The difference between ordinary people and God’s Chosen is clear in Today’s Reading from Numbers 11:4-15. “The children of Israel lamented, ‘We remember the free fish we used to eat in Egypt, and the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. Now, we are famished, with nothing before us but this (boring) manna.”
Moses was upset by their unholy focus on varieties of food after being given freedom and the perfectly balanced diet provided by “manna from Heaven”: “When Moses heard family after family crying at the entrance to their tents, he was grieved and asked The LORD, ‘Why do you burden me with all this people? . . . Please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I no longer need to face this distress.’”
Today’s Psalm 81:12-17 tells us when “My people heard not My voice and disobeyed me, so I gave them up to the hardness of their hearts and they walked according to their own counsels. Many still do not “Sing with joy to God our help.”
Mt. 4:4 tells us that we “sing with joy to God our help” by understanding: “One does not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the Mouth of God.”
The Prophets are clear: Jesus is The Living Word that comes from God! Mt. 14:13-21 tells us that “when crowds followed Him on foot from their towns, He was moved with pity for them and cured their sick. When it was time for them to eat,’ He told those who would be His First Catholic Bishops to ‘give them some food yourselves'”.
Then, “He took all the food they had, five loaves and two fish, said the blessing and broke the loaves, and gave them to the Disciples, who, in turn, gave them to the crowds. They all ate, were satisfied, and there were still twelve wicker baskets (one for each Tribe of Israel) after feeding five thousand men, (and at least twice that many) women and children.’”
Catholics receive “manna from Heaven” by obeying The Call to Catholic Communion Jesus repeated 12 times in John 6:26-66 and twice more at The Last Supper. “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.” By The Miracle of Transubstantiation, Catholics are blessed to let God be our “life” by receiving His Manna from Heaven.
Catholics put 3,500 years of History in line with Moses. We are blessed to focus on God instead of letting the distractions of “variety” become a way of life.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Heartless clods / are bored by God.”
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