up and find within ourselves the strength to persevere on our journey, and to help others on their own unique journey of faith.